Forum Topic: Newgrounds BBS Is Getting Ol

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Insomnia

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Posted at: 1/29/03 06:04 AM

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Every night, around 1am to 4am, I sit down infront of my computer, look at Teh Carl who sits upon my monitor, and I decide to check out the local Newgrounds.com BBS. For the past 3 days I've come, and I've seen the same old pointless discussions. It seems that the Newgrounds.com BBS is slowly losing it's soul. I see the same old topics on the front page. I see the same old ignorant people. I see the same old regulars, who also seem to be nearing their breaking point.

I'm not sure if it is just me, but I am slowly getting bored of the NG BBS. Every day I come and I look at it, and I wonder if I should even bother responding to some of the topics. Nothing I say really matters here, since 80% of the NG society is filled by immature preteens. They like to talk about anime and argue with eachother. Intellectuals like Newgroundling, Haqnspitt and shrapnel are slowly beginning to fade away, leaving me alone in a sea of flaming n00bs, who call eachother gays and faggots, who make pointless crews, who's soul purpose is to make others feel bad about themselves.

Can anybody tell me why there is even a reason to come back night after night? I could be doing other things to expand my mind, perhaps read one of the many books on my shelf, or perhaps I could really expand my mind and purchase a half ounce of Salvia Divinorum and trip out all day. The only ones of you that are keeping me partially sane are people like olskoo, bevin, primus frog, manwiththegoldengun, mystified jmbd, shadow, tanner, and of course, frogbagclock. The rest of you seem to just have a purpose to piss me off, leaving me alone to have conversations with Teh Carl.

To all those people that help keep me sane.
To all those people that actually post intellectual conversation.
To all those people that I forgot.
{{{{thank you}}}}


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the-unknown-soldier

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Posted at: 1/29/03 06:10 AM

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Yeha i must admit i feel their has been a big difference in the BBS in the last few months. maybe its just in a dry patch. may i sujest stopping by the policitics section where people like swayside will challenge and entertain you, leaving a few extra brain cells in the otherwise empty head of the newgrounds mind.

Id love to talk intelligent with people but everyday i find myself droping down to their level, until i realise that their level is just a boring repeative merry go round. The tank logo used to satidy me fr days on end. now i don't know... guess we have to soldier on.


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this board could use emoticons:p


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Insomnia

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Posted at: 1/29/03 06:31 AM

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At 1/29/03 06:26 AM, Kirby1234 wrote: this board could use emoticons:p

Yes, as if emoticons would fix all of our troubles. Thankyou for this priceless piece of advice. What we really need is a test. This test would see if the BBS user would qualify to post a certain number of posts. Low scorers would not be able to come to the BBS. Fair scorers would only be able to respond to topics, and not create them. And if you got a really bad score, like 99% of you would, Newgrounds.com would send out a SWAT team beat you senseless and take all of your money. This would also help Tom and Wade pay for the server!


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Posted at: 1/29/03 06:38 AM

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I agree, I will volunteer for this SWAT team. im pretty buff, and I like to beat 15 year old smart mouth pricks (87% of newground users) as much as possible. I will be like Jay and Silent Bob


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Stephen9o3

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Posted at: 1/29/03 06:56 AM

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I agree with what you say espiccailly about all the new pointless crews/clubs... since I'm somewhat new to the BBS I thought it had always been like this but I guess not.


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Posted at: 1/29/03 06:59 AM

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i cant really expect anyone to respect my opinion, seeing as how this is my first post on this board, but i can say that the reason that ive never posted here is because of the 13 year old just trying to be cool and talk shit.

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Posted at: 1/29/03 07:10 AM

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At 1/29/03 06:59 AM, ifuckbecky wrote: i cant really expect anyone to respect my opinion, seeing as how this is my first post on this board, but i can say that the reason that ive never posted here is because of the 13 year old just trying to be cool and talk shit.

in that case, you are amoung those that this topic is taling about. no one wants to see you mouth off because it's fun. i don't come here to be cool, and i most certainly don't load up the bbs thinking about how much of an ass i can be to people. speak when you have something to say. otherewise, we don't want you.


