HFBoards

No need to visit that place anymore, the mods got their way. It's as dead and boring as a graveyard. Mission accomplished.

These forums used to be wonderful. However, there has been a shift where seasoned hockey minds with knowledge and respect for the game (mostly veteran posters) are being trolled, censored and shutdown simply for stating their opinions. The admins and mods are on a massive, fascist power trip and will silence anyone who doesn't share their opinion. In addition, multiple pages have been blocked by MalwareBytes for being a trojan. If the owners care about these forums, there needs to be a severe adjustment quick. In the meantime, do yourself a favor and block all their ads.

I used to love this community but the moderator situation has gotten so horrible. The people that troll and skirt the rules game the system by reporting posts of people that respond to them. There's practically zero ability to communicate with mods or admins in any constructive fashion and most of the infractions are passed out by a stupid bot they call "Troll Stomper." They only moderate reactions to problematic posts, and almost never do they do anything about the problematic posts themselves. I still love the folks on some of the individual team boards, particularly the Canes board, but the main forum areas are a cesspool of rule skirters and outright trolls that never seem to get caught.

Is this place, hfboards a joke? And why are the mods such huge racists?

In a thread called "Are TV ratings expected to drop?"

I wrote in that thread:
"In the Nba? Yes, Expect That People Are Tired of the Low Iq Fools in That League, I Expect Baseball and Hockey to Get Better Ratings Because of That"

Then i get a ban in the category: Ethnic/Racial/Gender Slurs (Warning)

Ehh, what? Where did i mention any of that?
Ohh, it's just the moderator that assumes i am talking about race, he/she thinks that there is only one type of race in the NBA… i thought there where both black, white and asian players…

So i would not have gotten a warning if i had called NHL players low iq?
Since i wrote about the NBA the moderators, just assume i am talking about black players, when there are white players as well in the NBA. When that person see "NBA" he/she immediately thinks "Black!"

Wow, nice racist mods you got hfboards, and then I get banned for it! For what YOU are thinking!
Wow, thanks hfboards mods, you really prove your low IQ.

Awful place

As long as you are a paying sponsor you can say and flame all you want. Clowns and more clowns. Covid-19 showed me what a fool I was associating myself with such low lives. Glad I was banned from speaking and holding my opinion to hear.

Fact is they know little about sports never mind about Covid-19 Do yourself a favor just go on and laugh

The discussions here are minimal. It's mostly bickering and baiting. Trolls thrive. The moderators allow it to happen. There are a lot of longtime posters that get protection and favouritism from infractions, and have carte blanch to say whatever they want to. Most Moderators are just longtime posters with zero accountability in how they are allowed to act. Do not use this website if you like actual discussion about the sport.

Worst hockey website ever. The mods here are brutal and will ban you just for disagreeing with someone's opinion. The double standards on this website by the Moderators is a joke.

For about a year or so it's all about INFOLINKS . These adds pop up every 30 seconds. They block 30-50 percent of the screen. The best part is when you try to X out the adds the screen always jumps just as you try to click out and puts you into an add. This is the only site I have ever been on that has this jump built right in. The site use to be fun especially the live game threads. Unfortunately for me the fun is drowned out by the never ending INFOLINKS battle. Stay safe all.

Some very knowledgable posters, especially on different prospects. I'm able to get info on 100+ players in the draft every year thanks to HF.

The mods are maybe a bit strict, but certainly not unfair. Those complaining about them are probably trolls that got justifiably banned.

I've had some good laughs on HF over the years and have had some great hockey talks. Highly recommended if you like hockey at all.

Mods are a joke, they ban you for having a opinion.
Bans and warnings should only be issued for cursing and being abusive to other members, not petty stuff like having a strong opinion on things.
this is a joke site, run by overzealous mods, with huge sticks up their butt. Stasi or Gestapo would have been proud of these moderators.

Awful website. The mods here are complete idiots and will silence you if they don't like your opinion. It is a cesspool.

Not a place for Leaf fans. Pathetic business model of letting western fans abuse Leaf fans who get banned if they defend themselves. Mods generally do not understand their own rules or what trolling is. Other bizarre features include not allowing criticism of Eklund. A classic example of people with no social skills tripping over their petty little Mod powers. Stay away!

