re: RIP Woopig.net

Thankfully found this site in 2011 after posting on our scout.com forum for 2 or 3 years. What TD offered blew scout out of the water. Quit cold turkey on scout as soon as I found this place and before it went tits up.

Saw a way to future proof my posting here because of potential and haven’t ever seen a reason to seriously post elsewhere.

reddit also has active sports postings, although I don't know how busy the Razorback specific subreddit is. It's more fun to get on the sub of the sport itself. They heavily frown on trolling, though.

Hogville actually isn't bad for the baseball forum. There's always an active and comprehensive game thread going on, and we all know baseball fans don't live with a hose running to their exhaust pipe like football (and sometimes basketball) fans do.

I can't think of any other reason to visit that piece of shite. That board is a shell of its former self from ten years ago, and it's blatantly obvious from the activity. Message boards in general are an outmoded way of communicating, but the ones populated with nothing but boomers and weird sycophants of people who were "in the know" 15 years ago are going away the quickest.

This was inevitable. I left Woopig a few years back because it was turning into a politically driven slap fight in just about every area of the site. Elvishog nailed it in his final message, the political forum morphed into a very scary place (not unlike most political forums these days, but I don't blame him for wanting to dissociate himself from it.)

I spent many years talking Razorback sports and other topics there, had fun when it was a fun place.

Rip Woopig.net

I assume Hogvile is making a lot of money with so much ad revenue. Woopig was struggling and I think Elvishog had enough with little help and decided it just wasn't worth the trouble anymore.

Sad deal.

I wish someone would post that Otis K-I-R-K-S webroom chat hijack that happened many years ago that was posted on Woopig. It's damn gold.

What's the story behind this?

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What's the story behind this?

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Man, I can't possibly do it justice as to how funny that whole shite was.

It goes something like this...Otis Kirk was supposed to have a Q&A webchat session with fans on one of the old Hog message board sites out there. I can't remember which one.

Anyway, some poster logged in with the handle of Otis Kirks with the entire purpose of coming off as the real Otis Kirk, but had absolutely hilarious witty responses to fans' serious questions about recruits.

What made it even funnier, is the chat would log everything. Otis Kirk (the real one) was attempting to login to the chat but it kept saying something to the effect of "Otis Kirk denied access."

I can't even begin to do justice to the hilarious witty responses, and even the mouth breather fans responses to the smart arse answer by Otis K-I-R-K-S.

I remember laughing so hard at the chat log that I had to stop reading to catch my breath so I could finish it up.

Yeah, that never really goes away anywhere on the site, but people seem to be less negative about baseball in general, so it's not as noticeable.

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I just can't get over the sanctimoniousness and the "never say a bad word about anything hog".

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I agree. "They are kids"................................................................but now they get paid. So can we talk about them now?