What the Hell is going on in here?

[ChristianAnarchist]

Thanks to all the people who engage in the thankless and somewhat masochistic task of being a moderator here.

No thanks to the trolls and haters.

I agree with Dalebert - Facebook is killing forums.  It's hard to get people to leave FB for forums, despite forums being better for discussions for some of the reasons Gene gave earlier.

And I actually HATE facebook.  It's hard to follow AND it's more closed than forums...

[Defendant]

Thanks to all the people who engage in the thankless and somewhat masochistic task of being a moderator here.

No thanks to the trolls and haters.

I agree with Dalebert - Facebook is killing forums.  It's hard to get people to leave FB for forums, despite forums being better for discussions for some of the reasons Gene gave earlier.

And I actually HATE facebook.  It's hard to follow AND it's more closed than forums...

Facebook has its purposes. 

Look...  theres only so many hours in a day.  People have a bunch of tabs open, they skitter back and forth from FB, to surfing news articles, to watching a few YouTubes, to viewing a few shows on Netflix, to checking Twitter, to listening to a podcast.. 

Its really no wonder forums are taking a dive.  Especially if the specific forum experience is like a bunch of snarling dogs.  Who the fuck enjoys that shit?  Thats why forums require a little bit of oversight.  Because with the exodus of good-natured polite people, it becomes a Mad Max wasteland.

Theres plenty of room for jokesters, and people with an irreverent sense of humor.  But like they used to say in the old-timey Western movies, you better say that with a smile on your face, or them's fightin' words.

Nobody seems to "get it", you can bust balls if thats your thing.  Your friends will appreciate a good joke, and a mature recipient will laugh it off.

Hell, even Libman knew when to draw the line, eventually.  And if theres people with a bigger disconnect from etiquette than Libman, and they don't get the loose rules to abide...  theres something wrong with those fucks.

[freeAgent]

For discussions and sharing, I've found Google+ to be better than Facebook.  Facebook is too cluttered with apps and crap.  Google+ has better filtering, notifications, and pretty much everything.

[d_goddard]

Google+ has better filtering, notifications, and pretty much everything.

And no people.

[freeAgent]

Google+ has better filtering, notifications, and pretty much everything.

And no people.

That is unfortunate, but because of the better/easier filtering and such, it's more useful for following people whom you don't actually know.

[Grey]

Yeah, the hay-days of 05-06 were indeed awesome.  For me though, I ended up going back to school and I've had FT work for the past 5 years.  (during the summer of '05 I was unemployed, and I was here posting probably 30-40 times a day).  During school I noticed the quality really started to fall, and I was really busy anyway. Also, about 2 years ago I discovered reddit, and that basically monopolized my online forum posting time since...

[Lindsey]

Funny how that one post from Lindsey prompted folks to post shit...

She must be hot as fuck!  Pics anyone?

Hahahahahaha.  No.  Not sure why it turned in to a shit storm.

[Turd Ferguson]

Its a little like locking yourself in a 2 bedroom apartment with 10 of your friends for a whole year. People are gonna start flipping out on each other after a while.

[anarchir]

I got in after those so called hey-days it seems. Fuck all ya'll.

Actually I think the peak for internet forums in general was about that time, now more people have migrated to the greenest pastures they can find.

[freeAgent]

I got in after those so called hey-days it seems. Fuck all ya'll.

Actually I think the peak for internet forums in general was about that time, now more people have migrated to the greenest pastures they can find.

Yeah, social networking sites like Facebook really destroyed a lot of forums.

[TimeLady Victorious]

I'm just postin because Yossi mentioned me by name.

Did Libman ever crawl back out of his cave anywhere on the Internet?

Funny how that one post from Lindsey prompted folks to post shit...

She must be hot as fuck!  Pics anyone?

There may be pictures of her in Christmas lingerie about, somewhere. Perhaps those who know of them should post them again.

[Lindsey]

Oh shi-   

[Diogenes The Cynic]

I remember geocities, and AIM, and old AOL chatrooms. Then MySpace, and other shit that came in. I think that the wheel is turning, and social media is on its way out. People don't want to be associated with the same page forever.

But bbs's have been around the internet since day one. They'll be kicking for some time yet.

[Cognitive Dissident]

I remember geocities, and AIM, and old AOL chatrooms. Then MySpace, and other shit that came in. I think that the wheel is turning, and social media is on its way out. People don't want to be associated with the same page forever.

But bbs's have been around the internet since day one. They'll be kicking for some time yet.

...even since before the internet (as we know it.)  I actually ran one, in the 80's.

[Karrde188]

So I heard national temperatures have been kind of high lately...