Welcome Yahoo! users

by Seth Pollack on Feb 24, 2009 7:09 PM MST

Members of our community and readers of our site already know that SB Nation takes a different approach to online sports.

Our focus has always been on empowering fans to participate in conversations that are specific to their particular teams, leagues or sports. We’ve watched over the years as the popularity of this unique approach has rapidly accelerated.

Today we want to welcome some new members to our flourishing communities.

SB Nation and our friends at Yahoo are partnering to give Yahoo Sports audiences one click access to our sites and content.

In addition to being the largest sport property on the web, Yahoo Sports is known for some of the best general sports blogs including: Ball Don’t Lie, Puck Daddy, Dr. Saturday, Big League Stew and others.

Relevant pages of Yahoo Sports will now feature contextual links to specific SB Nation communities. Many other pages of Yahoo Sports will feature SB Nation content and links. The great news is that more sports fans will be introduced to SB Nation sites.

If you are new here we hope that you will not only stick around and read but we WANT you to sign-in and participate. As you will quickly see, this is a unique Phoenix Suns online community.

There are now close to 200 different sports communities for Yahoo users to discover. Each is led by bloggers who are first and foremost passionate fans. Part of what makes our network so special is that each SB Nation site has its own URL, name and colors as well as its own community guidelines and expectations. Some are more serious, some more irreverent, but they all share a common goal of nurturing strong and focused conversations around a common interest.

If you are new to one of our communities, we welcome you. On our websites, you’ll find unique perspectives, insightful analysis and passion for sports topics that are unrivaled. We encourage you to read through posts and get acclimated to the tone, norms and quirks of the site you are visiting.

When you are ready, feel free to join the conversation or start one up. Whether you create a new profile or use your Yahoo or OpenID credentials to register, one username and password will give you access to all our communities. Each SB Nation site offers the same mechanisms for participating in the action via comments, FanPosts (a blog entry of your very own) or FanShots (a quick micro-post of a thought, link or photo.) Before you post though, please remember, you are entering an established and ongoing community. Your voice and opinions are encouraged (that’s what being a fan is all about after all), but as in any productive conversation, they should be presented in a manner that is courteous, civil and respectful of the culture that you are entering.

If you are an old-timer here, we encourage you to welcome and assist the newcomers. It can sometimes be challenging to join a new environment, so a helping hand is usually appreciated. Cut the rookies some slack and spread the word about what they have been missing all of this time. This is your chance to welcome new folks in a manner that is consistent with the type of place in which you want to participate. You have the power to shape the type of community you want.

As always if anyone has any questions or ideas, please do not hesitate to contact us here. and be sure to check out the Welcome Guide

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Here, here!

Welcome, Suns fans!

In Nash we trust - for better and for worse...

by ZonaFlash on Feb 24, 2009 7:11 PM MST reply actions

Just to put this in plain language

since that welcome was lifted from an SBN site – this means that Bright Side of the Sun (and the rest of SBN) is now a content partner with Yahoo! Sports the #1 traffic sports site. Our stuff is here:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/pho

There will be more coming as well w/ this partnership. We expect a lot of new members to come over and in fact you can now use your Yahoo! ID to log into SBN sites.

On the bigger picture level, this raises our profile significantly and is a big part of the changing sports media landscape

Blogging Suns Basketball

by Seth Pollack on Feb 24, 2009 9:54 PM MST reply actions

Hurrah!!!

It’s good that we’ll be able to bring over some more fresh recruits to the cause

"Yeah I could have been king, but maybe I already am king. Hail to the king baby." Ash from Army of Darkness

by Turambar on Feb 24, 2009 10:18 PM MST reply actions

New to Bright Side of the Sun? Introduce yourself here!

About me:

I’ve been a Suns fan since 1998-1989. I live in Connecticut. I even live in a basement.

Antiestablishmentarianism: Why I like BSotS

There’s not a lot of Suns fans in Connecticut. There weren’t a lot in North Carolina. They’re weren’t a lot in Indiana. You get me?

BSotS is a place where I connected with Suns fans who know how I feel. I don’t own a TV, so the peeps here taught me how to find my own streaming feeds of games. I started writing my own diary of my Suns experience in the side panel. A few would get moved to the front page. I made some friends who, like me, root for laundry, agonize over the team and like to have some laughs.

My humble vision for BSotS is to be a community of free-thinking suns fans and to be the investigative “New Times” of the Suns. More important than getting famous on the national stage that Yahoo! provides, is to make friends with each other, have a few laughs and talk about our Suns. Anyone who posts with us is my friend, regardless of their specific view. Anyone who reads with us is a fan just like the rest of us. Never question the quality of the fan here – if they post with us, they feel for the Suns as much as we do.

Irony: How I found the Bright Side

I started posting on Yahoo’s crappy message boards a long time ago. You can probably still find my thousands of my vulgar rants and trolling there. Just google ZonaFlash Yahoo. or don’t! I moved here because it became so hard to quote myself there and to carry on my fan violence in a sustainable fashion. Good times!

As such, I find it ironic to have moved away from Yahoo only to be linked back up to them. I still love the trolls and lively discussion full of lampoons and hyperbole. I have a special respect for fans of other teams who see fit to bring their own perspective here and discuss with us.

So what about you?

In Nash we trust - for better and for worse...

by ZonaFlash on Feb 24, 2009 10:32 PM MST reply actions

Trolling is great

because you get these horribly misspelled, rabid rants in return. There’s nothing like seeing “yor a dumass, the Lakirs are numburr 1, I like NASCAR” type of spiels after you destroy their hopes and dreams. Anyway, I’m semi-new here, but I’ve been a fan since the Barkley days, and I think this is a good place to read well-thought out opinions on Sun’s basketball. I live in New Mexico, which is kind of pro sports limbo and I find it to be an absolutely horrible experience. I stumbled upon this site through Yahoo as well, and I still troll there occasionally for the above-mentioned reasons. Try insulting Kelly Dwyer, he gets incredibly defensive about it. But I digress. To the new people, welcome, and enjoy the many, many, rants on this site.
Gracias por su tiempo,
Senor Diosnomeama :)

by Diosnomeama on Feb 25, 2009 8:43 AM MST reply actions 2 recs