Time to face facts

[Garraty_47]

I've never been an etc.  I wonder what that's like.

It just sort of happens when you're not looking and doesn't have any impact at all so it's not "like" anything as far as I can tell.

The only way to even know it happened is if someone else points it out.



Kinda like a subatomic particle no physicist has actually seen but they've deduced its existence from theoretical models.

It may or may not be real but until it's been disproven if it fits the model we might as well include it.



/shrug

[It's Poppy]

Anyone claiming to be beating up people on the troll forum in 2023 is mentally ill...Furthermore, there is a lack of creativity and interesting people in the so-called community, there is no incentive to post anything other than textual poops at this point. Unless another big name forum influencer shows up...the forums will continue their downward trajectory.

[Anonymous]

Unless another big name forum influencer shows up.

What do you mean another?  It never had one to begin with.

[Garraty_47]

Anyone claiming to be beating up people on the troll forum in 2023 is mentally ill...Furthermore, there is a lack of creativity and interesting people in the so-called community, there is no incentive to post anything other than textual poops at this point. Unless another big name forum influencer shows up...the forums will continue their downward trajectory.

Thanks for elucidating another of the glaring problems in forums today...



...the "you first" mentality.



Be entertaining! -no, you first.

Be original! -no, you first.

Be authentic! -no, you first.



Coupled with the near certainty that the person saying "no, you first" has absolutely zero intentions of ever following their own advice I think you can see how pointless it is.



Well done, Aylana.

An excellent job of showing us exactly how it shouldn't be done.

[Herman]

Unless another big name forum influencer shows up.

What do you mean another?  It never had one to begin with.

The deadbeat dad says he is. Therefore it has to be true.

[It's Poppy]

Unless another big name forum influencer shows up.

What do you mean another?  It never had one to begin with.

Big Daddy Zeus and his motley crew of cretins were the driving force and influencers behind the legendary Hell Flame Wars, which was the true pinnacle of troll/flame buffoonery.

[Garraty_47]

Big Daddy Zeus and his motley crew of cretins were the driving force and influencers behind the legendary Hell Flame Wars, which was the true pinnacle of troll/flame buffoonery.

The only thing BDZ "influenced" was a metric shit ton of killfiles.



lulz

[It's Poppy]

Anyone claiming to be beating up people on the troll forum in 2023 is mentally ill...Furthermore, there is a lack of creativity and interesting people in the so-called community, there is no incentive to post anything other than textual poops at this point. Unless another big name forum influencer shows up...the forums will continue their downward trajectory.

Thanks for elucidating another of the glaring problems in forums today...



...the "you first" mentality.



Be entertaining! -no, you first.

Be original! -no, you first.

Be authentic! -no, you first.



Coupled with the near certainty that the person saying "no, you first" has absolutely zero intentions of ever following their own advice I think you can see how pointless it is.



Well done, Aylana.

An excellent job of showing us exactly how it shouldn't be done.

Nope... I really don't have any "content" that would be suitable for the old farts and scat lovers who are currently crawling around the forums like single celled organisms in a yucky petri dish...To be honest, the majority of posts these days are Facebook-style chit chat about the price of eggs or how frequently you should wash your hair...engaging in such exhilarating topics is something my glass heart would be unable to handle without being shattered.

[Garraty_47]

Nope... I really don't have any "content" that would be suitable for the old farts and scat lovers who are currently crawling around the forums like single celled organisms in a yucky petri dish...

You still, intentionally I presume, have it ass-backward.

If you're too lazy or just disinterested in making poasts that reflect well *on you and your capabilities* just say so and be done.



Admit that you're no improvement on a bunch of old farts and scat lovers because your sole "contribution" to a forum experience is whingeing about how shite everyone else is while refusing to do any better.

To be honest, the majority of posts these days are Facebook-style chit chat about the price of eggs or how frequently you should wash your hair...engaging in such exhilarating topics is something my glass heart would be unable to handle without being shattered.

So don't.

No one is stopping you from doing it differently.

Well... no one except you.

[Anonymous]

Anyone claiming to be beating up people on the troll forum in 2023 is mentally ill...Furthermore, there is a lack of creativity and interesting people in the so-called community, there is no incentive to post anything other than textual poops at this point. Unless another big name forum influencer shows up...the forums will continue their downward trajectory.

