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ParanoidObsessive posted...

GunslingerGunsl posted...

I always felt it never really gets crappier. We just tend to be more biased towards the times in the past.

No, in this case, it really has gotten crappier though. The lack of constant influx of fresh users and the slow decay of quality users while terrible posters and trolls seem more or less eternal means that the overall signal-to-noise ratio has been dropping for years now.

I'm the one who always used to defend the board and dismiss the nostalgia-blind people who were like "The board used to be better!", but honestly, it's not even really a question now. The board DID used to be better, because the board (and the site as a whole) have been slowly sliding into obsolescence ever since other forms of social media came along and took over as the new hotness.

We're like Usenet was in 2000.

Makes sense. I haven't been back long enough to really notice. I was just talking to a friend yesterday about how internet meme culture has become so mainstream. When I was in middle school and high school, I can remember all those little jokes that felt so exclusive to message board nerds like us. At some point, when social media blew up, I remember seeing Never Gonna Give You Up be performed by Rick Astly at the Macy's Thanksgiving parade and thinking "Oh God, my internet life has started to bleed into my actual life." Now the two are practically the same. Probably why I never feel the need to come here anymore. I have the phone numbers of the posters I used to talk to most anyway.