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One really good thing about this board is the yin and the yang. I go to Cougarboard and Utefans mostly to find out information--about recruits, the latest article on Pac 10 expansion, Spring Football, etc. The pickings are invariably thin. Mostly, Cougarboard and Utefans is each an unrestrained and unchecked festival of hate and self-delusion. Apparently these people never tire of hearing themselves ridicule others--most often their hated rival--and listening to echoes of themselves ridiculing. I must say, if anything Cougarboard is worse. Utefans is more playful and sophomoric, but Cougarboard has more a tungsten edge of hate. Tally up in your head sometime the share of posts emanating snark and self-satisfaction on Cougarboard, and you will see that the number is monstrous. What unhappy people!
True enough, I dish out my share of invective against BYU. But I quickly tire of hearing myself talk if no one will challenge me. This isn't very interesting, which is of course the reason why CUF has the all-star lineup (the truly smart and entertaining people come here), though with only about 70% of the visitors (on average) of the other boards.
Of course, Cougarboard and Utefans each has draconian means of limiting dissent for those who revel in the ghastly circle jerk that each board has become. They have each created their own hell. People like K-Dog who soldier on trying to maintain a semblance of dialogue have an impossible and thankless task.
Will things ever change? Will cuf overtake these other oppressive places despite the better material here? Probably not. It seems among the masses more people prefer self-stimulation and mutual self-dellusion to intellectual stimulation.
True enough, I dish out my share of invective against BYU. But I quickly tire of hearing myself talk if no one will challenge me. This isn't very interesting, which is of course the reason why CUF has the all-star lineup (the truly smart and entertaining people come here), though with only about 70% of the visitors (on average) of the other boards.
Of course, Cougarboard and Utefans each has draconian means of limiting dissent for those who revel in the ghastly circle jerk that each board has become. They have each created their own hell. People like K-Dog who soldier on trying to maintain a semblance of dialogue have an impossible and thankless task.
Will things ever change? Will cuf overtake these other oppressive places despite the better material here? Probably not. It seems among the masses more people prefer self-stimulation and mutual self-dellusion to intellectual stimulation.
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