Anyone else hate icenetwork and other message boards?!?!

While, I support icenetwork for being a place where people can watch lots of figure skating, and get lots of skating info and news, I hate their message boards! You can't say everything you want on them! If you have something bad enough to say about icenetwork, or ISU, they will delete your post. If you put links, or even TALK about other websites not affiliated with ISU, they will delete your post.

I posted a message telling people where they can watch the grand prix, and other events for free ( http://www.cbc.ca/sports/ondemand/ Unfortunately, you must watch most of the events live. But hey, it's better than paying for icenetwork, or not watching it at all. There is a schedule on the site.). Although CBC is the official broadcaster of figure skating in Canada, and are therefore, obviously affiliated with the ISU, icenetwork deleted my post. They do let you put up links for NBC though. I even put up other posts just TALKING about my post, and I didn't include links or even the NAME of the website, and they deleted them too! I censored one of the words in the title of one of my posts, by typing in stars. Guess what they did to that? They reworded my whole title! Now, they've delete my whole account!!

I have since registered at http://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/ and http://www.isu.org/ to use their message boards. They sent me an email saying I could not log in until I received another email stating that they have confirmed my registration. Well guess what? I never heard back from EITHER of them! This message board is the only one I can use right now! What's up with this?!?!? Is there word out on me that I'm a trouble maker, or that I say things that may be "bad for business"?!?!

Star85 wrote:

Although CBC is the official broadcaster of figure skating in Canada, and are therefore, obviously affiliated with the ISU, icenetwork deleted my post.(...) Now, they've delete my whole account!!

I'm not very fond of IN boards either. Their forum software is not very user friendly, and the posters seem a bit biased at times. I've read some really silly ideas there...
I'm not really surprised that they weren't happy with posting the links to free coverage. They want to earn money, and obviously will be unable to if people switch to a free alternative.
Another reason why I dislike IT is because they are asking YT to delete figure skating videos... A lot of great videos were deleted because of them. Personally I think they should just use the golden opportunity and affiliate themselfes with YT. I've read an article recently that there are companies that earn a lot of money thanks to advertisements posted on their content on YT.

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I have since registered at http://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/ and http://www.isu.org/ to use their message boards. They sent me an email saying I could not log in until I received another email stating that they have confirmed my registration. Well guess what? I never heard back from EITHER of them!

It takes a day or two to receive a confirmation email from FSU. My friend registered recently and she had no trouble. If more than two days have passed (and you've checked whether your confirmation mail wasn't mistaken by your spam filter for a spam) maybe you should contact the admins. Floskate, one of FSU admins, is a member here, so maybe you could as for help.

I agree that there is something wrong with ISU boards, however. I used to be registered, but my account got deleted because I haven't posted anything for about a year... I tried to re-register recently, two times actually (I waited for more than a week before trying again) but I've yet to receive a confirmation e-mail. My friend Oscilla is in the same board. I was thinking of contacting someone from there through a different forum (I've seen some users from there registered at FSU), but eventually couldn't be bothered to sent a message.
However, if you wish, I could try it. You've intrigued me, I start to think that there must me comething wrong with the members registration process. Too many people have experienced troubles for it to be an accident.

You could also try registering at GoldenSkate (http://www.goldenskate.com/forum).

Good luck!

Yes, I do hate Icenetwork. I wish they will have less subscribers so they will go bankruptcy.

Star85 wrote:

I registered at those two sites over a week ago. I guess I will just try to register again or something. Thanks for the link to golden skate. I will check that one out Who is YT?...

YT is youtube. I personally wish IN wasn't so stringent on policing the video sharing sites IMO, because deleting competition vids by the bucketload isn't going to do anything in spreading the word about the sport, especially with LA being the host for Worlds this year. What can you do, though... Business will be business, and varying companies will approach the sharing/copyright deal differently. Gone are the days when McDonald's and beer companies sponsored the sport, that's for sure.

Generally speaking, I feel the IN boards doesn't have alot to offer since their discussions are heavily centered around American skaters and no one else, really (understandable, since it serves the U.S. first and foremost). Some of their threads that attempt to examine the "decline" of skating is intriguing though, and it's probably the best one I've found concerning the subject aside from FSU.

Oh. Gosh I didn't know icenetwork was making youtube delete figure skating videos! I guess if it's origonal icenetwork video, they have the right to do that. But I've never seen anything on youtube that was from icenetwork. Not that I know of anyway. I've never even beeen able to find full competitions on youtube. Just individual skates. So I don't know what icenetwork has to be so worried about. God, they want a monopoly on figure skating really bad. And since they charge for their service, that's a really bad thing. A lot of people, especially new fans, won't pay to watch skating.

Yeah, Icenetwork and NBC hate their videos on youtube. I can't find a single copy of the US nationals 2008 on YT because icenetwork and NBC had their copies deleted.

The icenetwork message boards are very biased, and IMO, don't waste your time there ^_^ they only ever talk about the Americans, and they don't really have much information. It's not a very welcoming site.

Thank you, Star85! That's an interesting site. Definitely makes searching for figure skating videos easier.