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Ok, honest review coming. No hard feelings.

I'm starting to sound like a broken record, but what's the "start-up" part of this. This looks and feels like another comparator, this time with micro-communities built around it. A neat spin on an old idea maybe, but I'm not sure what benefit I get from joining. I hail from a big time "rival" area - Boston. I do not like the Yankees. Seriously, I think it's coded in my being to not like them. But, what's in it for me? Is there a pain that your soothing? I'm not seeing the point. And yes, the inconsistent margins bother me. I'd fix that no matter what. Your menu, header and body should be a consistent width.

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Thanks Tom for really honest review. I see your point here. I need to see if a person from Boston can not see anything worthwhile in my concept then there is something seriously wrong.

Would you like to discuss your hatred for Yankees with other people ? If yes in which format would you like to do that ?

Would you like to share some good stuff about red sox with people like you ?

Would you like to meet like minded people like you ?

Is there any feature which looks ok to you ?

Hmm, well I wouldn't call it hatred ... at least not out loud. The thing is, for these fans, for Sports fans in the US there generally are places to do this sort of thing. Most of it happens via blogs or blog-like sites (http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/, http://www.bostondirtdogs.com/). I think that sort of format works well for this (threaded comments or not). Most of the Red Sox / Yankees stuff is "around the water cooler" talk. There's no challenge finding discussion (save maybe finding a Yankees fan around here, but I'm not sure I want to talk to Yankees fans about this rivalry). Also, you really need to clean up your navigation. There are 5 horizontal levels of navigation and that's a lot of work to try to find what I'm looking for. You might be trying to do too much. Also, the "passion room" might have different connotations here than you expect...

hmm well taken. number of horizontal level can be a problem to find right type of information user is looking for. what we have tried to do is instead of having communication in all the blogs users can have at one place. may be we are doing mistake in putting all those stuff together. need to rethink the strategy of putting all the information together.

But i did not get your point about "Passion room" ?

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