[TheRealVille]

LOL, You guys no me, so not only will I tell you what I first did, I will tell you "the rest of the story"...

As for me, I was suspended from the "other" site for the 3rd time because I ticked off a Mod in a previous thread for telling him he was wrong on a comment and pointing out facts that corroborated my point. I was done, so I did a google search on "Kentucky Sports forums". And honestly, it took three pages of google to find BGR. I immediately signed up (Christmas Eve 2008) and began posting my way to HATRED! I received more hate mail and threats, that I thought I was Osama Bid Laden. The fear that the EKY ONLY forum board was being infiltrated by someone interested in sports from outside of their area brought great consternation. I fought like the ASS that I can be to do all that I could to accomplish TWO purposes:

1. Help make BGR a Statewide posting board, just as BGP was. I literally created advertisements and put in NKY library's, grocery stores, emailed friends. I got on news boards for newspapers across the state, all in an effort to advertise BGR. I'm maybe the happiest person associated with this site to see how it has grown to where it is today. It is still a long ways from being completely covered by a statewide audience, but we have regular posts from not only our EKY founding members, but a considerable allotment from NKY and good membership from CKY and WKY. We just need the South to get entire statewide coverage and get more frequent posts from our WKY members.

2. I know those who run BGP, though the do not know me on here It still is my goal to make BGP the BEST sports forum board in the state. We have members on this site who are Mods and Admins from BGP (yes, I know who you are ), and I am proud that they come here to see what our little site is up to.

LOL, trust me, Dusty has a very busy life, so as much as everyone thinks that this is all I do, I will say that BGR was not just a fad for me. I love the friends that I have made on this site. I have felt many members personal joys and heartaches. I have enemies, and those who don't like me. Any of the guys on here that know me well enough, know that I don't mull on negativity and sprint to the next FUN topic.

Finally, I joined this site to be a MEMBER. The first time that I was approached to be a Mod, I turned it down because I said I would not change who I am and how I do it. QQ and I chatted later, and I said I would be honored, as long as I did not have to change. Unfortunately, there were no directions on how to be a Mod. Nor were there directions for those who we followed. With that, we did things the only way we thought we were supposed to. Lots of discussions on individuals and situations in the Mod panels would ultimately result in "Mall Copping".

God knows, things were done literally by the book "written BGR rules". Guys like OTH were shated by people like me, not purposefully, but because we thought that was the way things were supposed to be. Lots of things have changed, and I can proudly say that I am back to the "original" Stardust who joined this site on 12/24/08. I love this site as much today as I did that First day.

I want to thank QQ for creating this site, it has fulfilled me:biggrin:

You sure?


I don't know how I ended up here, probably to check up on Paintsville sports at the time. I only FB and BGR, as far as my interacting goes. I occasionally go to a couple of motorcycle forums, just to read, but my only posting is on BGR and FB. I like this site, and 99.99% of it's posters, including you Dusty. :biggrin: It is my home on the net.