I’m reposting this for folk from the scout.com message boards who haven’t heard (because scout.com’s band of toolbags has decided to start bashing the guy who started the threads):

The Admins, Community Mods and Moderators of these hockey boards invite you to join us at out new home … The Scoreboards.com.

www.thescoreboards.com/forums/index.php

All you need to do is follow the link, sign up and post to your hearts’ content. The admins, CMs and mods will be familiar to you as they are basically the same people doing those jobs on these boards.

Why is this happening?

Because the people left to run this site were doing so with ever diminishing support from the Scout.com community. There was a very real risk that we would lose hockey boards altogether in the near future, and thus we decided to go ahead and make a proactive move. We hope that we can also re-establish the kind of community that we used to have back in the Hockeyboards/Fanhome days before we became part of a for-profit community with Scout.

We’ll see you at the new place … and we hope you enjoy the re-birth of the best sports message board community on the internet.

Now, I have been a poster on the fanhome/scout.com boards since waaaaaay back in the days when they were hockeyboards.com (which is how I know John F). I know that John and company had their reasons for selling out to Scout.com–but that move pretty much shattered what had been a very good community to that point. The Jackets fans are all on metroboards.com now, the Thrashers fans (who had the fourth most-active hockey board on fanhome.com–after the NHL board, the Leafs board, and the ‘Canes board) are on smirkinchicken.com now, and so on.

And, of course, since no board-move is without its drama, I present to you the rebuttal from Kevin at scout.com:

JeffBear has, in order to promote his new site, taken to spreading a rumor that “the hockey boards are going to be shut down”.

That is completely false. I regret that he’s taken to trying to break up long-standing communities (since 1999) with false rumors.

Please feel free to contact me or Scout with any questions. In the meantime, his spam has been deleted.

- Kevin @ FanHome.com

Gee Kevin, lie much? The move to scout.com already did a lot of the damage–but who cares about those Blue Jackets and Thrashers fans, anyway? Who cares about the people that left for a better board somewhere else, because not only was bitching about the move not allowed, but people were banned for it (and MetroBoards’ hosts were threatened with lawsuits until I helped that site’s admins find a host whose lawyers had the sack to tell you to shove off)?

The community was already fractured by the move to scout.com and their craptacular ezboard software, and JB (who I consider a friend) did not say that the hockey boards were going to be shut down. He said that “there was a very real risk that we would lose the hockey boards altogether in the near future”.

Screw you, Kevin–and screw your clown-shoe of a site, too.