bwgood77 wrote:I believe to begin realgm wasn't mostly about forums, but had a lot of advanced tools that teams use and the forums were a small part. The Trade Checker was one, but there were other advanced packages teams could buy and IIRC at one point about half of the teams paid for it, that is until they started developing their own tools as well as all the other advanced stats sites/tools out there these days.
There is still a ton of information in the GM laboratory about everything. You can find stats from players in any international league, prospect information, college stats, just rookie stats, then there are draft details, etc.
A lot of the tools, even within the forums have gone away or are not even updated anymore that I doubt it has nearly the traffic even though it has like 6.73 million visits in the past 6 months according to this. https://www.similarweb.com/website/realgm.com/#overview
As stated earlier by Doctor MJ, Howard started out as a regular poster, but got his role in 2001.
As also stated, the age skews way older here than stuff like reddit and twitter because people that have been around a long time are used to forums, so you typically get better and more advanced conversation in places here than those other places even though there is obviously a lot of bad conversation and topics as well.
I "grew up" accustomed to RealGM "threads." Several years ago Twitter added a "threads" option which is basically a user tweeting and adding more to it. To this day I'm still not used to hearing the word "thread" on Twitter or even Instagram (e.g. someone makes a comment, and people have a discussion under that comment,) as I'm so used to threads being a forum feature.
