WTF is going on here ?

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Seriously. Anyone that was here before 2 or 3 years ago, feel free to answer. Newbs are welcome to participate in another thread. There, now the newfags have left. WTF is going on (or more accurately, not going on) here ?!?!?!?!?!? On more than one occasion I've wondered this silently, but now I must ask out loud. WTF ?

No. You are a "know nothing newb". Please go find a new thread to propagate your ignorance in... Guess you were too lazy to read this part of my original post.

You are not qualified to respond. Please, find somewhere else to place your attention. Sincerely, you have no experience with which to speak from.

Okay, I've been nice, now, gather your tiny balls and get the fuck out of this thread. 1. You've only been here since '09, you have no fucking idea in HELL what I'm referring to. 3. The ban hammer hits hard and you're flirting with it now, don't fuck with me, son ! I excluded #2 because I felt it was childish. Have a nice day! :)

What seems to be troubling you, HB?
 

Rey C.

Racing is life... anything else is just waiting.
Apparently this thread was meant by the OP to be a lesson in how to create a FAIL. I know I've only been here for a couple of weeks, but that's how it looks to me. And as far as what's goi... oh! oh! Maggie Green dropped something and she's going to bend over to pick it up! :cool: Over here guys!

/thread empties out/
 
I just masturbated to this thread.
 
OP poster needs to explain. Although i feel D-rock summed it up
 

Mayhem

Banned
To put it simply.

1. The board gets progressively worse.
No it doesn't. It's the same board we always had.

2. A lot of good board members left.
So what? What is this, Hotel California? People move on. Deal with it.

3. While some good new members have come they for the most part haven't equaled the quality or the number of the good members we once had.
How is this the fault of "the board"? And I recall a few good members who were driven off because their threads were a bit off-beat. I have spent the last couple years honestly wondering what the fuck some of you want, because all I see is responses about what they don't like.

4. The board has become a place where nice and smart threads with thoughtful discussions are fewer and farther between and a bunch of crappy nonsensical threads fill the talk page.
Now that's some straight up bullshit, right there. The crappy and nonsensical have always ruled the day, and they always will. But if you want to see more smart and thoughtful threads.....try starting them.
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georges

Moderator
Staff member
To put it simply.

1. The board gets progressively worse.

2. A lot of good board members left.

3. While some good new members have come they for the most part haven't equaled the quality or the number of the good members we once had.

4. The board has become a place where nice and smart threads with thoughtful discussions are fewer and farther between and a bunch of crappy nonsensical threads fill the talk page.
Well stated D Rock, I couldn't have said it better.
 
To put it simply.

1. The board gets progressively worse.
No it doesn't. It's the same board we always had.

2. A lot of good board members left.
So what? What is this, Hotel California? People move on. Deal with it.

3. While some good new members have come they for the most part haven't equaled the quality or the number of the good members we once had.
How is this the fault of "the board"? And I recall a few good members who were driven off because their threads were a bit off-beat. I have spent the last couple years honestly wondering what the fuck some of you want, because all I see is responses about what they don't like.

4. The board has become a place where nice and smart threads with thoughtful discussions are fewer and farther between and a bunch of crappy nonsensical threads fill the talk page.
Now that's some straight up bullshit, right there. The crappy and nonsensical have always ruled the day, and they always will. But if you want to see more smart and thoughtful threads.....try starting them.

Well stated, Mayhem. I couldn't have said it better.
 

L3ggy

Special Operations FOX-HOUND
Never thought I'd live to see the day when HB was called a condescending dick.
 
Lizzardblizzard and Assari came along.

Will E Worm has been kicking around since 2007. So it's a tough sell to try and convince me that this board hasn't always had it's share of people who commute on the short bus.

I just masturbated to this thread.
This is what's wrong with FreeOnes.

Wait... are you suggesting there's too much masturbation, or too little? :confused:

To put it simply.

1. The board gets progressively worse.
No it doesn't. It's the same board we always had.

2. A lot of good board members left.
So what? What is this, Hotel California? People move on. Deal with it.

3. While some good new members have come they for the most part haven't equaled the quality or the number of the good members we once had.
How is this the fault of "the board"? And I recall a few good members who were driven off because their threads were a bit off-beat. I have spent the last couple years honestly wondering what the fuck some of you want, because all I see is responses about what they don't like.

4. The board has become a place where nice and smart threads with thoughtful discussions are fewer and farther between and a bunch of crappy nonsensical threads fill the talk page.
Now that's some straight up bullshit, right there. The crappy and nonsensical have always ruled the day, and they always will. But if you want to see more smart and thoughtful threads.....try starting them.

Keep in mind the thread started with this...

There, now the newfags have left.

