Originally posted by Shadic
Forums are a bit of a dying breed. It's weird.
Forums are for longform discussion (or at least more nuanced shitposting). In this day and age, when's the last time you had more than a few minutes to crap out a tweet or a status on Facebook? We've become really conditioned towards that quick feedback loop, and having new information constantly shoved in our faces, that having to actually seek it out and
think about it starts to feel alien.
I am suddenly thinking of how this resembles Wall·E, the Pixar film, where the people on the ship get completely complacent in having everything done for them that they forget how to do things themselves. Hmm...
Originally posted by BatElite
My problem until a little while ago was that I felt most of the stuff I come up with would be below the bar of a "proper" forum. I feel like there has been a lower bar here in earlier years, but I can't say for certain and I don't know for other forums. (as I understand some people have been here since they were teens, and were not necessarily the most mature back then)
The stricter rules were definitely a thing, and something that in the last several years we've very strongly relaxed, as long as you're contributing to a discussion (and not being an asshole). Even then more than a handful of my posts are basically just shitposts in forum form
Some people could do with using a forum or at least a blog.
This plus the "last read" feature just make things easy. My go-to comparison is probably the commissions thread I have in the other forum. To find the newest thing,
just look for when it's got something new and jump to the most recent posts.
If you wanted to do the same with, say, Twitter, have fun scrolling through literally thousands of unrelated messages, only to find one orphaned tweet. Then you have to go digging even further back to find the rest.
It's the organization, threading, and marking that makes it work.
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