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[BadLemonsXI]

Many sound wired but I love it when people start talking about the forums history. Thanks all!

He's going to be at the top of the posts chart for a while yet, at least until Lyeos gets his act together.

So very very true.

Sounds like someone wasn't blowing off enough steam in the grisha5 thread.

LOL.

[Furtuka]

I can sortof see part of GG's point. I have found myself thinking lately that a lot of the posters who acted as a more calming and respected influence back in the day seem to have moved on to greener pastures with only the occasional check in. Maybe I'm just getting (relatively) old.

I wonder if the fact that we now have a larger amount of separate topics for political and social issues these days compared to how there use to only one or two large debate threads at a time has anything to do with these issues.

[BadLemonsXI]

Topics for political and social issues.

I just stay clear of those, bad for your health I say.

[Tiruin]

Topics for political and social issues.

I just stay clear of those, bad for your health I say.

Those can be discussed pretty cleanly, actually.
...Just how you discuss it is where the pointedness and abrasion occurs.
^{Pertaining to wording, experience, sense of statement, 'mindedness' and awareness of the surroundings...and limitations of analysis. Then there's the area of insults and calling out other people...which is connected to the above. You can do without insults in debating these, but you should also take care that what you say, first, is in itself non-insulting.}
Yeah :/

[Tawa]

Aw man, I remember when Gervassen started trolling in my original sexism disvussion thread, talking about how steroids made him a "real man" and someshit.

Trolls are strange.

Anyway, I kinda liked GWG, he wasn't too bad when I'd seen him. Quite a shame, really.

That GlyphGryph reasoning got me thinking about what'll happen when the DF2014 new arrivals get tired of lurking in the upper boards and drop by the lower ones, ahaha.

I stay clear of the politics/issues threads, but because they tend to bore me and are huuuuuge trollbait.

[Furtuka]

Wow now I feel nostalgic. Makes me miss the old regulars from years past. Soli and Vector barely venture to these parts anymore since they have Victory Garden to manage and other real life stuff, Kael tends to only show up a few times a year, Hans, Descan, and Janet are still around as you all know but they seem much quieter than they use to... Ok maybe not Descan, that might be my mind playing tricks on me, Kaijyuu kinda disappear after he got married, Aqizzar seems to have vanished, and then theres probably countless other people that I just fail to remember at this point...

[Orange Wizard]

I generally avoid the social issue threads because I'm woefully insensitive and invariably piss people off. I do, however, like to stop in from time to time to see what's up.

There are countless people who've faded into obscurity during the time I've been here. I didn't know most of them, and I've forgotten even more.

[Arcvasti]

Wow now I feel nostalgic. Makes me miss the old regulars from years past. Soli and Vector barely venture to these parts anymore, Kael tends to only show up a few times a year, Hans, Descan, and Janet are still around as you all know but they seem much quieter than they use to... Ok maybe not Descan, that might be my mind playing tricks on me, Kaijyuu kinda disappear after he got married, Aqizzar seems to have vanished, and then theres probably countless other people that I just fail to remember at this point...

I know.... And I never even personally knew these people. I just recognize them from trawling old threads during my lurking days. And then I look at the new threads and realize that they're gone. : o [

At least we have lemons now. And Lyeos. That's got to count for something.

[Xantalos]

Well yeah, that's how the evolution of a forum member goes.
They get attracted to Bay12 because of DF and hang around on the upper boards for a while. Then they discover the existence of the lower boards, usually when on a break from DF. They're hooked over the span of a few days, and generally proceed to explore all over the place - GD, Other Games, FG&RP, etc. Then as they age as a lower boarder, they gradually shrink into one or two subforums, and only a very specific range of topics. Over a period of many years, they gradually recede away from Bay12, emerging from their internet cocoon like a butterfly.
Then a new DF version comes out and the process starts all over again.

[Descan]

They don't actually attract that many trolls, to be honest.

Even when Russia comes up :v

Still, most discussions seem to end up as all - against - one,  because of the politics of most active thread-goers tending to be similar.

EDIT: wait, what? I joined two years ago, bro. o.o I'm one of the "old guys"? EDIT well three years, still though!

And I'm still here! I probably lurk moar though (don't have much to say that hasn't already been said), but I tend to have a tab or two open, and my pm box is always open...

Though that very well will probably drop off once school starts.

[Orange Wizard]

I've been here almost two years (I think?) and I still think of myself as fairly new. Though that's probably because I didn't log in much for a long time, but eh.

[Furtuka]

They don't actually attract that many trolls, to be honest.

Even when Russia comes up :v

Still, most discussions seem to end up as all - against - one,  because of the politics of most active thread-goers tending to be similar.

EDIT: wait, what? I joined two years ago, bro. o.o I'm one of the "old guys"? EDIT well three years, still though!

And I'm still here! I probably lurk moar though (don't have much to say that hasn't already been said), but I tend to have a tab or two open, and my pm box is always open...

Though that very well will probably drop off once school starts.

I consider joining during 2013 or later to be the current cutoff for newness.

And like I said I think that was just my mind playing tricks on me. But you do lurk moar like you said

[Descan]

Well when people say "old regulars" I still think of like... Applesauce Machine and Ein and those who posted in the early happy thread...

[Tawa]

Well yeah, that's how the evolution of a forum member goes.
They get attracted to Bay12 because of DF and hang around on the upper boards for a while. Then they discover the existence of the lower boards, usually when on a break from DF. They're hooked over the span of a few days, and generally proceed to explore all over the place - GD, Other Games, FG&RP, etc. Then as they age as a lower boarder, they gradually shrink into one or two subforums, and only a very specific range of topics. Over a period of many years, they gradually recede away from Bay12, emerging from their internet cocoon like a butterfly.
Then a new DF version comes out and the process starts all over again.

You just half described the past 9 or so months for me.

And I've only been here that long, yet I consider myself sliiiiightly old.

But only because I came down here a couple months before the noob influx.

I wonder if this is how 6000+ post 7-or-so month Lyeos feels... :/

[My Name is Immaterial]

Y'all feel old? What? I've just celebrated two years, and I feel middle aged.