What happened?

[Ray Rider]

Seriously, I'm gone for two years and the forum dies! There's literally only one other person browsing this forum right now (2dimes)! Has the entire website experienced a decline or is this just an Off-Topics phenomenon?

Edit: Also, I just noticed on the main Forums page, it doesn't display the title of the topic last discussed in the Off-Topics section. Seriously?? They have to isolate this section so much that they can't even allow other forum-goers to see the titles of what we're discussing?? What kind of a snowflake world is this?

[nietzsche]

quiet please.

[2dimes]

Reganomics?

[Ray Rider]

quiet please.

lol go back to bed nietzsche!

Reganomics?

??

[2dimes]

There is not enough trickling down to the poor folks. They lost their Internet connection.

[Ray Rider]

There is not enough trickling down to the poor folks. They lost their Internet connection.

Well good thing Trump is around to fix that, right? Right?? Why am I not hearing any agreement? :p

[Dukasaur]

Seriously, I'm gone for two years and the forum dies! There's literally only one other person browsing this forum right now (2dimes)! Has the entire website experienced a decline or is this just an Off-Topics phenomenon?

Edit: Also, I just noticed on the main Forums page, it doesn't display the title of the topic last discussed in the Off-Topics section. Seriously?? They have to isolate this section so much that they can't even allow other forum-goers to see the titles of what we're discussing?? What kind of a snowflake world is this?

Welcome back, Ray!

Yeah, things are bleak in the forum. But if you find just one post that you enjoy, hope that makes you feel like it was worth visiting. And if that's repeated tomorrow, maybe we'll get you to start coming every day again....

Anyway, really good to see you again. I was just thinking about you yesterday, and here you are! The power of positive thinking.

[mrswdk]

One of the problems is that mods like Raz now just move everything they personally don't like the look of into the Trash Can, a subforum that a lot of people avoid. So any thread that builds up some steam and threatens to become an actual conversation ends up getting tossed into solitary confinement and thereby immediately killed.

[Dukasaur]

One of the problems is that mods like Raz now just move everything they personally don't like the look of into the Trash Can, a subforum that a lot of people avoid. So any thread that builds up some steam and threatens to become an actual conversation ends up getting tossed into solitary confinement and thereby immediately killed.

If by "build up some steam" you mean "degenerate into name-calling and vulgar references" then you're right.

Otherwise, no. There's no reason a thread can't be interesting while preserving some gentlemanly decorum.

[mrswdk]

Hey my last thread got chucked in Trash Can before anyone had even replied to the OP.

[BoganGod]

One of the problems is that mods like Raz now just move everything they personally don't like the look of into the Trash Can, a subforum that a lot of people avoid. So any thread that builds up some steam and threatens to become an actual conversation ends up getting tossed into solitary confinement and thereby immediately killed.

If by "build up some steam" you mean "degenerate into name-calling and vulgar references" then you're right.

Otherwise, no. There's no reason a thread can't be interesting while preserving some gentlemanly decorum.

Your comment is a sexist micro aggression. There are some real woman on this site still, as well as women with penises. Saying gentlemanly is exclusionary, and bigoted. Goes against the guidelines that our most regressive SJW users would love to have implemented on this once great and august site.

[Phatscotty]

Seriously, I'm gone for two years and the forum dies! There's literally only one other person browsing this forum right now (2dimes)! Has the entire website experienced a decline or is this just an Off-Topics phenomenon?

Edit: Also, I just noticed on the main Forums page, it doesn't display the title of the topic last discussed in the Off-Topics section. Seriously?? They have to isolate this section so much that they can't even allow other forum-goers to see the titles of what we're discussing?? What kind of a snowflake world is this?

Sorry, I can't do everything by myself

[2dimes]

Don't pretend you're in here enough. Sure you brought Joe Regan in today. What about the rest of the week?

[Ray Rider]

Seriously, I'm gone for two years and the forum dies! There's literally only one other person browsing this forum right now (2dimes)! Has the entire website experienced a decline or is this just an Off-Topics phenomenon?

Edit: Also, I just noticed on the main Forums page, it doesn't display the title of the topic last discussed in the Off-Topics section. Seriously?? They have to isolate this section so much that they can't even allow other forum-goers to see the titles of what we're discussing?? What kind of a snowflake world is this?

Welcome back, Ray!

Yeah, things are bleak in the forum. But if you find just one post that you enjoy, hope that makes you feel like it was worth visiting. And if that's repeated tomorrow, maybe we'll get you to start coming every day again....

Anyway, really good to see you again. I was just thinking about you yesterday, and here you are! The power of positive thinking.

Hey thanks Dukasaur! Glad to hear I was missed! But you're right, I guess even one or two posts can make a visit worthwhile...just sad to see the hullabaloo that used to be Off-Topics has died down to almost nothing

One of the problems is that mods like Raz now just move everything they personally don't like the look of into the Trash Can, a subforum that a lot of people avoid. So any thread that builds up some steam and threatens to become an actual conversation ends up getting tossed into solitary confinement and thereby immediately killed.

If by "build up some steam" you mean "degenerate into name-calling and vulgar references" then you're right.

Otherwise, no. There's no reason a thread can't be interesting while preserving some gentlemanly decorum.

Your comment is a sexist micro aggression. There are some real woman on this site still, as well as women with penises. Saying gentlemanly is exclusionary, and bigoted. Goes against the guidelines that our most regressive SJW users would love to have implemented on this once great and august site.

lol good one

Seriously, I'm gone for two years and the forum dies! There's literally only one other person browsing this forum right now (2dimes)! Has the entire website experienced a decline or is this just an Off-Topics phenomenon?

Edit: Also, I just noticed on the main Forums page, it doesn't display the title of the topic last discussed in the Off-Topics section. Seriously?? They have to isolate this section so much that they can't even allow other forum-goers to see the titles of what we're discussing?? What kind of a snowflake world is this?

Sorry, I can't do everything by myself

Hey, good to see you're still around Phatscotty!

[Symmetry]

One of the problems is that mods like Raz now just move everything they personally don't like the look of into the Trash Can, a subforum that a lot of people avoid. So any thread that builds up some steam and threatens to become an actual conversation ends up getting tossed into solitary confinement and thereby immediately killed.

If by "build up some steam" you mean "degenerate into name-calling and vulgar references" then you're right.

Otherwise, no. There's no reason a thread can't be interesting while preserving some gentlemanly decorum.

To be fair, the Trash Can is pretty much designed for posters who who want to derail threads.