Simply put, this is not a website for fans. There are a certain number of regulars who control the board and who have their agenda.

Do the owners of these sports franchises want this? If so, that's a bigger problem altogether I suppose.

Whatever the case, do yourself a favor and stay away!

It's the MODS on here. you cannot write anything remotely critical or you will be suspended/banned.
I'd like to meet some of these losers that moderate on here. Probably living in their mom's basement.

A poorly run forum filled with trashy, highly intrusive pop-up ads, (ad-blocker is MANDATORY, hence the domain name) where real hockey discussion is impossible to take place due to dumb as a rock, over zealous moderators that spend several hours a day scrambling through every post free of charge deleting every one that doesn't fit their personal narrative. God forbid you say something negative about one of the teams they root for as you'll see your account limited instantly since this is the only real form of control they have in their sad sack lives. Do yourself a favor and don't bother wasting your time posting on this travesty of a website outside of a throw away account to troll for a quick laugh.

If the rules of the site applied to the moderators themselves, it would be fine, because after a certain period of time, many — if not most — of the moderators would get banned and there would some staff fluctuation.

As it is, mods change very little. They don't get banned. They are free to bully you, warn you, ban you — and there is absolutely nothing you can do. They give you a ridiculous 'report' form that does not lead anywhere.

Whoever compared it to the Nazi Germany or Stalinism got it perfectly right.

The site is terrible.

HFBoards used to be cool once upon a time, I suppose. It's more or less a cesspool now. When a total f'n loser like The Winter Soldier can spend 24/7 bashing a team, it says all you need to know about that place. Does that asshat even have a job?

There are much better sports forum online. Stay away from this one.

All i said was ' Stopped reading after the first sentence , keep it short ' The mods must be kids or complete nerds that take their internet hockey opinions too seriously. They don't even know what they are talking about and ban you for disagreeing. These idiots think they know better than the general managers and coaches. What i find interesting is the sheer hatred for Canucks GM Jim Benning. The mods are the ring leaders , seriously, how do you call anyone else a troll after personally attacking a person that spent his entire adult life in hockey. They let one poster create a cartoon called 'Benning ON Empty' with over 100 comics depicting him an Canuck legend Trevor Linden as Gilligan and the Benning as the Captain from Gilligans island. They completly lambast them while smuggly acting like they know how to create a better hockey team. They all chortel and laugh then they troll and ban anyone that disagrees. They have their favorites that call people stupid , then instead of banning them they just edit their posts , a complete farce and it's a real eye opener finding this site. The mods are children that are completly out of conntrol.

Don't give an opinion that works against the agenda of the moderators. This is certainly not a website for real fans.

Honestly, it's a complete joke. Stay far away!!!

Badly over moderated site. Would really benefit from appointing moderators with real world friends.

I posted a tweet from a hockey beat writer regarding a substantiated trade rumor. Another user started trolling me because he believed it didn't deserve a thread. There was plenty of conversation going on so I asked him to stop being negative. A mod immediately closed the thread and told me I don't get to tell people what to do…?? Politely asking someone to stop trolling didn't get me banned – sending the moderator a message informing him that he was a douchebag is what got the deed done =] HFboards is a joke. HFGermany and the Gestapmods can eat a D.

Where to even begin. This place is a haven for middle aged men who still live in mom and dads basement. The kind of person who will say whatever through a keyboard if it fits their narrative but who also would shy away from any kind of personal confrontation in the real world. Logic be damned, truth be damned, common sense be damned. I visit once a year to see if anything has changed and each time I end up vomiting heavily in my bathroom. I truly hope their membership at large gets a dose of reality sometime soon.

As the title of the review says. The moderators from this site wouldn't look out of place in 1930's Germany

The mods there are usually pretty fair and will explain the rules when asked. Anyone crying "nazi" probably got banned for trolling and is crying about it after the fact.

If you want an honest and open discussion, stay away from this site. The power tripping moderators will shut you down without any reason. The speech police are out in force.