False. Cool Story. I think you have me confused with someone else.
I tried to go over to rupp rafters and post once but I had to ask permission to post and when I did they denied it. I read some of the threads and I agree there are a lot of insightful posters over there and really knowledgeable on basketball. However almost every thread that is not totally worshipping the ground that rupp is built on and the deity of Kentucky basketball ends up in a gutter slinging of obscenities and name calling. After about 5 threads I was good and stopped going over there. Now I only go over to read the meltdowns when UK loses a game that they should have won or gets blown out. Even then through I rarely go over. It’s too bad because I would have liked to interact with some of the fans if they were willing to give and take. But a lot just want to give and give and if you attempt to smack talk back you get banned. Jayhawkslant ain’t much better so I rarely go over there anymore as well.
All home boards have one thing in common.
The time I tried to post with my post they had me ask permission. I was even complimenting UK on their win over Louisville and still got the denial hammer.
The only other board that bans people for ridiculous shit is the Allen Fieldhouse Suite on the Jayhawk Slant. It was once a great place and then @shay ruined it. You can tell that a board is terrible by looking at the topics page and see that 25%+ of the topics are created by the lead moderator and half of them have 0 responses.
Yeah, but the truth is, all home boards are full of homers that only want to talk about how great their program is until they lose, then they hate their coach and players… .. until the next game.
Wow, that sounds bad.
The Slant used to be one of those boards where the entire first page was all from posts that day. Now the bottom of the page has threads from 1-2 weeks ago. A lot of that has to do with the Information Age where boards like that serve little to no purpose for “insider” information. You can’t get anything there that you can’t find anywhere else on Twitter at the same time for free. But a lot of it also is because posters felt that they couldn’t speak their minds anymore without fear of getting banned. Why would anybody who likes to talk about their team stay in a place like that, ya know?
This is why I stopped going over there. I could take 2 weeks off and the same threads would be on the front page. I had a membership 10 yrs ago and back then it was great and most of the posters were good. Now it’s just shite.
I remember going over to the slant several years ago, never posted, but it seemed like it was fairly active.
