Curious about your board

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

I was curious to stumble across your message board, in a sad sense of arrogance I guessed that I had gained at least familiarity with most of the BYU message boards that got any discussion on them, however your board seems to have a lot of traffic and screen names that are totally unknown to me. After nearly a decade of wasting time on various forums I am curious to the origins of yours, if one or many of you wouldn't mind sharing? I assume that at least some of you started off on C-Net, CougarBlue or CougarFan. Are any of you on CougarBoard, CougarGuard, CougarUteForum?

Thanks,
HFN

Your emoticons are great.

[hawkwing]

Quick history... This site originally started in order to play a prediction game based on stats and scores of BYU Football games. The original players were playing on CougarBlue, submitting their guesses in a post and some poor schmuck was entering the data into a spreadsheet and calculating it all by hand. Then this website was created in order to do all that automatically.

A few years later it seemed other active forums had become lazy and complacent, allowing trolls, continuing really poor layouts, etc. And people started to recognize that CougarCorner was a place where the best and the brightest congregated, the site design wasn't terrible - and the admins made improvements based by user input making things much better, and trolls were not tolerated. Thus, it grew in popularity to today.

[ABYUFAN]

I'm here because the court-ordered probation officer mandates that I post here - along with (as he says) "all the other miscreants who, if they weren't posting here, would pose a threat to society".

[snoscythe]

I started out on CougarBlue, but when the Herald (the paper that runs that forum) decided traffic was more important than substance, I bailed over here to this forum. I think this forum is unique because there is no profit motive. You'll notice there are no advertisements on here, and no subscription. Just a bunch of fans sharing opinions and insight (and joy and frustration).

This forum isn't widely advertised/promoted because (a) we are happy with a closer community, and (b) promotion brings trolls.

[SpiffCoug]

Started on Cougar Fan. Moved to Cougar Blue II. Then Cougar Blue now here. Still frequent Total Blue Sports and monitor Cougarboard, but rarely post there.

[urroner]

I'm here to pick up hot looking babes.

[Italics]

QuickEST Summary:

All the other forums suck

A couple mods made this one

Several flocked here

I received 38 pm's on cougarblue all in the same day, begging me to come attend cougarcorner

I bit the bullet and came over

Happily Ever After

[Schmoe]

My board has a nail in it. I use it to chase Kodos and Kang.

[CougarPeasant]

Most of us fled Cougar Blue due to the admins not caring anymore about providing a quality product.

I'd post more at cougarboard, but I don't have a hot car, hot job, or hot wife, and I haven't paid for a membership so I am deemed a troll.

[Mars]

I'd post more at cougarboard, but I don't have a hot car, hot job, or hot wife, and I haven't paid for a membership so I am deemed a troll.

And the layout is beyond terrible. ALMOST as bad as cougarfan.