sleeper;1051432 wrote:Also, this thread is proof enough. We started talking about the worst moderator and now we have ended up discussing the future of the OC.

#sleeperwins

justincredible;1051429 wrote:Was it that 3ball guy?

queencitybuckeye;1051433 wrote:Some of them end any actual discussion, even if the posts continue for several more pages.

sleeper;1051441 wrote:The actual discussion likely would have fizzled out anyway. There's only so many users and their posts congratulating Urban Meyer on being the next head coach. That's the beauty of forums, thread titles aren't absolute, discussions evolve and go widely off topic all the time.

LJ;1051437 wrote:I've been on forums for quite a long time and what you do would have had a stop put to it a long time ago. Even on OT.

LJ;1051442 wrote:So start a new thread about the topic you want to discuss. LEave the other thread for the topic it is supposed to be about.

sleeper;1051444 wrote:Link?

sleeper;1051443 wrote:Doubtful. Did I mention I was a moderator of a site much larger and more active than this one? I wasn't any different there than I am on here.

Raw Dawgin' it;1051445 wrote:And you're not there anymore because....

sleeper;1051441 wrote:The actual discussion likely would have fizzled out anyway. There's only so many users and their posts congratulating Urban Meyer on being the next head coach. That's the beauty of forums, thread titles aren't absolute, discussions evolve and go widely off topic all the time.

LJ;1051439 wrote:We are talking about the moderation of the site on a thread about moderators. Not why Sleeper thinks ND sucks on an OSU thread.

queencitybuckeye;1051448 wrote:As has been stated by others, off topic is to be expected. This is not the same as the topic devolving into insults and clever ways to insert "fail" into words.

LJ;1051447 wrote:The forum died.

and I read some of the forum. It honestly a forum full of just people trolling.

LJ;1051446 wrote:huh?

sleeper;1051451 wrote:It is now. It didn't use to be that way. I feel this site mirrors that site when it first started going downhill. The admins were almost as naively optimistic as this one, guess who won?

Me.

sleeper;1051450 wrote:You are thinking about different posters than, because I rarely use that moniker and I rarely insult users unless the post something ridiculous and they need to be called out for it. No different than anyone else on this site, I'm just better at it.

sleeper;1051454 wrote:I wasn't aware that was a rule. If it is, its not applied evenly to everyone on this forum. If it is a rule, its a terrible rule because discussions are ever evolving. I'm starting to think you don't read my posts.

Raw Dawgin' it;1051445 wrote:And you're not there anymore because....

LJ;1051458 wrote:where did I say it was a rule? It's just general common sense that you don't need to discuss someone at Notre Dame dying in every single CFB thread you post in.

sleeper;1051460 wrote:I don't. Thanks for playing.

sleeper;1051459 wrote:Because its dead. It died long after I left. I left because the community was becoming to close knit and I was sick of hearing the same cliches, memes, and inside jokes over and over re-hashed. This forum is slowly becoming the same thing, maybe I'll leave this one too.

queencitybuckeye;1051457 wrote:My comments are to you, not necessarily about you (at least, not as the primary offender).

sleeper;1051459 wrote:Because its dead. It died long after I left. I left because the community was becoming to close knit and I was sick of hearing the same cliches, memes, and inside jokes over and over re-hashed. This forum is slowly becoming the same thing, maybe I'll leave this one too.

Skyhook79;1051477 wrote:How many times have we heard that one?