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I am disappointed

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Kewpie
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I am disappointed to see what these forums have become.

I see posters whom I consider friends attacking each other in public. I see nasty little cliques forming in both public and private forums. I see posters getting a ton of thumb-downs for legitimate posts. What I don't see is threads and posts which are even mildly interesting, funny or thought-provoking.
This is no longer a real forum.

divegeester
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@kewpie said
I am disappointed to see what these forums have become.

I see posters whom I consider friends attacking each other in public. I see nasty little cliques forming in both public and private forums. I see posters getting a ton of thumb-downs for legitimate posts. What I don't see is threads and posts which are even mildly interesting, funny or thought-provoking.
This is no longer a real forum.
I think the General Forum is pretty much the same as it was when I joined 13 years ago. Vibrant, combative, funny (at times), varied, inclusive, diverse and silly.

moonbus
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@kewpie said
I am disappointed to see what these forums have become.

I see posters whom I consider friends attacking each other in public. I see nasty little cliques forming in both public and private forums. I see posters getting a ton of thumb-downs for legitimate posts. What I don't see is threads and posts which are even mildly interesting, funny or thought-provoking.
This is no longer a real forum.
Things That Bring A Smile is a good thread. Very short though; maybe in these trying times, people don't have a lot to smile about.

mchill
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@kewpie said
I am disappointed to see what these forums have become.

I see posters whom I consider friends attacking each other in public. I see nasty little cliques forming in both public and private forums. I see posters getting a ton of thumb-downs for legitimate posts. What I don't see is threads and posts which are even mildly interesting, funny or thought-provoking.
This is no longer a real forum.
The General forum is sometimes pretty interesting.

If you want to see a real disaster, check out the debates.

Torunn

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@kewpie said
I am disappointed to see what these forums have become.

I see posters whom I consider friends attacking each other in public. I see nasty little cliques forming in both public and private forums. I see posters getting a ton of thumb-downs for legitimate posts. What I don't see is threads and posts which are even mildly interesting, funny or thought-provoking.
This is no longer a real forum.
I don't think we should have thumbs up/down - if we have something to say we should say it.

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@torunn said
I don't think we should have thumbs up/down - if we have something to say we should say it.
Here here! I completely agree, Torunn, the red thumbs have become nasty and meaningless; thumbs up, well I suppose we could keep those, just to keep things positive and encouraging. I mean really, it's a chess website, and nothing more than that.

Torunn

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@indonesia-phil said
Here here! I completely agree, Torunn, the red thumbs have become nasty and meaningless; thumbs up, well I suppose we could keep those, just to keep things positive and encouraging. I mean really, it's a chess website, and nothing more than that.
Ok, so let's keep the thumbs up. πŸ™‚ If we don't get any green thumbs then most readers disagree or are indifferent.

divegeester
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@torunn said
I don't think we should have thumbs up/down - if we have something to say we should say it.
Hear hear!
I absolutely agree, in fact I couldn’t agree more.

There is a thread in site ideas on this.

divegeester
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@indonesia-phil said
Here here! I completely agree, Torunn, the red thumbs have become nasty and meaningless; thumbs up, well I suppose we could keep those, just to keep things positive and encouraging. I mean really, it's a chess website, and nothing more than that.
Keeping the green thumbs would be an interesting compromise. But I still think they would be used to generate partisan jejune ganging up.

divegeester
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@torunn said
Ok, so let's keep the thumbs up. πŸ™‚ If we don't get any green thumbs then most readers disagree or are indifferent.
I think you had it with your previous post. Get rid of the thumbs, take some of the heat out of exchanges.

The Gravedigger
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@kewpie said
I am disappointed to see what these forums have become.

I see posters whom I consider friends attacking each other in public. I see nasty little cliques forming in both public and private forums. I see posters getting a ton of thumb-downs for legitimate posts. What I don't see is threads and posts which are even mildly interesting, funny or thought-provoking.
This is no longer a real forum.
Twitter is a seething mass of anger and hatred.
The GF is saintly by comparison.

divegeester
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@kewpie said
I am disappointed to see what these forums have become.

I see posters whom I consider friends attacking each other in public. I see nasty little cliques forming in both public and private forums. I see posters getting a ton of thumb-downs for legitimate posts. What I don't see is threads and posts which are even mildly interesting, funny or thought-provoking.
This is no longer a real forum.
Just curious, what was it in the GF today which caused you/tipped you to write this OP?

Very Rusty
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@kewpie said
I am disappointed to see what these forums have become.

I see posters whom I consider friends attacking each other in public. I see nasty little cliques forming in both public and private forums. I see posters getting a ton of thumb-downs for legitimate posts. What I don't see is threads and posts which are even mildly interesting, funny or thought-provoking.
This is no longer a real forum.
It is still a forum, just not what you would like to see.

The little cliques have existed since I been here back in 2006, just the people in them have changed is all.

Agreed, they are not as entertaining as they once were though.

-VR

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@very-rusty said
It is still a forum, just not what you would like to see.

The little cliques have existed since I been here back in 2006, just the people in them have changed is all.

Agreed, they are not as entertaining as they once were though.

-VR
There were some very interesting and witty posters when I was new on this site and it took some time before I was introduced to the forums and clubs. Those were different times.

Very Rusty
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@torunn said
There were some very interesting and witty posters when I was new on this site and it took some time before I was introduced to the forums and clubs. Those were different times.
Strange, in my eyes you are still new to the site, but I see you been here around 6 years now, how time flies by.

-VR

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