[Hulk01]

I want to be clear that it wasn't the veterans of the Bootleg that ruined it for me.  It was the newcomers.  There was an influx around the time of the Fiesta Bowl, as if some folks needed Stanford to get to two BCS bowls before they would become fans.  Perhaps it's not surprising that these guys often sound like the bad fans that they are.

It seems that the requirements for discussion declined.  You didn't have to offer any evidence for your point of view.  This meant that you could have a 40 post thread in which 35 of the post were some variation of "No s---."  You could read one of those posts and know nothing that you didn't know when you began.

The etiquette declined, too.  The ops threw out the worst offender but set such a high bar for outrage than everyone else appeared measured and polite by comparison.  I recall vividly that I used to hover my cursor over a thread and start to feel my stomach tighten as I tried to decide, "Should I really click on this?"  When I started experiencing that every day for a week, I decided it was time to go. 

Again, the man in Stanford recruiting is Andy D.  He's an Oregon grad but seems to like us quite a bit.  And no one has ever been better at elicting the information we need to decide, "Is he coming or isn't he?" 

[Hulk01]

I want to be clear that it wasn't the veterans of the Bootleg that ruined it for me.  It was the newcomers.  There was an influx around the time of the Fiesta Bowl, as if some folks needed Stanford to get to two BCS bowls before they would become fans.  Perhaps it's not surprising that these guys often sound like the bad fans that they are.

It seems that the requirements for discussion declined.  You didn't have to offer any evidence for your point of view.  This meant that you could have a 40 post thread in which 35 of the post were some variation of "No s---."  You could read one of those posts and know nothing that you didn't know when you began.

The etiquette declined, too.  The ops threw out the worst offender but set such a high bar for outrage than everyone else appeared measured and polite by comparison.  I recall vividly that I used to hover my cursor over a thread and start to feel my stomach tighten as I tried to decide, "Should I really click on this?"  When I started experiencing that every day for a week, I decided it was time to go. 

Again, the man in Stanford recruiting is Andy D.  He's an Oregon grad but seems to like us quite a bit.  And no one has ever been better at elicting the information we need to decide, "Is he coming or isn't he?"