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
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..........
