The most controversial thread I started on The Hive....

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Happened during the 2000 recruiting season. We were like gangbusters and UGAg was really doing poorly. The dawgfans were in an uproar over the fact that for the second year in a row, we were going to outrecruit them. Jim Don_an was feeling the heat.

One afternoon, a couple of days before siging day, I posted a snide comment that all the auto dealers were going to be busy the next few days selling expensive red and black cars.

Well as you can expect, the dawgfans went ballistic!! Calling me hypocrit and all that. RR went ballistic as well. But not at me. He jumped on the dawgfans for suggesting that Tech buys cars like the dawgs do for recruits. It was hilarous!!

Once I made that orginal post, all I had to do was step back and watch the dawgfans get into a verbal match with RR and a couple of Tech fans.

It was not as long a thread as some of Bulldog's trolls, but it was a riot to watch.

The best part was that RR was defending me, well, not defending "me" but defending Tech.

See? RR can be easy on people. I should have been slapped down hard for pissing off the dawgfans, but once in awhile, one can get away with it. I'm NOT one of the "chosen few." I do hang out at O'Keefe with BeatUGA and her HWMBO, Hedgeclipper and the AFRJackets.

GO JACKETS!!
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I believe RR's heart is in the right place and it is not the message that is irritating it is the way it is delivered.

I feel sometimes that he could just as easily email a warning and that would be the end of it.

He could just remove the bad thread and people would understand.

Sometimes it feels like he goes out of his way to make a statement.

But like everyone says it is HIS site, but I am appreciative that it exists.
 
I also like the Hive. But it has became a little too large to continue in it's currrent format, IMO. It's too much for 1 guy to run. I'm sure the new site on Insiders will be a nice change.
 
I enjoy the Hive but I agree there are too many posters for it's current format. That's a big reason RR has such a problem with non GT threads IMO. Stuff just scrolls off the board too quickly and there is no easy way to bring them back to the top like there is on this board. It's frustrating to have a thread going and then have someone start a Ugag or political or religious thread and knock everything into the archives. Hope the new format will improve that part of it.
 
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