New Members

[Vred]

Re: New Members

I send a welcome message to all new members, asking them to introduce themselves on this thread, letting them know if they make a decent contribution to discussions they will get additional access like the training reports and requesting them to acknowledge the welcome message so that I know the system is working. I also let them know we are a discussion forum not a news board or Blog.
They can still read more than 99% of the forum content if they just want to be readers but get a bit more if they participate in discussions.

Without enough people making a contribution to discussions there simply isn't much to read anyway.
As far as WOOF is concerned we actually don't need a thousand members of the site just 150 regular contributors and I get that with this participation stipulation to get full access that it won't suit everyone.
We also don't have advertisers or sponsors where having a high membership base is preferred so total clicks or membership numbers don't mean much.

The great part for fans or supporters of the Dogs is there are two very good sites for people to choose from and they can contribute to discussions with both of them if they want to.

Reading that big footy pre-season thread, they do agree with you, good to see that they won't be copying the pre-season reports that are being put up here.

Your doing a bang up job man, keep it up.

And it's good to see some new faces around here.

[Warrnambulldog]

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Hi guys, glad to join the community here. Bulldogs nuffie living in Warrnambool who’s excited for 24’. A make or break year for the coach and all that goes with him (some key out of contract dogs). I think we enter next year really without excuses, we need to make the most of this list which includes the best player in the game and stars on every line. Bring it on, go dogs!

[GVGjr]

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Welcome aboard to WarramBulldog and all of our new members to WOOF.

We've actually set a record today (Thrashed it) for the total number of new members ever joining WOOF in a single day and it's not yet 4pm. If we can get a few of them into joining in discussions it will be great for the site.

[Bornadog]

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Welcome to all new members.

Looking forward to your contributions, don't be shy

[azabob]

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Very interesting discussion over on BigFooty about WOOF. Probably driving alot of the new people here.

Welcome!

hujsh I reckon had a bit to do with it also. Well done.

[Cecil]

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Cecil from Bigfooty becomes Cecil from WOOF.

Feeling a bit of trepidation about 2024 after the WCE game ��

[Grantysghost]

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Me logging into woof and not recognising anyone thinking it's the wrong site....



Love it. Welcome new woofers, great stuff make sure you contribute love hearing new opinions!

[bulldogsthru&thru]

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Me logging into woof and not recognising anyone thinking it's the wrong site....



Love it. Welcome new woofers, great stuff make sure you contribute love hearing new opinions!

I knew woof before it was famous!

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[DSouthernHeadlock]

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Hi there, I'm one of those new members crossing over from BigFooty, so excited to get on board. Shame I didn't join just at the end of the season, i would have written a thesis on where we went wrong.

But with a clear head, and seeing the club actually take action on coaching, trade and draft, i'm excited to see what a pre-season of fresh development from the players (and hopefully refinement of gameplan) can bring in 2024.

Cheers.

[Stevo]

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Very interesting discussion over on BigFooty about WOOF. Probably driving alot of the new people here.

Welcome!

I'm on both sites but prefer here by a long way and that's a choice or preference and not a knock on BigFooty.
The amazing thing about the guy getting all bent out of shape today is that if he had made as many posts on here in the last 6 months as he did today on BF in that one thread questioning WOOF he would have had full access here and nothing to whinge about.
Ages ago I got asked to lift my contribution rate here and I'm glad I did and I feel more connected.
Mods feel free to delete this if it's chucking some fuel on the fire.

[bigjohn]

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Hi,

Another convert from BF, been on there for about 10 years.

Excited to see if we can turn the offseason staff merry-go-round / shakeup into something tangible on-field. Not sure if you guys have talked about it much, but I also think having the state of the art facilities and whitten oval back in use as opposed to training at Skinner Reserve hasn't been talked about in the media all that much and will make a big difference to our ability to be prepared adequately.

Ryley Sanders. My prediction is 18+ games this year.

Can Bevo go back to his 2015/2016 mantra 'let the bakers bake'?

[GVGjr]

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Welcome aboard Big John. Nice first up post.

I've written a fair bit about the challenges last year of trying to make 2 less than ideal venues work and I believe the benefits of returning to Whitten Oval will be enormous for us.

[Guest]

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Hi All,

I'm also another bigfooty user, although I did have an account here years ago that has since been removed due to inactivity. Might also be time to update from my old spindleshanks avatar to something a little more current.

[hujsh]

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I'm on both sites but prefer here and that's a choice or preference and not a knock.
The amazing thing about the guy getting all bent out of shape today is that if he had made as many posts on here in the last 6 months as he did today on BF in that one thread questioning WOOF he would have had full access here and nothing to whinge about.
Ages ago I got asked to lift my contribution rate here and I'm glad I did.
Mods feel free to delete this if it's chucking some fuel on the fire.

Had to laugh at the Herald Sun comparison. Very silly in all but the absolute most technical sense.

(someone wanted the the training reports to be reposted to BF and the comparison was made that people don't complain when posters take articles from behind the HS paywall)

[Sanders]

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Hi all, just joined??.Sydneysider originally from Braybrook and long suffering scragger at heart. Look forward to chatting all things Doggies on here. Kudos to whoever created/named this forum the acronym is perfect!