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Why don't people use forums as much anymore?

kevinorsomething

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Why have people stopped using forums in recent years? Have they just lost popularity or what? It might just be me, but I have always loved forums, and I'm surprised it took me so long to find this place. I just wanna know why you guys think they've slowly died off in recent years.
 
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The thing about most forums is they have all kinds of rules. If you say something they do not want to hear they kick you off.
If you use a cuss word they kick you off.
If you disagree with certain people they kick you off.
If you have a different belief they kick you off.
And the big one is if you piss off the owner they kick you off.

It isn't that people have stopped using forums. The truth is that most have been kicked off the forums.
 
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Forums are generally related to a topic group. car forums talk about cars , a certain model or brand. Anything else is verboten. My Crossfire Forum had a political section. Over time the Forum managers removed it as "Controversial"

Facebook and TikTok are about anything. Just don't post something conservative.
 
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kevinorsomething said:
Why have people stopped using forums in recent years? Have they just lost popularity or what? It might just be me, but I have always loved forums, and I'm surprised it took me so long to find this place. I just wanna know why you guys think they've slowly died off in recent years.
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the demise of 'forums' does not have a simple answer.
I sysop'ed on a CompuServe forum that grew to 600+ messages per day, with ~2,000 people logging in daily.
CompuServe failed, got sold. but that forum still exists today - the last message was posted in April, 2021.

people participated in forums, you needed a computer, a modem, and a portal.
when did computers become uber widespread in homes?
mid 80's I got my first computer - I waited for the IBM PS/2 line, as that was supposed to bring costs down.
PS/2 with 60GB hard drive, VGA monitor, Epson 14" dot matrix printer. set me back about $8,000.
1.14MB floppies were $10 _each_ and I was the only one on the street that had a home computer.

that scene was changed when Michael Dell ate IBM for lunch. suddenly a whole raft of clones came to market at price points people could afford. about that time 'ISP providers' multiplied - suddenly everyone was on the internet.

those users were mid-20's to mid-30's - and that was 30 years ago - they are now in their 50's - 60's,,, and up.
the next generation - like my kids - grew up using computers.
but, the following generation grew up with a silver smart phone in their mouth, err,,,, hands....

as the OP experienced, exploring the web on a smart phone is like super very tedious.
which made 'one line' apps like Twitter and Facebook more attractive. kids can get to the very specific places 'they like' and everything they've opted into gets stuffed in front of their face "automatically"
Forums require a bit of thought, the popular apps - no thought/effort.
anyone who does email or other with a smart phone has learned the joys of virtual keyboards....
altho I must say, I've observed people thumb typing at astonishing speeds.

now - hints of the future for the observing . . . .
what is the trend in smart phones?
the trend is: BIGGER!
the larger smart phone are roughly 1/2 the size of an iPad/Go tablet.
two inch screens worked for phone calls, not so much for watching movies.
eventually the smart phone will grow into a computer.
and the circle will be complete.
 
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I like to encourage yl's in our hobby and often post useful tips in safety and building and repair of equipment.
But ive been a member of qrz and lately the have been deleting my posts on the yl forum,
Their reasoning ( this is a yl only forum)
Its getting a little too secularized.
 
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I finally lost my Facebook virginity this week after being on there since the early 2000s. All for a simple misunderstanding of one comment I made. The post was an article about kids finding ways to skip school. All I replied was "if kids don't want to go to school, they simply call in a bomb threat". Because it mentions bomb threat, I was restricted for 30 days. Can still post but can't post anything for sale and can't see certain pictures on classified ads. Like that has anything to do with the original post that got me a pee pee slap.
 
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NorthernRedneck said:
I finally lost my Facebook virginity this week after being on there since the early 2000s. All for a simple misunderstanding of one comment I made. The post was an article about kids finding ways to skip school. All I replied was "if kids don't want to go to school, they simply call in a bomb threat". Because it mentions bomb threat, I was restricted for 30 days. Can still post but can't post anything for sale and can't see certain pictures on classified ads. Like that has anything to do with the original post that got me a pee pee slap.
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🤣🤣🤣 here's my big offense and punishment.



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UberBastid said:
Do posters get banned from this forum for posting Biden love notes?
Are Socialist Progressives welcome here?

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It would seem most anyone can post here. Fools, idiots and sob's so long as they refrain from personal insults to other posters.
Of all the forums on which I have posted and belong, this one is the most lenient and yet the most enjoyable, because of the mods.

My complements to all of them
 
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FrancSevin said:
It would seem most anyone can post here. Fools, idiots and sob's so long as they refrain from personal insults to other posters.
Of all the forums on which I have posted and belong, this one is the most lenient and yet the most enjoyable, because of the mods.

My complements to all of them
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True story right there!!! Case in point, me. Biggest asshole who ever posted here and never banned. Imagine that? If my memory was not fading I'm sure I could cite at least two dozen times when I should have been.

As to whether Socialist-Progressives are welcome here? Of course they are as long as they keep their fucked up idiotic opinions to themselves and stop embarassing themselves in public. :yum: :hammer: :yum: :p:D
 
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tiredretired said:
True story right there!!! Case in point, me. Biggest asshole who ever posted here and never banned. Imagine that? If my memory was not fading I'm sure I could cite at least two dozen times when I should have been.

