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Puggy was listening to Cher while typing:
They've been slow for a while.
not this slow
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Xyrra had this to say about Optimus Prime:
I'm glad someone else mentioned it. I was afraid I was getting a bit too compulsive again
Hits F5
Nothing new
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Nothing new
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They'll be back.
They always come back.
someone maekss a post about something troubling them in their life, they get yeleld at as an antetion whore
someone psots ANY link they run the risk of getting timeliend so dont btoehr
someone posts about anime and gets OMG ROOFLES NEWB ANIME FORUM STUPID
someone posts about ffxii and gets OMG ROOFLES NEWB FFXII FORUM STUPID
Somone posts soemthign funny that recnetly happened, they get pages apon page son tellign them not only why it wasnt ufnny, but why its entirely their fualt
someone posts lyrics thread, 0 replies, and tne minutes later they see someone btihcing about lyric posts elswehere
someone psots their poltiical opion and gets assraped by dry or sage or cal
whnat pray tell is one to post?
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Kegwen obviously shouldn't have said:
Mog wins
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Kegwen was listening to Cher while typing:
Mog wins
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Suddar had this to say about Cuba:
Yes, Mog takes the gold today.
Holy shit. That's a first!
Also, the board suddenly got alot faster with the posting! About half of it has been from me but still...
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This insanity brought to you by Zeke the Final Fencer:
Huzzah! I am your new mesiah! *gets shot* Aw hell...
I think you should have my avatar...but I'm not giving it to you because its mine.
quote:That's the way it's always been.
Taste Mog, you will see... More is all you need!
it rlay sint surpriseing thoguhw hen yotu hinka bout itsomeone maekss a post about something troubling them in their life, they get yeleld at as an antetion whore
someone psots ANY link they run the risk of getting timeliend so dont btoehr
someone posts about anime and gets OMG ROOFLES NEWB ANIME FORUM STUPID
someone posts about ffxii and gets OMG ROOFLES NEWB FFXII FORUM STUPID
Somone posts soemthign funny that recnetly happened, they get pages apon page son tellign them not only why it wasnt ufnny, but why its entirely their fualt
someone posts lyrics thread, 0 replies, and tne minutes later they see someone btihcing about lyric posts elswehere
someone psots their poltiical opion and gets assraped by dry or sage or cal
This slowdown is not a result of the above reasons. You win nothing in my book.
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Black had this to say about Cuba:
That's the way it's always been.This slowdown is not a result of the above reasons. You win nothing in my book.
Wrong on both counts
quote:Maybe!*
But Nina doesn't really care for music, do you?
Wrong on both counts
*No.
An excellent example of this is Drysart's "I love the Daily Show" thread. 18 months ago, that would've been locked at 300 replies 12 hours after it was posted. Now, it's just kinda petered out to nothing. Where's the bitter arguing? Where's the righteous fury?
The n00b drive was not a smashing success, so little new blood has come in to spice things up. Those which did come in have A) stopped posting or B) fallen into the faceless throng, or at the very least, made no impression upon me.
Frankly, I don't see the situation changing. Those elements which are critical to a high turnover on the boards are gone, either lost over time, or sent packing to Flameball. Now I ain't saying whether this is bad or good, it's just the way it is.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
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Mog thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
it rlay sint surpriseing thoguhw hen yotu hinka bout itsomeone maekss a post about something troubling them in their life, they get yeleld at as an antetion whore
someone psots ANY link they run the risk of getting timeliend so dont btoehr
someone posts about anime and gets OMG ROOFLES NEWB ANIME FORUM STUPID
someone posts about ffxii and gets OMG ROOFLES NEWB FFXII FORUM STUPID
Somone posts soemthign funny that recnetly happened, they get pages apon page son tellign them not only why it wasnt ufnny, but why its entirely their fualt
someone posts lyrics thread, 0 replies, and tne minutes later they see someone btihcing about lyric posts elswehere
someone psots their poltiical opion and gets assraped by dry or sage or cal
whnat pray tell is one to post?
My threads always rule.
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This insanity brought to you by Karnaj:
Mog hit it right on the head. The slowdown is because everyone's piss-scared of being banned and/or raked over the coals for posting their opinion. That, and the people with opinions are fewer and further between, simply because, over the years, almost everyone's moderated toward center on just about every single debatable issue.An excellent example of this is Drysart's "I love the Daily Show" thread. 18 months ago, that would've been locked at 300 replies 12 hours after it was posted. Now, it's just kinda petered out to nothing. Where's the bitter arguing? Where's the righteous fury?
The n00b drive was not a smashing success, so little new blood has come in to spice things up. Those which did come in have A) stopped posting or B) fallen into the faceless throng, or at the very least, made no impression upon me.
Frankly, I don't see the situation changing. Those elements which are critical to a high turnover on the boards are gone, either lost over time, or sent packing to Flameball. Now I ain't saying whether this is bad or good, it's just the way it is.
The political stuff is the only threads that reach any length.
And even then it's just the same old people saying the same old things about different issues.
It's not even worth it (for me) to argue anything. I'm not changing anyone's mind, and most of the time, I'm not learning anything new.
[ 11-02-2003: Message edited by: diadem ]
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Lashanna had this to say about Captain Planet:
I'm not changing anyone's mind, and most of the time, I'm not learning anything new.
Indeed, atleast back itn he day sure the otucoem fo the "discusions" was obvious before hadn, butt theior was actual intresting info being thrown aroudn, nwo itsd jus t"LOL BUSH IS DUM"
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Mr. Parcelan enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
We lost our fire. What with the lack of being able to argue or fight, what else is interesting here?
This place was plenty interesting without arguing and fighting.
Unfrotunately, that part of the boards is gone as well, and has been for even longer than the fighting and arguing.
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Faelynn LeAndris had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
This place was plenty interesting without arguing and fighting.Unfrotunately, that part of the boards is gone as well, and has been for even longer than the fighting and arguing.
To what part are you referring?
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Mog said:
Indeed, atleast back itn he day sure the otucoem fo the "discusions" was obvious before hadn, butt theior was actual intresting info being thrown aroudn, nwo itsd jus t"LOL BUSH IS DUM"
no fucking kidding...
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A sleep deprived Mr. Parcelan stammered:
To what part are you referring?
The the part where it wasn't daily flamefests and shouting matches, with the occasion pissing contest on the side.
It's the constant flamefests and pissing contests that have driven people away for most of the time here, while catering to those who revel in it. To those who dont feed off the hatemongering (And even some of those who do, as long as its not them.) they fear posting anything these days. Cause being harped on gets old, being ripped into gets old.
These boards moved pretty damn fast without seeing a hate/flame thread for weeks at a time.
That hasn't been the case for the last couple years, and its only gotten worse. Maybe it's just finally peetered itself out, to death.
Most of the people I know that are still around here, really only read the boards out of habit anymore. [ 11-03-2003: Message edited by: Faelynn LeAndris ]
I'm not saying this is good or bad or pulling that 'Oh you are all SO predictable'-act, it's just something that is bound to happen on a board with a very static population and even moreso on a board where that effect is compounded by rampart Xenophobia (Yes it's gotten a lot better since Drys split the board and opened flameball). Unless we start getting loads of new people I doubt this will change anytime soon, not that it would kill the board really, people would still discuss current issues, movies, political happenings just with less posts / day. When the US election heats up and debates etc start happening I guess things will get more interesting again.
