LeighaSep 7, 2019 05:29 AM (This post was last modified: Sep 7, 2019 05:30 AM by Leigha.)
So the actual definition of ''bygone,'' is former, past, a thing dating from another time
I guess it wouldn't fit if the issue at hand is still occurring. lol So ''let bygones be bygones'' sounds like something you would tell someone who has a habit of dredging things up from the past or holding grudges. Interesting.
LeighaSep 8, 2019 04:05 AM (This post was last modified: Sep 8, 2019 05:45 AM by Leigha.)
I went to Panera Bread today, and the cashier asks for your name when ordering...so I ordered, and sat down near the screen where the pending orders are listed. And there was my name in bright neon green...but it was spelled differently. And I liked it better spelled that way.
Too bad changing our real names (or just altering the spelling) isn't as easy as changing our usernames on an internet forum.
Wandered in for a read today, read some of the early parts of this thread where some of you were discussing visiting SF. Got a little nostalgic myself, and dropped into SF to see how it is. I haven't been there for quite some time.
It's nearly dead. Where once every sub-forum had a few threads being hotly discussed every day, now there are whole sub forums where the last post was days ago.
Bound to happen I suppose, but it's sad in a way. I spent considerable periods of my life there, back in the day. Back then, Tiassa was just a verbose footnote, and now he's... well. Still verbose, but a sort of addled Palpatine.
I wonder where they all went, and what happened to them.
SF might as well be bots arguing, for how often the same discussions are repeated.
But their traffic looks plenty healthy, so I guess plenty of people enjoy that.
C CSep 29, 2019 06:06 PM (This post was last modified: Sep 29, 2019 06:07 PM by C C.)
(Sep 29, 2019 10:30 AM)Ben the Donkey Wrote: I wonder where they all went, and what happened to them.
I only visit SF occasionally nowadays. Some of them, like Billy T, have died. Others have become debilitated by illness. A few of those that are still non-ash/above-ground and keyboard viable might be sighted at alternative science boards like this one. I don't know how many familiar nyms currently among those since I glance over them vastly less than Sciforums.
A lot of "elders" probably drifted away because of issues like too many denizens from the lower subforums roaming freely in the workshop or sacred upper section. Yet more simply left or deliberately got themselves exiled due to frustration of not being able to mock or insult "nutcases" as fully as they could in the past (i.e., formal restraints increasingly being enforced on them as well.)
On the flip-side, things ironically(?) weren't that rosy for the anti-establishment, either. Many were permanently banned -- in what seemed like spasmodic massacres or political cleansings of those who demonstrated over the years a refusal to conform (via fewer transgressions or whatever). "Political" here is just short for any contrary orientation against SF's premise or the mainstream stances of the mods -- whether ideological, pseudosci, paranormal/mystical, religious, etc, context.
Others departed for good because they could see the writing on the wall or got tired of what they deemed pogroms slash biased systematic persecution.
In summary: Sciforums perhaps got too equality-minded in a machine-like or algorithmic way in its dispensing of justice, rather than continuing to loosely grant pragmatic exceptions to both protagonists and antagonists whose exploits may have contributed much to keeping the place alive in the deeper past.
LeighaSep 29, 2019 07:21 PM (This post was last modified: Sep 29, 2019 07:23 PM by Leigha.)
In general, forums are dying, not just SF. Social media like IG, FB, and Twitter have largely taken traffic away from forum life. I come and go on there, became active recently, but I'm kind of bored with it all, again. I come and go from this site, too...nothing personal on here, I find this site's topics to be refreshing, and wide reaching. Every time a non-science related topic is posted on SF, it draws the most bizarre discussions and always go way off topic. Like wayyy off. That doesn't happen on here as often.
I'm giving Sciforums another go. I must admit I'm doing it mainly to give arfa brane a way out of the swamp he seems to have fallen into. There are still many good guys there (yaay billvon!) so.. time passes.