Decline in OT activity
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Perfection
The Great Head.
The real question is where are the noobs talking about civ. That needs to be here for cfc to continue to remain relevant.
This topic itself is a good example why OT is losing popularity: lot of posts, little context. Unless you dont feel this is your home you wont bother look twice threads like this where you single post remain uncommented, burried under two pages of jokes, personal clashing and derailing.
Actually whole firaxis forum is like this today, I only remain here because of few good civ4 mods.
Actually whole firaxis forum is like this today, I only remain here because of few good civ4 mods.
Narz
keeping it real
The ignore feature annoys me, I've tried to ignore people in the past but the fact that you can still see their posts in quote tags & see that they've posted makes it even hardly than ever to ignore them.
thecrazyscot
Spiffy
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Mostly on Steam discussions, I fear
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Goodfella
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I had a certain toxic organic compound (who thankfully no longer seems to frequent this forum) blocked but I'd always see his posts in quotes anyway and would often peak at them out of curiosity.
MisterCooper here - I am still using my JR novelty account as well as my Gucumatz novelty account.
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
We all are JR's novelty accounts. Including the mods... which means that wherever he's infracting himself, he's literally beating himself?
That's weird. Ew.
That's weird. Ew.
Tahuti
Writing Deity
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I think it's pretty simple dude, look at unemployment rates at the beginning of your chart and compared to now. Posters got jobs, less time to waste online
I'm self-employed, though I still find time to post stuff. I occasionally posted while on the job, to be honest.
However, I do notice my post rate is rather low compared to many other regulars.
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
I think my post rate was highest when I was in middle school/early high school, and I was an angry young man who had lots of say to people who were wrong on the internet... so back around '07. Nowadays, being more relaxed, I guess my post count has gone down, but it's not as bad as it was a while back I guess. I'm still unexmployed, though, and school isn't terrible taxing (compared to other things which aren't as time consuming), so I guess I have time and energy to afford.
Hygro
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And not your infamous posting style?
Tarquelne
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One of the forum's less endearing qualities.
I stopped posting, and mostly stopped reading, after I set up my ignore list.
I populated the ignore list with posters I'd decided it was a waste of time to read or engage. OK ... fine. Now I can just talk to the interesting people, right? Yay.
But what were they doing? They were spending most of their time arguing with people I'd decided were a waste of time.
Such threads stopped being amusing rather quickly.
Almost all the interesting topics, IMO, involve discussions DOMINATED by deeply-uninteresting posters. A relatively few posters - a very few - set the tone and quality of many discussions, and not for the better.
It's not a good dynamic.
There are a number of posters I miss discussing things with. But too much time was spent not talking *with* them, but rather talking *at* other posters while they happened to do the same thing. PM's could be used for a little back-channel discussion, but PMs are hardly a replacement for a threaded forum.
Hygro
soundcloud.com/hygro/
I was just talking about that in fiftychat to Lohrenswald the other day about hiding posts in plain sight. Sometimes you gotta obscure your posts with language that energizes your intended audience and bores you intended not-audience, then you can have some pretty great conversations even as King Kognitive Dissonance is climbing the Empire State Building around you.
I miss MisterCooper.
I always agreed with his opinions.
I never met a 3 month old thread I didn't want to necro.
azzaman333
meh
There's so many other things competing for eyeballs these days. Why create an account and participate on a forum just for Civilization when you can go on the Steam forums with your account and talk about Civilization as well as every other game you play. Why participate in CFC OT when you can tailor the content closer to your liking on something like reddit? Specialist forums are no longer a thing that are in the forefront of your mind if you want to discuss something on the internet.
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