State of the BBS Address

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Okay, so Freemesser's gone. Both V and I liked his posts, but you maggots drove him off, so chalk up another one HEE HEE HEE. It makes me sick.

It occurs to me that I miss posts from Gerrit and Roody and get more than enough posts from everyone else.

So anyway, my question is for Gerrit, Roody, gsdgsd, Debaser (who I am sure is not actually out there, but still) -- is this place a shithole, or are there other factors at work here? I used to ban people all the time on the dial-up JC and never thought twice about it. There's no real moderation going on here - should there be? (This is not about CO, who I don't personally have a problem with whatsoever, this thread is more due to nonsense at another site I run and me thinking about how it reflects here.)

I'm going to throw the inevitable spray of unhelpful posts from people whose opinions I am not looking for into their own thread in the Troll Room. Nothing personal.

[Knuckles the CLown]

man I always thought I’d be the one to ultimately say something to offend him/somebody. Oh well.

Anyhow this is what you get when you run your mouth in a consequence free environment. Eventually people take their ball and go home. Now while I obviously could careless, it seems everybody here thinks of the worst possible thing they could say to somebody and then clickity clack it and post. Robb how your webiste has evolved into this is beyond me. One of you nerds could say you hope my father gets cancer, my mom gets raped and I would barely bat an eyelash, cause I know you wrote it on the internet, and if you said that to me in real life I would pound the crap out of you. But since it's the internet, I don't care, apparently others don't feel that way

[Lex]

I post less & less as my posts do not interest people; I can spend a half-hour building a post about a new game or hardware, and not get any replies whatsoever. It's not a personal thing, people just don't seem to care.

[AArdvark]

Offhand I would say that self-banning is someone taking this BBS thing way too seriously. I consider it as an interactive soap opera thing, really.



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[Worm]

Wait, a preface.

Gerrit, Roody, gsdgsd, Debaser

Does this me you only want replies from them or what?

Anyway.

There really was no other way to reply to that stupid "You can't have an opinion until you pollute the world with another child." stonewall he threw up. Look, if it wasn't me who got him to leave it would have been pinner. Neither of us would have been trying.

Of course I thought the guy would say "I'll knock your teeth out" and hey cool, that's the point I'm making. Though I never really thought anything I could say would get him to leave.

I don't know if "reflects here" means that you think I went there got all hyped up and then took a big steaming one over here. Though, hell, I've always said shit like this. I even think nessman was more upset than chris when I said I hope his kid turns out gay.

Fuck, he wants me to apologize, fine I'm sorry. He should continue to post at this site, and he should continue to have fun and If that means I can't say I wish his kid dies anymore, fine, I won't say that.

I post less & less as my posts do not interest people; I can spend a half-hour building a post about a new game or hardware, and not get any replies whatsoever. It's not a personal thing, people just don't seem to care.

Well, that's because it's either been for handheld crap, a game with a 200 dollar control, or console FPSes. Yeah, people here don't care about somethings, but know your audience man. Nothing wrong with replying to someone else's post about a new game or hardware either.

[pinback]

Look, if it wasn't me who got him to leave it would have been pinner. Neither of us would have been trying.

What the fuck are you talking about, n!33r? I've been trying for months.

For the kids.

[Roody_Yogurt]

My lack of posting is just totally my own fault, no real rhyme or reason to it. I'm still reading all of these posts, of course, so it's not like I've gone and found a good use for my free time or anything. I even thought yesterday's war was pretty funny, but it's much funnier when you come home and read a bulk of posts that make you go "wtf?" "wft?" "wtf?".

After that point, the "wtf?" posts that dribble in aren't just as entertaining.

Also, I'm trying to think of a way to express how much I enjoy reading Lex's posts without sounding gay and am failing. I'll just say that I'll try to reply to them more since I do enjoy posts about X-Box and the like coming from a crazy Scotsman.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I love how the fifth post in this thread is by Worm, when I pretty much custom-tailored the opening post to read, "I am looking for anyone's opinion in this particular matter BUT YOURS." I don't have the energy to split it off this early in the morning.

[gsdgsd]

I've never really posted much, in the best of times. And lately real life has been busy/stimulating enough that when I've been on here, it's just been lurking... I don't really have the time/energy for another outlet.

That said, I think more and more I just don't have much common ground with a lot of the people that show up here now-- hockey/girls/Albania on my side, computer games and self-mutilation on the other. And with a lot of the saner posters (Debaser, Roody, Bruce) gone or rarely seen, most of the threads extant right now seem to be a competition to determine who's the biggest sociopath. And while that sorta thing might've impressed me at age 15, not so much now.

I do like the 100 best games thread! Even if I've played, like, two of them.

[pinback]

Gerrit is on record (private record, not to be disclosed in a public forum such as this) as saying that he doesn't come here anymore because of the negative influence of all the Rochester people.

(Also, Worm, ICJ was in fact excluding ONLY YOU, because although I wasn't listed in the recipient list for this thread, he did ask me the same question over Yahoo IM.)

