an open thread to the oldbies

[Spider-Fan]

Yep, things have certainly changed in my posting, life and on the Hype. Oh, wait...am I considered an oldbie? I know you guys have strict regs on that.

*Looks at join date*

You're a Midbie

the thing is i've been through a few waves of friends on here because the site used to attract characters. People left or were banned, others came in to fill their boots.


but its dried up a lil. The real test of the site is how active it is when there's no superhero news. If the quality topics and quality posters are there to bounce off of, you don't even notice it. When they are gone the place ****ing drags...

i dare say a thread entirely based on a stupid picture or an outdated phrase would not last a page and ahalf in todays 'economic climate'.

You're right about that. This site has changed a lot as a result of its increased popularity. However, whether this is a good or bad thing I do think is relative. To people who have been here for a long time and enjoy things like that, this kind of climate is unwelcome I grant you. But, to people not used to that, if that made a comeback perhaps they'd be turned off.

Things in life change as do people. I've changed a lot since I started posting here. I wasn't a community poster til 2006, now it is like the only place I go. The newbs on the site will go through the same thing when the new crop of posters come in 5 years and this site has changed. It might suck, but it is the reality. There are many posters I miss on here, believe me. I know the feeling

 

[November Rain]

2000 to early 2002 was the best. There were moderators but they let a lot slide because it was a small amount of posters who mostly moderated themselves.

did you find these older members became isolated by the appearance of the newer members

i assume these members were part of the spiderman and x2 waves.

i think i was part of the spiderman 2 hulk wave, I don't recall there being that many threads of this nature here at that time but maybe the older members dealt with it differently. I mean you still posted often up until you got moderation and slacked off.

you never came across as less engaged with it all...until then

 

[November Rain]

*Looks at join date*

You're a Midbie



You're right about that. This site has changed a lot as a result of its increased popularity. However, whether this is a good or bad thing I do think is relative. To people who have been here for a long time and enjoy things like that, this kind of climate is unwelcome I grant you. But, to people not used to that, if that made a comeback perhaps they'd be turned off.

Things in life change as do people. I've changed a lot since I started posting here. I wasn't a community poster til 2006, now it is like the only place I go. The newbs on the site will go through the same thing when the new crop of posters come in 5 years and this site has changed. It might suck, but it is the reality. There are many posters I miss on here, believe me. I know the feeling

With increased popularity should also come increased quality, increased drama, increased number of posters to debate, argue agree with, increase in the number of people on your friend list. increased crap but it should also balance itself out

I'm sure its out there but I always found it a decent site to show character.

It's like a school dance where no one is dancing

the older members would be inviting others to dance with them or making a prat of themselves so you'd feel less concious about doing the same.

now no one is dancing and no one is encouraging the fun.

 

[PLAS]

one of the things that made my interest drop, was that the posters I used to hang with started leaving
but I still lurk around

 

[JLBats]

2000 to early 2002 was the best. There were moderators but they let a lot slide because it was a small amount of posters who mostly moderated themselves.

Yes, I've heard a lot about that time and the more I hear the more I like it; it sounds like it was very much a small COMMUNITY of people, and it doesn't seem to have the excesses of any other period of the Hype. i.e., none of the blatant hostility of 2003-2006, but also none of the dullness of 2007-200?.

Also, now it's like I go into different subforums and there are posters I've never seen before, who can form actual sentences and contribute to conversation. I kind of wish some of the really great posters who confine themselves to the movie and comic forums would come on in to Community, because you never feel like you get to know someone in the comic based ones.

 

[Spider-Fan]

With increased popularity should also come increased quality, increased drama, increased number of posters to debate, argue agree with, increase in the number of people on your friend list. increased crap but it should also balance itself out

I'm sure its out there but I always found it a decent site to show character.

It's like a school dance where no one is dancing

the older members would be inviting others to dance with them or making a prat of themselves so you'd feel less concious about doing the same.

now no one is dancing and no one is encouraging the fun.

Increased popularity also means a wider audience of posters. Think of this as summer blockbuster versus cult classic. A cult classic is not a movie many have seen ideally, and instantly says something about the kind of person you are. At least to me. Now, a blockbuster has a wide audience, so while you may know MORE people, you won't know as many people that are like you. Cause the site is more accessible. I say Spider-Man 2, and non-comic geeks will discuss it with me (not always intelligently of course), but I say Cannibal The Musical, and if they've seen it, we're both dorks.

