indycolts685
Third String But Playing on Special Teams
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The Indy Star forum is a strange story. I have a buddy who posted there and he gave me some insights.
It was for years a combination of old-time Colts fans and newer Colts fans, with a few interlopers. It had good football discussions.
At one point some teenagers, lukewarm Colts fans, decided it was funny to rile up Colts fans under new screennames by pretending to be superobnoxious Patriots fans. They enjoyed getting the hostile reaction. They were so successful in ticking off Colts fans that the Colts fans fell for it and (for revenge) they trolled on Patriots sites. That led to real Patriots fans "getting payback" by going to the IndyStar forum and joining the fake Patriots fans in irritating the Colts fans.
To confuse it further, some of the teenage fake Patriots fans had other screennames and "argued with themselves" using the screenname associated with being a Colts fan.
The board was poorly moderated, didn't screen by IP address, and just became a troll-fest free-for-all with tons of people pretending to be someone other than they really were and having multiple screen names. One of the more lame-brained "Colts fans" was even (I think) a Patriots fan feigning outrage about spygate and making real Colts fans look stupid with his ignorant rants (Gilbert Gardner).
Finally the forum software was replaced with something so user-unfriendly that everyone whose posts were worth reading left there for good.
I kind of feel bad for the people who seriously wanted to talk football there and whose forum was run downhill by pranksters. The funny thing is, some of the Patriots fans they hated the most and who shaped their opinions about Patriots fans were really Colts fans posting that way to make them mad and they never figured it out!
do you have any proof about the pranksters? This is the first time I have ever heard anything about this, I know the moderator from the old board and the people posting as Pats fans all had IP addresses from the northeast and not in the Indy area at all. Of course we had a few Pats fans from the Indy area, but the trouble makers you speak off all had IP addresses from the North East.