Posted 7/29/2012 1:46 pm
Facebook and twitter is killing he bbs. When we were discovering FC in 2000, usenet tards were wondering why it was getting so quiet.
Posted 7/29/2012 1:49 pm
FC was born not from similar minds, but from easy money. The easy money vanished, so it obliterated the culture. Slowly these boards decay, since only inertia holds them together, but those guys are aging and are in fact only grower poorer.
Posted 7/29/2012 1:56 pm
Short attention spans.
People are really uncomfortable around truth now, and have violent, knee-jerk reactions to it.
In fact, most people are too fucking dumb to be on FC. Think about it.
Posted 7/29/2012 2:18 pm
Easy: Spanky "leaked" all the users' PI a few years ago, and most never returned. Pre-leak, FFC had hundreds of posters regularly on the board. Post-leak, we have maybe a dozen.
There's a bunch of OCD lunatics who post the same responses every time reg posters post.
Over and over again. Its a serious mental disorder and I feel a great deal of sympathy for them, but they do drive people off and really shouldn't be interacting with people until they get treatment
"Still, for all their importance to individual Web users, the boards were almost invisible to anyone intent on profiting off Web traffic and so theyve been nearly written out of the history of the Internet. "
Easy: Spanky "leaked" all the users' PI a few years ago, and most never returned. Pre-leak, FFC had hundreds of posters regularly on the board. Post-leak, we have maybe a dozen.
The constant threat of PI exposure is one of the reasons people are leaving here. The other reason is the general insanity of the most vocal posters. It's not even so much the content of what they say, it is the OCD repetition.