Cougarblue Is Dead to me

[hawkwing]

Off topic, but why are the unread posts on this forum colored red? Aren't we trying to shun that color? Is it a penalty for those of us who aren't reading every thread to have that offending color burn our eyes? Inquiring minds want to know!

Good point, there is far too much red in this color scheme, if we had some good graphic designers here we could replace some of it with bluer alternatives!

[Sammich]

I'm not a graphic designer, but if you want everything to fall in the blue range your only options are saturation and slight hue changes. So keeping everything in the muted ranges of blue will allow you to use a bright blue to highlight. Value is hard to use unless you're changing the background color as well to set the text off.

[Sammich]

As for Cougarblue being dead, there are still good posts there but I'd rather invest time in the new board rather than comment on their threads. Is it fair game to bring up things they're talking about there for discussion here? I'm sure nobody wants this to become the "discuss cougarblue" board, but I also think it could help liven things up around here at least while we're trying to attract more users.

[Cougarpoke]

I doubt the borrowing of information would bother anyone as long as credit is given to the original author. I often times have borrowed from both cougarblue and cougarboard, but always made sure I gave credit to whomever wrote the post and where it came from. But, I would like to see more traffic on this board, and have seen posts on other boards that would generate some good discussion here. Perhaps others do not feel the same as I do, that perhaps we should be clever enough to derive our own ideas, but, I am too busy at work and only glance from time to time.

[Sammich]

In that case I want to answer a steed post here (because you know it wouldn't do any good to respond to anything he says): In the thread where Mars complained about users like steed, the latter responded with the old "opposing opinions" argument and others were actually supporting the viewpoint that users like that merely provide an alternate and interesting view to BYU sports.

My response for the sake of moderation on this board is: arguing about different viewpoints is great. If someone wants to come here and point out what BYU is bad at, or say why their favorite team is better, that's great and makes for interesting discussion.

Here's how I'd suggest moderators here decide who stays and goes:
Respectful fans of other teams-Welcome
Fans who are critical of the way BYU does specific things-Welcome
People who aren't fans of anyone, just BYU haters-Not welcome
People driven by vendettas against coaches or players-Not welcome

[snoscythe]

Here's how I'd suggest moderators here decide who stays and goes:
Respectful fans of other teams-Welcome
Fans who are critical of the way BYU does specific things-Welcome
People who aren't fans of anyone, just BYU haters-Not welcome
People driven by vendettas against coaches or players-Not welcome

I think that is pretty much how everyone sees it.
The classic example of the fans of other teams who are welcome is TexasTim--engages in debate, but laughs at himself and acknowledges when he has lost the debate. I welcome those guys, but the angst-mongerers can keep their Daily Herald subscriptions.

[ABYUFAN]

There may come a day when "Cougarblue" is gone from my "favorites" list, and it will be a sad day when that happens. I've been on Cougarblue and its many iterations since about 2000 or so, it's been so long I cannot remember. Today I posted over there that from now on I am boycotting that board for a week whenever I log on and the name Manti is in the "hot topics" column. Shortly after I posted in that thread it was taken down.

It's too bad that I’m so upset over this because Steed has in the past previously posted things that I liked (even if I didn’t agree with him) and I've often found myself thinking that he'd actually be a fun guy to watch a game with - when he isn't in his “Bronco cannot do ANYTHING right” frame of mind.

So….Thanks guys for giving me this pleasant alternative so I can make the switch if needs be!

[hawkwing]

I'm not a graphic designer, but if you want everything to fall in the blue range your only options are saturation and slight hue changes. So keeping everything in the muted ranges of blue will allow you to use a bright blue to highlight. Value is hard to use unless you're changing the background color as well to set the text off.

I don't think everything necessarily needs to be shades of blue, there is room for other colors, though it would be nice to have less red!

[Mars]

Off topic, but why are the unread posts on this forum colored red? Aren't we trying to shun that color? Is it a penalty for those of us who aren't reading every thread to have that offending color burn our eyes?

I like where your head is at!

[CAFB_04-12]

I, too, am tiring of the blah blah blah and trolling on CB, and look forward to real football discussion here. I'm always on the lookout for football education (never played), and plan to check out Cougar Corner more often. I love to read opposing points of view that are fact/stat based, but CB has gone beyond that this season.

CB is the only board I've encountered that had such weak-kneed moderation. Some of the military pilot forums I frequent would eat the CB trolls alive.

I hope I don't get banned there.