I wouldn't say anyone's obsessed over there, except perhaps FTBLFN, and he's not exactly thought of too well over there.

And, to me, at least, it's pretty clear why some of the posters there would care. I'll bracket out a section here for you lazy tl;dr readers, feel free to skip it.

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TideSports was an interesting blend of posters - some who offered great posts, well thought-out insight (hscoach), and also some really witty antics (Kingpin). Everyone was drawn there not by the readership or the posters there, but rather because it was the official forum for the Tuscaloosa News, as close to an 'official' Alabama football forum as you're going to get. Thus, the two types of posters co-existed out of the common desire to be on TideSports. As time went on, I'm sure that reason became less and less important to some as they formed bonds with other posters.

When the TideSports ship sank, it went down fast. People were scrambling for a place to go - WA was already up and running (an incredible stroke of luck), so they got the lion's share of the displaced posters. It became the default choice mainly because of a lack of alternative. But as it was started by people who were already turned off by some of the over-moderation at TideSports, it also had a distinctly anti-authority flavor to it, and controlled chaos was allowed. This, by it's very nature, encourage people to behave in a juvenille manner.
Once this forum was available, a lot of the posters who that type of environment didn't appeal to came here. The immature posters over there obviously took that as some kind of insult or judgement on their behavior. And since they're fairly anti-authority and loud-mouth reactionary types, the result of that is some posters 'caring' that this site exists. Its very existence, as they see it, is a physical emobodiment of people rejecting their behavior and antics. So they get all bent out of shape and need to get on their soap box and shout and yell about how lame this place is.

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I went there because there are a lot of fun posters over there, and this place just took too long to get off the ground.

I didn't post here because initially the site was painfully slow to load, and it had a low member count. I don't come to forums to read blogs. I come to interact, to be entertained. If you don't have a high member count, forums tend to stagnate. Will this place pick up during the season? I'd wager yes. And you'll see more posters here then.

But WA will always have a core membership that's not really going to change, and this forum will probably be the butt of jokes for a while because of the reasons I outlined above, as well as the fact that it is the new home to some former TS mods, whom some members at WA have problems with.

Do your thing, let them do theirs, there will be plenty of people who visit both. But people painting either site with too broad a brush aren't doing either site any favors.