RIP EpicSki 1999-2017

[MagnificentUnicorn]

OK, someone clue me in why they couldn't just migrate like we did.

I don't think bears migrate.

[philippeR]

OK, someone clue me in why they couldn't just migrate like we did.

They will, to Pugski ?

[This End Up]

Wasn't there a membership fee or "sponsorship" on Epic? So you could access the special threads, only for members. Wonder what happened to that content.

[SkyIsland]

Wasn't there a membership fee or "sponsorship" on Epic? So you could access the special threads, only for members. Wonder what happened to that content.

That sort of changed after ownership change, to where if you got enough popularity points you could access pretty much the same content. The main difference is that over the last couple years some of the content got taken more hard left by the moderators. Some people expressed a "what Vail doesn't know, won't hurt them," view towards this, but that may have worked about as well as it does in other contexts. Give it a while, and everybody knows. In skiing terms that content isn't as problematic as the actual ski discussions on there, though.

[mcski]

^you mean left handed forums? NTTAWWT.

[buckethead]

That sort of changed after ownership change, to where if you got enough popularity points you could access pretty much the same content. The main difference is that over the last couple years some of the content got taken more hard left by the moderators. Some people expressed a "what Vail doesn't know, won't hurt them," view towards this, but that may have worked about as well as it does in other contexts. Give it a while, and everybody knows. In skiing terms that content isn't as problematic as the actual ski discussions on there, though.

Wild! I just took a stroll through a memory lane of decade+ old posts...
was catching shit from a mod for the my complaint that an interesting and relevant thread on global warming was relegated to hidden status. I also criticized their micro-moderating of the threads.
fortunately I discovered TGR...

[SkyIsland]

Wild! I just took a stroll through a memory lane of decade+ old posts...
was catching shit from a mod for the my complaint that an interesting and relevant thread on global warming was relegated to hidden status. I also criticized their micro-moderating of the threads.
fortunately I discovered TGR...

Micro-moderation can be annoying enough if the moderators know what they're talking about. In Epic's case, with moderators from places like Costa Rica, Florida, North Carolina, the mid-Atlantic, etc., not surprisingly the end results could be strange. Probably their leading "race technique" guru billed himself as a racer/race coach, and put up lots of video of himself riding his tails on the same low-angle runs...but seemingly never in gates, and with a technique very different from racers. There were results similar to that for basically any subject the forum addressed.

In terms of issues Vail is facing, even if they just killed the "hidden" forums, there're a lot of things in the general forums where they have to ask whether they would be helping by keeping that content up.

[mcski]

Never went on the site until these death throws. What were in these "hidden" forums that keep getting mentioned? Is that were the cool kids got to hang? And why don't we have them? Or do we?!?!?! And tags. Bring back tags

[TWINS]

Bring back the tags....#beefcurtains was my favorite..

[Danno]

There are tags in TGR's secret forums.

[digitaldeath]

I want to speak with the race technique guru

[Benny Profane]

They didn't look to kindly upon your type over there, dawg.

[wyeaster]

i was told not to talk about that stuff

[Benny Profane]

That's why they killed Blurred.

[TWINS]

This thread has taken a turn for the better.
#tgrdeepstateforumhashtags

[Danno]

First rule about deep state forums....

[iriponsnow]

In terms of issues Vail is facing, even if they just killed the "hidden" forums, there're a lot of things in the general forums where they have to ask whether they would be helping by keeping that content up.

Warmer

[SkyIsland]

I want to speak with the race technique guru

Well, people here don't put up a lot of gate footage, either. So there's that in common to start the conversation.

[bendtheski]

I still want to be a mogul master. that lame thread was good.

I'm a mogul master-bater. Who wants to touch me?

Oops, too late...

[SkyIsland]

I'm a mogul master-bater. Who wants to touch me?

Oops, too late...

If it's still too late, I'd get that checked.

As far as bating and hating, Spindrift had an interesting go at the Crud over on the dying forum...and then there was this neat bit of knee injury love:

Quote:
Originally Posted by ryan
"Fox (Hat), do you remember the moment when we were in the chair going over a lift line at Deer Valley, and someone
out of control plowed into said line and took out a woman in Bogner? Both legs bent at the knees in wrong angles
where she lay splayed out on the snow."


Ah yes, I still laugh at that one. [End Quote]

Vail is walking away from a trove of knee injury humor that it may not even know it had.

[Richddt]

Epic RIP~

[JongDoe]

If it's still too late, I'd get that checked.

As far as bating and hating, Spindrift had an interesting go at the Crud over on the dying forum...and then there was this neat bit of knee injury love:

Quote:
Originally Posted by ryan
"Fox (Hat), do you remember the moment when we were in the chair going over a lift line at Deer Valley, and someone
out of control plowed into said line and took out a woman in Bogner? Both legs bent at the knees in wrong angles
where she lay splayed out on the snow."


Ah yes, I still laugh at that one. [End Quote]

Vail is walking away from a trove of knee injury humor that it may not even know it had.

I just checked out that post as I think I skied with Ryan many years back and he didn't seem like a douche. There is no "ah yes, I still laugh at that" in his post and the post does not show it was edited. What am I missing?

[SkyIsland]

I just checked out that post as I think I skied with Ryan many years back and he didn't seem like a douche. There is no "ah yes, I still laugh at that" in his post and the post does not show it was edited. What am I missing?

Check out the reply from "Wear The Fox Hat." Unless that got edited, you will see I quoted correctly.

Maybe Ryan wasn't recounting the story for hilarity, and was instead bringing it up as a dark moment he and the Fox Hat dude had gone through. Maybe Fox Hat just took it to a bad place. I am open to that.

Not the likeliest explanation, but I am open to it.

[spindrift]

I skied with ryan a few times. Good company IME.

[SkyIsland]

I skied with ryan a few times. Good company IME.

You're obviously part of Epic's drift to being a hard-left political forum. And, the fact that a guy who seemed to recount fondly a woman in Bogner getting both knees blown out, is a guy who you had a good experience with, probably doesn't make Vail any more eager to keep Epic alive as a forum.

Fox Hat, the guy who still laughs about that woman getting her knees jacked, was an Epic moderator at one point, btw. So, Vail might weigh this in evaluating whether this was something that had value to Vail.