Decline in OT activity

[Mise]

Well I'm sure for some people the level of activity is too low to satisfy them, but for me, it's just the right pace. When we had the debate over The Chamber vs The Tavern, I found the Chamber to have a higher quality of discussion, but simply not enough activity (and vice versa for the Tavern). Now, though, New OT is just the right mix for me and my present lifestyle/level of engagement. There are enough threads that, on any given day, I'll have something to read or respond to. Meanwhile, it's not so high paced that the thread I responded to on a previous day has already got buried by the time I return. If we're talking about balance, I think New OT is about right for me.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

This board has forty plus lurkers just about every time I check. To my mind that is an unmistakable sign that we are doing most things right.

 

[Kyriakos]

This board has forty plus lurkers just about every time I check. To my mid that is an unmistakable sign that we are doing most things right.

Those are not here for what you think...

 

[Mise]

Yeah a lot of those are bots/web crawlers to my knowledge.

 

[Borachio]

Maybe they all are. Who could tell?

Maybe I'm the only real person here?

Maybe I'm not a real person either?

Eh?

Did you think of that?

 

[Kyriakos]

^I think that reality begins past Realm #17.
Afaik we are in Realm 2 or near it, so it is quite far away.

 

[Mise]

How else could you get 85% of my post count in 30% of the time?

 

[Borachio]

Either I'm incredibly fast at typing posts (and to be frank most of my posts take very little in the way of time or effort in any case), or you're just not as fast as I am (because, quite obviously, you've better things to do with your time, and you devote more thought to the posts you do make), or...

I'm a bot.

 

[Mise]

You're just more efficient than me down the time mines

 

[Borachio]

Nah! I'm a bot.

Various other instances of me are busy typing yet more nonsense on a myriad other forums even as we speak.

 

[gay_Aleks]

So there are millions of other forums being.. illuminated so as to speak by your grand wisdom?

 

[Borachio]

You could express it that way, I suppose. (If you are of a particularly sarcastic and cruel bent, that is.)

But I couldn't possibly comment, of course.

 

[Mise]

I assume you're referencing this evil bugger?


Link to video.

 

[Borachio]

Oh. Is that where it's from? I didn't know that. I seem to have been hearing that phrase forevermore.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Urquhart

 

[gay_Aleks]

You could express it that way, I suppose. (If you are of a particularly sarcastic and cruel bent, that is.)

But I couldn't possibly comment, of course.

Well, it could be said that you're the wisest that OT has to offer.

 

[Borachio]

If that's true or even remotely true - and I've every reason to think it isn't - then OT is doomed.

Really, truly doomed. As doomed as a very doomed thing.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Yeah a lot of those are bots/web crawlers to my knowledge.

Web crawlers, be they human or bot, are here by the dozens. Other forums are lucky to be breaking ten. So I repeat, we are apparently doing something right.

The bot has spoken.

We are found adequate.

 

[Borachio]

Or a danger to the fabric of society. Take your pick.

 

[gay_Aleks]

That applies for most of CFC. One day, one of us will snap and start blowing up bridges.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

That applies for most of CFC. One day, one of us will snap and start blowing up bridges.

If I start blowing up bridges, please don't assume that I "snapped".