Maybe it is because the best posters are now in the Politics Forum.How's the site been doing? Looked at members on and it looked tiny compared to pre-joeblow
If that's the case, then why was there a thread about a month ago which originated from PF posters asking for a re-merge with the FFA?Maybe it is because the best posters are now in the Politics Forum.
Are you the guy that likes pigeons?Maybe it is because the best posters are now in the Politics Forum.
Please define fine as it pertains to the recent past.FFA is doing fine
Better without you.Please define fine as it pertains to the recent past.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGytDsqkQY8Hate to say it......
It's over, folks. This place has the feel of a once very popular bar with regulars who made it great, but started leaving when new corporate owners took over and started making changes. Still the same bar, still the same location, decor similar...but the atmosphere is gone. Corporate owners serve different masters and it isn't the patrons that helped make it what it once was.
I'm finding less and less to read here or reasons to post and I've been a message board nerd here since 2000ish. I just don't care anymore. It's so bland. The creativity is gone. The camaraderie has been replaced by political lines and back biting. The ability to be funny and work in the PG13 blue has been nerfed. It's sterile and no longer a must stop for me.
Sad to say....i loved this place, but the party is over.
WAS IT OVER WHEN THE GERMANS BOMBED PEARL HARBOR?Sad to say....i loved this place, but the party is over.
Sadly I agree with you. I lurk less often. Used to have FOMO and never miss a day here. Now I miss 3 days and no big deal. BummerHate to say it......
It's over, folks. This place has the feel of a once very popular bar with regulars who made it great, but started leaving when new corporate owners took over and started making changes. Still the same bar, still the same location, decor similar...but the atmosphere is gone. Corporate owners serve different masters and it isn't the patrons that helped make it what it once was.
I'm finding less and less to read here or reasons to post and I've been a message board nerd here since 2000ish. I just don't care anymore. It's so bland. The creativity is gone. The camaraderie has been replaced by political lines and back biting. The ability to be funny and work in the PG13 blue has been nerfed. It's sterile and no longer a must stop for me.
Sad to say....i loved this place, but the party is over.
See you tomorrow!Hate to say it......
It's over, folks. This place has the feel of a once very popular bar with regulars who made it great, but started leaving when new corporate owners took over and started making changes. Still the same bar, still the same location, decor similar...but the atmosphere is gone. Corporate owners serve different masters and it isn't the patrons that helped make it what it once was.
I'm finding less and less to read here or reasons to post and I've been a message board nerd here since 2000ish. I just don't care anymore. It's so bland. The creativity is gone. The camaraderie has been replaced by political lines and back biting. The ability to be funny and work in the PG13 blue has been nerfed. It's sterile and no longer a must stop for me.
Sad to say....i loved this place, but the party is over.
We are all like Costanza when he stopped thinking about sex - geniuses!It has been fabulous! Without all those pictures of incredibly hot women in yoga pants distracting us, we can now fully concentrate on the incoming class of tightends.
I’m starting to feel this way too, sadly. There are no more epic threads and no more funny shtick. It’s all become really bland and vanilla. I don’t know if it’s due to all the moderating changes—who knows, maybe the timing is just coincidence—or whether the older posters are moving on with other priorities for their time and younger people just don’t join forums anymore. But whatever the cause, the effect is a different board that I’m just a whole lot less interested in.Hate to say it......
It's over, folks. This place has the feel of a once very popular bar with regulars who made it great, but started leaving when new corporate owners took over and started making changes. Still the same bar, still the same location, decor similar...but the atmosphere is gone. Corporate owners serve different masters and it isn't the patrons that helped make it what it once was.
I'm finding less and less to read here or reasons to post and I've been a message board nerd here since 2000ish. I just don't care anymore. It's so bland. The creativity is gone. The camaraderie has been replaced by political lines and back biting. The ability to be funny and work in the PG13 blue has been nerfed. It's sterile and no longer a must stop for me.
Sad to say....i loved this place, but the party is over.
I think you nailed it hereHate to say it......