As to whether Socialist-Progressives are welcome here? Of course they are as long as they keep their fucked up idiotic opinions to themselves and stop embarassing themselves in public. :yum: :hammer: :yum: :p:D
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I don't have a problem with socialist progressives posting here at all. So long as they are respectful in tone and comments. This is a place of discussion and exchange of ideas. After all, like minds tend to be boring.

Calling someone an idiot bastard here should get one banned for a while.

And, it does.
 
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FrancSevin said:
I don't have a problem with socialist progressives posting here at all. So long as they are respectful in tone and comments. This is a place of discussion and exchange of ideas. After all, like minds tend to be boring.

Calling someone an idiot bastard here should get one banned for a while.

And, it does.
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WTF they would be banning my whole vocabulary, Doing that would be racist in my book. Its where and how I grew up, that makes me who I am.
 
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FrancSevin said:
I don't have a problem with socialist progressives posting here at all. So long as they are respectful in tone and comments. This is a place of discussion and exchange of ideas. After all, like minds tend to be boring.

Calling someone an idiot bastard here should get one banned for a while.

And, it does.
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Like I said, my memory is fading but I do not ever recall calling anyone that. That is kind of over the top. LOL. I guess I have always been much more polite when using the term " Stupid Fucking Liberal" :D :yum: o_O
 
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tiredretired said:
Like I said, my memory is fading but I do not ever recall calling anyone that. That is kind of over the top. LOL. I guess I have always been much more polite when using the term " Stupid Fucking Liberal" :D :yum: o_O
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I don't believe you ever did either. But someone did and they got busted.

Nothing wrong with being stubborn and argumentative. But respect is needed in this Agora for intelligent intercourse.
 
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kevinorsomething said:
Why have people stopped using forums in recent years? Have they just lost popularity or what? It might just be me, but I have always loved forums, and I'm surprised it took me so long to find this place. I just wanna know why you guys think they've slowly died off in recent years.
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Other than my Intro message, this is my first post here, but I have been around.

I think Americans have always gotten a "pay off" when we would chat or debate in person or online until the new Millennium, when ideologues and anonymous onlne agent provocateurs denied us any resolution in our debate exchanges.

Remember wen we used to ask our unseen online adversaries if they would agree with our perfectly reasonable statements but they would respond as though we had suggested that we all should drink poison?

The bad guys have come to challenge or dominate online political debate.

Those good hearted American patriots who won't or can't fight the bad guys fled.

I have a few days before I decide to stick around here or not.

We will see.

🤓🇺🇸
 
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I belong to 2 motorbike forums, a Mexico travel forum, drone forum, boating forum, and this place.
Don't spend a lot of time on any of them to be honest.

Never had crackbook or tiktok.
 
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Neither do we mail letters anymore. We stopped when the workers at the post office began opening our letters, writing down anything they thought they could use to sell to an Ad firm, sealing the letter back up, and sending it on.
 
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rebrecs said:
Neither do we mail letters anymore. We stopped when the workers at the post office began opening our letters, writing down anything they thought they could use to sell to an Ad firm, sealing the letter back up, and sending it on.
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Seriously????

We spent 200 years sending mail, some 100 of them because long distance phone service was expensive. Besides, the world spun much slower back then and we had the time.

Now we have E-Mail and instant gratification via the cellphone and the internet. Before we had to create the message and write it down ,,, without spell check,,, and then the task of getting stamps and posting it in a mail-box. Letters are obsolete in today's faster world.

You are right about not trusting the post office. But selling what we wrote in personal letters? I would love to see the evidence.
 
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I agree with Franc's post above.

I disagree that forum use in on the decline. As more get totally fed up with Facebook and Zuckerberg's censorship police more and more feel more comfortable connecting on a smaller venue. Forums offer that. But, today there are thousands more forums than there were 10 years ago. So users are spread out across all the various options but people are still using forums. Spammers sure waste a lot of time and energy trying to get their messages on the forums. They would not do that if forums were dying.
 
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FrancSevin said:
Seriously????

We spent 200 years sending mail, some 100 of them because long distance phone service was expensive. Besides, the world spun much slower back then and we had the time.

Now we have E-Mail and instant gratification via the cellphone and the internet. Before we had to create the message and write it down ,,, without spell check,,, and then the task of getting stamps and posting it in a mail-box. Letters are obsolete in today's faster world.

You are right about not trusting the post office. But selling what we wrote in personal letters? I would love to see the evidence.
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I did a bad job conveying. I hoped to use that very satirical treatment of the post office to make a point - being- I believe *had the post office gotten caught doing that, the backlash would have been severe. I notice even, that those who have accepted e-surveillance still get edgy thinking about a revered institution (post office) doing the same. Its true, the cops can and have made the post office hand over letters. The US Military and Intelligence agencies also. I would be shocked if corporations ever convinced them to do it. I am not really trying to convert anyone to believing as I do, but I hope I cleared up the post office thing
 
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rebrecs said:
I did a bad job conveying. I hoped to use that very satirical treatment of the post office to make a point - being- I believe *had the post office gotten caught doing that, the backlash would have been severe. I notice even, that those who have accepted e-surveillance still get edgy thinking about a revered institution (post office) doing the same. Its true, the cops can and have made the post office hand over letters. The US Military and Intelligence agencies also. I would be shocked if corporations ever convinced them to do it. I am not really trying to convert anyone to believing as I do, but I hope I cleared up the post office thing
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You don't make sense.
Shut up.
 
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