HFboards

Narjhan · Post by **Narjhan** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 11:45 am

Hi there

I was wondering if any of you guys were members of the HFboards. Seems you need to be invited in order to register there

MOD NOTE: Renamed the subject to make more sense. - B72

mustardstew · Post by **mustardstew** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:31 pm

hmmm - who knew? I wasn't aware of that!

but then, i'm not a very vocal member - mostly read about the Bruins in th GDTs... best impression of how their doing since I'm in India...

I assume you mean an introduction from a friend, as opposed to an activation email, yes?

Post by **batdad** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:11 pm

Yeah they changed that back a bit because they had too many members. And not only that, but even once on you have to

1. only invite people who are good or the mods/admins smack you down later
2. if you invite a bad one you get bad boy points.
3. My advice...don't invite anyone until you know em real well.....not sure 4 posts counts as knowing em
4. once you are in, I believe there are still areas you cannot post/access in until you reach a certain level of trust.

A couple of our members are now mods over there on their teams boards and the site. really neat to see that.

(Systemfel, nazzy19)

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:33 pm

I think there are limited windows of time when you can sign up without a referral. I had lurked there as a guest (not logged in with an account) for a couple years or so and then a month or two ago I finally decided to join. I was able to just register on my own. Did it go back to requiring referrals?

Narjhan · Post by **Narjhan** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 9:20 am

mustardstew wrote: I assume you mean an introduction from a friend, as opposed to an activation email, yes?

Yup exactly

Narjhan · Post by **Narjhan** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 9:22 am

bruins72 wrote:I think there are limited windows of time when you can sign up without a referral. I had lurked there as a guest (not logged in with an account) for a couple years or so and then a month or two ago I finally decided to join. I was able to just register on my own. Did it go back to requiring referrals?

Well a couple of weeks ago, you could register on your own as well. For some reasons I never got any reply or activation mail whatsoever, and now they're back to the friendly referral thing

Franck · Post by **Franck** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 1:14 pm

The question I ask myself is why a forum would go to such great lengths to keep people from joining?

Do they sell drugs or something?

Wroom · Post by **Wroom** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:44 pm

I'm a member there.

Post by **Danny** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:48 pm

Franck wrote:The question I ask myself is why a forum would go to such great lengths to keep people from joining?

Do they sell drugs or something?

1. Too many users -> too big a database -> server costs
2. Too many idiots, fake accounts whatever
3. Yeah, reading some of the stuff you could actually be under the impression there's loads of drugs involved

I highly recommend the Leafs forum. Komi for Norris!

Post by **batdad** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 8:21 pm

Oh come on Komi for Norris? I can one up that in a few ways.

Stajan for Conn Smythe

We know this is something the Leafs need.. and Chicago is desparate for help so....

Stajan, a 4th, Van Ryn (and the Laffs will toss in Toskala)

for

Bolland, Barker, Byfuglien

Sarcasm alert sarcasm alert. But not on the HF Leaf board....

Post by **Danny** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:51 pm

You don't give up a guy like Matty Stajan just like that.

Seriously though, HFB can be quite useful. I can gather all the information about my team without having to go to 10 different sites...and some of the Photoshop stuff is pretty cool.

Post by **Alessandro** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 9:00 am

batdad wrote:Yeah they changed that back a bit because they had too many members. And not only that, but even once on you have to

1. only invite people who are good or the mods/admins smack you down later
2. if you invite a bad one you get bad boy points.
3. My advice...don't invite anyone until you know em real well.....not sure 4 posts counts as knowing em
4. once you are in, I believe there are still areas you cannot post/access in until you reach a certain level of trust.

A couple of our members are now mods over there on their teams boards and the site. really neat to see that.

(Systemfel, nazzy19)

I'm a staffer there

Narjhan · Post by **Narjhan** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 11:42 am

Well I can totally understand the need for a selective registration, especially on a sport dedicated board. Though I have seen some serious flamings there over the last weeks.

Alessandro, do you know if its usual that people dont get any answer for an apply (im not bickering heh just asking

) ?

Post by **Alessandro** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 2:04 pm

Narjhan wrote:Well I can totally understand the need for a selective registration, especially on a sport dedicated board. Though I have seen some serious flamings there over the last weeks.

Alessandro, do you know if its usual that people dont get any answer for an apply (im not bickering heh just asking ) ?

Frankly I've got no clue, I'm a writer, I am not involved in the the site administration!

Franck · Post by **Franck** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:57 pm

Anyone on there care to give me an invite?

Laiho · Post by **Laiho** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:55 am

I have tried to join both by myself and by invitation, but both times i get this message:

"Sorry, due to abuse problems from user(s) with your ISP we no longer accept registrations from it."

Anyone knows what it means and if there´s a way around it? I´ve never had an account on HFboards before so i don´t understand why this comes up.

Post by **McQwak** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 9:07 am

Laiho wrote:I have tried to join both by myself and by invitation, but both times i get this message:

"Sorry, due to abuse problems from user(s) with your ISP we no longer accept registrations from it."

Anyone knows what it means and if there´s a way around it? I´ve never had an account on HFboards before so i don´t understand why this comes up.

Small offtopic explanation: this happens when you have dynamic IP address. It is shared with others by your ISP and HF decided to block the whole ISP. They can easily block wide range of IP addresses. So even you've never been registered on HF, you're blocked. You can thank to other customers of your ISP.
But you can change ISP and it could work then.

markiemark66 · Post by **markiemark66** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:41 am

Maybe you could mask or somehow stealth your ip address?

Franck · Post by **Franck** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 2:28 pm

Using a proxy for that would help, wouldn't it?

And what ISP is it that you're using?

deathknot · Post by **deathknot** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 8:17 pm

i'm a member on the board, i'm normally posting in the prospects,Leafs and european areas.

i enjoy the forum alot. i do some work with them as favor for helping me get to where i am today.

alexob18 · Post by **alexob18** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 9:34 pm

I'm a member on there, occasionally giving updates on prospects. I go to some OHL games from time to time so I keep tabs on players

Leafs board is terrible... and the trade offers make me laugh.

Pax25 · Post by **Pax25** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 1:28 am

I'm covering the Chicago Steel of the USHL for an online publication, so I decided to join their forums. I didn't need a referral.

Cap'n · Post by **Cap'n** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 12:16 pm

I've been a member there for a number of years. Didn't need a referral to join back then. I never realized that it had become a part of the site. Interesting.

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 2:38 pm

I think the referral thing might only be at certain times. I'm not sure though.

dave1927p · Post by **dave1927p** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 12:52 am

i can only dream of being a member there one day. darn these exclusive clubs. Now i know how micheal scott feels.

I go there from time to time to check out the "hockey business" news. Some great stuff on that site.

I'm surprised that its invite only though. You'd think they would incourage people joining. Maybe they just got to many spammers and were sick of it.

EDIT: That's it. I'm going to try and Signing up there now. ..why not? lol Doesn't look like it's invite only...although it does ask if you were referred to the site...