BAN ROCHESTER.

[Worm]

Hey, if he wrote "person whose opinion I'm not looking for." I probably wouldn't have replied.

[pinback]

They also appear to have driven off jscott.

NICE GOING, BLACKS!!!

[Bugs]

Chris banned himself from this site, too?

Yeesh.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Chris banned himself from this site, too?

Yeesh.

Yes. Worm said he hopes his kids die.

[pinback]

And I am now to understand that Bruce left... because of me???

Please to be explaining how that works.

[Bugs]

Chris banned himself from this site, too?

Yeesh.

Yes. Worm said he hopes his kids die.

Where's the thread where this happened? I can't find it.

Why did he flip out about it? He said he "hopes his kids die"? He's only got one kid, doesn't he? What's the problem? And isn't his kid going to die anyway? Is he hoping his kid finds life eternal or some shit?

[Jethro Q. Walrustitty]

Chris banned himself from this site, too?

Yeesh.

Yes. Worm said he hopes his kids die.

The downside to JC is that with him gone, I'm more likely to visit JC.

Anyway - wah wah wah (to Jonsey, I mean), from what I can see, JC's been doing reasonably well, and on a purely number-of-posts basis, has slowly been creeping up on groucho, which probably has fewer regular posters. FWIW, I can't figure out what's going on there, either. I think it's the nature of BBSs in general. Great posts with lots of work behind them (like Aardvark's novel that he posted before, or Bugs posting the MP3s of his band with not a single comment) can be ignored while throwaway messages can inspire huge reams on content. One way or other other, politics seem to inspire the most content over there. I try to get car stuff going, movie stuff, game stuff, etc, but it's tough getting responses out of some of these folks.

My current outlook is to try to not worry too much about it. Just when I think the board is dead, we get a 50-100 message day. People post when they want, and there are a good number of people reading even if they don't post, so I'm not going to get too uptight if the site is really quiet for a couple days.

So, Bruce left too, though? That's too bad if true, as he seemed to be the most serious "classic gamer", though unfortunately he was also into D&D... but that's another thread which I have been planning on starting over on groucho. (Something about the heirachy of nerds.)

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

The downside to JC is that with him gone, I'm more likely to visit JC.

Yeah, well, I decided I can't make a pleading post every time someone quits the Internet. You've got no idea how often it's been happening on sites I run lately. Chris, if he's out there, I am sorry to see him go. But next week someone else will leave forever and the week after that so will someone else. Because I can't check the site at work I'm stuck doing it at home and I'm not making 90% of the things I write for bulletin boards be messages begging people to come back.

(But I would like it to be nicer here.)

Great posts with lots of work behind them (like Aardvark's novel that he posted before, or Bugs posting the MP3s of his band with not a single comment) can be ignored while throwaway messages can inspire huge reams on content.

If I know something deserves time I am likely to put it off until I can get time to read it. And then, because phpBB is a piece of shit, I forget about it. (phpBB needs a "save this message for later reading" feature.)

But I can quickly say some game is pants.

So, Bruce left too, though? That's too bad if true, as he seemed to be the most serious "classic gamer", though unfortunately he was also into D&D... but that's another thread which I have been planning on starting over on groucho. (Something about the heirachy of nerds.)

Yeah, I miss Bruce already. I said I'd officially become an old man when I saw the logic behind the ban policy on the website called "Quarter to Three." Their policy is that they have a nice little forum going with game developers and game magazine writers and while you, the unwashed mass, can express yourself, if you do things to stop the devs from coming they will choose you last and them first. I think Worm's been banned from there, for instance.

Who deserves to get yelled at more than anyone else on the Internet? People making the shitty games we see on retail. But the guy who runs the site just wants to talk with his friends and peers so that's that. After seeing someone like Bruce walk, well, hey, *I* want him here!! Thus the beginning of this thread.

(I still find it hilarious when writers get a bug up their ass on that Qt3 site. One writer was squacking about the unwashed masses at E3 this year. The guy writes the same shared preview ever video game has ever had and HE think he's somehow above the common fanboy. Unbelievable. For a segment of the population that calls themselves journalists and have never done any sort of actual new journalism -- I mean, hell, EA_Spouse had to go to some LiveJournal equivalent to break the news of how crappy working for EA is -- they certainly are full of themselves.)

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Oh! And I hope you had a very nice birthday, bro.

[Jethro Q. Walrustitty]

Ah, thanks. B-day was OK, uneventful.

So Bruce left after a nasty comment by PB back at the end of July? I'd assume there's some more story that ISN'T sitting on the JC forums.

BTW, one of his last messages was in a thread about fighting games, and you were looking for innovations (as 3D doesn't count in your opinion.) I can't remember the name, but one PS2 fighter I've got (I thought it was Barbarian, but apparently that's a different game) has a few goons walking around (you choose how many), that you can knock down, pick up, then beat your opponent with.

Nothing says "fun" like multiplayer fighting games where you're swinging goon bodies at each other.