ZOMG the cancer that is killing /b/! You know, because oldfags suffer from near terminal levels of nostalgia and forget that /b/ always sucked and was full of shit you had to wade through, and all they can see is the shit they're wading through now. So it was always better "back in the day" and everything new is the "the cancer that is killing blah blah blah...". Hell, the Republican Party has a heavy basis in nostalgia, constantly maligning the world today for not holding up to some idealized version of the past that never existed.

Why would FreeOnes be any different than anywhere else when it comes to nostalgia?
 

Mr. Daystar

In a bell tower, watching you through cross hairs.
There's nothing going on here....you didn't see nuthin, you didn't hear nuthin...and if you know whats good for you, you'll keep your mouth shut.
 
No this isn't the same board. If you think so you must have been at a different FreeOnes than I have been all this time. It really isn't just nostalgia. It was better.

It's the fault of the board in that it became a place that a lot of the old members didn't want to visit as much. A lot of old people were soured on it over time. That's being due to both the way it has been run and the flood of new people that didn't take it as seriously and turned it into a place loaded with a lot of mindless stuff.

While dumb threads have always been a part of this place, this messageboard is nothing like it was 4-7 years ago. Today I have to search around and sift through everything to find the few kernels of things here and there worth reading let alone posting on. It's sad when I can come on here and pretty much know I will be skipping about 90-95% of what's in this section, and that‘s a good day. I remember the days when I would come into the talk section and there might be 15 good threads that day if not more. A large portion of them even had nothing to do with porn. In the past there were a gigantic amount of decent things that people contributed. The members were overall more insightful and more friendly to the point where there was a family atmosphere between people or at least a coherent community. I don't get that anymore. That was even felt between a lot of the people that often disagreed with each other. While the dumb aspects where there, the mindless porn threads where there, and the trolls where there, they were blunted by the other things. Not to mention that a gigantic core portion of the old senior members would ridicule that stuff instead of contributing to it.
 

L3ggy

Special Operations FOX-HOUND
I don't remember any trolls.
 

Mayhem

Banned
No this isn't the same board. If you think so you must have been at a different FreeOnes than I have been all this time. It really isn't just nostalgia. It was better.

It's the fault of the board in that it became a place that a lot of the old members didn't want to visit as much. A lot of old people were soured on it over time. That's being due to both the way it has been run and the flood of new people that didn't take it as seriously and turned it into a place loaded with a lot of mindless stuff.

While dumb threads have always been a part of this place, this messageboard is nothing like it was 4-7 years ago. Today I have to search around and sift through everything to find the few kernels of things here and there worth reading let alone posting on. It's sad when I can come on here and pretty much know I will be skipping about 90-95% of what's in this section, and that‘s a good day. I remember the days when I would come into the talk section and there might be 15 good threads that day if not more. A large portion of them even had nothing to do with porn. In the past there were a gigantic amount of decent things that people contributed. The members were overall more insightful and more friendly to the point where there was a family atmosphere between people or at least a coherent community. I don't get that anymore. That was even felt between a lot of the people that often disagreed with each other. While the dumb aspects where there, the mindless porn threads where there, and the trolls where there, they were blunted by the other things. Not to mention that a gigantic core portion of the old senior members would ridicule that stuff instead of contributing to it.

Well, we are remembering 2 different boards. I will agree that it was different that Politics and Sports weren't segregated, and I'm sure that people wish I'd quit bitching about it. I'm of the opinion that anyone that thinks that these two topics should be apart, but think the board is worse than it was is guilty of self-contradiction. Take away the option to present these topics in "general population", don't complain about what's left to talk about.

I will never understand the perception that if a member no longer posts here, it's somehow someone else's fault. I've been a member of other boards where people came and went. People in general, and Americans in particular, have a 15 minute attention span. Want an example? On Sept. 11, 2001 I posted a thread on a board I was a member of asking how long it would take America to quit giving a shit about Osama bin Laden. And lo and behold, it happened. And it didn't take that fuckin' long either. Why should it be any different with someone's participation on a porn board?

I guess you either don't remember or liked that every day, the board used to be covered with one inane poll after another. This girl vs. that girl. And in terms of "sifting and searching", hell, I've been doing that since the day I wandered in here. And I've pretty much covered this in my first paragraph. Everything shoved into its own individualistic corner doesn't leave much to talk about here.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you have a problem with the quality of threads, make some of your own. Galactic doesn't have a problem doing it. Ulysses doesn't have a problem doing it. By definition, you have the entire interweb at your fingertips. Find something you think is cool/thought provoking/worthy of discussion, and share it with the rest of us.
 
the board is what it is, there's no point in bitching about it or reminiscing nostalgically on how we all remember it years ago. nothing ever stays the same anywhere, that's just how it goes, things change and we don't have control over that.
 
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