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Anyone who engages in metaphysical speculation and/or hatred of other people for who they choose to love, on an amateur athletics site.

I support on OT board, if nothing else to keep the main board clean and free of that crap.

Never really saw the point in a Hookem.com OT board. Likely 5 people would participate and it would just be pointless. Network-wide OT board makes more sense.

And another thing. This is one of the best boards in the entire 247 network when it comes to growth and discussion about sports ONLY. Why would Bobby and the rest of the staff even need to include other topics at the risk of alienating posters like myself that come here to get away from all that crap? In short. They don't. The site is doing very well without having to include threads with discussions about religion and politics. As soon as that becomes an intergral part of the board, I'll cancel my subcription. I do not wish to contribute fiscally to such pointless discourse.

gotta disagree here.

Maybe multiple OB posters like OT boards, but it was always a pissing contest when anyone brought up OT posts, or the dreaded, "let's eleiminate OT posts" post.

The OT board over there is very sparse, with a few very load guys. Those are most likely the ones who want that stuff here.

This is Texas 24/7 sports.com. That's what it is. Not Texas sports and other stuff.com As opposed to, "if you don't want to read OT stuff, don't go there", I say, if you want OT stuff, go to a OT board. This isn't an OT board, it's a sports board. If you go to a country living board, they won't have a "Life in Manhattan" board.

I don't have anything per se against OT boards, I just believe this is a Texas sports board. Not a BBQ board, or whatever else.

For those (I I personally believe it would be a small minority) people who don't come back here because they feel they need OT board to make it a community, well, they are missing out. I'll bet as many that don't come back here, actually don't go there becasue of all the inane OT posts. And having "regulations" means a mod has to waste time baby sitting, and it still invariably goes loco anyway.

I feel this is a community - just a sports one. I'll disagree with the notion that you need OT stuff to be a community. Nothing wrong with that. BBQ sites don't have Texas football recruiting updates, and I'm fine with that.

Just IMO

OT boards used to make sense....like in 1998. But now there are message boards all over the internet for a variety of topics, probably ALL topics.

THIS MESSAGE BOARD IS FOR LONGHORN SPORTS AND RECRUITING.

If you want to talk about something else, go somewhere else. You'll get a better discussion anyway. If you must know the opinion of someone here....use the PM feature. It also exists for a reason.

Thus endeth the lesson.

From a traffic standpoint, unless the staff can generate new articles/discussions daily then traffic will drop in the summer.
An OT board may stagnate that a bit.
I would have to look at the analytics on other sites before making the call.
But you have to weigh the positives vs the negatives.
If your content is strong (which this site has) then no one is going to stop subscribing to your product because of some discussion on a board that they aren't required to visit.
The staff and it's content is what makes this site. Not the shitty posts by someone like me or some bozo on an OT thread.

Batronic: It's lepers. The Corraliban is made out of lepers. They're making lepers out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like a Nazi genetic program. You've got to tell them! You've got to tell them!

Kates: I promise, Bobby. I promise. I'll tell the board.

Batronic: You tell everybody. Listen to me Jason. You've got to tell them! The Corraliban is leprosy! We've got to stop them somehow.

Haha - I don't really care if anyone goes to Corraliban or not. It's just an option. It's all Longhorns. It's wacky.

I just care that his board stays Longhorn sports focused, really.

yep. heck I dont open a good number of things on this board because they don't interest me. A lot of hand wringing over nothing.