Quote:radio show that doesn't even exist anymore.
Thats the key statement in my opinion, you cant have a bunch of people posting about relevant topics when the main subject that this board is about is defunct. I think ANY activity here is good activity. Until the boys come back, me feels that this is the way its gonna be.
Quote:Originally posted by KensPen
my point is that it wasn't the brilliant posts and humor of the members that led to this often eulagized golden age.
it was tooling on newbies who arrived by the truckload....
so you can never recapture that.
I can't speak for everyone of the "super-vets", but I can tell you that the joy I received from posting on the "old board" had nothing to do with tooling on newbies. It was the feeling that something new was going to happen at any moment and the anguish at the thought of missing the fun.
Any member could start a riotous fit of posting on a subject that more often than not might seem silly the next day. But, while you were contributing, you were refreshing like mad so as not to lose the feeling like you were involved.
Everyone was eager to post and keep posting until you met your physical and mental limit.
Nothing breeds activity like activity. That's what people miss.
so why and how did it stop.......
things change, people lose interest
i agree with tinymike and buttmunch. it wasn't about the toolin...it was about the activity and being in a time and place that had action, show mention, and was fun.
other boards had that for a bit too, but not the extent of the OA board in the heyday (post bangparty/pre-syndication). then as all good things do...it ended.
Quote:Originally posted by KensPen
so why and how did it stop.......
We rooned it ken. Its all us.
If I could answer that, I could probably do something to recreate it.
However, I feel that a lot of people "found" message boards for the first time. Or, they found a message board that fit their humor, or released something in them that they had never been able to express in the manner the board encouraged.
Now, there is a lot more of that type of site to be found. The intensity of the "feeling" has been diluted and/or the newness of the experience isn't as acute.
I agree mr. munch.....
also all the brilliant thoughts that you had the collection of amusing anecdotes, the funny lines you have, or stole from your friends, get used up.
it's like any group of friends....
some nights are brilliant and fun, and amazing,
other nights you drink beer and "chat".
the most fun I had at college was the first month of my freshman and sophomore year,
cause you are meeting people, and doing stuff for the first time.......
it's great.....
but the rest of the year ya can't sit around talking about how much fun September was.
very very true pen. well put.
Quote:Originally posted by KensPen
so why and how did it stop.......
It didn't completely stop. There was still an almost constant state of posting right up until OA.com's final day.
Maybe it was becuase the best topics had been done. Maybe (and I know some have argued this before) the in-person gatherings at Bar 9 and elsewhere meant that we took all the humor and good times into the real world instead of leaving it here in cyberspace.
Or <s>maybe</s> most likely it is simply because the site followed the ebb and flow of the show. It was a site created by folks in the Tri-State area <i>for</i> folks in the Tri-State area, at a time when the show was ours and ours alone. When they got syndicated, NYC and parts of Jersey or wherever the signal reached were no longer the only ones "in the know". It's kind of hard sharing something you enjoy with others, and the more people who came along and wanted to be part of the show (and in a way, we all felt like we were part of the show due to the interaction), and by extension the site which was most closely linked to that show, the more the folks who had been here the longest may have resented it.