Does this make any sense to anyone other than me?

 

[SsM]

2000 to early 2002 was the best. There were moderators but they let a lot slide because it was a small amount of posters who mostly moderated themselves.

2001 was pretty awesome. Even though I wasnt there the entire year. When did spiderman come out again? 2002? I remember before it came out I was working on a spiderman conversion for Quake 3 with a few people on mIRC. we had a decent build running and I was doing some advertising on here when we got a C&D from Sony

 

[Matt]

did you find these older members became isolated by the appearance of the newer members

i assume these members were part of the spiderman and x2 waves.

i think i was part of the spiderman 2 hulk wave, I don't recall there being that many threads of this nature here at that time but maybe the older members dealt with it differently. I mean you still posted often up until you got moderation and slacked off.

you never came across as less engaged with it all...until then

To be honest, once you become a red shirt, you see pretty much everything that goes on here and just how stupid and petty most of the problems are and you get burnt out pretty quickly. And that in effect greatly diminishes one's enjoyment of the Hype.

As for why that era of poster left, I think a lot just got annoyed with the blatant hostility of the 2003-2006 era that JLBats references.

Yes, I've heard a lot about that time and the more I hear the more I like it; it sounds like it was very much a small COMMUNITY of people, and it doesn't seem to have the excesses of any other period of the Hype. i.e., none of the blatant hostility of 2003-2006, but also none of the dullness of 2007-200?.

Also, now it's like I go into different subforums and there are posters I've never seen before, who can form actual sentences and contribute to conversation. I kind of wish some of the really great posters who confine themselves to the movie and comic forums would come on in to Community, because you never feel like you get to know someone in the comic based ones.

You hit the nail on the head. And I agree about subforum posters. Hell, look at Showtime. He didn't stray from the Superman forum until early 2007.

 

[SsM]

To be honest, once you become a red shirt, you see pretty much everything that goes on here and just how stupid and petty most of the problems are and you get burnt out pretty quickly. And that in effect greatly diminishes one's enjoyment of the Hype.

As for why that era of poster left, I think a lot just got annoyed with the blatant hostility of the 2003-2006 era that JLBats references.



You hit the nail on the head. And I agree about subforum posters. Hell, look at Showtime. He didn't stray from the Superman forum until early 2007.

I started coming out of the products forums this year.

 

[OctaviusINC]

I like to read posts more than post myself. Unless I have art work or a manip or question related to superheroes. But I still think it's fun here. Of course it gets better when a hyped up comic film comes out, but I sort of like it when it's quiet like this. This is the only forum I belong to also. SHH boards pretty much cover any interest.

 

[Carcharodon]

Yes, I've heard a lot about that time and the more I hear the more I like it; it sounds like it was very much a small COMMUNITY of people, and it doesn't seem to have the excesses of any other period of the Hype. i.e., none of the blatant hostility of 2003-2006, but also none of the dullness of 2007-200?.

Oh, there was some hostility, but it was FUN. Were you around for bakerboy and Mr Parker?

THAT is classic Hype!.

 

[SsM]

I like to read posts more than post myself. Unless I have art work or a manip or question related to superheroes. But I still think it's fun here. oOf course it gets better when a hyped up comic film comesut, but I sort of like it when it's quiet like this. This is the only forum I belong to also. SHH boards pretty much cover any interest.

Better.. and worse at the same time because there a rush of new people that spam about it :/

 

[OctaviusINC]

^Very True.

 

[Spider-Nerd]

The hamster daredevil is gone...

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

They hamster daredevil is gone...

now that is old hype

 

[Spidey-Bat]

I pretty much post in Community, the MLB thread, the Office and Scrubs thread, and Video game section. I occasionally look at the Politics section but that's rare.

My interest in comics has pretty much died. I used to be into a lot of things. Movies, Marvel Legends, Batman, Spider-Man, X-Men. Now I really only like Batman and haven't kept up with it in years. I remember I was super-hyped up for Begins. But for Dark Knight? I barely posted in that section.

I still post a lot because I'm online a lot. Now that I'm in college though, I'll slowly start to post less and less.

 

[CFE]

See I have the exact opposite problem whenever comic films are announced/near release.

The place then gets flooded...I mean FLOODED...with newbies who only stay for the duration of the given film's hoopla and only mildly contribute to said film's forums...not to the Hype in general.

