Parki said:
LWOS? It looks a lot like the old world of rugby league site well at least the forum does
what does LWOS stand for youll have to excuse my stupidity
OK, This is a long and involved history lession.
First there was a site called 'World of Rugby League' run by MattO on the nineMSN forums.
About three years ago certain posters, myself included, got the shits with WORL because they formed a link with the 'Footy show', which attracted many thousands of posters known by all as 'Girdler girls', who had nothing to talk about but who the cutest player might be.
About half of the frequent posters on WORL went off to form another ninemsn community called Legends World of Sport (LWOS), which turned out to be a great community with a very civil and constructive level of discussion.
MattO and his associates saw that there was no future in the 'footy show' link and moved to a new community they named 'Grandstand' which had a new and better format. It is also sometimes called WORL and rl.com.
Meanwhile, the LWOS community basically stayed the same size while the new Grandstand community grew and grew. The LWOS moderators decided that the site was standing still because Grandstand had a better format, so the decision was made to move to a similar format, while keeping many of the good sections of LWOS like 'go ahead... ask us anything' and the 'RL quiz' game.
To put it all into a nutshell, the difference is that this site is run by people who like to operate on a 'responsible adult' principal, rather than the 'petulant headmaster' approach of WORL.
We hope that the overall effect is that people act like adults rather than children. It seems to work.