Debated making this thread....

[JohnCU]

you guys know what we need:

HOPE AND CHANGE!

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: JohnCU
you guys know what we need:

HOPE AND CHANGE!

Yes we can?

 

[Q]

Whoa there's some crazy timewarping going on here

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: JohnCU
you guys know what we need:

HOPE AND CHANGE!

Yes we can?

YES WE CAN!

 

[JohnCU]

come on people, say it together!

mosh and i can't do this by ourselves. :evil:

 

[lyssword]

the members here are intimidating, especially ones with american flag

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus

Originally posted by: moshquerade
And decided to do it anyway.

Is this forum dying? It seems slow(er) and boring as of late. I think the promise of a move to better forum software and then it just not happening is part of the reason.

What can we do to increase activity here?

Have girls of anandtech post pics of themselves in every thread. Topless. Bottomless. In lingerie. Whatever people want to see

And what would we do after the 4th post?

 

[LaBella]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
And decided to do it anyway.

Is this forum dying? It seems slow(er) and boring as of late. I think the promise of a move to better forum software and then it just not happening is part of the reason.

What can we do to increase activity here?

I can ask you to marry me.


Will you marry me?

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: LaBella

Originally posted by: moshquerade
And decided to do it anyway.

Is this forum dying? It seems slow(er) and boring as of late. I think the promise of a move to better forum software and then it just not happening is part of the reason.

What can we do to increase activity here?

I can ask you to marry me.


Will you marry me?

holy lurker!

 

[LaBella]

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: LaBella

Originally posted by: moshquerade
And decided to do it anyway.

Is this forum dying? It seems slow(er) and boring as of late. I think the promise of a move to better forum software and then it just not happening is part of the reason.

What can we do to increase activity here?

I can ask you to marry me.


Will you marry me?

holy lurker!

Nuh uh. I have just been waiting for my moment

*still on one knee*

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
Gotta think about what it is that draws people to this site in the first place. I found Anandtech forever ago because I was looking for information about selecting parts for a computer and putting them together. It was a couple years after that that I happened across the forums and joined, but for a while my only reason for coming here was to read every article as it came out.

I think my situation is probably more or less typical of every new forum member. The main site must not be holding people's attention long enough to allow them to happen upon the forums, or perhaps there are now so many computer information sites that Anandtech is getting lost in the search engine shuffle more often than not.

The main focus of the site is computer hardware and related information. That's what draws people to the site, and a certain percentage of those people find the forums. Something is going wrong with steps one and two, but it's hard to tell what it is.

i came for FS/T, heard somewhere else that it was really active, i had some laptop parts to get rid of, and just kinda stuck around...i left for a while but i lurk a bit now...

 

[olds]

The problem with AT is that they listen to the members. You don't bend to what the members want, you build a forum and members come to it. Or not, that is the trick. Most people are too stupid/ignorant to have a clue what will or won't work. Everyone thinks they are an expert and has an opinion but in the practical application, they have no clue.
It's always the same thing:
A whines about X. Nobody else says shit about X. X is implemented because A whined about it and B is up in arms because X sucks.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease and we get the shaft. You have worthless members like pontifex who add no redeeming value to the forums and in fact detract from it. But because he whined like a little girl, Derek bent over and took it.

Look at the sub forums. A small vocal group wanted sub forums and got them. Now that fact and the inaction of Derek and Anand have killed off this place. Both are nice guys (Anand not so much) but neither one knows how to run a forum this big. But Harvey knows. He built this place and steered it into greatness. Those other two are dismantling it. No biggie though, these are Anand's forum and he can do what he wants with them. He's just to busy/rich to give a shit.

It all part of the pussification of America and the forums.
The forums were better when the Mods were anonymous. The forums were better when they could smack a tard for being a tard. The forms were better when they banned people because they couldn't or didn't fit in. Hell, it gave this place an edge and we old timers reveled in it. We all laughed and cackled when some fool got the smack down.
Who cares if a few people didn't like it. They weren't running nothing but their mouth. But they got listened to and have run the forums into the ground.

I resigned as a Mod because Anand treated us like shit and I didn't agree with the direction we were going. I felt I was part of something that was big and that I loved. I didn't want to be part of it's demise.

Now I just fill my role as the crotchety old guy who yells "get off my lawn". The people here that know me know I am just having fun. The people that don't know me or don't get that are ignorant or n00bs or just and not worthy of an explanation.

My $.02

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
The forums are hostile and nasty nowadays. There's always been an element of that here, but it used to be more in fun than it is now. It seems like most of the current breed of posters exist simply to criticize/cut down/make fun of everyone else.

