BTW, old school gE'ers will be sad to know that soonerfans isn't a thing anymore. The board is still there but there hasn't been a post in two years.
What happened?
Dunno, looks like it just ran out of posters
Not that anyone really cares, but I used to post there pretty regularly and it's a long story and I'll try to sum up as concisely as I can. It was kind of going downhill for a while then they made a poster with the handle of C&C Dean a mod on the South Oval and he ruled that place with an iron fist...and not in a good way. They had a messed up reputation system where someone who had more rep points carried more weight when they gave out up/down votes and that kind of spiraled out of control and as childish as it may seem the reputation points kind of mattered. Anyway the mod I mention above ended up with the ability to swing a person's reputation by +/- a million points with a single vote (while the second most powerful rep hammer would have been maybe a couple thousand).
That person treated the board as more or less like real life and he was a pretty abrasive personality (I guess many would consider him a MAGA by today's standards) and he had a habit of not liking others who didn't share very similar opinions as his on lots of things. Of course this turned off enough of the regular posters - who eventually left - that the place ended up being just two or three people and thousands of bots posting spam.
There is a lot more to the story, some of it kind of crazy in a kind of soap opera way, but I'll spare the details here.
This all happened like a dozen years ago, and honestly I'm surprised that place still exists at all.
