Time to face facts

[Anonymous]

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.

Yes, he and SirSuperSouthern arrived there from some other forum (Enter The Abyss I think it was called) around 2004 or so.

[Erica Mena]

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.







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.

much credit goes to Bonesaw. I'm a duh with this forums panel. It's completely different from what I'm used to.





He helps me take out the trash

[Anonymous]

It has the same basic functionality as vBulletin, just the interface is ordered a little differently. You'll get there.

[cw_]

[Frood]

The problem used to be flamers and trolls running off people they didn't like.  Now the problem is there's no one left to run off.

Quality writing is scarce and lack of raiding plus social fragility stitches up the great arts.

[Shen Li]

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.

I saw BH before it went offline. It was soooooooooo dead.

[Aylana]

When you have emoticons, no one needs a vocabulary.