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Why haven't YOU been posting as much lately? (Questionable Content)
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nikkiblue
, Apr 23 2012 01:58 AM
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#65
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Posted 23 April 2012 - 06:23 PM
Busy, mainly, but it doesn't seem as active around here
I lurk and scan, but not a lot to say. Too little drama - we must be getting old and just don't give a shit anymore
I'm sure it will pick up a bit again come festie season.
Pretty much for this reason....
#68
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Posted 23 April 2012 - 06:33 PM
I think it's a combination of a number of factors...
- Social media where you can tailor who you hear from and who you don't.
- Switching to this hideous new board and losing 50% of the old functionality.
- Threads of interest being moved to areas where nobody goes.
- Certain people overposting, making the board seem like it's 75% content generated by 5 people. If you've started half the threads on the main page, you're overposting. If you're in a group of people talking, and one person is doing 90% of the talking, you don't stand there listening every single day wondering what the person will say next.
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- Social media where you can tailor who you hear from and who you don't.
- Switching to this hideous new board and losing 50% of the old functionality.
- Threads of interest being moved to areas where nobody goes.
- Certain people overposting, making the board seem like it's 75% content generated by 5 people. If you've started half the threads on the main page, you're overposting. If you're in a group of people talking, and one person is doing 90% of the talking, you don't stand there listening every single day wondering what the person will say next.
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#70
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Posted 23 April 2012 - 06:35 PM
It's weird. I have been in the middle of posting something, and all of a sudden I have to sign in again.
This has happened to me too!! I thought it was on my end the first time it happned, until it happened a second time while I was on a different PC.
The search and post edit features are also awful!
#72
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Posted 23 April 2012 - 06:42 PM
for me, this place represents a time and place in history. 10+ years of history, some of it wonderful and some of it cringe-worthy...but all of it mine.
but i come here lately, and i don't see much that resonates with who i am today, mostly because i'm just not here to make it mine the way i used to.
and as much as i love so many of the people i have encountered through this place, made good friends and even met my husband here...in the time i was busy doing other stuff, this place moved on, and so have i, i guess. the inside jokes aren't mine anymore, if there's drama i don't know anything about it (ok, now that part i like) and there are so many new faces that i don't recognize that it's kinda like going to a cocktail party and walking into a room full of strangers...i'm ready for fun, but it's daunting when i don't recognize most of the faces around me or know what our common ground might be.
and i know that in a few weeks, with our first festival of the season under our belts and the memories of it for post-fodder, things will seem a lot different and we'll have more to talk about. and i look forward to it. but for now, yeah, i just don't have much to say, i guess.
but i come here lately, and i don't see much that resonates with who i am today, mostly because i'm just not here to make it mine the way i used to.
and as much as i love so many of the people i have encountered through this place, made good friends and even met my husband here...in the time i was busy doing other stuff, this place moved on, and so have i, i guess. the inside jokes aren't mine anymore, if there's drama i don't know anything about it (ok, now that part i like) and there are so many new faces that i don't recognize that it's kinda like going to a cocktail party and walking into a room full of strangers...i'm ready for fun, but it's daunting when i don't recognize most of the faces around me or know what our common ground might be.
and i know that in a few weeks, with our first festival of the season under our belts and the memories of it for post-fodder, things will seem a lot different and we'll have more to talk about. and i look forward to it. but for now, yeah, i just don't have much to say, i guess.
#74
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Posted 23 April 2012 - 06:51 PM
I haven't been here long enough to know any way to compare the boards to what they were any more than about 13 months ago, but if there has been a lull lately I think there's a number of reasons, certainly I know number of people are not comfortable with the new board itself. But also this time of year right now there is kind of a lull in terms of winter concert season is pretty much over and festival season hasn't really gotten into full swing yet, for a community of people that is based on live music it's hard to have much to talk about when there isn't a tremendous amount of live music happening where most of us live right now. A lot of the major tours either have just ended or haven't started yet or they've swung out of the Northeast region. Course this is just a theory of mine which may or may not have a basis in reality
One other thing that I noticed also is a lot of people who were posting a lot weren't working either at all or at least weren't working full-time, and a lot of folks who were in that position have been lucky enough to find work recently. I don't think it really takes the absence of a substantial number of people to make the boards a lot slower, I bet it just takes 5 or 6 people not being able to come on here to make it look way slower.
One other thing that I noticed also is a lot of people who were posting a lot weren't working either at all or at least weren't working full-time, and a lot of folks who were in that position have been lucky enough to find work recently. I don't think it really takes the absence of a substantial number of people to make the boards a lot slower, I bet it just takes 5 or 6 people not being able to come on here to make it look way slower.
#79
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Posted 23 April 2012 - 07:05 PM
This has happened to me too!! I thought it was on my end the first time it happned, until it happened a second time while I was on a different PC. The search and post edit features are also awful!
Yup - Happens to me at work and at home.
#80
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Posted 23 April 2012 - 07:06 PM
wow, now i miss the thug, capt, gregoir, josh late nights
can i start some drama to get things going? i'm going to start some threads about inside info I have on boardies
i was gonna go with a "furthur is dunzo" thread...but that could work
#81
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Posted 23 April 2012 - 07:07 PM
this is more a technical issue than anything else...traffic was fine before the board merge.
it wasn't, though...sure, some people posted a LOT of content so it might have seemed "busy" but it takes more than that to make a community.
and anyone who's been here for any amount of time at all knows that functionality is lost for a short period after every single board move we've ever had...and there have been a lot of those, especially in recent years. it's just a matter of time before this place looks and feels like home, at least for those who choose to post with any sort of regularity.
#84
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Posted 23 April 2012 - 07:11 PM
it wasn't, though...sure, some people posted a LOT of content so it might have seemed "busy" but it takes more than that to make a community. and anyone who's been here for any amount of time at all knows that functionality is lost for a short period after every single board move we've ever had...and there have been a lot of those, especially in recent years. it's just a matter of time before this place looks and feels like home, at least for those who choose to post with any sort of regularity.
i also agree with what you said about people changing during the off season...and maybe sometimes struggle to find a common ground on topics when a lot of us havent seen each other since last year...in which case that will rectify itslf
#87
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Posted 23 April 2012 - 07:15 PM
i also agree with what you said about people changing during the off season...and maybe sometimes struggle to find a common ground on topics when a lot of us havent seen each other since last year...in which case that will rectify itslf
given your camp's record I would don't know if I'm comfortable with anything "rectifying"
as long as it doesn't involve any inflatable cetaceans I'm willing to see what happens
#97
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Posted 23 April 2012 - 07:38 PM
90% of the chatter is by 15 people. Lots of reasons why, but people have left here and just not come back. I only check here once or twice a day now, mostly out of habit, and there's usually noting really noteworthy for me to spend any time with. No sense in political discussions, I already know the opinions of the 15 people who are driving the postings. No sense of posting about events because nobody really seems interested anymore. Etc.
