Please relax Seth.
My intention to go in the Forum (and there is no different between the german and the english part for me) is to have Fun.
And the hope to make other laughing too.
And i see no reason to change.
I'm always relaxed.
Ask any elder member here. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Fun is fun. But sometimes it gets to much.
Everything gets reduced to a joke.
Take the topics Alrik started fi.
Stuff to talk about.
But overnight they turn into a joke topic.
- I known Alrik a long time and I can hear him say that he doesn't mind. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> He's a great guy. But it's a missed oportunity.
You can't ignore the signs. Lots of elder members who leave or visit the forum every so often anymore. Without posting or just posting every couple of days/weeks/months.
I found a completely differend forum when I returned after my "break".
I can get along with it becouse I like a joke as much as the next guy. Again something everyone can confirm. But I miss something.
It feels like and looks like a bla bla bla forum. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> A blabberforum. It's starting to look like yahoo chat or something. Is everybody scared to debate and discus things? Or do we really have nothing to say anymore?
There is no room to talk anymore. We used to be able to talk about anything on this forum. And that seems to be gone.
In the German part you have fi the topic about Bush - Iran.
(I just picked one.) Can you point out one in the English section that even comes close?
I miss old freinds like Carrie, faile, MSlynx, Drakonis, ...
And it's sad that lots of elder members like Womble, Jurak, HEF, Rincewind, ... (and more, there are a lot more <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />) post less.
They're all bright people. It was good to exchange ideas, opinions, thoughts.
A discusion could be about the second world war. And the next topic was about some of the members buying a new car.
There was a time when ppl even anounced weddings. Or talked about things that been bothering them in personal life.
And everybody helped to come up with answers.
I don't say it has to be like that on the net. But it was great we had that there. How many other forums you can talk freely and other members supporting you without making evil jokes about you are there?
But I do understand that people say they miss the cosy thing. It used to be a home. An internet family so to speak.
And that's gone.
In the past few weeks I got pm's from people who only came to the forum for the help sections about
<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" /> and <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beyond.gif" alt="" /> . And people who looked through the forum becouse they have a copy of one of the games.
I got several pm's of people I never met to tell me they completely agreed on certain things I said on certain topics/things going on in the forum. Those pm's ware surprising. But it just tells me once again that there's something missing.
Fun isn't enough sometimes. There used to be freinds here.
All freinds! And it doesn't feel like that anymore.
It's just someplace to post some silly stuff now.
I do agree that the cosy, freindly feeling is gone.
I completely understand why people leave.
Just had to say that sooner or later.
