Hello. While I was exploring AG-based Xats, I've met several unactive/banned/"old-school" AG Users. Most of them said that, one of the main reasons to their inactivity here is that the site was better before.
Is that true?
How better? They say that the threads had more quality back in time.
Well, I can't tell if it was. I joined June 26th, so that's not too much knowledge on our awesome site...
Well, she kinda got annoyed with how AG3 was building up and stopped coming here most of the time, instead just popping online once or twice a month, if that much. Instead, she is using her time in Spiral Knights and City of Heroes, as well as various other places like the art communities she is a part of and the forums associated with the MMOs, I believe. She checks by, but usually when I point out something is happening on her profile or linking her to some reply in a thread which I think she should see, if nothing, then because I feel an urge to rant about it.
Anyway, to not derail this further into 'individual user' territory (too many trip mines), I was thinking about bringing back an old joy from the AMV: The Art Skill Competition. Though, it will doubtfully be as awesome as back in the days where Klaus got the reward of dishonour for the Box theme and the vets of the art community started trying to get said reward.
So...Much...Memories... *Emotional explosion leading to deep crying*
...it will doubtfully be as awesome as back in the days where Klaus got the reward of dishonour for the Box theme and the vets of the art community started trying to get said reward.
Though, it will doubtfully be as awesome as back in the days where Klaus got the reward of dishonour for the Box theme and the vets of the art community started trying to get said reward.
I keep promising to do the Poetry Competition, but I just give up everytime.
I find this thread illogical. People seem to be claiming that most of the people worth talking to left mostly because there were not enough people here worth talking to.
But, then there would have had to have been a first person to leave for such a reason. But, since this person is the first to leave, when they left there would have been just as many interesting people as there was when this place was cool.
In other words, in order for this place to lose talent, people would have had to have left when things were still good.
So. Maybe things were never that great in the first place. Or (more likely) people left because their expectations changed/ lives became complicated.
In this case, the decay of this site has more to do problems that exist in the real world. Unless, of course, you want to blame everything on boring new people. Blaming, after all, is crazy fun.
People seem to be claiming that most of the people worth talking to left mostly because there were not enough people here worth talking to
Except that its true. If you think the AMW is awesome now, you should have seen it two years ago. It was epic, what with the ASC and the NES, and the fact that even my most mediocre peice of writing could get a comment, while I can write an entire page worth of post and get nothing.
I think the problem arises in the fact that, while you have an equal amount of users worth knowing as there has always been, you have more users who... arent. Coupled with the fact that most only post once or twice, and people start to run together in your head.
Of course, I think I joined in what I call 'The Twilight'. I was too new to befriend the likes of Ricador, Pazx, Manta, and all them, and now I'm old to all you new people. :/
