This forum is dying....or is it just me?

[shiner]

Originally posted by: Gothgar

Originally posted by: shinerburke

Originally posted by: Gothgar

Originally posted by: shinerburke

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: shinerburke
Who you calling a jerk? Jerk.

Just for that I'm not going to tell you about the idea I had last night for adding a flamethrower to your lawn mowing zombie chainsawing spider smashing death machine.

and see i was going to make it a 2 seater and pick you up! now you are going to miss out on killing zomie spiders and drinking beer!

Maybe I'm creating and controlling the zombie spiders. Ever think about that? Huh? Huh?

I didn't think so.

you can't controll them, don't do eeettt!!!!!!1111

Oh my god! What have I done?

No! No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

ATOT will really die now, there will be no people to post on it!!!!!

WHYYYyyyyyyy WHYYY would you do such a thing!!??!?!???!

For the lulz

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: shinerburke

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: shinerburke

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: shinerburke
Who you calling a jerk? Jerk.

Just for that I'm not going to tell you about the idea I had last night for adding a flamethrower to your lawn mowing zombie chainsawing spider smashing death machine.

and see i was going to make it a 2 seater and pick you up! now you are going to miss out on killing zomie spiders and drinking beer!

Maybe I'm creating and controlling the zombie spiders. Ever think about that? Huh? Huh?

I didn't think so.

that would explain why you keep makeing me buy upgrades to my zombie spider killing machine!

Well duh...I am a Republican.

hmm being able to make zombies would be good for the Republicans..it would also explain Dick cheney

Cheney has actually be "dead" since 1979

 

[MaxDepth]

Ever since those fuckers allowed cursing it's been all downhill.


Ooops.
😱

 

[Anubis]

i pretty much only post at work, mainily because the other forums i post on now are either blocked at work or i woudl not visit at work

 

[Deleted member 4644]

Originally posted by: jjones

Originally posted by: Nitemare

I think it all went downhill when they created the L&R forums. 2/3 of the most memorable threads on here where yagt, which we don't have anymore.

This, except it started with P&N. Now there's 5 forums where there used to be just 1. It's broken up the community. I'd like to see them all back in one forum, even P&N.

I agree. But I also agree with most of what vi_edit said.

 

[Q]

It'll just get worse (at least for a short amount of time) when it switches over to VB

 

[trmiv]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
no, its definitely dying.
the mods instituted a "change in culture" which meant sucking the life out of the forum to make it safe and inoffense...bland.
it seems anand lost interest and moved on
and so anandtech decayed and became the play ground of mods who tried to do some weird social engineering.😛
then they split the forums to bits.
it all became a bit prudish, seems they were afraid to offend. and you see that thinking in the recent article on low female readership. i guess by their thinking blanding out the site was the only way to attract females and get more $$$

yeah the "change of colture" started it. the erra of mod accountability while has been good is not perfect. there are still threads where a mod will make a threat without tagging it and you can't say when a mod is doing something wrong without being banned even when right.

splitting the forums (i think) a huge mistake. part of the fun was having all the diffrent threads going. not to mention there were some classic ones that would not be seen by many now.

I remember saying this about the forum split when it happened. A lot of people disagreed though and thought it was a good thing. I didn't think it was a good idea when it happened, and I still don't. I used to enjoy clicking on the random YAGT thread, or car thread, or home electronics thread, or health thread. Now all that stuff is in different categories that I never visit. Sure I could browse them, but it's honestly a pain to go to 5 categories when all the threads used to be under just one and you could pick and choose what you wanted to click on based on what caught your eye instead of making an effort to browse multiple categories.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: trmiv

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
no, its definitely dying.
the mods instituted a "change in culture" which meant sucking the life out of the forum to make it safe and inoffense...bland.
it seems anand lost interest and moved on
and so anandtech decayed and became the play ground of mods who tried to do some weird social engineering.😛
then they split the forums to bits.
it all became a bit prudish, seems they were afraid to offend. and you see that thinking in the recent article on low female readership. i guess by their thinking blanding out the site was the only way to attract females and get more $$$

yeah the "change of colture" started it. the erra of mod accountability while has been good is not perfect. there are still threads where a mod will make a threat without tagging it and you can't say when a mod is doing something wrong without being banned even when right.

splitting the forums (i think) a huge mistake. part of the fun was having all the diffrent threads going. not to mention there were some classic ones that would not be seen by many now.

I remember saying this about the forum split when it happened. A lot of people disagreed though and thought it was a good thing. I didn't think it was a good idea when it happened, and I still don't. I used to enjoy clicking on the random YAGT thread, or car thread, or home electronics thread, or health thread. Now all that stuff is in different categories that I never visit. Sure I could browse them, but it's honestly a pain to go to 5 categories when all the threads used to be under just one and you could pick and choose what you wanted to click on based on what caught your eye instead of making an effort to browse multiple categories.