Thanks for elucidating another of the glaring problems in forums today...



...the "you first" mentality.



Be entertaining! -no, you first.

Be original! -no, you first.

Be authentic! -no, you first.



Coupled with the near certainty that the person saying "no, you first" has absolutely zero intentions of ever following their own advice I think you can see how pointless it is.

This analysis actually has merit, even more so when you consider there was presumably enough "entertaining", "original" and "authentic" to get those demanding it to the table in the first place. I know I stopped bothering when the room was overflowing with people who couldn't be bothered. A lot did.

What do you mean another?  It never had one to begin with.

The deadbeat dad says he is. Therefore it has to be true.

A dozen years ago maybe. I saw the metrics for BH, that site was worth over half a million when Poofer was at the helm, though it was largely off the back of PI peddling and other real life harassment, coupled with the porn and Usenet portals that Wheeliebin (the site owner) had employed. I wouldn't call it BH's all time peak, but it was A peak and it all started going south when Poofer was de-modded for pinning The Treasurer's RL details to the top of the flaming forum. Evil Blood (whose efforts had contributed greatly to BH's rise) was hastily shuffled into the slot vacated by Poofer which arrested the slide at around USD$330,000 for a few months, then he got jack of the arrangement and left and the slide resumed. Its resale value plummeted to under $100 before Wheeliebin pulled the plug on it a couple of years later.



I use the resale value as a metric only because of its intrinsic link to forum activity. If your forum is a ghost town, very few people are going to want to buy it. I suspect half the reason Erica took over the financing of this place was because she knows first hand that building interest is fucking hard work. So is maintaining it. I don't know of anyone who can do it solo, especially not in the face of people who are actively trying to tear it down. It also does not help that social networks have proliferated wildly over the last two decades, so the idea that some influencer might come along to revive interest in the old dinosaur is, to put it mildly, "bullshit".



The wild old days are a memory... a bit of fun enjoyed for a while by those of us who were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. These days it's more like sitting about a campfire exchanging pleasantries while the occasional wildebeest moos brokenly off in the distance for some hero to throw all the available logs on that it might slob on over to warm its tired bones while it thinks of something else to moan about.



Not so bad really. Having scaled the mountain before, I find it relaxing and theraputic.

[Herman]

I aint ever seen Brawl Hall.

[It's Poppy]

Nope... I really don't have any "content" that would be suitable for the old farts and scat lovers who are currently crawling around the forums like single celled organisms in a yucky petri dish...

You still, intentionally I presume, have it ass-backward.

If you're too lazy or just disinterested in making poasts that reflect well *on you and your capabilities* just say so and be done.



Admit that you're no improvement on a bunch of old farts and scat lovers because your sole "contribution" to a forum experience is whingeing about how shite everyone else is while refusing to do any better.

To be honest, the majority of posts these days are Facebook-style chit chat about the price of eggs or how frequently you should wash your hair...engaging in such exhilarating topics is something my glass heart would be unable to handle without being shattered.

So don't.

No one is stopping you from doing it differently.

Well... no one except you.

Gary... I now spend the majority of my time on Patreon and Youtube doing digital art lessons with Flo and a few others, or writing for the Late Night Poets shows... To hell with scrolling through endless pages of the same Seamajor photos or listening to a Scottish man gargle cum for 30 minutes. I was hoping that a slew of Brawl Hall legends would emerge from a cornfield, but they never appeared... At this point, I've completely lost interest and won't be engaging in any future community field trips.



I'll will say Erica has done good job with the Blue Achoo...it reminds me of Panera Bread in that it's not filled with bums, it's clean, and the customers aren't shitting on the floor.

[Anonymous]

I aint ever seen Brawl Hall.

No, I know. You've seen a few of its members though... over a dozen who are still actively posting around these parts in fact. It was a fairly large site after all in its day, some 22,000 concurrent logins at peak  (around 2005 or so). There's not a lot of messageboard sites that can boast that nowadays.

[Herman]

I aint ever seen Brawl Hall.

No, I know. You've seen a few of its members though... over a dozen who are still actively posting around these parts in fact. It was a fairly large site after all in its day, some 22,000 concurrent logins at peak  (around 2005 or so). There's not a lot of messageboard sites that can boast that nowadays.

Old Bricktop used to talk about the place.

[weebles]

you will find many can never accept facts or learn from them and evolve TBH