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[robinb]

There used to be a rule about keeping private posts to each other in PM's and now there are whole threads of it.

Very true. Just yesterday I posted on a thread asking the people involved to take it to PMs. 80% of the thread was two people nattering to each other.

Honestly ... the games threads, the personal threads, the post-count threads really don't bother me because of the way I read the DIS. I read all the boards at once using the "New Posts" link and I am adept at skipping threads that have no interest to me. I find this method more interesting since I read the CB one minute, the transporation board the next and then over to the restauant board. I don't get stuck on one board.

 

[swea_pea1]

I say we keep this thread to ourselves and see if it can end up at 2000+ pages!!!!

Now that actually had me LOL!

FWIW, I agree with the previous comments about the excessive game/exchanges/post-count boosting/should be in PM threads. The Countdown thread sounds like a borefest to me, but hey, to each their own. robinb sounds like she has a good solution though. I've never noticed the "new posts" button...I'm going to have to look harder.

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

Waaaaaahhh!!!! I feel so ashamed for playing the game threads! Honestly folks, I am not trying to be small-minded or absurd... its just that I get bored I like to change letters around. It helps pass the time as I wait for a topic worth discussing to appear.

 

[katerkat]

Waaaaaahhh!!!! I feel so ashamed for playing the game threads! Honestly folks, I am not trying to be small-minded or absurd... its just that I get bored I like to change letters around. It helps pass the time as I wait for a topic worth discussing to appear.

Hey - I've got nothing against the games. I've even changed a few letters myself. But I could find a word game just as easily in a "Game" forum and there would be less clutter on the CB. After all, there's all kinds of arts and crafts forums and photography forums and collectors forums... Honestly, I consider that stuff a little more CB than all the games and cliques.

 

[Saxsoon]

There should be a game board, but I don't see that happening. I hate only having 5 real threads out of the entire page that aren't game or post boosting. I would have done it if I came here a bit more. This reminds me of the VMK boards being bogged down by a bunch of little kids that talked about High School Musical and really stupid stuff that had nothing to do with VMK. I think there should be a limit on how many threads a person can make each day. Who is with me!

 

[Planogirl]

You know, there haven't been that many changes. Of course over time we have new people posting - that's a good thing, right? We have new topics posted - that's a good thing, right? It's ridiculous to expect a message board to stay exactly the same with the same people, the same types of posts, etc for 6+ yrs!

So there might be more game threads and group threads than before - if it isn't your cup of tea, don't click on them. Most of the groups that have threads here are very open and welcoming to new people and if you run across one that treats you rudely - let an admin or mod know because threads are open to EVERYONE.

Outside of the above, the Community board is what it always has been - a melting pot of personalities, subjects and views.

You must be kidding. I agree with your last line but the rest no way.

I've been here a long time and this board has definitely changed a LOT. So many of the regulars that come here now have personal threads and post back and forth to each other exclusively over and over. That never went on in the old days.

There's lots of little cliques and cute little threads about missing someone and personal chit chats which I recall used to not even be allowed. The game threads seem to be multiplying and the inane posts about increasing post counts are doing the same. Frankly, the old CB is dead and has been for a while. If I had to guess Dan likely misses it just as I do.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Honestly ... the games threads, the personal threads, the post-count threads really don't bother me because of the way I read the DIS. I read all the boards at once using the "New Posts" link and I am adept at skipping threads that have no interest to me. I find this method more interesting since I read the CB one minute, the transporation board the next and then over to the restauant board. I don't get stuck on one board.

Learn something new everyday!


Thanks!

(ETA: Just tried that and it is really cool! You may have cut my DIS time significantly--I had no idea about that button!)

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

I agree about all the drivel on the CB. I think it is funny my husband will come in while I am on and he will laugh at just the titles of the some of the threads, especially the ones that that have thousands of posts. I have clicked on them and tried to follow just to see what the title means but to no avail. I agree if these people pm'd eachother it would be much better. Any time I see a thread with a huge number of posts and long standing OR a game thread I just do not click on it. I do understand how people get annoyed when they ask a legitimate question and it gets pushed down b/c of some of the stupid "lets keep this thread going forever" postings.

I think if you go to many of the other boards you will find that they are conscise and helpful.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Also, IMHO, there have many threads lately that are nothing more than silly drivel. I don't mean to insult anyone, but I'd think instant messaging would work better for that sort of thing than posting on this type of board. I've tried to follow a couple of those threads and couldn't make heads or tails of them. I guess they are amusing to those in the know, but they are rather senseless to the rest of us. When I see this type of thing, I just sign off. I so prefer conversations that make sense to all who want to join in.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

If we can have a PHOTOGRAPHY board I don't see why we can't have a Games/Exchanges/Private Club board.

