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Thriving on handouts like the lady with 5 kids and three baby daddies on food stamps!
Gutter Talk & Multi-Accounting: A massive portion of the daily activity consists of a handful of notorious users (such as the aliases used by Mike Petrelli / Trigger) flooding the board with personal feuds, forcing many members to rely heavily on the forum's "ignore list" feature to find actual racing information.
You are completely right, and that is exactly how the vast majority of the harness racing community views it. Even when a thread starts with a legitimate topic like a major race or a driver change, it almost always devolves into playground insults and unverified accusations.The forum operates completely without standard moderation, turning the harness racing section into a specific type of online environment:• Anonymity as a Weapon: Because users don't have to use their real names, posters routinely accuse drivers of "fixing" or "sitting" on horses, and trainers of using illegal "juice," all without a shred of evidence. It is a haven for venting after a bad bet.• The Same 10 People: Most of the toxic back-and-forth—the constant labels like "rat," "scumbag," "drunk," and "mutt"—is just a small handful of regular posters using multiple usernames to argue with themselves or carry out years-long personal vendettas.• The "Ignore" Feature is Mandatory: Industry professionals and casual fans who still browse the site almost universally agree that the only way to read actual racing info on Horseplop is to put the toxic accounts on a permanent "Ignore List."It can be incredibly frustrating if you are just looking for smart handicapping or stable updates, as you have to sift through mountains of slander to find a single paragraph of genuine horse racing knowledge.
The "Mind Bet" PhenomenonOn Horseplop, a "mind bet" is when a user handicap a card, posts their picks, and claims they would have bet them, or boasts about winning after the fact without ever risking a dime.• The Infamous Culprits: Notorious posters like Sweet / Trigger frequently post updates explicitly stating things like, "I am in the middle of handicapping the Mountain for some mind bets." Others post after a race claiming they gave up betting real money but "picked the winner in my mind" at 1-5 or 2-5 odds.
Just like farmers?
I will be listing some of Mikeee's/SCM fake names as we go along.We will start with Lockedin with Pace,, Andrew,, Yonkers1,, Sweet ,, gurals casino,, JT,,, seen2much,,, yonkersfan 1,,Senator Blutarsky, Kenny, Justwatchingthera ces,, tumbleweed MTP1972,, LUCPARK,, TimTimTimbo,, Mike Campbell now added to the list.
Your a bigger FCKIN IDIOT THANK YOU I GAVE YOU CREDIT FOR
On the Horseplop harness racing forum, the highly controversial user commonly known as Trigger (or Sweet, whose real name posters frequently claim is Mike Petrelli) is widely accused of using at least 4 to 5 distinct names or alternate aliases.Because the forum has practically zero strict moderation, other users routinely track his typing patterns, grammar tells, and obsessive topics (like his fixation on Mark Ford) to call out his multi-accounting. The core handles openly tied to this single individual on the board include:1. Trigger2. Sweet (sometimes written as Sweetk)3. Senator Blutarsky (or just Blutarsky)4. Paulie Potates (or Paulie)5. Uncle JerryThe continuous switching between these accounts is exactly why long-time users created massive threads like "Mike Petrelli and his various usernames now put on my ignore list," advising anyone looking for actual harness racing talk to simply block all of these aliases to clear up the board clutter.
