Quote from: Garraty_47 on November 17, 2024, 04:07:32 PMSince BF/Meltdown is behind an iron curtain again all we can use to gauge its activity is the information provided by thread and post dates, etc. Given the standard content generated by many regular posters in Meltdown that should be a good thing; objective numbers ought to paint a far more charitable picture than the dreck they represent.
Should. Ought to.
Sadly (for BF) this is not the case...
The oldest response to a (non-Sticky/non-artificial) thread on the first page of this sub: 12 days.
The oldest response to a (non-Sticky/non-artificial) thread on the first page of Meltdown: one month.
The number of threads in this sub posted to in the past week: 11.
The number of threads in Meltdown posted to in the past week: 7.
Yikes.
Maybe being a complete asshole and driving out and/or disincentivizing contributors was a bad move?
Sure looks that way.
I don't envy BF's dilemma:
Show the world Meltdown's content and provide empirical evidence of the suckage or hide Meltdown's content and let the numbers do the talking... once again providing empirical evidence of the suckage.
Rock and a hard place, innit.
When a forum owner commands his mods to resurrect 3 year old threads to "stimulate post count" and the mods dutifully follow orders like sheelpe.
When the median age of the posters at BF are now 70+ year old white guys screaming at Trump to get off their lawns.
When certain members are on the site 8 hours or more a day making the forum resemble a virtual senior center.
When a wall bigger than the one in Game of Thrones has to be erected at Meltdown.
When the board owner insults a premiere Fractal artist and calls his "content" useless.
When the shoutbox is filled with glassy eyes automatons repeating "Good morning everyone" on an endless loop.
your site is dead...
many people saw what happened to Bra1in and how he had numerous mental breakdowns and ended up blowing up his forum... history has repeated itself.