Thats probably my fault.
I think my evil is contagious.

 

[SuperSix]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
The problem with AT is that they listen to the members. You don't bend to what the members want, you build a forum and members come to it. Or not, that is the trick. Most people are too stupid/ignorant to have a clue what will or won't work. Everyone thinks they are an expert and has an opinion but in the practical application, they have no clue.
It's always the same thing:
A whines about X. Nobody else says shit about X. X is implemented because A whined about it and B is up in arms because X sucks.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease and we get the shaft. You have worthless members like pontifex who add no redeeming value to the forums and in fact detract from it. But because he whined like a little girl, Derek bent over and took it.

people because they couldn't or didn't fit in. Hell, it gave this place an edge and we old timers reveled in it. We all laughed and cackled when some fool got the smack down.
Who cares if a few people didn't like it. They weren't running nothing but their mouth. But they got listened to and have run the forums into the ground.

I resigned as a Mod because Anand treated us like shit and I didn't agree with the direction we were going. I felt I was part of something that was big and that I loved. I didn't want to be part of it's demise.

Now I just fill my role as the crotchety old guy who yells "get off my lawn". The people

<<SNIP>>

My $.02

Attitudes like this are why the forums lose members. You really have no clue, sadly.

"Derek bent over and took it". I believe that's a mod callout - but of course, you won't be banned.

**EDIT**

After re-reading oldsmoboat's post, I retract my ignorant statements above, (Left for prosperity), and applaud his honesty and guts.

I humbly apologize. I still think he's a grumpy bastard - but that seems to be the path I am on as well.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: SuperSix


Attitudes like this are why the forums lose members. You really have no clue, sadly.

Actually, when the forums were like this, they were big. Now that they have gone the other way, not so much.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: SuperSix
...

"Derek bent over and took it". I believe that's a mod callout - but of course, you won't be banned.

**EDIT**

After re-reading oldsmoboat's post, I retract my ignorant statements above, (Left for prosperity), and applaud his honesty and guts.

I humbly apologize. I still think he's a grumpy bastard - but that seems to be the path I am on as well.

Derek isn't a Mod. He's an Admin with great big, strong shoulders.
And I love you too... :beer:

EDIT
I have been vacationed and may be for that post but I doubt Derek will allow it. He may be inexperienced but he tries and he's not afraid of dissent. But I can live with it if it happens. I am always willing to accept the consequences for my actions.

 

[SuperSix]

I'll take that beer, I am running out of Coors.

 

[Regs]

I am in need of a big prick to talk to. Anybody out there a prick? I just woke up thinking I could really use a dick head to talk to that would start my day out with a bang.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: Regs
I am in need of a big prick to talk to. Anybody out there a prick? I just woke up thinking I could really use a dick head to talk to that would start my day out with a bang.

Send me a PM.

 

[JohnCU]

:Q
good post old man

 

[OCNewbie]

Originally posted by: Rastus
This thread wouldn't be complete without mentioning all the cool people that were banned/driven out by a certain clique of bad moderators that use this forum as there own playground.

I have noticed some moderators tend to incorporate too many of their own personal limits for taste, or what they find interesting, as far as what topics are acceptable, as opposed to going by the forums guidelines. After being here for 9 years, that has turned me off a bit. I think what's deemed unfit for off-topic is overly rigid too often as well.

 

[kalrith]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
The problem with AT is that they listen to the members. You don't bend to what the members want, you build a forum and members come to it. Or not, that is the trick. Most people are too stupid/ignorant to have a clue what will or won't work. Everyone thinks they are an expert and has an opinion but in the practical application, they have no clue.

I think some problems (the sub-forums) have been created by listening to a few members. However, I think other problems (banning of babe threads) have been created by trying to draw in a different audience than is on AT rather than catering to its current members. I remember some of Derek's post in the babe-thread-banning-complaining thread specifically mentioned wanting to draw in more females, and that having so many babe thread in ATOT would be seen as rude and crude by women and would keep them out of the forums. I think that's ridiculous. If you have a 99% male forum membership, you don't make decisions that make those members disgruntled in order to try to increase the percentage of female forum members to a whopping 2%. That's like setting up a rock praise band in a church that's 99% over the age of 60 in order to draw in more young people. They might draw in a younger crowd, but not nearly as quickly as they'll drive out the entire older crowd.

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: SuperSix
Over aggressive moderation, horrible forum software - promises of migration coming and gong, more competition, etc.

What's wrong with the forum software?

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

it's because ppl get afraid of being flamed for stupid posts, reposts, wrong forum, etc.

 

[JohnCU]

thread is still going strong :evil:

YES WE CAN!