IIRC most people thought it was a very very stupid idea, i still do,

all 5 "social" forums shoudl be brought back together
the 3 consumer ele forums should be merged
the 2 software threads shoudl be merged
merge networking and security
1/2 the Hardware and tech ones should also be merged in some form or another

 

[Ns1]

meh, I still find it great.

Miss old school parody thread/nights though 🙁

 

[olds]

meh, it's just a forum.
If you can't be bothered to click a different category to see yagt, yact, yahtt,, your loss.

 

[Turin39789]

I thought you couldn't post anything about mods, not even use the word or it was a callout and everyone got banned from orbit?

I'm so confused

 

[SagaLore]

The mods are certainly NOT too strict with the rules. Even some of the mods like to play around. Trust me, they're very lenient. Kids need to stop pushing their luck though.

 

[Vehemence]

I'd be down with more bewbs pics but other than that...

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
The mods are certainly NOT too strict with the rules. Even some of the mods like to play around. Trust me, they're very lenient. Kids need to stop pushing their luck though.

your join date says you were here in 2001, the mods now compaired to then are more strict then pretty much anything in the world that is strict (cant think of a good anology 🙁)

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: SagaLore
The mods are certainly NOT too strict with the rules. Even some of the mods like to play around. Trust me, they're very lenient. Kids need to stop pushing their luck though.

your join date says you were here in 2001, the mods now compaired to then are more strict then pretty much anything in the world that is strict (cant think of a good anology 🙁)

Catholic Nun?

 

[MedicBob]

Vi Edit said it the best.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: SagaLore
The mods are certainly NOT too strict with the rules. Even some of the mods like to play around. Trust me, they're very lenient. Kids need to stop pushing their luck though.

your join date says you were here in 2001, the mods now compaired to then are more strict then pretty much anything in the world that is strict (cant think of a good anology 🙁)

It isn't that anybody is more strict - its that we now have more forum categories, and substantially more moderators assigned to those specific categories. Less slips through. I remember when there were strict rules about discussing anything sexual - threads weren't just locked, they were deleted. Now we have a dedicated forum that allows this (within reason).

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: SagaLore
The mods are certainly NOT too strict with the rules. Even some of the mods like to play around. Trust me, they're very lenient. Kids need to stop pushing their luck though.

your join date says you were here in 2001, the mods now compaired to then are more strict then pretty much anything in the world that is strict (cant think of a good anology 🙁)

It isn't that anybody is more strict - its that we now have more forum categories, and substantially more moderators assigned to those specific categories. Less slips through. I remember when there were strict rules about discussing anything sexual - threads weren't just locked, they were deleted. Now we have a dedicated forum that allows this (within reason).

well before it got to the poliece state of thread deletion it was wide open


i miss my weekly babe threads in OT

i miss Tex, WW, Pab and all the old peoples

at least dennin is back

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: vi edit
Natural Attrition.

I think if anandtech continues to focus more on consumer electronics overall (which are pc related), they'll keep their visitor count up. Instead of overclocking a pc, people these days customize their mobile phones or build multimedia centers.

 

[torpid]

Mods are less strict in some ways. We can actually use swear words and more adult topics now.

 

[Turin39789]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: SagaLore
The mods are certainly NOT too strict with the rules. Even some of the mods like to play around. Trust me, they're very lenient. Kids need to stop pushing their luck though.

your join date says you were here in 2001, the mods now compaired to then are more strict then pretty much anything in the world that is strict (cant think of a good anology 🙁)

It isn't that anybody is more strict - its that we now have more forum categories, and substantially more moderators assigned to those specific categories. Less slips through. I remember when there were strict rules about discussing anything sexual - threads weren't just locked, they were deleted. Now we have a dedicated forum that allows this (within reason).

well before it got to the poliece state of thread deletion it was wide open


i miss my weekly babe threads in OT

i miss Tex, WW, Pab and all the old peoples

at least dennin is back

old people are funny. I miss them too.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Originally posted by: Ns1
meh, I still find it great.

Miss old school parody thread/nights though 🙁

If those old school parody threads were anything like yours, I don't think I missed much. 😀

 

[Regs]

Mods? If anything it's the member base. Forget courtesy, that's history. Most of the time it's just dicks calling everybody but themselves idiots or retards.

The mods also unbanned a subnet IP that allowed all the people from county jail to post on here.

 

[SlickSnake]

So this thread is a Repost of this thread???

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: oddyager
Because you touch yourself.

That's one thing they still ban for.

i can verify this, as my last ban was for such comments.

however, mine were because they touch themselves at night, so as long as you don't specify the time of day, i think you're safe.