There used to be constant political and religious threads in the lounge. Did we crack down on that, or is it just because LessBread isn't around? ;)

I think part of fir's criticism is with the moderation policies
--whenever there's a controversial thread (read: flame war), we ask it to get back on topic, and then lock it when it doesn't.
-- the user base also does the same via the ratings system, where contaversial users (read: ignorant) get bombarded with downvotes.
Both of these mean that there's little controversy in discussions, but at the same time, there is a bit of a clique of popularist flaming, where insulting unpopular users isn't downvoted...

I personally dont care for up and down votes, and moderation I find a bit of too much conservative, but also dont care

Its more about some closed mindness ActiveUnique mentioned

this forum is some kind of narrow in some set of activities/expressions. It resembles a boring classroom where I wolud probably prefer a crazy pub full of oryginals ;/

But I was realy saying yet on another thing, maybe more my personal one, This forum strangely demotivates me,

My energy drops down here, for example some interesting

topics which I would want to discuss for weaks are answered

quickly partially and forum goes to another, This is to fast

to me.. I need some forum where one can discuss topics

slower and longer but in more depth

To much crowd, topics change to quick, If this is so quick and is like fastfood consumption it feel uninteresting for me and i feel this wastes my time and energy same like city traffic life where i prefer slow village country life

so i can mention two things ;/

1) fastfood/city traffic quick style

2) narow expressions like in a boring classroom

3) ? (**)

maybe more but I dont know, I just feel this place demotivates

me and I am not quite compatible with it,

- One thing is i am bored in general and indeed maybe i need

to some society just for fun playing games and drinking beer

- Second thing is for work i need to find some slower forum

where everything is slower (and topics live longer - does maybe someone know that kind of forum?)

PS. I had not hope that it will change here, maybe some better categorisation on smaller but clearly divided categories (as I said for example some category for 'code optymisation' etc would help it to make place where it would be not so crowded and topic could last longer and be discussed with more care), but it will probably not do..

There used to be constant political and religious threads in the lounge. Did we crack down on that, or is it just because LessBread isn't around?

We had a limited crackdown on the religious topics after a run of pretty bad flame-wars all at once, but not on political topics.

As it stands both are still allowed but tend to be watched fairly carefully and closed when they inevitably break down into repetitive arguments or stray too far off topic.

Actually the Lounge is becoming more and more boring, mostly because threads like this (and all these "I need motivation" bullfuck threads).

If you find articles, technical threads to be boring, that programming must be very boring too for you. Find something else.

I, for example, don't program at all lately, but I still find even Devlogs and bugfix-logs exiting. I can read those for hours. I don't dare to look into the Technical forums lately, because it would surely suck me up for days.

EDIT: No matter how large this community is, the Lounge was always driven by a few guys, and most of them are gone now. Olii, Jyk, Owl, Less bread, Evil Steve, just to name a few from the last 5 years. And they say that the forums were even more awesome before that time.

And they say that the forums were even more awesome before that time.

TFY: All forums were awesome back then. Heck, we once had 10,000+ unique visitors in our The Helper Forums for the WC3 community. And then there's the Atari Forums in general, before the bankruptcy, the Pokémon Rom Hacking Group forums before Megaupload was taken away by FBI, etc.

(articles? no, im not saying about articles which are very good)

Boring are the shallow narrow and only slight touch way of discussing things in the forum, things have in general a weak response here

(**) 3) closing tendency - this forum has some strange closing tendency (instead of trying tu discuss some thing ('waste some time') there is tendency to close things

4) formal narrowness - there are ways of make form of the post more colorfull and surprising

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even oldschool usenet pure asci forums vere more formally interesting crazy open and free

Okay, I haven't lurked the Technical forums for some time, so you may be right.

I remember Olii and Jyk making interesting replies for even Beginner topics (I always read all their replies in any topics, but they went away about two years ago), and I like to think that my Paint diagram explanations were somewhat fun too.

One problem can be that the number of users boosted in the last years, and beginners don't read back and keep asking the same old question over and over again. I remember making pretty deep explanations myself but after a while I was "meh" about replying or linking the same answers over and over again. I guess this is the case for other users who used to have fun with just making page-long explanations in replies.

Screenshot Showdown is not boring.

One problem can be that the number of users boosted in the last years, and beginners don't read back and keep asking the same old question over and over again. I remember making pretty deep explanations myself but after a while I was "meh" about replying or linking the same answers over and over again. I guess this is the case for other users who used to have fun with just making page-long explanations in replies.

I've certainly noticed the same thing - increasing infinite repetition of trivial threads that are probably better suited to StackOverflow, and a gradual attrition of the senior forum members who used to answer said questions.

But I can't tell if this is really a trend, or just a sign of us getting old...

But I can't tell if this is really a trend, or just a sign of us getting old...

I can answer you - its both

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