Its a problem that persists in every community: As a community becomes more popular and/or accessible, the mean age of the community tends to go down, while at the same time the count of the lowest denominator goes up.
This results in a large increase of shitty shitposts for communities like OT.
The old community of OT used to be far more inaccessible and unfriendly to newcomers than it is now, kept itself smaller and "regulated" by shunning people outside of the community. I wont say its a better or even good time compared to back then (people outside of the clique definitively had a shitty time here (hi sonatora!), but it prositively meant that a much larger margin of posts was relevant and fitting for the arbitary judgements of the existing clique, ergo a illusion of better quality.
In some ways it is still the same in this regard, but with time flowing of the old clique get replaced by newcomers which softened up things for yet more newcomers. Or you could say, the cliques standarts for quality or what even qualifies as shitpost changed as the people in it changed. If you are one of those who are from the oldies, you may find those changes distasteful.
And if little to newcomes come things like Tuuba happen, with time. Man is it quiet there now.
Change is inevitable, and change is scary for most people.
As to why i posted? I saw content relevant to my interrests (discussion), if it werent there my activity would still be as dead as the last few months. If i only saw the oneliners that dominate the vast majority of this thread now (and perhaps always have) i wouldnt have posted. Its not content i like after all.
Also do we have a selfie thread somewhere? I belive i never posted a pic of myself but im sure a few of those who still remain are curious about my looks as ever. My lifes better now as do i feel better about myself now, so im not as opposed to showing myself as i was before.
This results in a large increase of shitty shitposts for communities like OT.
The old community of OT used to be far more inaccessible and unfriendly to newcomers than it is now, kept itself smaller and "regulated" by shunning people outside of the community. I wont say its a better or even good time compared to back then (people outside of the clique definitively had a shitty time here (hi sonatora!), but it prositively meant that a much larger margin of posts was relevant and fitting for the arbitary judgements of the existing clique, ergo a illusion of better quality.
In some ways it is still the same in this regard, but with time flowing of the old clique get replaced by newcomers which softened up things for yet more newcomers. Or you could say, the cliques standarts for quality or what even qualifies as shitpost changed as the people in it changed. If you are one of those who are from the oldies, you may find those changes distasteful.
And if little to newcomes come things like Tuuba happen, with time. Man is it quiet there now.
Change is inevitable, and change is scary for most people.
As to why i posted? I saw content relevant to my interrests (discussion), if it werent there my activity would still be as dead as the last few months. If i only saw the oneliners that dominate the vast majority of this thread now (and perhaps always have) i wouldnt have posted. Its not content i like after all.
Also do we have a selfie thread somewhere? I belive i never posted a pic of myself but im sure a few of those who still remain are curious about my looks as ever. My lifes better now as do i feel better about myself now, so im not as opposed to showing myself as i was before.
