Poll of the Day > The Board is thinning, we're down to six pages

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So last year we were hitting 8 pages of threads regularly, then Mead peace'd out and it dropped down to 7 for the past couple of months, now Ducky is gone and we've dropped down to 6...

Why is duckbear gone? His topics were essential reading.

kind9 posted...

Why is duckbear gone? His topics were essential reading.

Honestly they were.

I wouldnt naturally know how many female teachers sleep with their students if not for him and those topics.

If you ask me the mods that pushed him to leave are some heffers.

kind9 posted...

Why is duckbear gone?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/573081-hellhole/79924568

Didn't like getting double modded for the same post (different boards) and has been locked out of disputing moderations so they just said "fuck it" and left. It took me a good week to notice myself, but there isn't a single Ducky post left on here.

15 for me.

But a bigger thing to keep in mind is that it's even worse than it seems. 10 years ago the delay on the board was 3 days before topics got deleted, now they stick around for 11 days. So most of those pages now are threads that haven't been posted in for awhile and likely won't be posted in again, so are effectively dead anyway.

We've basically gone from having something like 1000+ active topics every three days to having maybe 300 topics every two weeks that are mostly inactive.



KodyKeir posted...

now Ducky is gone

For a second, when I read this, I thought you were talking about Nade, and I was sad.

Then I realized you were talking about Duckbear, and I was happy again.



kind9 posted...

Why is duckbear gone? His topics were essential reading.

Hardly essential, considering how many people had him on permanent ignore.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Hardly essential, considering how many people had him on permanent ignore.

the fuck

ParanoidObsessive posted...

15 for me.

You're a 20 topic per page guy too? I'd figure you'd be one of those 100 per page psychos.

11 for me

I could post more... :D

kind9 posted...

Why is duckbear gone? His topics were essential reading.

Mods getting more sensitive and using their own personal views to mod users I guess.....

duckbear should've been treated better.

If by better you mean launched from a trebuchet out of this forum over a decade ago, then yes.

I did notice a distinct lack of heffer news lately. This just makes me sad.

A bunch of old regulars from here now mostly post on CE.

ImSadTails posted...

duckbear should've been treated better.

hell be back. He always comes back

I mean, Gamefaqs as a whole is dying. There just isn't much of a need for it in general now-a-days. Most of the people here are old-timers who came in and just haven't left yet for one reason or another. So every time someone leaves for whatever reason it's a hit the site can't recover from. I'm only tenuously on Gamefaqs myself now-a-days after several extremely bad interactions with various boards (POTD not being one of them) and am basically only still around because of a small D&D forum. Once that ends, I'm likely leaving and gone for good.

Absolutely ecstatic for the day this piece of shit website shuts down

KodyKeir posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/573081-hellhole/79924568

Didn't like getting double modded for the same post (different boards) and has been locked out of disputing moderations so they just said "fuck it" and left. It took me a good week to notice myself, but there isn't a single Ducky post left on here.

Hellhole is a board inhabited by some guy who tells you to fuck off as soon as you post there.

Entity13 posted...

If by better you mean launched from a trebuchet out of this forum over a decade ago, then yes.

He actually was - he was banned, axed, and kill-on-sight for years.

One of the first signs that the site was dying was when the mods stopped giving a shit and let him slink back in and start shitposting again.

For all that the babies whine about how terrible the mods are these days, they're actually way more lenient than they used to be if you're not a perennial troll.



Unbridled9 posted...

Most of the people here are old-timers who came in and just haven't left yet for one reason or another. So every time someone leaves for whatever reason it's a hit the site can't recover from. I'm only tenuously on Gamefaqs myself now-a-days after several extremely bad interactions with various boards (POTD not being one of them) and am basically only still around because of a small D&D forum. Once that ends, I'm likely leaving and gone for good.

The death of the Geek topics is what kind of killed 90% of my interest in PotD for me.

I might have drifted off entirely by this point, except the last time I disappeared for a couple months people were threatening to try and track me down in real life and call the cops to make sure I wasn't dead, so it feels like I'm obligated to stay until the whole thing dies.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I might have drifted off entirely by this point, except the last time I disappeared for a couple months people were threatening to try and track me down in real life and call the cops to make sure I wasn't dead, so it feels like I'm obligated to stay until the whole thing dies.

That just shows that we care. Well track you down like crazy stalkers to make sure youre ok

Glad to see both of them gone. Mead is only entertaining while melting down and duckbear is never entertaining.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I might have drifted off entirely by this point, except the last time I disappeared for a couple months people were threatening to try and track me down in real life and call the cops to make sure I wasn't dead, so it feels like I'm obligated to stay until the whole thing dies.

