Does anyone else post on way too many message boards, or online in general? - Page 2

*Prowler* · 04-30-2018, 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Leo656

You would see the virus spread? Interesting.

...Interesting.

What is there even on tumblr besides a few feminists and porn, anyway?

*Leo656* · 05-01-2018, 12:00 AM

I'm more concerned that people would encourage Cubed to spread his influence.

That's like telling someone with herpes to "spread their love around."

A nice sentiment in general, selectively horrifying.

*newfan* · 05-01-2018, 12:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Leo656

You would see the virus spread? Interesting.

...Interesting.

I was being playful, I don't think he's interested in places like that an FB (from what you've said Cubed)

So far as being on lots of different sites personally, I don't feel the need to do that, just enough to follow general interests or interact with those I know (FB)

*Prowler* · 05-01-2018, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Leo656

I'm more concerned that people would encourage Cubed to spread his influence.

That's like telling someone with herpes to "spread their love around."

A nice sentiment in general, selectively horrifying.

As if Fb and Twitter don't have way worse **** than what Cubed posts. At least Cubed makes me laugh.

*MrPliggins* · 05-02-2018, 04:28 PM

Just here and the Cgc message boards. I used to visit toonzone and some other tmnt forums but haven’t in a long while.

~~ABrown~~ · 05-17-2018, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Toonzone (again I don't post much there anymore, but I have 11,000 posts there since 2004)

No you don't. You have more like 5,000. Everyone's post count doubled after one of the forum upgrades, and they never fixed the post counts:

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Originally Posted by "RandomMe

It's been almost a month and they still haven't fixed the "double post count" for prior to June 23rd.

- https://www.toonzone.net/forums/thre...#post-83738792

But to answer the question, I also post reguarly on TFW2005. In addition, I am a member of several others that I don't post on anywhere near as often: Toonzone, He-Man.org, Rebelscum, Soapchat.net, am I forgetting one?

*Prowler* · 05-17-2018, 07:45 PM

****ing hell, do you guys all post in the same forums or something? I thought the internet was meant to be huge yet you guys make it look like a small village

*CyberCubed* · 05-18-2018, 05:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Prowler

****ing hell, do you guys all post in the same forums or something? I thought the internet was meant to be huge yet you guys make it look like a small village

Probably because in the early 2000's there were several big forums that most people all posted on because the internet was young. IGN and gamefaqs were always big for videogames back then, before several other sites popped up which is why they were so active.

For fandoms for specific franchises, there was always this place for TMNT, serebii/bulbagarden for pokemon, Kazenshuu for Dragonball, the usual Star Wars and DC forums, etc, Toonzone was huge for cartoons in the early/mid 2000's, etc.

Nowadays everything is spread out through social media, so now everyone is on different places and all forum activity has declined. So that's why people all posted on the same forums depending on your interests, it's where everyone was. That is why I hate social media, now everyone is in their own separate bubble on the internet secluded from everyone else.

*Prowler* · 05-18-2018, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Probably because in the early 2000's there were several big forums that most people all posted on because the internet was young. IGN and gamefaqs were always big for videogames back then, before several other sites popped up which is why they were so active.

For fandoms for specific franchises, there was always this place for TMNT, serebii/bulbagarden for pokemon, Kazenshuu for Dragonball, the usual Star Wars and DC forums, etc, Toonzone was huge for cartoons in the early/mid 2000's, etc.

Nowadays everything is spread out through social media, so now everyone is on different places and all forum activity has declined. So that's why people all posted on the same forums depending on your interests, it's where everyone was. That is why I hate social media, now everyone is in their own separate bubble on the internet secluded from everyone else.

Well, true. Out of those places I've only been on IGN in the mid -2000s when that place was very active still. The SmackDown board was always in fire back then, man.

*CyberCubed* · 10-24-2020, 11:38 PM

I still have accounts on 20+ different forums, even if I don't post on all of them regularly anymore. I used to be on 30-40 message boards in my prime in my teenage years, but I've cut down to about 20-25 or so.

It blows my mind how many of those forums still exist too and haven't been shut down yet, some of them are 15-20 years old now from the early 2000's. I basically post on all of them still to spread my influence throughout the internet.

