A response:

[shortylickens]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=34777900&postcount=1307


Go find ANY old thread.

1/3 of the people are banned.
Another third voluntarily quit posting in the past couple years.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

True of any forum after enough years.

 

[KeithTalent]

Your PM button broken shorty?

KT

 

[Kadarin]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=34777900&postcount=1307


Go find ANY old thread.

1/3 of the people are banned.
Another third voluntarily quit posting in the past couple years.

Guess I'm part of the last third...

 

[purbeast0]

i remember when this forum died down A LOT when they did the stupid split on the forum and turned OT into like 30 different subforums.

back then you literally could refresh the first page of OT and threads would keep moving.

 

[Anubis]

i remember when this forum died down A LOT when they did the stupid split on the forum and turned OT into like 30 different subforums.

back then you literally could refresh the first page of OT and threads would keep moving.

i know was much more fun

 

[wirednuts]

I remember being a reader of hardwarecentral.com forums, and those forums totally died when they took off topic forum out. the reason being was it was creating too many problems LOL. well they don't have problems now because they don't have any members.

 

[Newbian]

i remember when this forum died down A LOT when they did the stupid split on the forum and turned OT into like 30 different subforums.

back then you literally could refresh the first page of OT and threads would keep moving.

Only thing was moderation was at times very nasty compared to even now although a lot of it is hidden now because of the moderator discussions.

A lot of the stuff we get away with now would be perm bans then although I can't speak from person experiance...

 

[rh71]

I remember being a reader of hardwarecentral.com forums, and those forums totally died when they took off topic forum out. the reason being was it was creating too many problems LOL. well they don't have problems now because they don't have any members.

^ HWC, where I originally came here from. Once good times. Looking at it today where the last posts are days, weeks, months old. So sad.

 

[thebestMAX]

i remember when this forum died down A LOT when they did the stupid split on the forum and turned OT into like 30 different subforums.

back then you literally could refresh the first page of OT and threads would keep moving.

I agree. Totally ruined the Forum for me.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

There aren't that many banned members. A lot of the ones you see when going through old threads are hardly even remembered today.

 

[Sonikku]

Most of those people were banned for being trolls. If they had followed my good examples and learned to be positive contributors to the forums like I am they would still be able to post today, like I do.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I think the 1/3 for banned members is because many times when they get banned they create another ID which also gets banned and repeat the process every so often.

 

[EliteRetard]

I think the 1/3 for banned members is because many times when they get banned they create another ID which also gets banned and repeat the process every so often.

Like me?

Err...I mean what? I've never been banned before.

 

[BudAshes]

This forum went through a puritanical phase for a while where everyone got banned.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Most of those people were banned for being trolls. If they had followed my good examples and learned to be positive contributors to the forums like I am they would still be able to post today, like I do.

:awe:

You were kind of repetitive and predictable in your earlier posts, but you've shown amazing progression and have claimed your obvious persona so plainly that it is noteworthy on its own. I love you.

This forum went through a puritanical phase for a while where everyone got banned.

Nah, the Change of Culture wasn't that drastic on a perma-ban level. Many that were brought down during it came back for at least a while.

 

[BurnItDwn]

This forum went through a puritanical phase for a while where everyone got banned.

nah, mostly just witches, but they got burned. Poor lil fellers.

 

[AreaCode707]

Weren't you on that... OTHER... forum, Shorty? I haven't checked in there in a year or more. Is it not a happy place anymore?

 

[brianmanahan]

i respect you shorty

as a source of amusement

 

[shortylickens]

Weren't you on that... OTHER... forum, Shorty? I haven't checked in there in a year or more. Is it not a happy place anymore?

The other place is still there, and its full of mad hatters.

You should join us. We have hardcore nudity.

 

[AreaCode707]

The other place is still there, and its full of mad hatters.

You should join us. We have hardcore nudity.

See, you invite and then you dis-incent. Make up your mind! Because honestly, I don't want to see nik's schlong. D:

 

[BudAshes]

See, you invite and then you dis-incent. Make up your mind! Because honestly, I don't want to see nik's schlong. D:

Let alone have to have a conversation with him D:

 

[Turin39789]

See, you invite and then you dis-incent. Make up your mind! Because honestly, I don't want to see nik's schlong. D:

I don't think anyone would call that hardcore.

 

[ScoobMaster]

Some of us long-term members just don't post as much as we used to... Heck - I never was a big poster anyway

 

[purbeast0]

who was that one dude who went out with fire on his 10,000th post where he called basically everyone on the forum out? think his username began with an n ... was it Nik ?