It's over, folks. This place has the feel of a once very popular bar with regulars who made it great, but started leaving when new corporate owners took over and started making changes. Still the same bar, still the same location, decor similar...but the atmosphere is gone. Corporate owners serve different masters and it isn't the patrons that helped make it what it once was.
I'm finding less and less to read here or reasons to post and I've been a message board nerd here since 2000ish. I just don't care anymore. It's so bland. The creativity is gone. The camaraderie has been replaced by political lines and back biting. The ability to be funny and work in the PG13 blue has been nerfed. It's sterile and no longer a must stop for me.
Sad to say....i loved this place, but the party is over.
There’s also the part about us all being 15 years older. I don’t go to the same bars or do many of the same things I did in 2000, so it’s no surprise to me that I’m less interested in ffa message board discussions.I think you nailed it here
Agree!There’s also the part about us all being 15 years older. I don’t go to the same bars or do many of the same things I did in 2000, so it’s no surprise to me that I’m less interested in ffa message board discussions.I think you nailed it here
You guys are still free to discuss unruly children, prunes, backdoor ROTH conversions, best type of ED medication, etc.There’s also the part about us all being 15 years older. I don’t go to the same bars or do many of the same things I did in 2000, so it’s no surprise to me that I’m less interested in ffa message board discussions.
Yep. The weird thing is that many of us have been here 15 years or so. So it's not like we all of a sudden changed. I think GM hit the nail right on the head.I’m starting to feel this way too, sadly. There are no more epic threads and no more funny shtick. It’s all become really bland and vanilla. I don’t know if it’s due to all the moderating changes—who knows, maybe the timing is just coincidence—or whether the older posters are moving on with other priorities for their time and younger people just don’t join forums anymore. But whatever the cause, the effect is a different board that I’m just a whole lot less interested in.
This is the type of canary in the coal mine post that should worry MGTSadly I agree with you. I lurk less often. Used to have FOMO and never miss a day here. Now I miss 3 days and no big deal. Bummer
Good point.I do wonder if some of that has to do with the ability to just "Like" a post.. The "old" way required at least a Emoticon posting which lead to commenting.
Now, you can just browse, like, and move onto the next post.
This.I’m starting to feel this way too, sadly. There are no more epic threads and no more funny shtick. It’s all become really bland and vanilla. I don’t know if it’s due to all the moderating changes—who knows, maybe the timing is just coincidence—or whether the older posters are moving on with other priorities for their time and younger people just don’t join forums anymore. But whatever the cause, the effect is a different board that I’m just a whole lot less interested in.
No, we've just aged gradually over time. 15 years ago I could have posted a thread about what happened when my friends and I got hammered prior to a 1 PM spring training game, went in, got seated behind like 7 hot ASU girls, proceeded to get them hammered to the extent a couple :X the seafood buffet they'd eaten for breakfast right in the bleachers, yada yada yada. Now I can tell you about the great rain gutter replacement job we got done this week, or how I'm seemingly unable to sleep past 7:15 AM no matter how constantly tired I am.Yep. The weird thing is that many of us have been here 15 years or so. So it's not like we all of a sudden changed. I think GM hit the nail right on the head.
Really the only thing that makes sense, to me, is that Joe does not want the forums anymore. Maybe they are simply more trouble than they are worth.The "new" moderation changes over the last few years have definitely made this place less fun to check out. And certainly the board "upgrade" has led to visiting this site less and made engagement worse. It's just more difficult to participate. I don't want to lay all the blame on Joe, but, I have to feel every decision he's made in the last 5 years has been wrong. Maybe that's by design, I don't know.
The "new" moderation changes over the last few years have definitely made this place less fun to check out. And certainly the board "upgrade" has led to visiting this site less and made engagement worse. It's just more difficult to participate. I don't want to lay all the blame on Joe, but, I have to feel every decision he's made in the last 5 years has been wrong. Maybe that's by design, I don't know.
Makes me very sad. Significant part of my life for many years.Hate to say it......
It's over, folks. This place has the feel of a once very popular bar with regulars who made it great, but started leaving when new corporate owners took over and started making changes. Still the same bar, still the same location, decor similar...but the atmosphere is gone. Corporate owners serve different masters and it isn't the patrons that helped make it what it once was.
