What Happend??? - It's been slow on here

It's been slow on here, I havent seen very many posts that have any good jokes, sayings, and etc. Where did all the funny people go???

 

I know what you mean....I feel like I'm talking to myself lol! Which, admittedly, is the only way to hold a decent conversation.

 

The personally of the site and Safety Valve changed like from day to night..

That happen because a ton of the regular members who always posted every day moved on., they are know as the old timers that started out here in the year 2002 thru 2005.as they are the members that made this site rock.and they did post a ton of funny stuff here in the safety valve.
ye can tell how well the site is doing by how meny mods that still here helping out.

my post count is way down to about 10 or less a day,last year at this same time it was about a hundred a day..

It seems the total posts are down all over the site..the posts seems to be getting less every day..


There was a time drd had a total counter of members signed on at the bottom of the page..
I would like to see it brought back…

 

I am here, once in awhile, too. When I see a person who needs some help, I still try to help them, but there are a lot more folks in the forums now, who are able to help, than there were when I first dropped in a few years ago.

 

Yeah; There are a lot of people that I haven't seen in the forums anymore that used to do a lot of helping out.

Where the heck are all the good 'ole senior members from back in the day??lol..

 

i'm going on a hiatus this friday. ^.^

 

wow lol it seems like so long ago now that we used to have so much fun was great coming here continually back in the day...

holy crap im an old timer on this site lol and am only 17...

tbh i dont know what happened.

well peeps i dotn post very often anymore, actually pretty much not at all anymore lol but still browse for news and stuff everyonece in a while, like now. but anyway maybe the site will pick up again one day and soem old members such as myself might come back for a prolonged stay but for now il b seeing you all around, like on msn or something.

peace peeps.

 

I have a take on this too, and there is a coincidence

It seems to me that a good 90% of all posts these days are not worthy of an answer. Those of us who have been around for a while have seen just about every question before, so we tend to leave replying to the n00bs who feel a need to boost post count.
I see plenty of old timers post here and there from time to time, but honestly when they do it's more often than not to correct some wrong info or blatant BS from a n00b. Do we confine ourselves to the safety valve and selected sections where we have specialised knowledge. Seems so.
Then some of us roam with fingers on the report button hunting out the lazy, idiotic and immature.. I know I do, and great sport it is. Not exactly satisfying, and not very productive.

That's my view of the situation as it stands now.. Those of us who have been around a bit know how to find the information we need without posting questions in a forum, and just maybe we look at others who are either too lazy to look around a bit, or too ignorant of what the internet has to offer as below us, and not deserving of our help....

Oh no.. I'm getting philosophical again.. where's my beer???

 

hello Lethal_B
welcome back..i am happy to see ye posting again..boy i sure miss the good old days..

like when ye post or others post ye get 10 or more answers to ye post..
now ye are lucky if ye get one return post..

 

heres some threads from memory lane when the gang was still together:

The Phantom Makes Senior Member
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/278757

Congrats to ddp and Creaky
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/268885

GETTING BANNED
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/262128

Merry Christmas To All <- a particular favourite of mine, i think that was the time when we were a pretty close knit group of relatively smart and funny people. i actually miss it a lot.
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/271109

Do you have a crush on another aD member <- another one where we all chipped in to have a great time.
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/269635

The "Thank you" Thread <- another cool thread we all chipped in to.
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/281423




from reading a list of all the threads i have posted in, it would appear everything started to go downhill from May of last year (2006) [date included for archival purposes, someone might stumble upon this in a couple of years time lol)

looking back on this makes me feel a lil sad :'(

 

I think there are few contributing factors.
-Too many bloody stickeys in the saftey valve
-People growing up (Grow old never grow up)
-People just get pissed off banning the same three people over and over.

 

Staff member? Wow nice since when?

 

@DVDBack23,

Wow, a staff member since March 1....whats the Staff Canteen like...do you get your own cubicle..great rate of pay...do you get to go to Staff Parties???

OJ...congratulations and good luck.

BTW: What do you do??

 

if he were to tell u that, he would have to... well u know lol. j/k

hey gwen how have you been has been a while since chatted with you, hope you hav been well. how is the new year treating you so far, nothing bad i hope.

@ DVDBack tbh i didnt notice staff member either, i guess i better get my act together but then again im barely ever here anyway so yeah, lol take that mr staff member title thingy

 

Wow, it's good to hear from all of you guys. My post count is also down to atleast 3 or 4 a day. I come on here often, but have few things to say.

 

Ive been on here since, 05 Oct 2005, and when i started out on here i was 16, now im 18. But it used to be really busy on here. I used to post at least 15-20 times a day. I also got in trouble the very first time i posted on here...lol