Yessir, I said it. New threads go from the top of page one to the bottom. With minimal responses. The truly active threads appearing on page one came before the pay wall went up. I see a lot of wisdom in day-to-day life, but I'm not seeing it in that decision.
It's hilarious how dead the OT forum is now....
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What was the reason for making it a pay walled forum? I'm not bothering to ask a "mod"
To make sure ironturd and scruffy never posted there again.
Tom K. explained it in a post. People were violating decent forum rules, getting banned, and coming back with new names. One suggested another poster kill himself.
A free forum was getting worse than out of hand. It was too much of a headache for mods to police and the felons kept coming back with new handles. We lost some good posters over there because some jackasses ruined it.
That said, there is still good activity on OT if you want to talk politics, booze, food, other.
Explained it where? On the OT board? That would make perfect sense.
Because one person was saying mean things about the mod's wife and and creating multiple handles when he'd get banned.
Truth be told, it kind of exposed what HROT had become. Nothing more than endless streams of political bickering threads with mostly the same people talking about various topics under the political umbrella ultimately devolving into insult-hurling fests.......because message board political discourse is serious business.
And look at how it died when all the non-paying users were locked out and couldn't cry about politics every day............classic.
With that said, I'm still sad that it finally was put down.
Somebody on the OT board posted that many of them migrated to the Clemson site. If so, it's Clemson's problem now.Because one person was saying mean things about the mod's wife and and creating multiple handles when he'd get banned.
Truth be told, it kind of exposed what HROT had become. Nothing more than endless streams of political bickering threads with mostly the same people talking about various topics under the political umbrella ultimately devolving into insult-hurling fests.......because message board political discourse is serious business.
And look at how it died when all the non-paying users were locked out and couldn't cry about politics every day............classic.
With that said, I'm still sad that it finally was put down.
A lot of the FSU Nole posters were quality, agree with them or not.
I've learned to avoid the political poison forums. Doesn't matter which side you are on, complete waste of time and messes with my Zen. 
Let other people spew their vitoral and argue with each other. Not me!
Let other people spew their vitoral and argue with each other. Not me!
Correct. A lot of the non-paying HROT members went over to the Clemson board and have made that the temp home.
you are a wise man. zen arises from college footballI've learned to avoid the political poison forums. Doesn't matter which side you are on, complete waste of time and messes with my Zen.
Let other people spew their vitoral and argue with each other. Not me!
Yea the R vs D stuff is getting like nails on a chalkboard. College football is so much better to follow and discussI've learned to avoid the political poison forums. Doesn't matter which side you are on, complete waste of time and messes with my Zen.
Let other people spew their vitoral and argue with each other. Not me!
It's going to go back to free board.
Only a matter of "when".
Maybe a year.
Maybe less.
Too many posters are soft and get their feelings hurt.
Because one person was saying mean things about the mod's wife and and creating multiple handles when he'd get banned.
Truth be told, it kind of exposed what HROT had become. Nothing more than endless streams of political bickering threads with mostly the same people talking about various topics under the political umbrella ultimately devolving into insult-hurling fests.......because message board political discourse is serious business.
And look at how it died when all the non-paying users were locked out and couldn't cry about politics every day............classic.
With that said, I'm still sad that it finally was put down.
Didn't take them long to discover the Clemson OT board, which is free. All of the jack@sses are now posting there.
I've learned to avoid the political poison forums. Doesn't matter which side you are on, complete waste of time and messes with my Zen.
Let other people spew their vitoral and argue with each other. Not me!
* it really is nuts when you think about it; strangers going back and forth, where no one's opinion will be changed.
* and if you are not 100% Democrat (ie, if you are an independent or a Republican), you are considered the enemy and the cult swarms, and attacks that person.
* they all deserve each other! LOL
they refuse to pay anyone a penny because they are creating all of the content, all of the clicks, and all of the traffic (according to them)
LMAO
actually, the OT board has become D vs everyone else. you are either 100% with those leftists or you are considered the enemy and they try to drive you out of their cult like echo chamber with name calling, insults and worse. it truly is disgusting and i can see why Tom had had enough.
Couldn't stand the OT thread tbh, just too much political bickering. If they keep it behind a paywall I hope we get a Miscellaneous Sports thread where people could post about baseball, softball, volleyball, or any Iowa sport they'd like.
Baseball is the only one I'd really follow but if there's someone on the board who is a fan of one of the more niche sports and Iowa has a great team or player in that sport I'd like to read their posts on them.
Baseball is the only one I'd really follow but if there's someone on the board who is a fan of one of the more niche sports and Iowa has a great team or player in that sport I'd like to read their posts on them.
Never understood why people would use a sports-related site to argue politics. There are more than enough political forums out there.
100% , some radical intolerant fruitcakes. No honest discussion or freedom of thought there.
I don't know why they didn't just make a dedicated politics forum for this site. Give all of those idiots an arena completely to themselves to psychobabble themselves to the edge of insanity until the sun explodes.
I told an old friend about HROT. His reply was, "Sports fans arguing about politics? I have better things to read."
This I do not understand.
Was HROT actually causing problems for you?
No one ever was forced to go there. If you went there no one ever forced to open a political thread.
Totally voluntary.
And yet we have some folks on here who seem to relish that something they never had to know even existed is gone...like now their lives are better now that the forum they never had to go to is dead.
Makes no sense.
That was the intent of the OT. That said, again...why would you come to a sports forum to argue politics? Reminds me of a girl that was in our circle at the U of I. We'd periodically road trip to this great Mexican restaurant and she would always order a cheeseburger.
It is called off-topic ....there was always a wide range of threads.That was the intent of the OT. That said, again...why would you come to a sports forum to argue politics? Reminds me of a girl that was in our circle at the U of I. We'd periodically road trip to this great Mexican restaurant and she would always order a cheeseburger.
I liked:
Bears thread
NBA playoff thread
Gardening thread
Smoking/ grilling threads
Music threads
Movie threads
Ukraine/ Iran war threads
Beautiful ladies threads
Investment threads
Bulls thread
White Sox thread( buried)
Health and fitness threads
Weather threads
Ect..ect.
I could go to any of these topics and have virtually zero political banter.
I remain confused why some folks seem pleased that these threads are no longer open to everyone.
Well, it is called the Off-Topic board, so I guess anything is fair game. However, I agree with most comments here…that if you’re not a left wing nut job, then you’re not welcome on the off-topic board.
Many of them aren’t even really sports fans.
I miss the Ukraine updates, fishing, gardening, whimsical and old farts threads. Seldom got into the trash threads.
Too bad for all of us that were good for the OT.
Agreed. It’s my outlet to *****. I’d probably be banned for my comments the past week, so it probably worked for the best