>
>OKPlayer, in general, selects for a demographic:
>
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>-Skews-younger or old/hip
>
>-Left-leaning
>
>-The artistic tone of the Roots means the
>demographic leans educated
>
>So that kicks it off and eliminates a lot of racists,
>kids, thug niggas and non-racist rednecks.
>
>
>(For the most part)
>
>
>The problem is this:
>
>We haven't eliminated weirdos, bohoes and women.
>
>
>WOMEN:
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>Women are great, but they taint a board presence
>because men act differently around them.
>
>This is the MENS fault, btw, not the women's fault.
BAAAASE


>OKS selects against women, which means the participants
>are more genuine. Sad, but true. I just look at the
>few times Harmonia (an actual sports fan) used to
>post in here and half the Boston niggas was in here being
>giggly and emo. If half the board was girls, we'd have
>niggas getting fussy, trying to be cute and catchy for
>the sake of pussy.
>
>The only women who didn't fuck up the board was Write and
>that's because she's mature and self-aware enough to make
>fun of herself for being a woman (the comments on niggas
>lips, avatars of her legs, etc). For the most part, she
>felt safe in Sports and would get gully with her talking
>shit just like the next nigga.
>
>
>
>BOHOES AND WEIRDOS:
>
>OKS selects against Bohoes for the most part....there's a
>few Philly niggas with stank breath and Cyrenyoung types,
>but overall not too many.
>
>That's because its hard to be snobby about sports. The
>benchmarks for greatness are clearer and so accomplishments
>are a lot less ambiguous.
>
>For example, I think most expensive wine tastes like shit
>and would rather have the bottle of Moscato on sale for 8
>dollars at the gas station. The reason I can't say that
>out loud is that I'm afraid of being labeled uncivil or
>unclassy or uncouth.
even cheaper at Trader Joe's (despite how I'm sure it attracts bohoes in big cities) my dude but yeah, I agree

>And the *perceived* goodness of wine is what dictates
>what people talk openly about. There are no objective
>measure. What the dipshit snob says is good, is good.
>
>
>
>Sports has few of these situations because the benchmarks
>are clearer.
>
>Whether or not Lebron James is better than Jordan is a
>legit debate.
several championships premature

>Whether Lebron is better than Jason Terry is not.
>
>
>There is no snob around who can argue that Terry is
>better based on how they feel.
>
>The closest things that we have to snobs in sports:
>
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>- The old white Major League Baseball traditionalists.
>
>- Tennis and golf: its mostly a class thing here,
>of course, which still makes more sense than me being
>mad at Lupe Fiasco for not knowing the lyrics to a
>Tribe Called Quest
>
>- New age Guiness/Moneyballers. This group is fine,
>though, because they use numbers which CAN BE DEBATED.
>
>
>
>The Lesson, for example, is a terrible board overrun by
>weirdos and bohoes. No one has any self esteem, which leads
>to people crafting their opinions around what makes them
>feel cool/smart rather than how they feel.
>
>
>PTP is a good board with some good people but a tad more
>weirdos than I'm comfortable with. There's some self esteem
>problems there too, but not nearly as many as in The Lesson.
>
>
>OKSports doesn't have any of that.
>
>
>It selects against women, so guys aren't trying to get
>pussy and acting like....pussies.
>
>It selects against bohoes, and so there's nothing to
>be snobby about.
>
>It selects against weirdos, so people tend to have all
>of their mental faculties/keep their mental illness
>outside the purview of the discussions (except when
>we're talking about Kobe).
YUP!!!
>
>Even with that, a lot of y'all niggas stay mad.
in infinite loops

one other point, there's a sense that OKS heads are more well rounded in general, our lives don't revolve around sports, but we're able to chop it up BECAUSE our views/perspectives aren't limited or in a vaccuum.