Reply To: Feels like whistling in the graveyard

[BigBalls]

Change is hard for people and this is the fourth board format change in the last couple of years. There were bound to be some folks that didn’t want to jump on board. The last board had that interesting feature where the board displayed user names as they signed on. I noticed a lot names of lurkers that just read and don’t post. Nothing wrong with people just reading, in fact probably smart, since posting just brought on attacks from the wannabe bullies. I don’t mind wrestling in the mud once in a while, mixing it up is part of the fun, but not everyone likes to engage in hostile exchanges.

The Politics board was filled with homogeneous posts (Haha I said homo) that mostly spread misinformation. God bless PT, but seriously. Opposing viewpoints were attacked relentlessly . See Kevin as an example of being attacked by a mob. I feel I was treated kindly there and I appreciate it. I won’t say more about that.
The Wealth board was dominated by a couple of people. Mostly me posting about stuff most of the board gave two squirts of piss about . I will say that I tried my best to make entertaining and informative posts while keeping politics as distant as possible. But I mostly failed at it. I will stand ten toes down that I shared some nuggets that proved to be extremely contrarian and extremely profitable. Java’s contributions there are valuable, RWC is really good but neither matched my volume of posts. I will still post there from time to time as required.
Stock market is shaking off all the trade wars and booshet and still going strong. Let’s go!

But the flagship of the board, the aircraft carrier is the Football board. Bruins disappeared on us because of the struggles in Weirdwood. Waldorf is a big loss. USC is still struggling. The “USC football is dead” schtick is old, tired and well, dead. New blood into the board has been lacking and we have an aging demographic. Free message boards are struggling  across college sports.