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Reaper wrote:

Anarchy wrote: Exactly my point.

Thanks for proving the reason why I'm leaving Reaper, because people like you have to disagree with everything I say whether it's a personal opinion or not. If I wanted your retarded advice I'd ask for it, this is not me looking for trouble, because I don't want you to reply .

1. I never disagreed with you
2. Grow up. You'll need to if you want to get anywhere in life.

I suggest you don't come back until you've got some sense in you.

Or just don't come back at all.

And I wouldn't call it retarded adive, just advice that you should take.

Anarchy wrote:

Reaper wrote:

Anarchy wrote: Exactly my point.

Thanks for proving the reason why I'm leaving Reaper, because people like you have to disagree with everything I say whether it's a personal opinion or not. If I wanted your retarded advice I'd ask for it, this is not me looking for trouble, because I don't want you to reply .

1. I never disagreed with you
2. Grow up. You'll need to if you want to get anywhere in life.

I suggest you don't come back until you've got some sense in you.

Or just don't come back at all.

And I wouldn't call it retarded adive, just advice that you should take.

1. Mate, shut your trap. You are disagreeing with my reasons for leaving, my own, PERSONAL (bolded to show you whos opinions they are, because you seem to have too small a brain to comprehend) opinion. So yes, you did disagree with me.

2. Grow a brain, I never asked for your 'pathetically sad' advice, I never wanted any. I'm leaving because sh*theads like you ruin this forum with your sarcastic, worthless, arrogant and pointless remarks.

People may like me, people may not. That isn't the main reason I'm not coming back for a little while, it's because I don't get on with certain people around here, you being one of them. You can reply with your "but that's life" and "there's always going to be people you don't like" comebacks, but if I don't want to stick around here because of that reason, why the hell should I? You can't compare a forum to real life mate, and if you do... Enough said about your social life really, don't you think?

You can reply with your "but that's life" and "there's always going to be people you don't like" comebacks, but if I don't want to stick around here because of that reason, why the hell should I?

You can't compare a forum to real life mate,

1. Mate, shut your trap. You are disagreeing with my reasons for leaving, my own,

2. Grow a brain

Anarchy wrote: I'd much prefer somewhere I can debate in mass writing, that isn't cluttered by people spamming crap inbetween posts.

Anarchy wrote: . . .where the people who posts the most wins. It's a shame the amount of total posts people have isn't measured by the quality of the post.

Reaper wrote:

Anarchy wrote: I'd much prefer somewhere I can debate in mass writing, that isn't cluttered by people spamming crap inbetween posts.

Then go somewhere else. I guess you didn't know not every forum is a debate forum? That's a shame.

Anarchy wrote: . . .where the people who posts the most wins. It's a shame the amount of total posts people have isn't measured by the quality of the post.

I seem to recall you posting an entire thread just to post nearly 1,000 times. Not spamming? Sure as hell isn't quality posting, thats for sure. Pretty hypocritical of you. You have more than 3,000 posts, mostly worthless. Once again, pretty hypocritical of you.

Cicero wrote: Tricky question that.

It seems that there was a bit of a lull in posting there a while ago, and then again recently it has picked up again. But many of these posts are just pointless bantar. "But thats what forums are all about" I hear yoou exclaim. True, but when its the same pointless bantar regurgitated over and over again it gets tedious.
Thats probably the reason Sintekk left (though I dont think he ever gave any suggestions as to how to improve it).


To help improve it, I'm not too sure. A custom skin might help. It might get the guests to stay and have a look around rather then just seeing another internet forum. Then, maybe less of the off topic-ness especially outside of Anything Goes (even though off topic posts are often the most entertaining).

Maybe some new features to the place, I've no idea whats available, but maybe Blogs for members who want them or an arcade or something else that could be implemented. A possible return of the Welcome Newbies Forum might encourage new members to stay and post.

And, a way to improve the forum for me would be to lighten up on the censors. I'm not too sure what the limits are, but it bugs me a bit whn I post the lyrics to a song or something and Fudge appears in it. Its the big bad world of the internet, if someone is so easily offended over a few words then the net really isnt the place for them.
EDIT: Also, there has been alot of talk of this "direction of the forum", yet I have no clue as to what the direction is. Again Sintekk said it was the forums direction that made him leave, but never said what that direction was.

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.

Stasi wrote:
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.

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

0 wrote:

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

Indeed

Anarchy wrote: 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.

Reaper wrote:

Anarchy wrote: Exactly my point.

the reason why I'm leaving Reaper, because people like you have to disagree with everything I say

1. I never disagreed with you

Anarchy wrote: Repear, get bent, the mass posting I did was just a test to see if my macro worked, so in actual fact; the posts were worthwhile because they helped me learn how to macro, imbecile.

I merely post a thread to say I'm leaving, I don't want replies as to 'how sad that is'. Once again I'm being flamed by everyone for nothing. Way to go guys, exactly the reason I'm going, good job.

Anarchy wrote: I've bolded and occasionally underlined certain phrases that might relate to my leaving, since you feel so strongly that this 'isn't a debate forum' Repear.

scherzo wrote:

Reaper wrote:

Anarchy wrote: Exactly my point.

the reason why I'm leaving Reaper, because people like you have to disagree with everything I say

1. I never disagreed with you

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

LMAO!!!!!!

I have apriciated 'anarchy's' opinion and would concider his leaving a loss to the diversity to this forum

Anarchy wrote:

You must be the only one to think that. Im greatful someone has bothered to understand the reason for this entire thread, unlike dipsh*t Repear whos still disagreeing with me. *CoughironyCough*.