EXACTLY!!!

 

[mickey65]

The CB used to be friendly to everyone. New people could come and they were welcome with open arms and invited to be part of it all. Pete even came out to post on threads. As more and more people came, a different atmosphere took over the boards. People who were there forever were getting banned for saying words found to inappropriate for a 'family board' while others have been continually allowed to say what ever they please (which often is much worse than the word one banned poster said) and continue to post. You say nothing has change? The rules have changed. Before everyone had to follow the rules and we were reminded of them occasionally when they were broken. Now some people just get the boot if they break a rule (even if it does not appear that a rule was broken) and others get to keep breaking the rules and continue to post. Rules for some but not for others. The CB is no longer the friendly place it once was. I don't know that it ever can recapture the magic it once was. The more you put in the pot the less able you are to identify the good stuff. I am not saying there is not anything good left, it is just getting harder to see with all the cliques and private jokes that some share and others have no idea what is going on. It used to be that the snide remarks and the fighting stayed on the debate board. Once it was closed the CB started to change. All the DB **** came to the CB. So, yes in my opinio the CB has changed.

 

[Robinrs]

Amen to feralpeg AND Dan Murphy...

I was lost but did a search on his threads and BOY did I

I've been on these boards since the beginning and sometimes I come on and just go to the front page. I feel like I've run onto one of my son's websites!

The CB is full of different people with different very INTERESTING viewpoints and interests. When it became an exclusionary we're playing over here and talking to each other and you don't know what we're talking about crapola board... I've decided maybe I don't belong here and rarely visit anymore.

Hopefully it will, as it has before, change again. I guess I've gotten too OLD...

 

[Saffron]

Obi-Wan ...

I don't remember you posting much on the CB "back in the day", so maybe for you and other who are "newer" to the board, it hasn't changed that much in the last two or three years. But there have been major changes on the CB since I found the CB.

The "themed" threads, whether they are games or whatever, litter the board. But what's worse, is the same group of people, who either think they're funny or who think they're doing the board some sort of service, go on to to threads and have conversations between themselves. And yes, sometimes threads go in that direction, but these are the same people, with the same piffle, over and over and over and over again, having private conversations that no one cares about except the few involved, disrupting threads with their nonsense. They're rude, plain and simple. Rudeness has taken over the CB big time. That's a huge change. Maybe those involved in it can't see it or don't get it, but that's what it is. Someone said it much better than me, toxicity and narcicism. That's not the CB I used to hang out on.

Just the attitude of the CB has changed. People snipe at each other, people laugh at others (read some (not all) of the clique threads were people on the thread are talking about members of the community here), people try to "bust" each other, people argue with each other. Unfortunately there were always pile on threads, but now it happens over the most ridiculous things. Now just about any thread has some sort of an edge or disagreement to it, even the most innocuous threads become argumentative. The CB is very divisive compared to what it used to be.

For people who found the CB with tons of game threads, tons of exchanges, tons of clique threads, tons of hijacking, tons of cyber drinking, tons of attitude, it must be a wonderful place for them! Obviously they like that kind of stuff or they wouldn't stick around. But to say the board hasn't changed is very misleading.

I'm glad Dan did what he did. People have been watching what's been happening on the CB but not saying anything. Now they get a chance. He's not the only one that feels the way he feels. Maybe more will speak out.

Great post Feralpeg.

 

[nuke]

The CB used to be friendly to everyone. New people could come and they were welcome with open arms and invited to be part of it all. Pete even came out to post on threads. As more and more people came, a different atmosphere took over the boards. People who were there forever were getting banned for saying words found to inappropriate for a 'family board' while others have been continually allowed to say what ever they please (which often is much worse than the word one banned poster said) and continue to post. You say nothing has change? The rules have changed. Before everyone had to follow the rules and we were reminded of them occasionally when they were broken. Now some people just get the boot if they break a rule (even if it does not appear that a rule was broken) and others get to keep breaking the rules and continue to post. Rules for some but not for others. The CB is no longer the friendly place it once was. I don't know that it ever can recapture the magic it once was. The more you put in the pot the less able you are to identify the good stuff. I am not saying there is not anything good left, it is just getting harder to see with all the cliques and private jokes that some share and others have no idea what is going on. It used to be that the snide remarks and the fighting stayed on the debate board. Once it was closed the CB started to change. All the DB **** came to the CB. So, yes in my opinio the CB has changed.

You are so right. Maybe those that can't see the changes are just cyber drinking too much?

 

[Duckfan-in-Chicago]

Things change. It's been at least 2 or three months since I've had to share a road with a covered wagon.

