I appreciate DezBears because he actually is quite an internet bookworm who finds interesting tidbits and keeps this place from becoming stale. Other posters do as well. Go look at other teams’ message boards. They’re not nearly as active as this one, even the New York/East Coast teams.
As far as message board competition, people like to be message board champs. Like the “Thanks”, like the internet adoration that may or may not come. That’s board reality, not really specific to this board. You take the good with the bad. There is actually quite a bit of well-reasoned thought around here—just have to look around for it. No way around all that unless you have a super active mod system, which has its own drawbacks.
