I was wondering if anyone knew of other message boards like this. I'd be interested in reading one for Chicago and NYC.

I'd like to see a similar one for Indiana, and would be willing to help underwrite it if someone could provide the technical expertise to run it, but as it is, there seems to be precious little interest in the few Indiana threads on SSC. I think there are maybe three or four of us that contribute to the Fort Wayne Development thread, and no one ever initiates any give-and-take discussion.

http://www.urbanplanet.org

Urbanplanet sucks. Its too stagnant. You have a million people viewing the board and very little discussion. Cyburbia is better.

I think I've learned more on this site than in all my planning classes, due to all of the arguing you can find here :) I'd like to find one for Chicago and NYC though. I want to learn about what all is going on there, as they're cities I'd like to live in some day.

Yeah, UrbanPlanet can be a bit stagnant. Their rules for posting are also very much more strict. I haven't heard about Cyburbia, but I'll check that out tonight.

the one i use most for nyc is wired:

 

http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/index.php

 

also curbed blog for nyc real estate news:

 

http://www.curbed.com/

 

both do other cities as well.

 

thanks :)

We used to be part of a network of similar sites around the Midwest.  I know there was one for Detroit, St. Louis, KC...maybe Des Moines.  Does anybody remember those?

 

A few are listed here.  I don't know how many of these links are still active, though:

http://www.urbanohio.com/Links.htm

For Detroit there is detroityesDOTcom  90% of the forumers are stupid, and the remaining 10% who are intelligent either have been banned for telling the truth, don't post or are too pissed off at the stupid people to post anymore.

 

The premise of the board is to make threads about 150 story towers, Cheesecake factories (which Michigan lacks), and cleverly disguised parking structures.  Added bonuses include our very own water tower plaza mall and turning Michigan Central Station into a Casino/Convention Center/Museum/Police Station/International Trading Center/high end luxury condo/tourist attraction-ruin. 

 

Be careful.  Anything bad you say about "Tha D" will be used against you.  Blatantly ignore copyright restrictions and repost articles that say something bad about Detroit.  Like if one article were to say that the city has abandoned houses and factories due to a declining a economy, they are LYING!!!  Follow up with a summary about a new loft development that stands above all losses, and how the author probably never visited the city. 

 

Make posts that are only about good things, because Detroit's social and economic issues are swept under the rug there.  After reading through hundreds of lines of incomprehensible dialogue displayed in easy-to-read, massive solid blocks of text, you may decide to become a member.  Try to pretend you are actually from the city by referencing Detroit's hip hop culture (like Trick-Trick).  DetroitCity58044, Tha_D24523, 8MileRoad, 7MileRoad, 6MileRoad are all acceptable.  You blend in with the cluttered user names which all have Detroit in them.  As if anyone didn't know you were representing Detroit on a Detroit forum!

 

Finally, be sure to compose a post that makes absolutely no sense, if you state valid facts instead of speculation, people will jump on you and tear you apart because speculation and rumor is far more interesting than boring facts.  If you are too intelligent, you may get banned, because no one likes smart people around on message boards.

 

end exaggerated sarcasm

 

 

Detroityes is a trip.  Someone started a site just to parody Detroityes called "hotfudgedetroit.com".  I wonder if it still up.

They have a thread called "How did  you feel when Motown left Motown".

I wanna sign up just to say "How did you feel when 1 million other people left your city, b!+che$ muahahhaha!!!" but I'll be mature.

 

 

Listen to this dumb*** ramble about how Wayne State is an excellent school for no other reason than the fact that he ONLY hired WSU grads (perpetuating a corporate machine that favors a 5th tier state school).

 

 

 

 

"Wayne State Admits Just About Anyone"

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I graduated from WSU Law a long time ago. I got a great leal education there.

 

I practiced law for several years - our firm, 20 lawyers - practiced high level commercial real estate, banking, corporate and tax law.

 

As the hiring partner for two years I interviewed graduates from seven very good law schools, but I always hired WSU grads, concentrating on ones who spent a lot of time in night school, had families, and were hungry. Grades were secondary.

 

The people I hired are now senior partners in their respective practice groups at much larger firms and doing very well. (My old firm disbanded a couple of years after I stopped practicing law for a living; the senior partners were in a position financially to retire early and several did.) And, the people I hired are now hiring WSU grads more often than not.

 

And people on this site thought I was crazy for saying people will hire you for no other reason than because you went to the same school.

 

They have a thread called "How did  you feel when Motown left Motown".

I wanna sign up just to say "How did you feel when 1 million other people left your city, b!+che$ muahahhaha!!!" but I'll be mature.

 

Careful.  The pope might ban you.

Isn't he from Ferndale? :)

via Warren, Ohio.

no everything flies on DetroitYes, including my alter ego....bwahahaha.

Alright, Patterson...

It also fascinates me that it took 10 years, TEN YEARS! to update the Dyes's website colors from awful maroon and gray to blue/gray color scheme.

They stole our color scheme!

That's a damn shame.  Who knew default-blue would become so popular?

LOL! I love this site.

"Maybe the average New Yorker, who doesn't understand much beyond the Hudson River might equate Detroit to Milwaukee or St. Louis, but a person truly in the know wouldn't be so silly. There are no companies in New York bigger than the one based right there in Detroit. Wall St. stockbrokers have plenty of clients with metro Detroit addresses. "

 

Detroit > NYC; I'm sold.

LOL! I love this site.

"Maybe the average New Yorker, who doesn't understand much beyond the Hudson River might equate Detroit to Milwaukee or St. Louis, but a person truly in the know wouldn't be so silly. There are no companies in New York bigger than the one based right there in Detroit. Wall St. stockbrokers have plenty of clients with metro Detroit addresses. "

 

Detroit > NYC; I'm sold.