That's not quite accurate. You disappeared without a word, and people were wondering where you went. A few people wondered how best to find out, without considering if they should, while others among us felt only it would have been nice to know what was going on since you went from a prevalent poster that appeared almost daily to non-existent overnight. If you were to vanish more frequently, I guarantee some folks might care more for the times you do appear and otherwise carry on with the new norm.

It's a shame the Geek topics died, but I'd felt they were dying some time before I stopped posting in them. Like if you were to have moved the wrestling posts into a topic dedicated to pro wrestling, the Geek topics might have been left with people bumping them to keep them on life support until the day we all collectively gave up on it. It was clear no one in there cared about the #1 thing I was geeking out over for the last couple years I posted in those topics, so most of my last posts there were about other things in passing, which were ignored; the straw that broke the camel's back being when Wave missed my topic title suggestion. He tried to talk me into coming back, but I explained my reasons and declined. I also explained my reasons to Whiskey, but he disregarded said reasons and continued to say on this board that I was just having a breakdown . . . before having a mass breakdown himself tat led to a few of his accounts being banned. Wave no longer coming to post here pulled the plug on the Geek topics, sadly.

Now I post in the FFXIV topics, but one of the regulars in there is someone I see most days on Discord or in-game since we're in the same Free Company (guild). It's at least nice seeing the others on occasion on here.

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Which other topic? There are half a dozen pages of (mostly old) topics.

Entity13 posted...

Like if you were to have moved the wrestling posts into a topic dedicated to pro wrestling, the Geek topics might have been left with people bumping them to keep them on life support until the day we all collectively gave up on it.

I think the real problem there is that it's becoming really hard to be a geek these days.

Mainstream comics have been terrible for like 10 years now, comic movies felt like they peaked with Endgame (with Marvel burnout and complaints about streaming-exclusive TV shows and SJW pandering kind of poisoning everything Marvel's done since), DC's been mostly trash for years (especially with Hack Snyder running things), Doctor Who went to shit when Moffat took over, Star Wars went into a nosedive once Disney bought the franchise, Star Trek has been actively pissing off its fans for like 20 years now, most other fantasy/sci-fi shows were either outright bad or harder to watch now that everything is spread out across a dozen streaming services, tabletop RPGs were always a bit niche... and it feels like almost every franchise with a dedicated fanbase has actively devoted itself to shitting on said fanbase in an attempt to court mainstream favor.

What's even left to be excited about as a geek?

So instead of being a place to geek out and be excited, all we really had left is a lot of bitter cynical complaints about everything. It became less "Hey fellow geeks, look at this cool thing, let's be excited!" and more "I am going to vent about this thing I hate".

I get why interest died off, but I still kind of mourn what was and what should have been.

And I blame the world in general. You suck, world.

I think the main reason why talk had kind of started centering on wrestling towards the end was because it was one of the few things anyone was still excited about (because the start of AEW was a really exciting time for wrestling in general, after wrestling had sucked for years). Not to mention that Wave and I had always been openly fans of wrestling. But there was still nothing stopping anyone else from bringing up topics. The problem was that no one was really bringing up topics that anyone else cared about (because again, see also burnout-induced apathy).



Entity13 posted...

It was clear no one in there cared about the #1 thing I was geeking out over for the last couple years I posted in those topics, so most of my last posts there were about other things in passing, which were ignored

Well, to be fair, the Geek topics were never really a place where everyone was going to feign interest in every single thing any one person wanted to talk about. The point of the Geek topics was more that it was a place to where you were more likely to get a positive response to a given topic than you would on the board at large. A sort of "Hey, I know some of you might be interested in this thing I saw/read/found/etc, so here it is in case you're interested" way of getting to see things you might otherwise have missed, hear opinions about things you liked, and generally interact. So you'd just sort of throw stuff out, and if people were interested and wanted to talk about it they would, and if they weren't interested they wouldn't. I know I passively ignored specific topics I wasn't interested in mainly because I had absolutely nothing to add, but I also didn't want to get in the way of other people talking about them. It was never a place where everyone felt obligated to reply or comment on every post/discussion. People weren't ignoring what you posted because it was you, more that they didn't care about/have anything to say about Final Fantasy XIV.

And hey, I never got bitter over the fact that none of you other than Shadow gave a fuck about tabletop RPGs (and he and I disagreed on pretty much every facet of RPGs) in spite of the fact that I would have loved to talk about them more. It was what it was.

