What prompted you to start posting on Yappi?

[Irwin20]

I’ll go first. I was in a New York hotel for 2 weeks for job training in 2011. Can’t recall how I found Yappi but had a bunch of downtime and was probably surfing the internet. As I recall my first post involved a discussion with another poster, a mother (who I think I knew) who was bragging about her club team and talking down about my daughter’s club. Needless to say we got into it a little bit. Later I moved on to mostly the HS Football forum. Didn’t discover the Debate forum til probably 5 years later.

What’s your story?

 

[Orin Swift]

My freshman year of HS my coach told us to not get on Yappi.com and to definitely not create an account. I had never heard of Yappi. Being a teenager, naturally I checked it out and made an account.

 

[OhioBobcatFan06]

Started reading Yappi for HS sports freshman year of high school then created an account. School IT had the site blocked but we used proxy sites to get around that in the school libraries. Never even logged out of the school computers and I know for awhile two or three other guys would all post on this account

 

[cabezadecaballo]

I’ll go first. I was in a New York hotel for 2 weeks for job training in 2011. Can’t recall how I found Yappi but had a bunch of downtime and was probably surfing the internet. As I recall my first post involved a discussion with another poster, a mother (who I think I knew) who was bragging about her club team and talking down about my daughter’s club. Needless to say we got into it a little bit. Later I moved on to mostly the HS Football forum. Didn’t discover the Debate forum til probably 5 years later.

What’s your story?

I had read for a while, but the 2012 Ohio HS football playoffs got me started posting.

 

[Orin Swift]

Started reading Yappi for HS sports freshman year of high school then created an account. School IT had the site blocked but we used proxy sites to get around that in the school libraries. Never even logged out of the school computers and I know for awhile two or three other guys would all post on this account

Ah the days of getting around blocked websites with proxies on school computers. Makes me nostalgic

 

[Crusaders]

I was bored in CAD class in HS at the start of sophomore year. I needed something to take my mind off the kid next to me who wouldn't stop singing 311

 

[nupanther]

I learned about Yappi while on JJ Huddle. Somebody made a thread called " Why Ay Pee Pee I " It took me several minutes, if not an hour or so, to decipher this.

 

[oxat622]

There were 10,000 Toledo St Johns and Massilon threads on JJhuddle and 0 on anything in southwest Ohio.

 

[Tesoro]

Looked for an alternative to Themaconline. That and to call out OJ Mayo's school for the farce it was.

 

[clarkgriswold]

I came here for the chicks.

Actually, I came in for the high school football forum.

 

[cjb5656]

I was posting on JJ, but I heard there was a certified sports genius on Yappi who was willing to interact with us common folk on a regular basis. Turned out to be true. In fact, to this day I still am able to interact with the man known to us all as Brian.

 

[CedarBuck92]

Active HS football forum

 

[14Red]

It's a safe space to post opinions on sports. Part of being a fan is the ability to communicate your feelings about the teams, good and bad, or other topics that are generally interesting. Been on here for many years, much to some others dismay

 

[kdiamond]

I was "read only" for years. BUt I saw a void in the marketplace where this place needed Mr.Diamond badly. To teach .To share his wisdom of all things sports, politecs, and general. Mr Diamond correct the mistakes in a polite manner adn thus make all the forums all the threads stronger and with more factual content . Being a leader in here is doing everyone else a solid . Im like Trump , The president who takes 0 as my compensation in here . I am the Diamond ...you are all the velvet that surrounds me .

 

[Steel Valley FB]

KentRaider told me about Yappi after we realized how bad JJFuddle sucked. RIP my brother.

 

[D4fan]

I had been following Yappi quite a bit while my son's team was being discussed on here regularly. Then one day I learned of serious infractions from neighboring school that had gone unreported. So I decided to drop the facts I had gathered on here. Immediate and successful denial was the result. I also remember one person in particular saying, "I'm sure you have a lot of interesting information, but I don't read posts longer than three sentences ".

So I began posting in the debate forum after that, just to sharpen my skills at dealing with quarrelsome people. Worked like a charm, as soon as I figured out I really don't matter to the average poster on here. I've hung around something like 12 years.