Everyone is leaving. This is sad.
Everyone seems to be taking off. Mostly do the lack of anything worth doing on here. I still have fun, but that's because I like doing the pointless borderline spam threads. Maybe this is a sign to all of us that it is time to be more rational in our debates, with more facts and articulate opinions, and less personal attacks, fewer trolls, and less flaming. I've quit posting on the political threads because that is all they are these days. Maybe, just maybe, we can all get along despite our differing views, and once again have intelligent debates. Maybe we would lose less of our e-friends would move on. Maybe more of us spammers would quite spamming and debate.
Alomogordo
07-03-2005, 06:51
My internet was down the last couple of days, so I didn't hear much about who was leaving. I only know Colodia.
Zepp & Steff are leaving. And over the last little bit we have lost a lot of people.
Neo-Anarchists
07-03-2005, 06:54
Next thing you know a mod will quit or something.
Rogue Angelica
07-03-2005, 06:54
*sigh*
It seems I have joined this little community just at its downfall. I wish I could have seen it in its brighter days. :(
*sigh*
It seems I have joined this little community just at its downfall. I wish I could have seen it in its brighter days. :(
It never really seemed to have "brighter days" to me. Every time a few people leave the "older" people start pining for the "old days" or whatever and I've yet to understand just how it was any better.
Alomogordo
07-03-2005, 06:57
Zepp & Steff are leaving. And over the last little bit we have lost a lot of people.
Steph and Zepp?! But....I-I.....WHAT?
Sdaeriji
07-03-2005, 07:00
Whatever. People have been "leaving" for as long as I've been posting. Old people leave, new people come, and somehow life on this forum goes on. Only the people who have some sort of misguided sense of self-importance really think more than just a handful of people actually care if they leave or not. I stopped posting for about three months during the summer of 2004 without a word to anyone, and I don't even think anyone noticed.
Branin, I beat you to this thread. (clickey (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=403041))
I'd like you to post there as you're right on topic, bro.
Whatever. People have been "leaving" for as long as I've been posting. Old people leave, new people come, and somehow life on this forum goes on. Only the people who have some sort of misguided sense of self-importance really think more than just a handful of people actually care if they leave or not. I stopped posting for about three months during the summer of 2004 without a word to anyone, and I don't even think anyone noticed.
I would've noticed. You're the first person I took to when I got here, Sdaeriji.
nobody noticed me leaving either, except maybe some people in 'Het Nederlandse Topic' and its other incarnations (which reminds me to search for that again :D ) that was as famicon, though, but who cares? while you're here, you make the best of it, and when you leave, don't bitch about it kkthxbye
Cannot think of a name
07-03-2005, 07:07
It never really seemed to have "brighter days" to me. Every time a few people leave the "older" people start pining for the "old days" or whatever and I've yet to understand just how it was any better.
Nothing is ever like it was when 'you' (the metaphorical you) got there, it's a common phenomenom. It happens everywhere to just about everything. Not too long before you (Branin) start chiding the new comers for making it a different place than you started playing in.
When I started it was just after the fall of Beeker and Marathon and the like and it seemed like the forums where little more than a nostalgia world for them.
You'll make the forum what you want it to be and when you've worn that thrill down to its nub you too will leave. Perhaps you'll make a dramatic farwell or just stop posting. Either way, you'll feel that it just isn't the same anymore.
I'm not immune. I feel the same way about things, I miss the researchers the most, the people who cited sources and argued those sources-it hit me where I live and I dug the critical reading that it encouraged. It's entirely possible that that trend will rise again with some new posters (sadly, I'm not that guy-I don't spend that much time combing the internet news sources. If Firefox didn't make it so easy I might not look at headlines that often at all) Maybe it will degenerate into poop throwing with links to propoganda from both sides for a very long time. Who knows.
The only thing you can count on is that it will be the same, and not like it was when you started...
Sdaeriji
07-03-2005, 07:08
I would've noticed. You're the first person I took to when I got here, Sdaeriji.
It was before you got here. Like May or June through September or so.
Nothing is ever like it was when 'you' (the metaphorical you) got there, it's a common phenomenom. It happens everywhere to just about everything.
This is exactly my point.
Greedy Pig
07-03-2005, 07:42
They are? Darn... time to use the old ruse. Communism vs Capitalism.
They are? Darn... time to use the old ruse. Communism vs Capitalism.
Bah! Go all the way and use capitalizm. The z means better.
The Commie Conspiracy
07-03-2005, 07:48
They are? Darn... time to use the old ruse. Communism vs Capitalism.
I'm telling you, we have nothing to do with it!
Really!
They are? Darn... time to use the old ruse. Communism vs Capitalism.
Haha!
Meadsville
07-03-2005, 08:37
Whatever. People have been "leaving" for as long as I've been posting. Old people leave, new people come, and somehow life on this forum goes on. Only the people who have some sort of misguided sense of self-importance really think more than just a handful of people actually care if they leave or not. I stopped posting for about three months during the summer of 2004 without a word to anyone, and I don't even think anyone noticed.
agree with this....people change, people arrive - it's all good