Yet Another Jersey City BBS Launched

The JC Board was launched today, entering an ever crowded playing field of online message boards dedicated to Jersey City. The board was launched largely in response to censorship on Kannekt where posts critical of advertisers are routinely deleted.

A similar issue arose last year between juggernaut message board JCList and the founders of competing board Wired JC. Some contend the issue between JCList moderators and Wired JC founders was a red herring fostered by members of the Wired JC community intended to garner interest in the new site.

Meanwhile, nothing but controversy surrounds another message board from the Newport section of the waterfront. Newport Voice, operated by the Newport Waterfront Association, is marred by the caustic personality of the organization's president and board moderator. Newport Voice serves as a platform employed for political attacks and accusations as much as communicating with residents. Many of those attacks are targeted at rival Newport Neighborhood Association. Those accusations culminated in hate speech and anti-gay slurs last year, reproduced here.

Another message board is the forums at the nearly unusable GetNJ, a site so poorly organized and cluttered with ads we couldn't find the link the message forums. NJ.com, the site of the Jersey Journal, also has a message board system that suffers from poor layout.

The carcases of defunct Jersey City message boards litter the internet. Jersey City Portal, JC Vibe, and Newport Resident remain online, but with few users. New York's Sixth closed up a message board a few months back.