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?
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Ray Rider wrote: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.
“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire
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.
mrswdk wrote: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.
“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire
mrswdk wrote: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.
Ray Rider wrote: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?
Ray Rider wrote: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
BoganGod wrote:
Dukasaur wrote:
mrswdk wrote: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
Phatscotty wrote:
Ray Rider wrote: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?
mrswdk wrote: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.
the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it- Albert Einstein
