The board died a long time ago …
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Game of Thrones
Discerningly-Tasteless — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 04:50 PM)
They're just finally cremating it's putrefied corpse.
I'll tell you exactly what killed it as a semi-fulfilling pastime: the Start New Thread button. Sure, we've always had it, but once upon a time there were a lot of us who observed the quaint message board etiquette of first looking for an existing thread on a topic and (gasp!) joining the conversation if there was one.
Reading what other people posted (wow!) and - holy sh!t, hang on to your panties - responding to it!!
Slowly but surely, the board was overrun by posters who had no appetite for debate and turned it into their own personal (pardon the term) soapbox. 30, 40, 100 times a day the two brain cells in the skulls of these wastes of bandwidth would collide and they'd hit Start New Thread to splatter the neural diarrhea resulting from that collision into the thread title.
Instead of a couple of 300 post threads discussing whether or not Libs love Muslims, we had 300 "why do Libs love Muslims?" threads. Manias started gripping the board (Casey Anthony, Trayvon Martin, Occupy, BLM, etc) and we'd be deluged with hundreds of thread titles stating the SAME FCKING THINGS OVER AND OVER.
Well-crafted threads inviting discussion started quickly sinking out of sight in the daily sh!tstorms, and intelligent posters were faced with a choice - routinely adding dozens of screen names to their ignore list, scrolling through the mountains of dross in search of JUST ONE worthwhile debate, or leaving.
And leaving's exactly what most of the better posters did - either permanently, or just popping in now and then for a quick howdy-do.
This board was no longer providing a useful, positive experience for them. The lifeblood drained and the patient died.
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Justincblount — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 05:05 PM)
This isn't the only board they're removing, you know there are other boards besides Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead, that don't have a troll problem probably because the audiences of those shows aren't as stupid as TWD and GOT fans.