*IMJ* · 10-25-2020, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Prowler

****ing hell, do you guys all post in the same forums or something? I thought the internet was meant to be huge yet you guys make it look like a small village

Forums in of themselves just aren't what they used to be. Everything went to social media and the dedicated forum population just dropped off a cliff one day.

*sdp* · 10-25-2020, 11:16 AM

Forum are a relic of the 2000's and social media killed them in the 2010s. Visiting a forum in 2020 is like those people still going to aol chatrooms in the mid 2000's trying to relive what was now gone trying hard to grasp at it just because they still existed. Let's see how it evolves.

*IndigoErth* · 10-25-2020, 12:04 PM

I imagine that forums will stay around in some way for a long time still.

Relying on social media only may be great for the many with short attention spans who just want to post brief opinions or make blog-like posts on sites like Tumblr and never care to have real discussions or are not open to much debate (or in some cases are attention whores who just want their opinions clapped for)... but those more in the habit of deeper discussions/debate and longer paragraphs aren't going away anytime soon either and social media just isn't that good of a substitute for it.

*IMJ* · 10-25-2020, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by sdp

Forum are a relic of the 2000's and social media killed them in the 2010s. Visiting a forum in 2020 is like those people still going to aol chatrooms in the mid 2000's trying to relive what was now gone trying hard to grasp at it just because they still existed. Let's see how it evolves.

LOL this felt slightly vitriolic, ironically from a forum poster....

*frank_one* · 10-25-2020, 01:28 PM

I still love forums and I don't care about capitalistic social media like facebook. I honestly consider those as very popular junk. I will keep posting on forums as they can't be replaced by social media, you can't really have an actual discussion on facebook or instagram.

*Leo656* · 10-25-2020, 01:35 PM

Part of me wants to start participating on the He-Man forums but this place is enough already. Kinda feel like I'm too old to start making new "friends".

I belong to a few groups on FB but it's true, the "discourse" there is terrible. Nobody has the interest or patience in nuanced opinions, it's all just snarky memes and "OK Boomer" nonsense. Anybody with anything "important" to say on any given topic certainly isn't saying it on social media, that's for sure. That might be "the new trend" but only because people as a whole are generally getting dumber, and that dumbed-down sort of communication speaks to their sensibilities. But it's not exactly a GOOD thing.

*sdp* · 10-27-2020, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by IMJ

LOL this felt slightly vitriolic, ironically from a forum poster....

I like forums but it doesn't take someone to see they're deader than dead. I agree that social media doesn't provide the best platform for in-depth discussions but forums are still not better because of it since all the good posters went to social media so you have a forum with the left-overs and discussion quality went down significantly.
We need a more modern version of forums because in 2020 it does feel ancient using them. Discord is what people use now but I wish there was something better.

*CyberCubed* · 10-27-2020, 01:00 PM

Also the problem with social media is posts/comments get buried way too quickly by new stuff, especially on twitter.

With forums, a thread is always there no matter how old it is, and you can always go into a thread and read up on the discussion and make a new post and others will probably respond too. On social media after the initial wave, everything falls/dies too fast.

The fact that I can bump up a thread from 2003 and post in something from over 15+ years ago now is why I will never leave forums.

*sdp* · 10-27-2020, 01:16 PM

You will when the forum only has 3 members and there's nothing of value to discuss and it isn't fun like the many forums we've all left and stopped posting in.

*CyberCubed* · 10-27-2020, 01:27 PM

Still hasn't truly happened for most active places. IGN isn't as active as it used to be but every main gaming board and the Vestibule still gets tons of posts. Gamefaqs is oddly enough as active as it was in the early 2000's, go to any current games page and there's tons of new threads.

These places have been around since the early 2000's.