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Posted at: 1/29/03 07:19 AM

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oh by the way, insomnia, one of the reasons i've noticed that has caused the drop of intrelectual conversation is the n00b war. a majority of clubs/crews/crap is started by the n00bs. more experienced members have seen the same things before or don't want to deal with it at all so they speak there mind and make it perfectly clear who the n00bs are. this is where the real conflict arises. not being able to change th fact that they are new to the bbs, the n00bs play the victim, actually getting some higher level users to take their side.

not all n00bs are stupid, and not all higher level users are intellectual. but you might seem to notice the dumb ones more. if you walk into a room that has a good tempurature, would you go on and on about how nice it feels? not likely. but if you walk into a cold room, would you not complain? even if you didn't, your body would still react to it.

hang in there, every sour wind dies down...


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Posted at: 1/29/03 07:20 AM

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What this board could use is tighter mod presence.....or a real mod presence at all.

"Oh no, they're taking our freedoms away!!!" The idiots would cry, as they lose their confidence in insulting people and acting like an idiot while hiding behind their computer screens. Humanity at it's best. Cowards.


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At 1/29/03 07:10 AM, swayside wrote:
At 1/29/03 06:59 AM, ifuckbecky wrote: i cant really expect anyone to respect my opinion, seeing as how this is my first post on this board, but i can say that the reason that ive never posted here is because of the 13 year old just trying to be cool and talk shit.
in that case, you are amoung those that this topic is taling about. no one wants to see you mouth off because it's fun. i don't come here to be cool, and i most certainly don't load up the bbs thinking about how much of an ass i can be to people. speak when you have something to say. otherewise, we don't want you.

actually i did have something to say. i was trying to explain that ive been a member since 2001 and i didnt post on this board until now. either way its a losing battle on a website message board. you either get chewed out by a bunch of comp nerds who sit around on their pcs all day and bash new people, or you get 12 year olds who spam. what do you want people to do, bow down to the almighty "old schoolers" just because you post 8000 times a day? stop taking yourself so seriously

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Posted at: 1/29/03 07:45 AM

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I doubt the mistake was made when it was decided to let everyone who wanted, post something on the BBS; everyone has an opinion, and everyone needs to let off mindless jargon, so it doesn't clog their arteries, and cause them to choke and die on their own mindless jibberings. What we really need is more BBS sections; at least one more in any case. General should remain as it is, but perhaps have an "intellectuals" section as well? Perhaps that's what politics and such is for, but I doubt everyone who has something good to say must say it about the War on Iraq or some such...


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Posted at: 1/29/03 07:46 AM

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Since I myself am pretty new to the forums, i dont know of any change in the forum. The first topic i efer saw in here was bigfan7's stupid boob contest. Later, i found out that there actually are people with functional brains in this forum... fells kinda bad when u say its only going downhill.


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Posted at: 1/29/03 07:50 AM

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Just do what I did - leave. Only now I seem to be posting again, albeit very infrequently.

Ah well, quit complaining. You don't have to come to this BBS if you don't want to.

-Ed


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That post was very inteligent !

But, now my head hurts & I must goto anime topics !
..........................Jokes.....

Yes,

I have also noticed the frequent use of crews & stupid new users asking the same old questions....

I cant really think of an inteligent way around this ?

ohwell... Maybe you should join http://www.ngwatchers.tk it has its own boards & they are alot more social then these...

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The only ones of you that are keeping me partially sane are people like olskoo, bevin, primus frog, manwiththegoldengun, mystified jmbd, shadow, tanner, and of course, frogbagclock. The rest of you seem to just have a purpose to piss me off, leaving me alone to have conversations with Teh Carl.

sorry dude...

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Posted at: 1/29/03 10:22 AM

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At 1/29/03 07:20 AM, zMDude wrote: What this board could use is tighter mod presence.....or a real mod presence at all.