People either accept change well, or they don't. Since the membership here is constantly growing, the dynamics are going to be different from year to year. Much like small town America vs. the evil big city.

I'm sure somewhere in this country there is someone still upset that the Beta format failed against VHS even though the picture and sound quality were better. Almost everyone else has moved on to DVDs.

You have about three choices when a message board you post to is no longer the same old message board you know and love(I'm sure there's more, but these are the ones that come screaming to me):
1)Move on
2)Make a post like Ducklite did last week suggesting moving the games to a different board
3)Create havoc and complain about it, which also makes for a positive MB experience for those around you

I've never worn Crocs in my life, and wouldn't know what a pair looked like if I saw them, but I would never personally suggest what other people can or can't post about on the community board. I don't care. If the people in charge allow it, that's their business. If it gets to where I don't enjoy this place, I'll move on.

And for all the people happy for what some threads that were posted yesterday did, here is what they do. They indirectly insulted anyone who plays any games on the board or posts anything that doesn't meet the standards of the OP. It isn't the decision of individual posters as to what is or isn't allowed on the CB board. If you want that power, start your own board.

Since these game threads are allowed, the people who play them aren't doing anything wrong. The threads that were posted yesterday by title mock a bunch of other threads on the CB and anyone that posts on them. And yet the people that support the poster talk of a happier time when there wasn't so much of this open hostility on the CB. Maybe you should find a new leader who has the backbone to say what they think, and isn't hypocritical about how they go about it?

Just some information to pass along...in the near future the networks are going to start to broadcast in HD. All old television sets are not going to work regardless of how much support you gave to the old networks unless you upgrade them. This is just a friendly tip, and has no barring on this thread.

Your phrase for the day is Passive-aggressive. Passive-aggressive behavior refers to passive, sometimes obstructionist resistance to authoritative instructions in interpersonal or occupational situations. Sometimes a method of dealing with stress or frustration, it results in the person attacking other people in subtle, indirect, and seemingly passive ways.

 

[nuke]

Your phrase for the day is Passive-aggressive. Passive-aggressive behavior refers to passive, sometimes obstructionist resistance to authoritative instructions in interpersonal or occupational situations. Sometimes a method of dealing with stress or frustration, it results in the person attacking other people in subtle, indirect, and seemingly passive ways.

Kind of like what your post just did.

 

[lovingthemouse]

As I posted on the Dan Murphy, where are you thread, apparently Dan made his point-which was dissatisfaction at the direction this board has taken. Good for him - Dan is a fine person - you have really never heard him be anything but positive!
I always read titles of threads now before i choose to open them - there are names of people whom I feel are confrontational and I do not choose to be on their threads. That is my choice! But, there has been so much arguing, negative comments and they are becoming more blatant sometimes. Where are the mods to make better judgement calls on what stays and what doesn't? You can clearly see that some appear to be overlooked while others aren't.
I will remain a reader, be entertained and learn much, but with caution. Please know that many of us care what direction these boards move in - we have met many wonderful friends here - that is why we come. Caroline

 

[Leota]

Another Old Time CB poster coming back for a moment.

The CB certainly HAS changed & not for the better. It's changed so much, that I don't bother coming here anymore unless someone points out something of interest to me. It used to be full of Spirit, Magic & Laughter. Now it is beyond inane. I think that's the point Dan was making.

FeralPeg, PlanoGirl,RobinRS, Mickey65 & Saffron have made some excellent points. Although I doubt the CB will ever recapture it's old Magic. The arbitrary rule enforcement & inane clique jabber have driven away the Shining Personalities that once made this a fun place to be. It's just really pitiful that some mean-spirited bullies gang-up on folks with good hearts & interesting brains. But, so it was in Junior High, so shall it be on the CB.

If, by some Miracle, the CB ever regains any sort of Intelligent, Humorous, Good-Natured Conversation, I'll see you around. Until then, Have at it.

 

[Duckfan-in-Chicago]

Kind of like what your post just did.

Yep, just like that.

 

[Doesney]

The "themed" threads, whether they are games or whatever, litter the board. But what's worse, is the same group of people, who either think they're funny or who think they're doing the board some sort of service, go on to to threads and have conversations between themselves. And yes, sometimes threads go in that direction, but these are the same people, with the same piffle, over and over and over and over again,except the few involved, disrupting threads with their nonsense. having private conversations that no one cares about They're rude, plain and simple. Rudeness has taken over the CB big time. That's a huge change. Maybe those involved in it can't see it or don't get it, but that's what it is. Someone said it much better than me, toxicity and narcicism. That's not the CB I used to hang out on.