"The direction" of this forum

Mr Smith · Post by **Mr Smith** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 4:31 pm

Your right.

But what happened to this idea?

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Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:47 pm

I have to agree too, though that's kind of something hard to change, maybe if I code a few RSS bots that post stuff or something. But will it just be unread posts? hard to tell. Main issue is we need more members that join, and become full time.

Right now it's a slow period as I battle out the stuff going on, and prepare for another possible raid so registrations are turned off for now, but I will bring the registrations back online some time (without notice) but it does not mean this will stop the raids. I will still validate the members, just at times when I'm available to check up.

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Stasi · Post by **Stasi** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:05 am

MrSelf wrote: There is nothing interesting to discuss here.

There is no intelligent conversation or debate, nothing to hold my interest here. I enjoy Science and Space, the old forum was somewhat active in that regard, but as it switched over, members were uninterested in this aspect. I quit posting as many topics others were uninterested in in fear of flooding the forum with topic overwhelmingly by me with no responses, as fcbayer has(at times duplicating old info).

I'm interested in computers, the section on computers has always been more advanced than my level, mainly because it's post have been geared more towards code and software than hardware. Spaz, Fragged and Magic kept that alive.

Music is my main interest, but music has always been a joke: few music fans post in there, there is little intelligent conversation, and no one is respectful of others opinions on something as subjective as music. It has been more successful as the media section, but that day is long past as well.

No one is interested in the News section, another interest of mine, and the Debate section has never been able to get far enough out of religious debate to actually debate anything of importance that wouldn't just end up at faith.

Overall, nothing that interest me is discussed here, and the things I do discuss often get flooded with opinions of those who are ignorance in the subject matter in discussion. I don't want to bore others, and I don't want to converse about non-sense all the time. I just seems like there is nothing worth talking about here by the members, and some of that is due to a low regular member count, but more of it has to do with the members and how they respond to each other, it seems.

Good post, MrSelf. I agree. It's just hard to get into many of the thread topics now. I started getting tired of the Debate forum after a period of time where it seemed that people kept dredging up the same topics (like anything having to do with homosexuality) and posting the same arguments, flames, and so on. Granted, topics are naturally revisted in time, but there were like three threads or so, all created within close chronological proximity to each other, when it should've been one. I think the whole William Wallace thing killed my interest in the debate forum as well, since I just couldn't stand how each topic would disintegrate into insults and other childish behavior.

I've tried starting threads here and elsewhere about my interests and they just don't get much action so why continue?

What we had in the old days that made all the difference:

-Active computer forums with meaningful threads on a variety of topics that saw regular participation from people with a variety of knowledge or skill.

-Friendly, sometimes lengthy conversations in WLT. Back in the good ol' days, we'd have Legend, fragged one, Minnie, Spaz, GreenEyes, Katina, and others in the WLT and there'd be like 3 or 4 new posts in the time you started and finished your own post.

-We actually had debates. Up until the beginning of this year, or the end of 2004, the debate forum was interesting. The same tired topics didn't get overdone. Shenbaw was the last member around who actively kept that stuff going and provided interesting points of view.

-Music discussion... yeah, there isn't much decent music discussion now. Last good one I had was like a year or more ago with MrSelf and Spaz about guitars, back when I was looking to get a C-1 Classic.

But, I can't rightly complain about all this and not try to kickstart some of this stuff, so that's what I'll do.

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Bookworm · Post by **Bookworm** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:23 am

Yeah, after I read MrSelf's post, I found an article about the Supreme Court nominee and posted it. I will look for some science stuff that interests me, too. The debates were more active during the election time, and I agree that Shenbaw was quite a good contributor. I admit that my religious viewpoints would often take a debate in a religious direction, BUT I CAN'T HELP THAT.

I have thought of starting a thread in the strictly-on-topic debate section called Bookworm's Blog, so the blog idea is interesting to me.

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Stasi · Post by **Stasi** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:52 am

Bookworm wrote: I admit that my religious viewpoints would often take a debate in a religious direction, BUT I CAN'T HELP THAT.

And what you believe to be true shouldn't take a backseat when it's relevant in a debate. You seem to have a reasonable approach, too, re: religion, unlike Red, though I like the guy nonetheless.

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MrSelf · Post by **MrSelf** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 3:00 pm

Perhaps us just trying harder will make an impact. Perhaps we can feed off of each other and make this place something special.

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Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 5:05 pm

Yeah I really need to get that blog system going.

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Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 10:59 am

We need this kind of thing.
You post something, and the a.i. bot is programmed to respond. I like it.

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Cicero · Post by **Cicero** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:39 am

I dont think I'd like to talk to a robot.

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Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:44 am

I had it at Iceteks, it went out of control, the thing just went really dumb on us.

http://www.iceteks.com/forums/index.php?sh...c=2246&st=0&hl=

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Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:59 am

But it's funny.

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Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:00 pm

Yeah, I had thoughts of it, I might add it anyway, I should add two so they can talk to each other.

LOL the bot turns on us and raids the forum.

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Stasi · Post by **Stasi** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:17 pm

Reaper wrote: We need this kind of thing.
You post something, and the a.i. bot is programmed to respond. I like it.

I haven't been to the Chateau in ages....

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Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 2:00 pm

Same, really I don't know how they did it, they became so huge and yet they're only on a freevision type board.

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Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 3:21 pm

Freevision. . ?

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Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 5:23 pm

lol I meant invisionfree, but it's actually ibforums their on.

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Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 6:32 pm

Ah, OK.

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fragged one · Post by **fragged one** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:07 am

i think this forum has gone into the shitcan...that's my personal opinion, though...

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000 · Post by **000** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:38 am

fragged one wrote: i think this forum has gone into the shitcan...that's my personal opinion, though...

Indeed

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Jack Potato · Post by **Jack Potato** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 5:16 pm

mmhm.

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fragged one · Post by **fragged one** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:45 pm

blow me, anarchy...i've been a member of this forum longer than anyone else here right now other than magic (the forum's creator).

you've been here a month?

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:17 pm

And nearly have more posts than you already. Who's on here more?

Blow you?... You wish...

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Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:34 pm

Watch out he is a mod... no wait, wtf. Was...

Out of all honesty this place is maybe only half as good as it used to be, but that's because so many of the pioneer members have left and it's probably why Magic had lost interest in the first place as the next hosting bill was coming up and it was dead here.

I'd have to say though that we are starting to go in a better direction. Maybe not the same as it used to be, but change is not always a bad thing.

Once I get more time and stuff and do more improvements it may only get better.

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:38 pm

I must admit that even though i haven't been here longer than fragged... It does get a little tedious around here, what with all the random crap, rather than interesting convo.

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Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:40 pm

Yeah it seems not enough activity happends in the other forums then anything goes. That's really the main issue I'd say.

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