katy agnor & bob wheeler headquarters austin texas usa website www.hornfans.com hornfans is a university of texas at austin focused online community that was created in 1999 . it is the 22nd most visited college sports website 13th most visited team specific website and the 8th most visited independent college sports website . 1 the site has over 43 000 registered users as of december 19 2006 . hornfans was created as a partnership between bob wheeler and katy agnor with an initial investment of 1000 from agnor . at the time wheeler was a relatively well known contributor to sports message boards and crafted a bi weekly longhorn newsletter under the pseudonym longhornbob and was to provide content for the site . agnor was an accomplished web designer and was to program the site . 2 disputes between the pair over checking account issues and site content led to a lawsuit being filed in state court by agnor and led to the eventual purchase of the site by agnor . after mediation wheeler author of forged of a hotter fire reportedly received approximately 50 000 for his 50 % share of hornfans.com and subsequently opened the now defunct but still registered longhornfanzone.com . 2 hornfans is owned and operated by robert and katy agnor . 3 criticism edit hornfans has a strict policy against personally criticizing players and posters agree to this policy before posting . 4 as is usual for bbs moderators enforce it by deleting such posts and warning violating posters . subsequent violations result in suspensions or banning outright of posters who go against this policy . one of the moderators admitted in 2001 that 620 total users had been banned as of that date many of which were posters from other schools trolls and people registering numerous usernames in order to avoid administrative action . 5 historically the forums have often become inaccessible due to the heavy traffic during longhorn games which overloaded the hardware . for many years the computer hardware was not upgraded even when posters offered to donate to pay for more servers and bandwidth in early 2008 the hornfans hardware finally underwent a major upgrade . alexa.com rates the site speed as very slow with the average load time at 5.3 seconds . 6 references edit alexa sites in college and university a b founders of ut fan web site lock horns . austin american statesman . 1999 12 20 . retrieved 2008 01 18 . hornfans.com about us faq post loss bbs phenomena hornfans.com site information from alexa retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hornfans & oldid 647072221 categories university of texas at austinvirtual communitiescollege sports fan sitesinternet properties established in 1999 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 february 2015 at 08 44 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view