be set up according to their values and desires? Sorry to break it to you, but any sportscentric site is going to be viewed negatively by a number of outsiders regardless of what’s posted. If people visit the site and see a very tame joke made about a brothel, and are so offended that they write off Utehub forever, then sobeit.
Politics is the biggest area that these folks tend to lament over, even though you can uncheck the category anytime you wish, so I’ll never understand the gripe. Religion is another hotbutton topic for some, but realize that our university is located in a very unique place where the majority religion tends to dictate how each of us live our lives (well, Utah residents anyway). It’s only natural that some of this talk would bleed over into a Utah message board, and even into Utah sports. On top of all this, we’ve entered uncharted waters when it comes to politics, and football season is over. We can only spend so much time discussing seventeen year old boys who are considering playing sports at the University of Utah, especially when there are so many other interesting things happening all around us.
Tony seems to be doing everything he can think of to appease the masses, but if we censor every perceived offensive comment, or hide anything deemed “hostile” in a buried forum we’re going to resemble cougarboard. I’m not saying it should be a free-for-all, but not all of us are ultra conservative religious types. Somebody started a Utah message board a few years back that is perfect for those folks, so I’m not sure why so many are interested in molding this place to be essentially a carbon copy. Utehub is still in its infancy, and we should probably let it breath a little. If things get out of hand, Tony (or the new mods) can reel it back in, but it’ll never be perfect for everybody.
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