Boards almost dead?

Blitzkrieger

I think Boards.ie is almost finished

I've seen it happen with other boards : once a certain number of users is reached (7500 - 10000) they just die. When's the last time there was a really interesting topic here? How often have we heard : "That's been posted before" or "We've had that discussion already".

Generally less and less new topics are posted and people come back less and less, and there tends to be more hostility towards 'newbies' from the 'oldies' for posting the same old ****e all over again.

Discuss

Hobbes

Are you talking about boards.ie? Or the quake board?

neuro-praxis

This topic is so clichéd...

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Hecate

The answer is simple:

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en·tro·py (ntr-p)
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Symbol S For a closed thermodynamic system, a quantitative measure of the amount of thermal energy not available to do work.
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A hypothetical tendency for all matter and energy in the universe to evolve toward a state of inert uniformity.
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...which is basically whats happening to boards.ie, and everything else for that matter.

Kulgan

Hmmmm

aye in a way your right blitz ,

Like take the recent arrival of the "Trolls" board.

Just shows you how many recent Users there have been to boards.ie who are more interested in crap like that then discussing anything.

Trojan

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by neuro-praxis:
This topic is so clichéd...</font>

That's an unfair generalisation Neuro!

Slydice

Does boards have a system whereby it deletes accounts which aint being used, that would put people off making multiple accounts, wudnt it????

bugler

Boards.ie = dying = ridiculous lie.
i know I can't see the CS/HL boards dying,its the hub of the whole community. As for the creation of the trolls board, maybe you people who are interested in intelligent posts should go and do that(post intelligently) instead of bemoaning other people who won't.

Excelsior

Humanities has never been so busy.
I think it is doing just fine. Only thing is the older Quake community is almost totally superceeded by the younger and more vibrant CS community.

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neuro-praxis

Trojan, you are completely right, i utterly apologise. I am so sorry.

What i meant to say was that it is not clichéd at all, in any way, and neither is anything else, at all...nothing, at all, ever. No clichés even exist. None.

I hope that was more direct and less generalised. heh heh

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Paladin

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by neuro-praxis:
No clichés even exist. None.</font>

Thats an unfair gross generalisation.

Excelsior

And if I may say so myself, a typically reactionary opinion from your Type.