I use to frequent the Bat-Boards nearly exclusively because of my joining right when the hype over what became 'BB' got started. But now, I'm starting to gradually shift over to being a more general and well rounded member. It helps when you have a user-name that's not exclusive to any one charater (though there's nothing wrong with that...OctaviousINC, Spider-Fan, and a few others being shining examples).

I admit the Hype doesn't quite have the bite it did when I first joined...We just haven't had a current 'Crisis on Infinate Earths' or 'Civil War' y'know?

Like I joined just before the whole 'spiderfreddie saga' LOL ... It's great to have forum history and the ability to sit around and tell stories like that....But we don't have that now...any scuffles generally are small and resolved quickly. They aren't some sweeping opus that bonded all of us together like they used to be. It's like all these years have been our "Indiana Jones Trilogy" ...and we just haven't had our "Crystal Skull"...our next big adventure.

All we need is some totally out of left field *****e bag to join and cause a big ruckus...and the mods should let it go for a month or 2 so we've got yet another 'tale' LOL

 

[AndThePickles]

There are a lot more people who make me roll my eyes now, but I think that's due to the larger number of posters/loungers.

I still really enjoy some of the debates that go on in the more serious threads, and *certain* silly ones are fun. If I didn't still enjoy it here, I wouldn't still be posting

 

[Colossal Spoons]

This thread again?

Ok, things were better a few years ago. Let's work to make this mofo fun again rather than sit and wallow in nostalgia and hate on the nubs around here

 

[JLBats]

There are a lot more people who make me roll my eyes now, but I think that's due to the larger number of posters/loungers.

I think THIS is a phenom that deserves exploration, there seems to be tons and tons of posters who make jokes that are just atrocious AND with weird mispellings and typos. They're the kind of posters who overuse "" THIS kind of smiley

Where do they come from? What's up with them? They seem to derive pleasure from the "Rate the {whatever} above you!" threads, where they operate on a less than conscious level of thought, posting "9/10, 8/10, 9/10, 7/10..." over and over again. Can they be cured?

 

[Raiden]

Well, I never post that much until recently (hence my slow accumulation of posts to 7k), so this doesn't really affect me.

 

[Double Down]

I totally get where you guys are coming from. Way back when I first started posting, everyone was cool. But this new crop of newbies -- the ones who joined in the past two or three months -- I just don't understand them.
I can vividly remember the good old days, when you could have a big butt bouncing next to a smiling Bill Cosby in your avatar or when two fictional space vehicles were allowed to make love to one another (as God and George Lucas intended). Ah, nostalgia.

 

[Arcturus]

I've been here since 2002. I usually visited the Spider-Man forums. It's been too damn long.

 

[knowsbleed]

All we need is some totally out of left field *****e bag to join and cause a big ruckus...and the mods should let it go for a month or 2 so we've got yet another 'tale' LOL

That will never happen. The moderation here has become so strict within the last year to year and a half that any "saga" that you mentioned involving the likes of Spiderfreddie will be squashed within a thread or two.

See, I disagree. I don't think that the Hype! is suffering right now from attention ****es or ********s. It's just downright boring. Most of the people who post here now seem radically vanilla, and "********s" or not, the old posters you're bashing, who are mostly banned anyway, brought an edge and a life to these boards. They'd post witty tirades and make threads like "Clones Have NO SOULS!!!" hilarious. There is none of that hilarity now.

In fact, I'd say that right now the Hype! is suffering less from an ABUNDANCE of *******s... and more from a LACK of content.

I don't want to say that the old Hype!, where it was just a downright hostile environment for everyone, was great or anything, but it seems like the Hype! right now has decided to pad all its corners to avoid certain people losing eyes

I agree with all that.

 

[SsM]

I think THIS is a phenom that deserves exploration, there seems to be tons and tons of posters who make jokes that are just atrocious AND with weird mispellings and typos. They're the kind of posters who overuse "" THIS kind of smiley

Where do they come from? What's up with them? They seem to derive pleasure from the "Rate the {whatever} above you!" threads, where they operate on a less than conscious level of thought, posting "9/10, 8/10, 9/10, 7/10..." over and over again. Can they be cured?

Hahaha, I thought they did that just to get their post counts up. I'm sure since those threads have all been moved to the Diner their use has significantly declined.