It'd be a sad day if RAWK closed down. I hope they keep going long into the future.
They won't close down. It's just bluster.
Basically, the regulars on there have had enough of good posters being banned for having a negative opinion of a certain player or the manager.
On RAWK you only ever get away with criticism of the owners and even then, you have to be careful.
The forum is batshit mental. There are never any new threads in the Liverpool section because mods don't allow it half the time.
Whilst it's important to have rules and a certain degree of control at an internet discussion forum, the RAWK mods take it all way too seriously and seem to get off on the 'power' they have.
Basically, to survive at RAWK:
1. Talk about Instanbul a lot. They never tire of it.
2. Roy Hodgson is a fecking owl.
3. Rafa Benitez is one of the best managers to grace the Premier League. He never won it because of the owners at the time.
4. Man Utd always have a lucky manager and awful players. When Man Utd are winning, its luck OR that the refs favour United.
5. Have an imaginary friend who is a Man Utd or Everton supporter. This imaginary person always talks about how they support the best team around and that they have the best players, and has meltdowns and is actually jealous of Liverpool fans.
6. Find a player who had one very good match once and then completely overrate him whenever he doesn't play and act as if he is going to save Liverpool's season (Sakho etc).
7. Use the words Boss and La. "Lucas is boss, la." Even the RAWKites from Norway (and there are fecking loads of them) use top Scouse banter.
8. Finish every post in the fulll time match threads with "Onwards and upwards." Even if you've just been knocked out of the cup by Wolves and look awful. They've been saying it for many years now.
9. Address Klu Klux Kenneth as 'the King."
10. Address that odious cretin Robbie Folwer who looks like a monster from Dark Souls as 'God'.
Adhere to the above and you will last many years on RAWK.