Dog-amoto Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 Has anybody noticed a drop off in the amount of new posts or replies in the past couple of weeks or so? I know it's summer and people are outside and all, but some boards go untouched for days and there's only been about 4 or 5 new replies in the General board since last night. What gives?
Dannyboy-the-Dane Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 I've noticed it as well. There isn't nearly as much activity as there used to be.
Ramar Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 We could do with an Epic Thread or some Internet drama to get this place talking. Was it just me or was E3 quieter this year?
Hero-of-Time Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 It's even worse in the gaming section. There's a handful of people keeping the gaming boards alive.
Cube Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 We could do with an Epic Thread or some Internet drama to get this place talking. Internet drama....hmmm... I have an announcement to make. I'm pregnant.
Shorty Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 When I joined these boards I was about 14, now I'm 25. I have a 9-5 job, a fiancée and a mortgage isn't far off. Life is busy, and we've all grown up a bit. We probably scare off potential newbies because on the outset, our threads don't look that much fun. We hide all our games and creative stuff in a separate, quieter board and delete or quickly sink threads that seem childish or pointless. Also no matter how hard we tried to stop it, everyone insisted on having a these mega threads. You don't make a new thread when you hear a new artist, you add to the "what's the last song..." thread. You see the greatest revolution on the internet? Add it to the "Awesome Stuff Thread". Found out you're moving to one of the greatest cities in the world, all expenses paid? "Good Stuff thread". Not only does this hide all our content from our users, it hides it from search engines too, reducing new members. The only other contributing factor I can think if is probably sites like Facebook, which prompt us to sit in our own bubble and interact those we've deemed "friends" rather than trying to make new ones. Ironically social media seems to make us less sociable in many ways.
Jimbob Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 Hmm, i just tend to go to the forum games thread much of this month. I'm usually busy all day, and tired when i get home and can't be bothered to post elsewhere. I'm not saying negative about N-E, still love visiting. I think i need to post more though. We do have to understand that peoples lives are moving on, many of us are a lot older and have different lives than we did years ago.
The Peeps Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 There's nothing important enough going on to warrant any new threads. The playground forum is still pretty active :p
Murr Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 Not having Internet at home doesn't help my cause much at all, iPhone on 3g connection just doesn't cut it, And i've found myself more busy at work since this new position & training have come into play. Dunno, I guess threads should be created when someone reads something they think could be interesting on another site, but people don't tend to. Or it'll be related to an existing thread so people just post it there.
Ville Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 Well, the Olympics, at least those threads get a little activity. Still, I've gotten into the bad habit of not publishing. I might write a reply, and after I'm done...I just go nah, who cares, and close the tab. It's weird o_O
Magnus Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 There's nothing important enough going on to warrant any new threads. How can you say that when Cube's pregnant? That means he may have had sex at some point! That's pretty shocking news.
Dannyboy-the-Dane Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 When I joined these boards I was about 14, now I'm 25. I have a 9-5 job, a fiancée and a mortgage isn't far off. Life is busy, and we've all grown up a bit. We probably scare off potential newbies because on the outset, our threads don't look that much fun. We hide all our games and creative stuff in a separate, quieter board and delete or quickly sink threads that seem childish or pointless. Also no matter how hard we tried to stop it, everyone insisted on having a these mega threads. You don't make a new thread when you hear a new artist, you add to the "what's the last song..." thread. You see the greatest revolution on the internet? Add it to the "Awesome Stuff Thread". Found out you're moving to one of the greatest cities in the world, all expenses paid? "Good Stuff thread". Not only does this hide all our content from our users, it hides it from search engines too, reducing new members. The only other contributing factor I can think if is probably sites like Facebook, which prompt us to sit in our own bubble and interact those we've deemed "friends" rather than trying to make new ones. Ironically social media seems to make us less sociable in many ways. You're right. The closing of the big threads back then unfortunately didn't help matters much; people were still set in their ways, so few new threads were actually made, and the overall activity dropped. It also seem there's been a general decline in activity over the last couple of years. I'm sure there was much, much more activity when I first joined. Maybe we were just all younger and had more free time then. Though currently I think we're just in the dead of summer.
Magnus Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 But then Serebii must have had sex, too. That's even more shocking!
Goafer Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 You can all live in denial all you want, but deep down we all know it went downhill shortly after I "left".
Magnus Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 I think the forum started to go downhill after I joined. Sorry, guys.
James Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 (edited) The sad truth is Shorty's correct, you all moaned when the admins wanted to get rid of the larger threads and now your (one of youe) moaning because the boards are quiet, choices choices guys. Edited July 31, 2012 by James
Jon Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 I'm too busy watching Handball and Canoe Slalom and various other sports I only watch every 4 years around this time.
Happenstance Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 (edited) I just find myself less and less interested in posting here, I probably post on a couple of other forums more now Edited July 31, 2012 by Happenstance
Cube Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 A worrying fact: The forum is much, much less active at the same time ReZ is too busy to post much.
Dannyboy-the-Dane Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 The sad truth is Shorty's correct, you all moaned when the admins wanted to get rid of the larger threads and now your (one of youe) moaning because the boards are quiet, choices choices guys. The closing of the big threads didn't do much for activity, though. Obviously we're all to blame for lack of activity, but some of the criticism voiced when the threads were closed turned out to be valid enough.
Sheikah Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 (edited) People are kidding themselves if they think that having large threads is even close to a major factor (or even a factor) for why the forums gets less activity these days. It's like one of those lies that people have repeated so many times that they have started to believe it. Plenty of forums have these sorts of topics and have more activity. Plus it does not explain at all how there is less activity now when we have these threads, versus years ago when we had these threads and more activity. Times they be a changing. Shorty is right about existing members growing up an moving on/posting less, there's no doubt about that. Nintendo is also the drawing factor for people to a Nintendo forum, even if people eventually settle mostly in general. And we have to admit, Nintendo isn't the same and therefore doesn't draw the same sorts of people any more. Edit: apologies @Dannyboy\-the\-Dane I see the confusion now, I meant to say having large threads not closing them. :p Edited July 31, 2012 by Sheikah
Dannyboy-the-Dane Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 People are kidding themselves if they think that closing large threads is even close to a major factor (or even a factor) for why the forums gets less activity these days. It's like one of those lies that people have repeated so many times that they have started to believe it. Plenty of forums have these sorts of topics and have more activity. Plus it does not explain at all how there is less activity now when we have these threads, versus years ago when we had these threads and more activity. Just to be clear, this is not at all what I'm saying. In fact I don't think the overall decline in activity has had much, if anything to do with the big threads or their closing.
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