Banana Wrote:Does anyone else agree that BEW is the reason this place went sour? Are we giving her credit for that?
Bill Wrote:na this place when sour when the elitist mentality set in.
To be honest the place went sour "by himself" only because he couldn't re-invent himself and "we" (that a collective we) stuck into a negative loop. Elitism...I don't really believe that.
If you all remember...
All started around here as a "let's flee from UJ" place. Then when that momentum dried up the user base started to troll...it was the "troll times" eventually it peaked to the point that we couldn't trust anyone anymore. A new user was definitively turned down by strange questions like "are you a troll" "who are you really" and so on. Moreover the troll time was an heavy moment for some forum lingo who was, completely opaque to people outside of that movement.
Later after TomFoolery created his own board, like Pandora when she openned THAT box it gave around to the "second base players" the enlightment that they could as well be "heavy players".
Maybe not around heavies but around second base players too, by openning their board
like a bunch of capos in the mob, they know that they couldn't knock out the bosses but they can feel as if they were the heavies
Eventually they know that they could be replaced at any moment by anyone and if they *gasp* give some hatin' against some heavy they could be knocked out (because they know that their user base got absolutely no allegiance towards them...) and would prolly go where the heavies start posting.
I call that the "high school musical chairs effect"
As a direct result "second base players" who rules boards tends to
abuse their admin/mods power more thoroughly than people on established boards because in fact they "fear" not being anymore on the lights and so on.
Now we are in a moment where, like a bunch of dogs who were released in a kennel, the territories went fairly delimited and things are sufficiently calm that they realize that, boards like IT, are definitively worth it and well we are STILL around here, we don't stir shit endlessly
Sunny Wrote:Oh and I am going to keep posting under Sunny....she is just so special to me now.
you are more than welcome around this board as everyone else, you are free to do whatever you want on this board.