Is this board dying?

:laugh: the stalk would have to bring them because anything over PG would be wrong :tut:

in the same way people come on here for a bit of banter and a laugh - you've also got to realise it's a PUBLIC messageboard which people like certain aspects of - the same few cliquey mates talking about how fucked they were/who the want to fuck isn't for public threads and should be kept to PMs/MSN - cause no-one wants to read it

Would agree that it appears to have gone downhill even in the short time I've been coming on (not sure if the two are related!!)

The main problem as far as I can tell is that all threads seem to rapidly descend into the equivalent of a MSN Messenger chat between 2/3 people, losing the original point of the topic. There's no problem with this but for those who know very few people on here in person (such as myself) this makes posting difficult, unless they wish to interrupt someone's chat.

Secondly many of the threads have become very similar, much as I enjoy Oasis etc's banter the sleaze and sex obsession has reached epic proportions. Similarly, the jokes seem a touch stale (pm'ing Scotty, taking piss out of psycoholic / Alonzi etc).

Lastly, the old promise crowd have grown up, enjoy different styles of music, moved away from the north-east etc thus there's not the same togetherness that there may have been before. The board isn't based around one night anymore (I get the impression it was during promise's heyday).

However, despite all that I agree with Marc that it's just a quiet time (although for a clubbing board to be quiet during the busiest time of year is worrying) and will no doubt improve again in the next few weeks!!

what about freedom of speech?

and what you class as a pointless topic someone else may think is a great topic...

I think there are probably quite a few members who are intelligent, but unfortunately as Brid said, it probably doesn't seem worth posting that type of stuff as this board does seem to veer towards pointless but sometimes humorous banter.

I'm not really part of any in-groups on here but i do still like it for peoples mixes and reviews of new music.

I hope it stays

fingers out of arses the board needs politics like crack along with humour. lets face it it it was changed so you got banned for a sly remark it would be shit. changing it wouldnt make more people register, its just going through a dry patch as far as i can see. boring crack is shit but there has to be a balance

times change, ive never known this board to have loads of threads where people have had proper discussions about world affairs or alike. ive only been here since the beginning of 05 but i havent noticed any change in trend, with the exception of mois random threads which she stopped.

swearin doesnt affect alot of people. if every other word is fuck or cunt then it gets boring and pointless, but swearing in general dosnt seem to bother anyone

that wasn't my point tho, if you look i removed those bits from your quote...

i'm talking about removing threads you think don't add anything to the forum - just because you don't like them doesn't mean they should go, this is a PUBLIC messageboard.

how about a 'serious' forum or something? then the threads wouldn't get overrun by all oasis etc's letching

good idea

also doesn't the board have a swear filter?

doesn't this solve the swearing problem anyway?

too fucking right. fucks me right off when all these stupid fucking dickheads fuck about and just swear all the time. they should get off their cunting bollocks and get a fucking life!







sorry couldn't resist

thats exactly what ive just said brid :spangled:

if anyone did overuse swearwords they'd just get the piss ripped out of them instantly.

I bet there has been 20 of these exact same posts befor and i bet there will be at least 2 in the next 18 months