Poll: Has the Escapist community changed? Or is it just me?

[Something Amyss]

Change scares and confuses me. Therefore, it is all bad.

 

[Jedamethis]

Yeah it's changed. I suppose I could be convinced to give a small fuck. I still have fun, so I'm not fussed.

 

[Toasty Virus]

I've been lurking since about 2007, and yeah, It really has changed for the worse.

I don't feel like posting in threads now, and I miss the old faces like Furburt or Hublib (however they were spelt, it's been that long!)

I just stick to usergroups and lurking now, it's sad

 

[Westaway]

The quality and intelligence brought to the forums are what we, the users, bring to them. I haven't been on here particularly long, so I'm hardly qualified to address the subject of how much the community has changed, but I personally have found this site to be a remarkably sane and intelligent one for the duration of my time here. True, you get some threads or posters who don't do a great deal to further any deep intellectual debate, or even the sense of fun and enjoyment, but there are a lot of intelligent and open-minded people on these forums, and I love reading many of the discussions that go on. It's not perfect (nothing is, or ever should be), but it's still pretty damn good, in my most humble opinion.

On another note, perhaps one reason that a lot of intelligent discussion is slowing down may relate to the fact that people are always called out for threads that have been made before. I understand this practice, and it is certainly justified, but at the same time, you have to wonder how many times the average person is likely to come up with a completely original discussion point that nobody has yet addressed. I mean, realistically speaking, it's likely that the average person doesn't have as much as a single thought that hasn't already occurred to somebody else in the sands of history (or that the few original ones are either ill-informed or not very discussion-worthy). A repost of a thread that has already happened before does have the benefit of revitalizing a conversation that had wound down simply by virtue of the fact that newer discussions had smothered it, and pushed them out of the view of other users. I'm not really advocating a 'don't check the search bar policy,' since that would be chaos, and indeed cause the site to become little more than repetitive nonsense, rather I'm pointing out one reason why well reasoned and intelligent debates are becoming a rarer beast - simply because there are fewer to have.

You don't always have to use big words. It makes it almost as hard to read as if you were bad at english. Obvioisly a good vocabulary is good, but not every word needs to be embellished. Anyways, good post

Trust me, I have tried. This is actually how I talk 90% of the time. And yes, I know it makes me sound like a complete wanker. Still, everyone's got their quirks, and at least it's not as bad as necrophilia or setting cats on fire. Although I do have to drown various dark urges when a person actually says the word 'lol.'

Fair enough. For a moment I thought you were doing it to look smart or something, but that's obviously not the case. I hold my tongue next time...

 

[I-Protest-I]

Happens to every forum eventually, people feel... unhappy at the way a site is and move on leaving some to question why it can't always be like it was but that's just what happens. Forums attract new people with new ideas and it changes with them.

 

[not_the_dm]

Communities always change, people come and go. Scde2 arrived and made about 10K posts in 6 months, Demented Teddy got banned for "being a constant nuisance" (I think that's what the reason was), Furburt and the guys left and started a leprechaun themed forum, I got distracted from forum games by tedious things like work. Got back to find that forum games had been declared redundant (but still going strong) and the most off topic thread of all time had been abandoned not once, but twice. Last time I was there I was a green velvet armchair (infinate improbibility drive, I think...). But hey, that's life. (mmmmff...)

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/for...p-beside-the-above-Escapists-avatar?page=1158

There are infact two threads inspired by the original premise of Sevre's, one of which now has more pages. And this thread too has descended into off-topicness.

EDIT: Oooo! The code of conduct has changed...

 

[Dr. Crawver]

Of course it has. People leave, and people arrive. It is undoubtedly going to change.