 

you're not even scratching the surface. For the longest time there was no registration, so you were on the honor code for your user name, ahh good times.

Another great reason not to use UrbanPlanet --

 

"Please check our rules. We don't allow posts where you advertize for other websites without express permission from us. You have made several for urbanohio.com, so please stop the practice."

 

I made the mention in a post that there was another, more comprehensive Ohio web-site. Wow, some admins there are very much uptight -- no wonder it hardly receives any traffic.

i've been banned from urbanplanet, good times.

Yes, their ban list is absurdly long. You can be banned for posting too many "one line" phrases, such as "Keep up the good work!" in a photo thread. Or for posting an entire article, or snipping too much of it in a post. Or for making too many "nonsense" posts. Or for being "too political." Or for "spamming" a site (which was about some UrbanOhio city events). It's one of the most strict web-site forums I've been on, which is probably why its dead across the board.

i got banned because I complained to the admins about their members using my photos without credit (asshats!)

I used to be a moderator there, but later asked to be restored as an standard member cause i didn't want to enforce the b.s as you all explain above...and I agree with what is being said.

 

They actually told me I couldn't be a member of this site, but I signed up anyway.  My usual user name everywhere is wolverine, but I had them changed to 'hayward' so they wouldn't catch my identity.

I used to be a moderator there, but later asked to be restored as an standard member cause i didn't want to enforce the b.s as you all explain above...and I agree with what is being said.

 

They actually told me I couldn't be a member of this site, but I signed up anyway.  My usual user name everywhere is wolverine, but I had them changed to 'hayward' so they wouldn't catch my identity.

 

are they on some weird type of internet mission? (to be what, i don't know)

That's b.s.

Think what you will, but arguing and expressed opinions are what keep message boards going. It's no wonder urban planet is a terrible website. The main concern here is profanity/obscene posts, which I understand. Overall I don't think the mods/admins are unreasonable, other than "cleaning up" posts that aren't pertainant to the thread topic (but that's just my opinion. I don't care when people deviate from a topic I started). It's usually an interesting subject anyway, if someone felt so inclined to talk about it.

That's b.s.

Think what you will, but arguing and expressed opinions are what keep message boards going. It's no wonder urban planet is a terrible website. The main concern here is profanity/obscene posts, which I understand. Overall I don't think the mods/admins are unreasonable, other than "cleaning up" posts that aren't pertainant to the thread topic (but that's just my opinion. I don't care when people deviate from a topic I started). It's usually an interesting subject anyway, if someone felt so inclined to talk about it.

 

Listen, we don't need one of your tangents here...STAY ON TOPIC!!!  :whip: :whip: :whip:

It's my thread!!!!

Go play in traffic on Peachtree~! You yankee :)

It's my thread!!!!

Go play in traffic on Peachtree~! You yankee :)

 

Discussion about cities, outside of Ohio, on here is strongly frowned upon!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

:shoot: :shoot: :shoot: :shoot: :shoot: :shoot: :shoot: :shoot: :shoot: :shoot: :shoot: :shoot: :shoot:

^ They have a "wiki" for city developments, but it is tightly controlled. I know one user who was banned for introducing factual information with citations but was critical of the project. UrbanPlanet wants to have a factual web-site that presents itself as the sole source for this stuff, and wants to cater to the professionals. But I see nay a professional on there. SkyscraperCity, on the other hand, is about as loose as you can get and has many postings from professionals, and has sections devoted to that stuff alone.

 

UrbanOhio, on the other hand, is in the hands of the evil, overpowering moderators. I come under the spell of the Pope, MayDay, etc. daily. I obey.

UrbanOhio, on the other hand, is in the hands of the evil, overpowering moderators. I come under the spell of the Pope, MayDay, etc. daily. I obey.

 

i was going to edit a random post to prove my "power", but then this came along.

 

You are all safe...............for now.

I worship the Pope.

UrbanPlanet got pissed at me a couple of years ago because I actually had the nerve to say that their Ohio section lacked a lot of activity because so much of that discussion was going on over here.

 

I've never been back.

"Listen, we don't need one of your tangents here...STAY ON TOPIC!!!"

 

That's MY line!

 

Honestly, I've been with skyscraperpage.com's forum since day 1 (or day 2, I've been on it for almost 10 years anyway), and the only criticism I have is that it's a bit skewed to North America. Beyond that, the moderators there are pretty even-handed and not overly-strict. Skyscrapercity began as an offshoot of SSP and it just seemed to get a lot of the people who were banned for trolling on SSP. Not only that, but they'll have people copy my threads (and photos) and not even bother to mention that it's MY work. On SSP, they'd get called out - on SSC, not so much. Urbanplanet? Honey, please!

Think what you will, but arguing and expressed opinions are what keep message boards going.

 

I agree 100%. The more arguing, the better.

 

I disagree. You're wasting your time when you try to argue with me; I may not always be right, but when I'm wrong, I'll never admit it. :whip:

 

 

 

 

 

:wink:

I agree 100%. The more arguing, the better.

 

Arguing for the sake of arguing sucks and usually results in threads being closed.

 

At least on most boards arguments can be civil.  Bringing up Dyes again.  Only they can take a discussion about what breakfast cereal tastes better and turn it into a race or political issue.

At least on most boards arguments can be civil.  Bringing up Dyes again.  Only they can take a discussion about what breakfast cereal tastes better and turn it into a race or political issue.

 

who are you calling "cornflake"?