(Though honestly, I never thought Final Fantasy XIV talk belonged in the Geek topics in the first place, because that was something where you probably WOULD get a more enthusiastic response as a separate topic on PotD, because we're on a video game message board. Even beyond me personally having literally no way to engage in a FFXIV conversation because I don't play it and never will, I never really felt like video game conversation in general belonged in the Geek topics. The Geek topics were more for non-video game related geekery that wouldn't necessarily get as much attention from the rest of the non-nerds of PotD. Because the average PotDer is obviously going to care more about, say, Breath of the Wild or Witcher 3 - which are games that relate to the interest that brought them to this board in the first place - than they are more niche geeky things that might be farther outside the gamut of video gaming.)



Entity13 posted...

The straw that broke the camel's back being when Wave missed my topic title suggestion

I'll be honest - I don't remember what it was. But I do remember thinking it was kind of lame at the time. So I remember I wasn't entirely sad that he ignored it.

But it's also not as if there was a system in place where Wave was obligated to try and use everyone's suggestions equally or anything (sort of like how back in the day the Rotation or Chestbump Squad would deliberately rotate who got to make the next topic) - it was always just Wave picking whatever suggestion he liked best (or making his own). Even if everyone else didn't necessarily like the one he picked as much as they might have preferred an alternative.

Wave skipped my suggestions all the time, and I never got pissed about it. I never took it as him disrespecting me personally or like a personal attack. I just shrugged and moved on with my life. It was never really that big a deal.

Especially since, towards the end, Wave was dealing with a lot of health issues and personal issues of his own. So if he missed someone's suggestion or just wanted to go with his own more, it was a minor thing in a larger context.



Entity13 posted...

Wave no longer coming to post here pulled the plug on the Geek topics, sadly.

I agree this is true. But on the other hand, I might have been more inclined to try and salvage them myself if they were still going strongly even without him (like I did a couple times in the past, when he wasn't around for a few days and I made the new topic instead). It was sort of the combination of Wave being gone and most people kind of having lost interest anyway that led me to shrug and go "ehh".

But it's ultimately just another symptom of PotD and GameFAQs dying. Fewer people overall means fewer people to concentrate into a single topic or sub-clique. Less interest in everything in general, fewer posts, lack of passion.

We're all just the old burnouts too set in our ways and too trapped by inertia to go anywhere else. We're here until we die because it would take too much effort to go anywhere else.

So last year we were hitting 8 pages of threads regularly, then Mead peace'd out and it dropped down to 7 for the past couple of months, now (sic) is gone and we've dropped down to 6...

I didn't we were supposed to keep stats. #^&@!

blackhrt posted...

I didn't we were supposed to keep stats. #^&@!

I try to follow my stats but it's better to just let the NSA guys compile it for you.

So last year we were hitting 8 pages of threads regularly, then Mead peace'd out and it dropped down to 7 for the past couple of months, now Ducky is gone and we've dropped down to 6...

More so that they warning, suspending, and banning everybody up in here.

And although Bri shitposted a lot of topics, Bri was never a needle-mover. Ducky probably had an impact, though, since his topics lasted as well as being numerous.

back up to seven!

we did it, celebrate with a waffle party.

Na its fine i'll just ruin everything

KodyKeir posted...

back up to seven!

we did it, celebrate with a waffle party.

Back down again. We're down to 14 now for me.

Just do what a bunch of other former regulars have done. Move over to CE. They're super active over there.

Bugmeat posted...

Just do what a bunch of other former regulars have done. Move over to CE. They're super active over there.

But that would be a terrible idea, because CE is and always has been a cesspool.



ParanoidObsessive posted...

Back down again. We're down to 14 now for me.

We're down to 12 now.

Maybe each of us should start a new topic every day, if we don't already do that.

5 pages now, but maybe because it's early saturday morning

OmegaM posted...

Maybe each of us should start a new topic every day, if we don't already do that.

For Karma's sake we're supposed to post one comment and one topic, once a day (at least I think that's how it used to be)

KodyKeir posted...

For Karma's sake we're supposed to post one comment and one topic, once a day (at least I think that's how it used to be)

All you need is to login now.

KodyKeir posted...

For Karma's sake we're supposed to post one comment and one topic, once a day (at least I think that's how it used to be)

If that was ever the case, it stopped being looooong ago.

You only ever needed a single post/log-in per day for as long as I've been here, making topics never mattered. And it's only been log-in alone for a while now.

I thought it was log in and visit the board/topic But I havent checked in a while