Why did we change from posting Chicago Bears articles in the,

One of the reasons I joined this messageboard was that it had this OUTSTANDING Chicago Bears forum - with GREAT posters. The threads here were wonderful opportunities to discuss the Chicago Bears with thoughtful (and pretty smart) Bears fans.

Lately, there have been a lot of threads started, directing people to the front page. You can't read the Chicago Bears articles in the Chicago Bears forum, unless you leave the forum.

Maybe I'm just lazy, but I loved getting my "Chicago Bears fix" here in one place. One stop shopping, so to speak.

Why the change?

Ski is doing some tinkering.

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Originally Posted by The Benjamin

Ski is doing some tinkering.

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OK.

So, is this just a temporary thing, or are we supposed to be changing to this 2-step system of posting articles? FWIW, it seemed great to have all the Chicago Bears stuff in the Chicago Bears forum. It seemed like an efficient way to come to the site for Bears info.

Otherwise, you feel like you're jumping around to get the meat of the news on the Bears. It just seems to add an unnecessary step to the process. Kind of like, if it ain't broke, why fix it?

I'll get off of my soap box now, because I do like this messageboard a lot. It has a lot of good stuff going for it. Most importantly, it has the best posters I've encountered. That's the true strength of this board - the posters here.

That is up to Ski. Meathead is a general article bot that posts Chicago Bear news from around the net.

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Originally Posted by The Benjamin

That is up to Ski. Meathead is a general article bot that posts Chicago Bear news from around the net.

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Thanks Benj. Now I understand.

I thought Meathead was just a poster who was double-posting stuff. Most of those articles were already threads in the Chicago Bears forum, and they had discussions going already. But now I know it was a bot, so I understand what was going on.

It was just confusing to me. Thanks for letting me know.

LOL... yeah, Meathead is a bot

Same here, I also thought Meathead was just another annoying spammer. lol

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Originally Posted by little bear

Same here, I also thought Meathead was just another annoying spammer. lol

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:lol-032:

Yeah, I didn't want to be a jerk with the guy. I just figured he was a clueless guy, but who was generally harmless. Obviously, I'm not too bright myself. :smile:

LB had no problem with it.... calling him shithead LOL

Yeah, it's just me.

I'm tweaking with ways to post Chicago Bears news feeds to the front page. Oddly enough it wants to post in the forums, that's there a new article.

As of right now, I've disabled it while I'm not working on it.