"Why is this forum dying?"

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
"Why is this forum dying?"

More "death".

Dear me.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
[b]"Why is this forum dying?"

18 Feb '14 20:11 Thread 153985 (Page 16)

"I whole-heartedly support and endorse your statement that you have cared about this forum and its contributors for seven years. During these seven years your comments and thought-provoking ideas have frequently rejuvenated my flagging mind and I salute you fo ...[text shortened]... hylactic efforts to treat this." @Rene-Pogel
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Ecclesiastes 3:1
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

One of my favorite phrases in the Bible is, " and it came to pass". 😉

Originally posted by divegeester
More "death".

Dear me.

You can run, but you can't hide. Everything living dies sooner or later. Death is one of two things we can all be sure of, and taxes isn't the other.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
[b]"Why is this forum dying?"

18 Feb '14 20:11 Thread 153985 (Page 16)

"I whole-heartedly support and endorse your statement that you have cared about this forum and its contributors for seven years. During these seven years your comments and thought-provoking ideas have frequently rejuvenated my flagging mind and I salute you fo ...[text shortened]... hylactic efforts to treat this." @Rene-Pogel
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Your thoughts?


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It's the nature of the beast... or maybe a better way of saying it is too many chefs spoil the pot. I have yet to see a public forum anywhere (not just here) that hasn't descended rapidly from what was originally intended. The only realistic solution would be a very tightly and strictly enforced micromanagement policy. It needn't be draconian monitoring, but that's what it would look like to trolls and other malcontents... and it's possible misanthropes would feel unwelcome, and eventually give up and move to another site.

I'm guessing that there are many un-subs here unwilling to pay for the privilege of being constantly assaulted by drooling nincompoops. But it's up to the proprietors of sites like this one to weigh the pros and cons of what might be seen as excessive monitoring, and decide for themselves the most cost effective way of dealing with this problem.

Is it really or is it just "someone's" opinion?

In the past 15 years it has been intentionally shut down a couple of times but it has not actually died yet.

State of flux. That's not the same as dying. I think you personify a thing. This forum is a thing, not tangable or with scent, just a concept really.
Meet ups, that's a different thing.
What happened to meeting up?

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
"Why is this forum dying?"

Global warming.

tapeworms...

schizophrenia...

aids related pneumonia...

gout...

the internet...

Originally posted by yo its me
State of flux. That's not the same as dying. I think you personify a thing. This forum is a thing, not tangable or with scent, just a concept really.
Meet ups, that's a different thing.
What happened to meeting up?

Some of the forums do have a scent, in my opinion. And it isn't pleasant! 😉
But the good news is we don't have to hang around the bad-smelling ones!

ptsd...