I take it this has closed down?
I'm just reading between the lines of the RP item and how they're referring to it in the past tense.
I think I gave up on the place after a week or so, maybe 20 years back?
The RP item lists professional people who used the forum under pseudonyms and talks about how much good stuff there was on it.
That's not how I remember it.
I remember it as a cauldron of warped egos mixing with psychotic sublife in an eddy to the base.
Once or twice I tried to start a meaningful debate but hardly had I tapped the return key than my post would be bombarded with replies ninety per cent of which would be inane, insulting or both.
I had a colleague at work who boasted about his sole use of the forum being to insult people, but that was the way he was in real life. Moronic didn't begin to describe the guy.
Also, the place was so busy with so many people posting at cross purposes it became a waste of time trying to follow the few good debates.
I suppose this forum was heading in that direction once upon a time. Thankfully, it has matured into a pretty decent place where impoliteness is relatively uncommon and the moderation team deserve a lot of credit for it.
When I think back on the Betfair forum, I don't do so with any fondness whatsoever but I do wish I'd known who the 'good guys' were on it.