Just so it can't be said we didn't try - dump of pm's related to trying to get RB and NC to work together

[Sharp]

for transparency's sake I feel that yall deserve to know stuff that was planned

this is long winded and just to have on record that we (mostly I in case anyone is against it) tried to get RB and NC to work together since like half of the active heads on both sites use both, and that RB apparently wasn't into it



From : ILLunatic
To : Sharp Nine
Date : 2015-01-01 23:34
Title : Re: site congruity
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Originally Posted by Sharp Nine

I know we've talked about this before (gow and witty at least but i figure ill is probably like-minded) but since there's no authority at NC now's prolly a good time to talk about this (allen and I are basically the battling half while topical has a bunch of guys running itself)

NC and RB are like the only big text battling sites worth a shit. so when I see the the NBL and LLL starting around the same time I just feel like thats a waste of potential. At least on the battling end I feel like we could work it out so while one site has a battle league the other has big tourneys - of course little tourneys and especially the spontaneous keystyle ones should happen.

but I mean like, NC does the summer classic, usually with nothing else going on. If RB were to have the LLL up and running during that, we could run out the SC without people bitching about nothing to do afer elimination because they're floating towards RB. This sort of thing would:

-keep dudes active (probably higher rate of retention)
-Let mods double up in both leagues (if nothing else to help write mags)
-increase activity for both leagues and tourneys on both sites
-probably lessen the stigma about being from one site or another because let's be honest, some guys on each site will just have their biases.


you guys interested in doing something like that? I'm totally open to adjusting NC's battling schedule as needed and I'm willing to bet topical could work out something too - I know there's a few different topical leagues that happen around both sites so shit's always diverse. but whats the point of competing text battling leagues when they're basically doing the same thing?

I'm open to anything. Not sure if you've actually read our LLL Mags recently (Interviews specifically) but I've been tossing the idea out there to see what the thoughts were in regards a potential merge between the two as like you said, RB and NC are the only two sites worth two shits.

Despite a merger being a complete stretch, GoW and I have also discussed working a schedule to be flexible with NC as both have a lot of the same competitors to begin with. If you can send us an approximate schedule of what you're planning, I'll definitely discuss it with our staff to try and work around it.

If you're at all interested in a merger, let me know and we can all hash it out together in regards to terms and what not.

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From : ILLunatic
To : Sharp Nine
Date : 2015-01-02 01:38
Title : Re: site congruity
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Originally Posted by Sharp Nine

Made a thread in the admin lounge and as far as the battle half goes, we just do one big tourney per year with scattered other kinds - newbie, pic, swag and flow, alias, tag, etc. could probably fit that into half a year easily. If you guys are interested we can definitely come up with a tentative schedule for the year

We definitely are interested.




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From : God of War
To : Sharp Nine
Date : 2015-01-01 23:37
Title : Re: site congruity
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Originally Posted by Sharp Nine

I know we've talked about this before (gow and witty at least but i figure ill is probably like-minded) but since there's no authority at NC now's prolly a good time to talk about this (allen and I are basically the battling half while topical has a bunch of guys running itself)

NC and RB are like the only big text battling sites worth a shit. so when I see the the NBL and LLL starting around the same time I just feel like thats a waste of potential. At least on the battling end I feel like we could work it out so while one site has a battle league the other has big tourneys - of course little tourneys and especially the spontaneous keystyle ones should happen.

but I mean like, NC does the summer classic, usually with nothing else going on. If RB were to have the LLL up and running during that, we could run out the SC without people bitching about nothing to do afer elimination because they're floating towards RB. This sort of thing would:

-keep dudes active (probably higher rate of retention)
-Let mods double up in both leagues (if nothing else to help write mags)
-increase activity for both leagues and tourneys on both sites
-probably lessen the stigma about being from one site or another because let's be honest, some guys on each site will just have their biases.


you guys interested in doing something like that? I'm totally open to adjusting NC's battling schedule as needed and I'm willing to bet topical could work out something too - I know there's a few different topical leagues that happen around both sites so shit's always diverse. but whats the point of competing text battling leagues when they're basically doing the same thing?

I think that is brilliant man








time passes and as NC becomes .org, all looks difficult as NBL is beginning to start - but we had agreed to hold it off after the LLL was going and no one was around to stop the king of spring from happening (RIP). GoW was never on RB so I resorted to finding his gaming facebook page and talking to him



Conversation started March 27
Alex ********[SHARP]
Ron
We gotta talk lol it's Sharp
I'm tryna pull a you and fix everything then walk away

Wake and Game
Whats up broham

Alex
Woooooooo
this is gow right?

Wake and Game
Yes sir lol

Alex
first whats good lol? been a minute
but for real text is dead
I took time away from modding and nc cant get a single battle thing going
Rb has motivation and NC as talent
idk why but illunatic just doesn't seem to want to help

Wake and Game
Yeah bro it is done for, I mean like there is only a couple people who care about it and cats liek you but its hard for you to single handedly bring it back to life you know
You back on NC now?

Alex
what I'm saying is just establish seasonal stuff and MAKE it known
yeah

Wake and Game
And I am good my dude, working on my game and doing wag here.

Alex
my problem is if you say 'netcees' a thread on RB it gets deleted
whats good with your game? it on steam greenlight yet?

Wake and Game
Why dont you just come to rb bro people there actually care bout it still u can get a mod spot and etc

Alex
Cause boredom is in the top tier there, the discussion board is eh and I'm tryna retire from modding lol

Wake and Game
lmao so what you going to do now?

Alex
I just need rb and NC to acknowledge each other's existences lol

Wake and Game
lol never going to happen bro you knwo hwo both of them are

Alex
The thing is no one on NC cares enough to edit posts
I need that apathy from rb too

Wake and Game
i can make it where nc isnt deleted or edited

Alex
Just like tell them not to worry about it cause shit gets policed and I'll make sure it doesn't happen on NC
And make sure you keep me posted on the game!






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From : ILLunatic
To : Sharp Nine
Date : 2015-03-28 19:51
Title : Re: yo
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Originally Posted by Sharp Nine

so LLL is winding down

if we start nbl in the next week or so (and we make a thread about it on RB) we drawn in those rb heads in here and ride on that to motivate our battlers. Then they're all active when nbl winds down and lll starts back up and the cycle continues

The biggest problem seems to be when a league is winding down into playoffs the text site response is another tourney, so why not have the two leagues dovetailing constantly? Thats a good 4 months per league if its 16 weeks and people always have something to do that doesn't involve sites like letsbeef lmao.

so with your blessing I'll make a thread here saying nbl is going up, and when lll starts back up during NBL playoffs the same thing happens?

I was under the impression NBL was already up




at this point illunatic stopped responding to my PMs. I made a thread regarding nbl anyway and it was immediately deleted






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From : God of War
To : Sharp Nine
Date : 2015-04-01 13:17
Title : Re: Bro
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Originally Posted by Sharp Nine

Look you have my word here

I've personally seen to it that rapbattles.com isn't blocked on nc

I openly invite you to post about that newbie tourney I won on NC that you're doing here. I'll gladly copy the post and the url of the sign-up thread and post it myself

Acting like the other sites don't exist is a huge problem man

naw i trust You IVE known u long enough. its the actual site owners ns hit i dont trust bro



at this point GoW stopped responding and went ghost




so


we tried to get some healthy cross promotion going

if this is the exact opposite of what you collectively wanted, my bad