Utezone has become a hell hole

I agree. I left there last year and haven’t missed it at all. All the twitter people just moved to UteZone.

And that’s not a good thing.

All of our fans that would be on cougarboard if they were BYU fans are on UteZone.

If you can believe it, I’ve never been to Ute Zone. No idea what it is, what the format is, what it looks like, what features it has… I suppose I’m focused on this joint.

I left there years ago & haven’t ever looked back.

Bartle is inept compared to his predecessors.

Not sure how Tony has done it, but this is easily the best Ute community and no ridiculous users. I so very much appreciate it. We have some awful fans in this fan base, the longer we keep them off here, the better.

UteZone is by far the best forum around for knowledgeable Utah fans. Steve Bartle has raised the bar during his tenure.

I am on UteZone and have been for five years. I don’t post there very often – just mostly read. I enjoy Utah football, and I look for any valuable information I can find, whether here or UteZone.

I still think the best insider information is found here with a few posters that are kind enough to share info here.

Although, as has been mentioned in previous comments here, the insider information is becoming more and more rare on UteZone. This is due to Kyle keeping information secret that would make any secret govt. organization jealous. And, the Twitter account “Message Board Geniuses” and lurkers from Cougarboard are just waiting to pounce on anything they can, and share stuff they shouldn’t to social media.

Steve Bartle is in the unenvious position of probably having much more information than we realize, but being able to share almost none of it, due to the tight ship that Kyle runs and the losers who will take any info and share it on public forums.

Also, I am turned off by the mob mentality of treating people there with unpopular opinions. There was a long thread with thousands of posts on conference realignment that went on and on for over a year. A few commenters there shared their unpopular opinions that the Pac-12 might implode and Utah could end up in the Big-XII – which is of course what happened. However, those with these opinions were not treated well at all – which is disappointing. But, I am learning to just ignore the mob mentality and find any useful insider info I can, if there is any.

As of now enough info. is found there that makes it worth it for me to continue to browse there. I’ll stop my subscription when I feel it is no longer worth it to pay for the crumbs of info that are found there, which could happen sooner rather than later.

I’ve subscribed to Utezone on and off over the years. The site is nothing like it used to be. I like Bartle and don’t blame him at all and he does his best but a lot of the civility and camaraderie were lost when folks like Dan and James Durant went inactive or mostly inactive IMHO. It’s too bad. It was once a fun site. The asylum is ran by the nuttier and more delusional fans now.

The board doesn’t seem to be moderated all that much so fans can just attack each other and say whatever they want. You see gif bombing and fighting and name calling. The bad and misinformation that folks spread has been off the charts at times. I’ve seen multiple subscribers up and leave due to ridicule and even cyber bullying. If you post something folks don’t want to hear — which I’ve done a bunch — you get called a “BYU fan,” “zoob” or a “Big 12 plant” and worse. A couple of other Utah fans and I who posted that PAC-12 negotiations weren’t going well leading up to the league’s collapse were really targeted for a while. They all ditched the board.

There’s really no standard on how folks are supposed to treat each other. It would go along way improving the site if it was well moderated and had some standards on how folks should interact and if somebody like Dan returned to set a better tone on the board. That’s what Utezone really needs, a better and more positive tone.

That’s because a lot of people from X/Twitter moved over to UteZone. I like Bartle, and think he’s a hard worker. But, UteZone has become toxic like Reddit and Twitter unfortunately. Like others have mentioned, people have left UZ because it’s gotten too toxic. DallasUte left UZ because of the toxicness IIRC. It’s almost like it’s easy to be a keyboard warrior behind a computer/tablet screen.

Also, a lot of pessimists are on that site now…

I left Utezone years ago because of the toxicity of it’s members and how they always tried to weave politics into everything. Tony runs a much better board by far.