I'm finding less and less to read here or reasons to post and I've been a message board nerd here since 2000ish. I just don't care anymore. It's so bland. The creativity is gone. The camaraderie has been replaced by political lines and back biting. The ability to be funny and work in the PG13 blue has been nerfed. It's sterile and no longer a must stop for me.
Sad to say....i loved this place, but the party is over.
Plays a role as well. Used to love some of the best old threads on here. @Otis had many great ones. Now he's just pathetic, along the rest of you losers. The online poker days were great, too.No, we've just aged gradually over time. 15 years ago I could have posted a thread about what happened when my friends and I got hammered prior to a 1 PM spring training game, went in, got seated behind like 7 hot ASU girls, proceeded to get them hammered to the extent a couple :X the seafood buffet they'd eaten for breakfast right in the bleachers, yada yada yada. Now I can tell you about the great rain gutter replacement job we got done this week, or how I'm seemingly unable to sleep past 7:15 AM no matter how constantly tired I am.
We're just not as entertaining as we used to be, and the youngsters have other places to communicate besides 90's style message boards.
Plays a role as well. Used to love some of the best old threads on here. @Otis had many great ones. Now he's just pathetic, along the rest of you losers. The online poker days were great, too.
TrainspottingSick Boy: It's certainly a phenomenon in all walks of life.
Renton: What do you mean?
Sick Boy: Well, at one time, you've got it, and then you lose it, and it's gone forever. All walks of life: George Best, for example. Had it, lost it. Or David Bowie, or Lou Reed.
Renton: Lou Reed, some of his solo stuff's not bad.
Sick Boy: No, it's not bad. But it's not great either, is it? And in your heart you kind of know that although it sounds all right, it's actually just...####e.
Renton: So who else?
Sick Boy: Charlie Nicholas, David Niven, Malcolm McLaren, Elvis Presley...
Renton: OK, OK, so what's the point you're trying to make?
Sick Boy: All I'm trying to do, Mark, is help you understand that The Name of the Rose is merely a blip on an otherwise uninterrupted downward trajectory.
Renton: What about The Untouchables?
Sick Boy: I don't rate that at all.
Renton: Despite the Academy Award?
Sick Boy: That means #### all. It's a sympathy vote.
Renton: Right. So we all get old and then we can't hack it anymore. Is that it?
Sick Boy: Yeah.
Renton: That's your theory?
Sick Boy: Yeah. Beautifully ####### illustrated.
Joe has put a huge amount of time and thought into the forums the last month and continues to do soReally the only thing that makes sense, to me, is that Joe does not want the forums anymore. Maybe they are simply more trouble than they are worth.
Best?Maybe it is because the best posters are now in the Politics Forum.
I guess if Simon sez...Joe has put a huge amount of time and thought into the forums the last month and continues to do so
It's a busy time and there's lots he could be doing but he's invested a ton here
If Joe and David wanted them shut that'd be a super easy thing to do. It hasn't been done
Any "time and thought" put into attracting new members?Joe has put a huge amount of time and thought into the forums the last month and continues to do so
It's a busy time and there's lots he could be doing but he's invested a ton here
If Joe and David wanted them shut that'd be a super easy thing to do. It hasn't been done
NFL viewership is down.Any "time and thought" put into attracting new members?
It wasnt broke.Joe has put a huge amount of time and thought into the forums the last month and continues to do so
It's a busy time and there's lots he could be doing but he's invested a ton here
If Joe and David wanted them shut that'd be a super easy thing to do. It hasn't been done
Opinions differ on that; that much is clear! I don't want to get into that as I think the back and forth on it has played out already.It wasnt broke.
It didnt need fixing.
Yoga PantsNFL viewership is down.
Fantasy Football participation is way down.
I'm sure if you have any suggestions they'd love to hear them.
At FBG, or overall?NFL viewership is down.
Fantasy Football participation is way down.
I'm sure if you have any suggestions they'd love to hear them.