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Bah...

PaoloM

Sat May 18 03:30:20 2002

It is my impression or the IQ level in the BF dropped sharply while I was looking somewhere else?

I mean, the threads are liberally sparkled with pure ignorance (no Madan, I'm not talking about our discussion, I understand perfectly how having bad information could lead one to these conclusions). There's the usual personal attack when somebody dares to criticize the holy OSS, and finally the gratuitous MS bashing that I was expecting more from slashdot than from Ars.

So, what do you think? It's a normal case of "when I was young, these things didn't happen" or it is really going down the toilet?

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Sat May 18 03:32:53 2002

The BF has gone down the hole.  Some people have been there too long and absolutely hate certain other posters.
Harbinger

Sat May 18 04:42:06 2002

The level of personal animosity is ever-increasing.  Perhaps that's a by-product of a forum that actually sticks around and is active, combined with a lot of "old blood" (or perhaps not enough "new blood" -- and by that I mean actual contributors, not e.g. Hitman).

For instance, whenever Venture posts, there seem to be the usual lot of replies of "Vengie/Ventroll" and "Why do you hate Apple?" instead of actually addressing the points he raises.


Too many people respond to the poster rather than the actual post, and it sucks on all sides.  Unfortunately, I don't see many individuals attempting to readjust their current attitudes.

OscarWilde

Sat May 18 05:05:04 2002

Venture raises points?

i feel like i waste my time everytime i go to the BF now. i haven't gone there in a long time and if i do within a few seconds i've gone to another site.

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Sat May 18 05:08:37 2002

OW,

you haven't seen my speen anywhere have you? :cheesy:

OscarWilde

Sat May 18 05:12:03 2002

what is a speen?

you mean spleen?

in that case, what is a spleen?

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Sat May 18 05:12:57 2002

what is a speen?

Don't you remember our sillines in #macintosh???

OscarWilde

Sat May 18 05:16:19 2002

speaking of which log on you tool! why real time posting when we can be on irc and real time silly!
Jeremy Reimer

Sat May 18 15:21:10 2002

I used to be a religious reader of the Battlefront.

But lately I can't even be bothered to read certain threads.  Apple's marketshare?  Up? Down?  It gets lost in the countless Venture/antiVenture boredom.  I'm sick of the rabit tinfoil-hat Penguin crew bleating away about Microsoft being the cause of every bad thing that happens to everyone in the world.  And I stopped caring about the XBox LONG ago.

Of course the solution to that is to create great new threads.  I have a few in mind, I just have to get the motivation to actually start them.

Harbinger

Sat May 18 16:50:22 2002

I'm directing my "motivation" gaze at you right now, JR.  Are you getting an urge to go to Ars now?  Huh?  ;)