Basically everything that you have said in this thread is 100% true...unfortunately. I really don't know what I can do to change it...to make Nubblies the nice place that it was before. It seems like the entire forum has changed from the "general chat" "reviews" and everything else to one big "shit talking central." It was destined to happen sometime... When all of the new people started joining, I thought that it would be good...because the members that would take away from the forum would stay for a few days and then leave, while the ones that would actually contribute would enjoy the company of others who actually contributed, thus making the forum stronger. Instead, the opposite has happened. The new people who continually post complete shit have pushed away the good people and, instead of having a growing solid user base, the growing shaky user base has deteriorated the loyal. I'm not saying that it is necessarily the fault of the new people. They didn't come to Nubblies hoping to find some type of profound group to which they could discuss any topic whatsoever. They (for the most part) came here to discuss different levels of hot chicks...and that's mostly my fault for letting that topic exist in the first place. Nubblies has grown out of control, as BDH stated. In the beginning it was good conversation, jibberish, and shit talking, which was, for the most part, confined to one forum. Now people are threatening to start fights and going crazy over what is practically nothing at all.
Even though loyals are dropping like flies...it doesn't have to be this way. Nubblies can still exist in the form that it did before, a form that will eventually weed out the weak and worthless and leave those who have great contributions to make. If we simply ignore the shitty posts and do our best to confine all out shit talking to the shit talking forum, where it belongs, Nubblies can live through all of this shit. It will continue to exist, but it will never be the same. What it will be is what you make it to be. Nubblies never has been anything more than what each member makes of it. It is here for you...not for Orgazmo or any other specific member, but for the user base as a whole. If you like it and want it to turn into something that can actually be useful to you, all that you need to do it make it that. If you want it to stop existing, continue to let dumbass posts control its future. One member's posts aren't going to change everything, but if we all do a little bit to change the content, Nubblies can start to shift back to the old style and, slowly but surely, regain the prestige that it once had.
To the people who have joined with the intent of being dumbasses...What is your purpose? What type of fun is it to come on here and be a moron? You don't have to continue to be a moron. You can either change your posting style or get an entirely new name to start over...but staying and posting the way that you have been serves no purpose at all...for you or the other members of Nubblies. If the 50% of the 98 or so members of Nubblies would post on topics that actually mattered (as opposed to topics that consisted of "fuck you") the board would be infinitely better...but, of course, the chances of that ever happening are slim to none. All I'm asking is that we all (including myself) try to make our posts a bit more useful. I have, on quite a few occasions, been guilty of the stuff that I've described above...so I'm not better than any of the "dumbasses" that I speak of...but if we all try to weed out the shit than perhaps we can save this place.
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