It's always been a fun approach to social media IMO, at least the format. Just a place for everyone to leave messages with a focus on people replying to them. Sadly the popularity is total chit these days and it feels like it's harder and harder to find normal well adjusted people on forums these days. It's like whenever you see gatherings of degenerates/outcasts and totally phucked up living conditions on the internet it always turns out to be forum users. The audience seems to be dominated by people with serious issues, developmental disorders, that kinda chit.
The misc seems to have a pretty normal community as far as forums are concerned, that is what attracted me to this place, one of the few forums where it feels like I am just bullchitting with normal guys, but even then we still have a lot of phucked up people running around here. It's no wonder forums are dying off, if you didn't grow up with this approach to social media it's hard to see the appeal.
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11-27-2020, 08:45 PM #1
I miss the days when forums attracted normal people
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11-27-2020, 08:56 PM #10
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11-27-2020, 09:02 PM #12
Idk about normal people. I don't think there's many of those anywhere.
The one thing I remember that made places like the misc better back in the day was the sheer number of posters on at any time. You could bump a thread and it'd be on page 5 in seconds. Now everything feels dead by comparison. Also, raid threads. Those were incredibly entertaining.
Even as little as 10 years ago the internet felt like the wild west. Now you can't even google anything without them censoring the results.
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11-27-2020, 09:03 PM #13
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11-27-2020, 09:12 PM #15
Well there is a lot more liberalism and mental illness in the west now compared to 10-15 years ago
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11-27-2020, 09:20 PM #16
It's insane. Things have been on the decline for the last decade, but they really went all out this year. Search results are programmed to display one sided results. If you want to voice an opinion contrary to what's mainstream, you're either blacklisted or outright banned. Many platforms will auto delete your comments if you're criticizing something like BLM or how covid is being handled.
The misc, which felt restrictive in the past due to subjective modding now feels free by comparison to most of the internet. I miss the crazy days of the internet where you could actually express yourself in any way you wanted to, and had easy unlimited and uncensored access to information and its spread.
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11-27-2020, 09:56 PM #17
They did. It used to be just a bunch of guys talking **** on here and joking around about relatively normal stuff. Playful insults, banter, etc. Now it's a bunch of angry incels, Trumptards, misogynists, racists, libertarian crazies, and just general right-wing nutjobs who come here to spew all the bull**** they're too pussy to say in the real world.
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11-27-2020, 10:30 PM #18
Yeah true. I think Google has a lot to do with the downfall of the internet. I know I hardly use Google search for anything these days because I simply don't trust it and I know they phuck with the results. Duckduckgo is the way I search these days, they are pretty much what Google used to be back in the 00's.
The censorship is definitely the biggest issue the internet is facing, what was a source of access to freedom and information where anyone could have a voice has become a closed off source of propaganda where only a select few are allowed to voice anything. ******** and Twitter has a lot to do with that, they took over the internet social scene and changed it for the worst.
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11-27-2020, 11:40 PM #19
lmao
also, how do you define "forum"? you're kind of using it like an internet message board. aren't all social media sites a form of internet board?
prob extends further than you think nowadays. just like i guarantee you more women lurk than you think
i see both having advantages and disadvantages but the self-interest of identity attached is the only constant of one
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11-27-2020, 11:44 PM #20
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