[Stardust]

Have there been any findings that I have discovered since the start of the process, yes! Interestingly, I have begun to notice more replies for areas that did not appear to be getting posts or comments for in the past. It has introduced everyone to other schools that either you rarely have heard about, and surely never knew existed. One of the most important findings has been a simple report that each of you can see for yourselves on the forum threads in the far right column. The Views column tells us all how many members have gone to that thread and opened it to read. Does not mean everyone will post, but it was of interest to someone just to see what was going on.

I have began to see the VIEWS of other schools posts that did not exist in the past. As example, I have been posting scores for an Australian Travel team that has been touring KY which I knew nothing about until I began posting the scores. That prompted a funny comment in the score thread of last nights game that lead me to look into the team to see why they were here in our state. http://www.bluegrassrivals.com/forum/sho...hp?t=52892 Thus far, it has drawn 69 views by you, the BGR members. This is as many views as most of the EKY sporting events. I ask you, had no one posted a score for them, would you have ever know, nor cared of their existence?

Look, I am not trying to sabotage your site. I do not want to make it cumbersome for you by adding members from across the state. My hope for you, myself now that I am a member, as well as anyone who now joins the site from henceforth – is to make this the #1 resource for mine, yours and everyone elses for Kentucky High School and other sports news and information. I would love to share banter with you and brag to you about my school or area and why it is equal to your area, but if you know nothing of my area, we hardly can have that banter. To only post on schools or areas that are more known, then I feel we continue to limit ourselves in reaching out to other areas.

For those I have offended, I apologize. For those who I have made your access to information more cumbersome, please understand it was not to deter you, but to draw in someone else. It’s sad for some of the PM’s that I have received today. Three of you PM’s me to say stop posting about scores that no one cares about. The short sightedness of that is that you are the only one who does not care, but somewhere, someone else does. Do we want to draw those members in, or keep them away? Will other new members be as forward as I to begin posting threads about my area that I knew you would not care about, in hopes that as new members from NKY at least see a post that they could potentially reply to. That should snowball into making that new member an ACTIVE member. I honestly believe that is the interest of the staff and administrators of BGR. Should we not all help to support that?

I have no interest in continuing the process if not supported. I have received feedback from many of you both supportive and non-supportive. I welcome your ideas of how to draw interest to the site. I know no other way to measure it without us posting information on the other areas and then checking out the VIEWS column to see if really anyone cares. Obviously, those areas that have no views, then it is the hope that we can get into those areas someone how and introduce them to OUR site. How do we do that, I look forward to your suggestions. This is free for all of us. We should all be appreciative to the owner and staff members of this site to give us an equal opportunity to share our School Pride, thoughts and comments to all, and better yet do it for FREE!

For some of you, I hope this provided you an understanding of the WHY . For those of you who still dislike it, but can appreciate the effort and can support it’s short term approach, I say THANK YOU for your understanding and farsighted view that can help this site grow. For those of you who wish the site to stay the same, and not welcome other areas by any means possible, then my sincere apologies for making this attempt. In either case, I appreciate you all for taking the time to read my babblings, and fighting through the threads that are of no interest to you. But please remember, there is someone out there who does care about the thread, we just have to see how to draw them to the site.

I welcome any comments, both in posts or PM’s.

Thank you all,


Sincerely,

Stardust