Originally posted by: SlickSnake
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: cliftonite
What do you base this on? New rules are much better and the place is much more civil.
You must not have participated much just a few years ago. At one time OT was hard to keep up with it was so fast. There was as much activity in the middle of the night back then as there is during prime time today. The number of posts per day in OT is mere fraction of what it was 5 years ago. At what cost is it more civil? How long would an adult want to hang out in a day care and be forced to abide by absurdly childish rules?
Sorry, but I remember the ATOT of five years ago, and like I said, it was bit more wild BUT it was a HELL of a lot more intelligent, engaging, exciting and FAR more active.
The new rules are insanely childish and the forum splits make posting an OT topic so it gets the most number of views and thus responses a pain in the ass and not worth it.
YOU may like the new rules, but obviously the silent majority do not, and have voted with their feet.
The squeeky wheels like you may be the loudest, but they are most often the minority. The greatly diminished activity level of OT proves this.
cliftonite: He is basically telling you that since you are not an ADD post count attention whore, you can "Fsck Off and Die" just like his sig indicates.
Then he goes on to admit the forum, or OT in particular, was
"At one time OT was hard to keep up with it was so fast. There was as much activity in the middle of the night back then as there is during prime time today."
Which is exactly why it was a moderator nightmare. It's obvious he has no solutions to this moderator problem.
Then this little gem, which is really what he's all about
"At what cost is it more civil? How long would an adult want to hang out in a day care and be forced to abide by absurdly childish rules?"
which is like saying adults don't have to be civil, they can just moderate themselves and stuff and don't need to abide by any rules. Yea, right. So are you admiting you are acting childish and like that behaviour here, then?
Then he goes on to state:
"Sorry, but I remember the ATOT of five years ago, and like I said, it was bit more wild BUT it was a HELL of a lot more intelligent, engaging, exciting and FAR more active."
Oh really? That must have been during the crazy wild west time when I thought it was not even worth my time to sign up here because of all the dipshit retards posting stupid spam posts non stop just to boost their meaningless post counts for a LOL good time. I finally decided to sign up here because of exactly the direction the MODs were taking the forums in, not vice versa. So your juvenile attempt at rationalization for turning OT and the rest of the forums back into a childish and unmanagable garbage catchall that can't be moderated properly fails utterly.
And if you think that
"The new rules are insanely childish and the forum splits make posting an OT topic so it gets the most number of views and thus responses a pain in the ass and not worth it."
then maybe you need to follow your own advice and
And just in case you misinterpret my feelings
"I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant."
Ahh, just feel all that l:brokenheart:ve.
Then this comment blurts out
"YOU may like the new rules, but obviously the silent majority do not, and have voted with their feet."
And I obviously liked the new rules enough that as a "silent majority" who never posted and just lurked here that I finally decided to sign up and post. I think the true "silent majority" never post or sign up here, and their traffic versus users logged in would obviously prove this. And even though I am now a user here, I still frequently do not log in just to read posts.
And your last post
"The squeeky wheels like you may be the loudest, but they are most often the minority. The greatly diminished activity level of OT proves this."
just proves that that the moderators are doing a good job, and most of the other ADD spaz posters have already moved on to greener spam posting pastures. So what's keeping you here again?
President and Ambivalent Dictator for Life of The Amused Fsck Off and Die Club
oh, yea, that. Gotcha.