[Redrum]

If you want to know the difference between the Bootleg open (free) board and the Cardboard,  look no further than what just happened.  Depending on the vagaries of time and posters,  the Bootleg (and most collegiate free bulletin boards) resemble old timey saloons.  Periods of peaceful drinking and card playing, interspersed by occasional drunken brawling.  The Bootleg open boards sometime look like the inverse, periods of drunken brawling interspersed by occasional reasonable and interesting posts.  (In fairness, starting Thunderdome on the Bootleg raised the total noise volume, but got some of it moved to a back room where anything goes.)  Still, the Sheriff seldom seems to appear to clean things up.  It seems to be a cultural thing that, as I said, comes out when people are under the compulsion to rant or vent and have no stake in the larger community.  We do.

Thus endeth the self-congratulation for today. 

[Redrum]

If you want to know the difference between the Bootleg open (free) board and the Cardboard,  look no further than what just happened.  Depending on the vagaries of time and posters,  the Bootleg (and most collegiate free bulletin boards) resemble old timey saloons.  Periods of peaceful drinking and card playing, interspersed by occasional drunken brawling.  The Bootleg open boards sometime look like the inverse, periods of drunken brawling interspersed by occasional reasonable and interesting posts.  (In fairness, starting Thunderdome on the Bootleg raised the total noise volume, but got some of it moved to a back room where anything goes.)  Still, the Sheriff seldom seems to appear to clean things up.  It seems to be a cultural thing that, as I said, comes out when people are under the compulsion to rant or vent and have no stake in the larger community.  We do.

Thus endeth the self-congratulation for today.