texags on wiki

[Superaggie79]

I'm not trying to obsess with texags but I believe that it is wrong that they are trying to make themselves the face of the university and all it's current and former students. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TexAgs

[TwelfthAG]

Marketing themselves well.

[TwelfthAG]

That's bs about them not advertising. Here they are advertising right here:
http://maroonout.tamu.edu/

[Burnetaggie99]

I get the Maroon and White report but don't go their to much to post.

[jagowar]

haha you gotta love aggiefans being listed on their page now.... saw it last night and thought about adding it myself.

[TwelfthAG]

It says "citation needed" though, so that line will probably be deleted since there is nothing they can cite.

[jagowar]

then just keep adding it... they wont be lame enough to ban the word aggiefans like texags does.

[Superaggie79]

the guy that wrote it is supposedly a wiki freak

[Vlyrock]

I'm pretty sure they started with less than a few thousand members. No website "starts" with 3000 members.

[jagowar]

it does when they are retards and lose their whole database due to hardware failure.... there was a "relaunch" a few years back. it was before my time over there but its funny nonetheless.

speaking of which its time for our offsite backup.

[aggie1997]

I know it has been said here before, but AggieFans is a much better site than texags. The moderators do a great job and everyone here likes open discussion.

[Vlyrock]

Yes, but the one thing they've got that we don't is lots of posters on all the time. It can be both good and bad (you're a small voice in a large pond, your posts disappear off the front page in 1 minute, etc) -- but at the same time, there's always a conversation going on....

Other than that, we've got pretty much everything they have (but better). :)

[hmiles619]

i think both aggiefans and texags have their place...at least for me.

texags has great "free" advertising. I'll post pictures over there and have a couple thousand views in 24 hours. If I need feedback on something I'll come over here for a good opinion.

[aggie1997]

Yes, but the one thing they've got that we don't is lots of posters on all the time. It can be both good and bad (you're a small voice in a large pond, your posts disappear off the front page in 1 minute, etc) -- but at the same time, there's always a conversation going on....

Other than that, we've got pretty much everything they have (but better). :)

A huge difference to me is I feel like I know most of the people on this board just through posting here. Everyone allows open conversation and ideas without immediately blasting you. Sure, not everyone agrees with everything you say, but they allow you to explain and then tell you their feelings (which aren't just how stupid you are). We may have fewer posters here, but it is a much better environment.

[CoolaidWade]

it does when they are retards and lose their whole database due to hardware failure.... there was a "relaunch" a few years back. it was before my time over there but its funny nonetheless.

speaking of which its time for our offsite backup.

Yeah, that is lame they are counting their re-launch as the "launch" since I was there from pretty close to he beginning.

The one thing they had was more people initially signed on at once since Texags was originally created to counter another site (on the Austin newspaper's site no less) That site was an overall site with all the schools and The Aggies who posted there were tired of all the bashing being it was primarily a UT site so they made their own and everyone who posted there joined at once and through word of mouth on that original site Texags grew.

So they did have faster growth but nowhere near 3000 members at launch. Probably around 300-500 initially.

[Mole]

It wouldn't be to hard to start our own Aggiefans.com wiki entry. I'm just sayin...

[TwelfthAG]

Probably would be deleted due to lack of importance.

[Mole]

Not if we kept visiting it and updating it.