The difference is that we don't systematically stalk and harass people who choose to be more positive.
Many on this board has been critical of the results of the team and Kelly and are not happy with the direction of the program. But discussions here on subjects about the jumbotron and the changes to the stadium don't devolve in gutter trash posts--actually discussions there don't devolve at all since they start there.
The other board's incessant debasing of everything Swarbrick, Crossroads, and every ND policy/practice they disagree with (which is about 90% of them) is blindly myopically obsessive to their own narrow point of view which doesn't permit varying from their "true path." I don't like some of the things that go on but I don't think anyone here, much less Board Ops here, deign to be the determiner of everything ND must do to conform to what NDN's compulsion of what is right and just for ND to do and be. I don't post there anymore because you cannot engage in any kind of reasonable discussion before you get derisively attacked by board minions and hacks who are protected by Board Ops and allowed to say anything (much in violation of the allegedly sacred Board rules which apply to those who Ops want to apply to) in defense of 'the way, the truth and the light.'
The interesting posts about players and the team that UHND presents and subsequent discussions (yes I think the UHND articles are a little mamby pamby at times but I appreciate the efforts to educate) simply aren't allowed at NDN since they don't start with the basic assumptions --- that Kelly sucks, he recruits 2nd class recruits and makes them worse, Swarbrick is gutter tripe, and anything that might be different than what is was when they were in school (the biggest chunk of the regulars there are Holtz era folks) is just bad and wrong.
Anyone who objectively reads NDN (and I've talked to many ND fans over the years) knows exactly their frame of reference and read it with great amusement. The closest parallel is sort of like CNN's effective practices/views re: Trump: only one viewpoint is allowed.
Like I've always said, it is their site and they can run it anyway they like but the notion that this board is pollyanna and NDN board is realistic in demanding pursuit of excellence is a crock of shit.