"Oh no, they're taking our freedoms away!!!" The idiots would cry, as they lose their confidence in insulting people and acting like an idiot while hiding behind their computer screens. Humanity at it's best. Cowards.

Haha, thats awesome, cause its sorta happening right now. What we need is an official list of rules posted by Wade. Then we can do some serious banning.

Insomnia: You can leave, but leave Carl. Translation: Dont leave.


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At 1/29/03 06:04 AM, Insomnia wrote: Every night, around 1am to 4am, I sit down infront of my computer, look at Teh Carl who sits upon my monitor, and I decide to check out the local Newgrounds.com BBS. For the past 3 days I've come, and I've seen the same old pointless discussions. It seems that the Newgrounds.com BBS is slowly losing it's soul. I see the same old topics on the front page. I see the same old ignorant people. I see the same old regulars, who also seem to be nearing their breaking point.

Funny you post something like this when we have just made people such as Shrapnel BBS moderators who will now be encouraged to be more active as they will be cleaning up this BBS and removing the immature kids and hopefully making this a better place. :)


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Posted at: 1/29/03 10:36 AM

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As long as you don't delet me or anything please.


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Don't be so down, bubbeh. Go watch my New Clay Donkeys movie, Teh Carl makes a guest apperance in it.


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But we love the Carl. ;_;

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I used to be a leet regular here, i hardly stop by long enough to tie my shoelaces any more...
In my view the clock crew killed this forum...


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At 1/29/03 10:51 AM, sleepyfrog wrote: I used to be a leet regular here, i hardly stop by long enough to tie my shoelaces any more...
In my view the clock crew killed this forum...

This forum was dead long before the Cl0ck Crew came int0 the mainstream. The newb fl00d 0f the summer 0f 01' is what killed it.

0H YAH HIIIIII!


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At 1/29/03 10:53 AM, DingleberryClock wrote: The newb fl00d 0f the summer 0f 01' is what killed it.

I hate summer of '01.

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Funny you post something like this when we have just made people such as Shrapnel BBS moderators who will now be encouraged to be more active as they will be cleaning up this BBS and removing the immature kids and hopefully making this a better place. :)

thanks wade!!!!

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At 1/29/03 10:32 AM, WadeFulp wrote:
At 1/29/03 06:04 AM, Insomnia wrote:

It seems that the Newgrounds.com BBS is slowly losing it's soul. I see the same old topics on the front page. I see the same old ignorant people. I see the same old regulars, who also seem to be nearing their breaking point.

Its true

Funny you post something like this when we have just made people such as Shrapnel BBS moderators who will now be encouraged to be more active as they will be cleaning up this BBS and removing the immature kids and hopefully making this a better place. :)

Hopefully it will become a better place


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At 1/29/03 10:36 AM, BigFan7 wrote: As long as you don't delet me or anything please.

why not? you are responsible for most of the inane crap spam shit topics that are on this bbs, eg. "new hentai pic in my profile", "funny pictures", "new anime shows". you revive your old pointless topics when nobody else wants to, and i quote,

"I've always liked Pokemon. Ever sence it 1st came out. But Im not as bad as those people who watch Yu-gay-oh. Belive it or not but the guy who origanly drew yu-gi-oh is really gay, he just drew yu-gi in the likeness of his gay lover. So Pokemon isn't the worst.

if that's not homophobic, i don't know what is. i think the ass should be banned!!!


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yeah, I get what you mean (hopefully I'm not one of those noobs you refered to), lately all the topics have been really stupid, annoying or plain Spam, the very few topics that I still reply are the Blam Club, the LATINOS, the I'm leaving, and one or two semi-interesting ones that may come out.

A lot of the users that I used to see posting when I first came here, I haven't seen them in a while, I guess they got tired as well.
but they say hope is the last thing you can lose. let's just hope that it will fix itself and go back to the way it was.


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Pokemon is pretty cool although the name has a shade of an erected private part!


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At 1/29/03 10:32 AM, WadeFulp wrote: removing the immature kids

I assume i should start running now then?

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