What's killing this forum

POSTED BY: dreamtrove
UPDATED: Thursday, January 15, 2009 02:52
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KWICKO

Sunday, January 11, 2009 6:50 PM

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Mostly, the reactions are predictable. Occasionally, they're surprising.

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Yup, surprising. As in, occasionally I find myself utterly surprised to be in complete agreement with something posted by someone with whom I'm usually diametrically opposed to. In the last few days, I've found myself in complete agreement with Geezer on a few points, and in this very thread, I find myself in complete agreement with Finn on his above-posted reply.

And no, I don't get offended when RWED gets referred to as a "scum trap", because that is its function. It keeps the messy day-to-day stuff and the infighting out of the other forums, which is a great thing. It obviously doesn't mean that all who post in RWED are scum, or Finn would be including himself in that pantheon. It's where we come to argue, debate, or just vent. It's a valuable place, but it really needs a warning for the new or weak-hearted. Things DO tend to get heated in here!

Mike

"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."

DREAMTROVE

Sunday, January 11, 2009 7:12 PM

Badger, Finn, good points.

Political corner is a scum trap that sucks the politics out of the actual discussion, but there should be a mud pitt for things like this.

I've just been watching and the number of posters declines rapidly on all pages when the violence level goes up.

And yes, it's stoked by threads like this.

We should have a stoploss in place for all positions. If something hits a godwin level, or something of the nature, it should be abandoned. Like a ban on Gaza discussions

Also, a ban on blatantly opinion baiting. I mean, some threads do create this sort of fire. People should be allowed to debate gaza without getting into this.

Here's something obvious: Gaza is part of a sovereign state, and that should be respected. Their govt. is behaving badly, and that should be dealt with. I think this is a very similar issue to the Iraq war, which we all could debate more rationally from a distance.

But we probably do better avoiding it altogether.

The thing is, there were so many rivers a couple weeks ago it was confusing. Now there's just one. Most of the posters have run away, and several have posted this as the reason. I would've, but I got bored. I'm still bored. I should probably be working on something, free up some time, delete this bookmark. Something which others debated, and so they left. They might be back, or might not. This ebb and flow is not good, as people lost are probably only 50% likely to come back at some point.

I wonder what the size of a functional online community forum would be, where you know everyone's name, and position, etc.

SIMONWHO

Sunday, January 11, 2009 7:33 PM

One problem is that certain posters like to start a new topic on every single thing they think of which drives every other topic off the Top 100 Discussions link. It basically drives every Firefly topic out of sight and replaces it with "Wooo! I have no brain! Liberals/Republicans are morons!"

PIRATENEWS

Sunday, January 11, 2009 8:34 PM

It's not our fault that all web traffic is down. Fewer people can afford internet, especially at broadband prices. After all, we're in a Depression, not a Recession.

Plus FFF has to compete with the shiny new websites popping up as the latest trend. Even Myspace is dying from that disease.

It doesn't help that FF Season 2 and Serenity 2 are no-shows. That's the bottom line.

Maybe we need to invade 2nd Life and hang with the fantasy freaks? Might even get laid in the "Companion spaces", one way or another, for a price.

www.rikomatic.com/blog/2006/08/serenity_lives_.html

Does 2nd Life have RWED? Maybe we can kill that too?

"You can't stop the signal. You can never stop the signal... He killed me with a sword! How weird is that?!"
-Mr Universe, Pirate TV, Serenity

SIGNYM

Sunday, January 11, 2009 9:33 PM

Just like to point out that I've been extremely civil and patient with nasty peeps like Riverlove, Whozit, BDN etc. I post ONE in-kind post, and Riverlove has a hissy fit!

It's nasty peeps and trolls who are driving everyone away.

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Let's party like its 1929.

RIVERLOVE

Sunday, January 11, 2009 10:02 PM

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Originally posted by SignyM:
Just like to point out that I've been extremely civil and patient with nasty peeps like Riverlove, Whozit, BDN etc. I post ONE in-kind post, and Riverlove has a hissy fit!

It's nasty peeps and trolls who are driving everyone away.

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Sigy-Heil! Another full of shit post from the resident vulgarity queen. Getting ready to call me or anybody else a CUNT today?...Hmmm? Got any new gems to hurl out of your foul mouth for us? Where you been all day, downloading your news from Al Jazeera and Hamas websites? No holds barred now you ignorant slut. And I owe you a few FUCK YOU's too. So FUCK YOU. Need an explanation of that, you Jew-hating Nazi asshole?

KIRKULES

Sunday, January 11, 2009 10:09 PM

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Originally posted by SignyM:
Just like to point out that I've been extremely civil and patient with nasty peeps like Riverlove, Whozit, BDN etc. I post ONE in-kind post, and Riverlove has a hissy fit!

It's nasty peeps and trolls who are driving everyone away.

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Let's party like its 1929.

I can be as nasty as any at times, but never draw first blood. If people don't want to get trashed they should hold their tongue in the first place. If you call me stupid and I return in kind, you're the one that has the choice to take it to the next level or not. To your credit SignyM you rarely do. The problem is that the thin skinned around here don't know when to leave well enough alone. It gets tiresome hearing every one of our best posters here called trolls on a regular basis when in reality it's just someone with thin skin got their feelings hurt. I'd rather see a good fight now and then than see anyone banned. There are no trolls on this site, just a lot of wussies.

MALBADINLATIN

Sunday, January 11, 2009 10:26 PM

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
No, it's not being strangled by lichens, but it is dying

Not so fast trove. Forums are loosing traffic to Blogs industry wide. Also, I post on five different forums, and all of them have one person who thinks they're all dying. Yet only one died in 08 and that was a software issue.

It's nice to make suggestions. But any lack of traffic won't be helped by newbies coming in and seeing rwed posters stifled and trembling under the weight of the rules you've outlined either.

If you can't walk you crawl, if you can't crawl...well, you know.

KWICKO

Sunday, January 11, 2009 10:43 PM

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I'd rather see a good fight now and then than see anyone banned. There are no trolls on this site, just a lot of wussies.

And, in another surprise, I find myself in agreement with Kirk!

Mike

"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."

KILLOWERTZ

Sunday, January 11, 2009 10:51 PM

Wow, I just join today and see this. What did I just walk into?

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