05-01-2018, 12:00 AM	#22
Leo656 The Franchise Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,696	I'm more concerned that people would encourage Cubed to spread his influence. That's like telling someone with herpes to "spread their love around." A nice sentiment in general, selectively horrifying. __________________ "I left some words quite far from here to be a short reminder... I laid them out in stone, in case they need to last forever..." "But hey... I'm not telling you anything that you don't already know." nWo Tech: The Official Thread Poison of the Technodrome Forums https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxr...awnHgDz1ceDcfA https://theroxxshow.blogspot.com/

10-25-2020, 11:16 AM	#32
sdp - Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Tokio, Italy Posts: 9,999	Forum are a relic of the 2000's and social media killed them in the 2010s. Visiting a forum in 2020 is like those people still going to aol chatrooms in the mid 2000's trying to relive what was now gone trying hard to grasp at it just because they still existed. Let's see how it evolves. __________________ *Bye* *TMNT !!! I'm unaliving tonight* Click to join The Drome Discord server

10-25-2020, 01:35 PM	#36
Leo656 The Franchise Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,696	Part of me wants to start participating on the He-Man forums but this place is enough already. Kinda feel like I'm too old to start making new "friends". I belong to a few groups on FB but it's true, the "discourse" there is terrible. Nobody has the interest or patience in nuanced opinions, it's all just snarky memes and "OK Boomer" nonsense. Anybody with anything "important" to say on any given topic certainly isn't saying it on social media, that's for sure. That might be "the new trend" but only because people as a whole are generally getting dumber, and that dumbed-down sort of communication speaks to their sensibilities. But it's not exactly a GOOD thing. __________________ "I left some words quite far from here to be a short reminder... I laid them out in stone, in case they need to last forever..." "But hey... I'm not telling you anything that you don't already know." nWo Tech: The Official Thread Poison of the Technodrome Forums https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxr...awnHgDz1ceDcfA https://theroxxshow.blogspot.com/

10-27-2020, 01:16 PM	#39
sdp - Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Tokio, Italy Posts: 9,999	You will when the forum only has 3 members and there's nothing of value to discuss and it isn't fun like the many forums we've all left and stopped posting in. __________________ *Bye* *TMNT !!! I'm unaliving tonight* Click to join The Drome Discord server

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05-02-2018, 04:28 PM	#25
MrPliggins Foot Elite Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 3,006	Just here and the Cgc message boards. I used to visit toonzone and some other tmnt forums but haven’t in a long while.

05-17-2018, 07:45 PM	#27
Prowler Emperor Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Portugal Posts: 8,909	****ing hell, do you guys all post in the same forums or something? I thought the internet was meant to be huge yet you guys make it look like a small village

10-24-2020, 11:38 PM	#30
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 41,005	I still have accounts on 20+ different forums, even if I don't post on all of them regularly anymore. I used to be on 30-40 message boards in my prime in my teenage years, but I've cut down to about 20-25 or so. It blows my mind how many of those forums still exist too and haven't been shut down yet, some of them are 15-20 years old now from the early 2000's. I basically post on all of them still to spread my influence throughout the internet.

10-25-2020, 12:04 PM	#33
IndigoErth Team Blue Boy Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: U.S., East Coast Posts: 15,219	I imagine that forums will stay around in some way for a long time still. Relying on social media only may be great for the many with short attention spans who just want to post brief opinions or make blog-like posts on sites like Tumblr and never care to have real discussions or are not open to much debate (or in some cases are attention whores who just want their opinions clapped for)... but those more in the habit of deeper discussions/debate and longer paragraphs aren't going away anytime soon either and social media just isn't that good of a substitute for it.

10-25-2020, 01:28 PM	#35
frank_one Mad Scientist Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Southern Europe Posts: 1,982	I still love forums and I don't care about capitalistic social media like facebook. I honestly consider those as very popular junk. I will keep posting on forums as they can't be replaced by social media, you can't really have an actual discussion on facebook or instagram.

10-27-2020, 01:00 PM	#38
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 41,005	Also the problem with social media is posts/comments get buried way too quickly by new stuff, especially on twitter. With forums, a thread is always there no matter how old it is, and you can always go into a thread and read up on the discussion and make a new post and others will probably respond too. On social media after the initial wave, everything falls/dies too fast. The fact that I can bump up a thread from 2003 and post in something from over 15+ years ago now is why I will never leave forums.

10-27-2020, 01:27 PM	#40
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 41,005	Still hasn't truly happened for most active places. IGN isn't as active as it used to be but every main gaming board and the Vestibule still gets tons of posts. Gamefaqs is oddly enough as active as it was in the early 2000's, go to any current games page and there's tons of new threads. These places have been around since the early 2000's.