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 The latest from the Corner...
The New Year has arrived and as the RC celebrates their 3rd anniversary it is a time to reflect on some of the many happenings that have occurred over that time......When we started this website our goal was to give people a chance to express themselves in a way that the "other" site didn't........we believed that too many rules were being selected nilly willy and were being enforced by heavy-handed mods who let the power that JJ have them go to their proverbial noggins'..........
Suffice it to say that this wasn't or isn't my style. Many disagreements ensued and on Dec. 18, 2005 the Rocketman left under cover of darkness.....A few people contacted me to ask if I would be interested in starting a site on my own. They would bankroll it, they would pay for the administrative fees, and all I had to do was just be myself.........it started off slowly at first, but as others from the "other" side heard about this new wonderful place where team abbreviations were allowed it just grew like a well-watered pot of flowers. I had some ideas on what I wanted to accomplish and with a whole lotta help from others it slowly took on a life of it's own........the "JB & Rocketman's" boys hs rankings were getting a lot of attention and the "Flounder & Rocketman's" girls polls also satisfied the website's Title IX criteria.........at first it was just me and Sis doing the moderation and upkeep......that didn't last long! We slowly added members who I was comfortable with as "keepers of the RC"..........Flounder & Bandido were the first two I contacted as I had a lot of interaction with them "over there"......a little over a year ago I started to hear about this woman who was spending her entire night here sometimes just chatting with anyone who was on at the time..........As you well know by now, Slicer is her name..........though she has undergone a name change since she joined......about that time we also did a couple of upgrades to our web server. When we started the RocketCorner we were just renting space on someone else's server, but our web stats were going through the roof and we decided to bite the bullett and purchase our own.......we did have some growing pains, but in the end it was well worth it..............and then finally last basketball season I brought another friend "from the dark side" to the moderating team due to the enormous amount of web traffic we were experiencing and the trouble we were having with the Delphos crowd........seems they weren't any too happy about their basketball coach at the time and it did make it very interesting on here for a time..........
 
Now we fast-forward to '09 and we eagerly await the changes that are sure to be in store for us.........we continue to grow our membership through mostly word of mouth and the occasional business card on the windshield trick, but other than that we have no intentions of going ballistic...........FREE membership will continue to be our mantra and we will continue to treat our members as if they were one of the family.........again, thanks for reading and we hope you continue to enjoy your stay.........zooooooom



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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