The more I look at OT the more hopeless it seems...anyone agree.

Been on it!

Will keep you updated.

Iszdope

Did someone say beer?

I'm older than most people here, but usually it seemed as if that didn't make much difference - a lot of young people have some very interesting ideas, they're smart and make good points. Once in a while they'll say something that borders on the profound. But the first page of topics this morning...good grief. It's like hanging out on the playground of an elementary school.

I think the problem is that in real life, if you say something really stupid, your friends give you crap about it and you get the idea that maybe you shouldn't say such stupid crap any more, because these are your friends and you want to be respected by them. But on the internet you're anonymous and there are so many people here that it doesn't matter if tons of people call you an idiot, so people just prattle on and on and post moronic topic after moronic topic. If you can get 3 people out of 100 to agree with you, you're successful, while in real life you'de be a horrible failure.

I dunno, maybe it's just a bad day here or something.

It's things like this that inspired me to make my sig.

Somewhat... On one hand there isn't that many good topics, on the other hand at least we can talk about sex

OT has always been a hive of ignorant people discussing things they don't understand.

It fills me with sadness and occasionally lulz.

Every year, people post that OT is far worse than it has been, but I think this is our finest hour. Religion, guns, global warming, girlfriend help threads, etc. What else could someone want? This stuff is fantastic.

[QUOTE="coolbeans90"]

[QUOTE="DJ-Lafleur"]

OT has gone down the sh*tter yes.

DroidPhysX

1: Trolling has become the super cool thing to do for the kids
2: There is now a pretty sizeable clique who encourage trolling, especially if its in OT
3: The rules are now so lax that the kids can troll without being suspended/banned, even though their trolling is of horrible quality, and the ones that usually laugh with them, are the ones that feel they are socially obligated to laugh with their "friends", regardless of the quality (or lack thereof) of the joke, re-inforcing the trollers motivation for next time, and the motivation for the "supporters" to take center stage themselves next time, as to receive the same kind of recognition.

Because quite honestly this is life for some people around here, its their social outlet, hence traditional social rules begin to apply even though we may not have seen that kind of phenomena beforehand

4: quite a few tdh/ot regulars are gradually coming around to the conclusion that entertainment, regardless of how it is obtained, is the ideal, whereas they used to participate in intellectual discourses before more often, or at the very least; shun flagrant idiocy
5: which again inspires the kids to follow in their footsteps, since the regs are cool
6: inconsistent administrative leadership on gamespots part, too many mixed signals, too many weird nonsensical rules

etc etc, i could point out a hundred things, so seemingly in trend with a lot of other things in life, the answer lies at the bottom of a near infinite conglomerate of clusterf*cks, which makes a valid attempt at pointing finger towards any culprit pretty much impossible

which is why idgaf and you should too

The only reason the topics have declined is because of "trolls"(and I use that term loosely) and these people that feel the need to discuss the same topics that were just brought up the day before(see religion and MLP).

OT is now better than it was in the past few months, but still not as good as it was pre-new ToU. And as someone pointed out, the forums here have seemed to be less active lately than in previous years.

*Gets you a tissue*

Nothing worse than hearing people complain about a site they still visit. If you truly think the site is that terrible, stop visiting. So many users bit?h about the state of OT but still post here everyday. Gives me the irrits

chaoscougar1

This, this and this.

Did someone say beer?

solidruss

Welcome to OT

[spoiler] hurr, spoiler [/spoiler]

I do spend less time here...some times I can't find anything interesting to read nor discuss.:(LJS9502_basic

Yeah OT use to be fun , now its boring , all the topics sucks, the users are boring and blah blah blah AussieePet

People used to argue about real legit things in the OT? :shock:

OT is pretty much turning into another SW like board in terms of quality.

My IQ has degraded greatly over the countless hours wasted here. And yet I keep coming back. :|

derp

My IQ has degraded greatly over the countless hours wasted here. And yet I keep coming back. :|

derp

Pikdum

It's some fvcked up curiosity that keeps me coming back.

[QUOTE="chaoscougar1"]

*Gets you a tissue*

Nothing worse than hearing people complain about a site they still visit. If you truly think the site is that terrible, stop visiting. So many users bit?h about the state of OT but still post here everyday. Gives me the irrits

GreySeal9

This, this and this.

[QUOTE="Pikdum"]

My IQ has degraded greatly over the countless hours wasted here. And yet I keep coming back. :|

derp

Necrifer

It's some fvcked up curiosity that keeps me coming back.

I get to watch annoying alts ruin another somewhat great board like they did to SW.That's why I keep on coming back.

[QUOTE="GreySeal9"]

[QUOTE="chaoscougar1"]

*Gets you a tissue*

Nothing worse than hearing people complain about a site they still visit. If you truly think the site is that terrible, stop visiting. So many users bit?h about the state of OT but still post here everyday. Gives me the irrits

Victorious_Fize

This, this and this.

Use adblocker on google chrome if you want the old TOU back.

Yeah OT use to be fun , now its boring , all the topics sucks, the users are boring and blah blah blah AussieePet

People used to argue about real legit things in the OT? :shock:greeneye59

[QUOTE="Victorious_Fize"][QUOTE="GreySeal9"]

This, this and this.

super600

Use adblocker on google chrome if you want the old TOU back.