No, not GameSpot in general, but with a board on the forum.
Anyone else feel like you invest something when you post on a board. Whether you try to make it better, contribute daily, or anything have you ever just felt like you need a board as much as they need you? I have, and I can say this, when said board dies or is near death you feel guilty, like in a bad relationship. You want to keep it alive, you want it to get better, but you see it now and remember how the "good ol' days" were and you now look at it like it is a mere shadow of itself.
I recently deleted a board off of my favorites list. It is somewhere where my name was known for years, I started my posting adventures there back on the Lithium boards. Needless to say, I felt welcome there and wanted. Now, I look at it and I don't care.
But for some strange reason I kept going back, urging it to get better, wanting to see that glory that it once had shine through... but I have finally accepted the fact that it won't happen. So now it is gone. Out of sight, and soon to be out of mind. The posting habits have changed there, the names, the people, the attitudes... it is a hovel now when it was once a grand palace.
Anyone else feel this way about a board here or somewhere else? Like you want to get rid of it, somewhat like a significant other when the time to move on has long since past? You keep doing the same things, but in the back of your head you are telling yourself "time to move on!" That's what this board was to me, the girlfriend that was begging to come back when the relationship was well over. Well baby, time to move on.
PS - Simon Says Bleed! I just watched Demolition Man the other day... awesome!
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But thanks guys!
But... could it possibly have been that good? I've been to OT a few times, and there are some really funny people there; the only problem is, EVERYBODY is trying to be funny, and nobody acknowledges it anymore. If you make a really cutting, LOL remark, people won't reply with a "lol that was awesome" anymore. They try to one-up you with their own cutting remark.
Maybe our view of those heady, 6-hour days have been distorted by time. Maybe it wasn't all that great. If it was, why did people leave?
And I think that people are leaving because of options and choices they make. I'm not nearly as prominent of a poster as I once was. There were days where I could spend hours on here posting in OT, SW, GGD, and various other acronymns... now, I lurk more than I post and it isn't just because of the status... which I'm sure you are painfully aware of.
And OT has gone downhill in my eyes over the past four or so years. I'm not against nonsense, as most of you are well aware, but there is a difference between nonsense and just stupidity. I'm not pointing any fingers, but I tend to shy away from OT just because to me it is more of a cesspool than it is a place to hang out. But there is some truth to your words Eggy, always have been. But if reminicing on the past makes you fond for those days, it must have meant something to you at one point.
@LOEAnubis If by board you also include a forum then yes. When GR went down April 2007 we lost our forums so a user decided to make what we thought would be a temp forum to post until the old one came back this way everybody had a place to keep in contact. Well the old one never came back and I started over at the new forums. It was fine for a while but it just wasn't the same. It was dead half the time and then we ended up getting some unsavory new users and to me it just wasn't the same so I stopped posting there about a year ago now. In that time a few users that had accounts here on GS sent me a pm to come back. So finally last week I decide to go take a look and the first topic I saw that stuck out like a sore thumb was "I FOUND LEE!". First thought was ..ugh disruptive posting(mod in me took over) then I thought why the hell do they have a topic saying they found me when I never went into hiding. I made the mistake of clicking on the thread and someone posted a photo of my daughter and I that I had listed in a previous GS blog from Christmas 08. Fine..so I go to read on and then I see comments about my daughter. I am paraphrasing here. It started with "I need to get her phone number" which really didn't bother me but a few select members chose to take it to the extreme to which I never thought my so-called internet "friends" would stoop that low knowing most of them for 7 years now. There were some derogatory comments directed at my 13 year old daughter that absolutely disgusted me even though they were said in jest. I look at it this way. You want to **** with the man(me), fine but don't go near the spouse or especially any kid(s) joking or not. I have to stress joking or not because that is a line I would never cross and I would expect the same respect given back. Needless to say I made that one post and will never go back again. /Sorry for the rant.
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