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Platonic_Caveman — 6 years ago(February 16, 2020 05:24 PM)
I'm sure it's a good show. I just can't see how a community built around a zombie show is superior to the Soapbox. The SB featured everything, politics, religion, philosophy. How can anyone seriously argue that one group focused on one series have more going on than a general forum like the Soapbox had?
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Robgoblin — 6 years ago(February 16, 2020 06:51 PM)
Depends what youre after tho.
TWD board was ( or is ) a social hangout where many of the posters became friends IRL, and mostly just made random chat threads and trolled a few die hard fans of the show.
The Soapbox was home to such prime posters as ImComplicatedOk ( Donna )
I for one liked the TWD Board better.
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Platonic_Caveman — 6 years ago(February 16, 2020 06:56 PM)
Donna was TWD too. She rarely posted on the Soapbox. The Soapbox had me, G, Stammaman, PAGG, Skyhawk, muttley, a bunch of good posters. I like most the TWD posters. But from what I can see there's a lot of autism on that board.
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Sociopath — 6 years ago(February 16, 2020 07:45 PM)
Pretty much every off-topic poster from TWD despised the show. I don't think the fact the board was (on paper) centered around a single television show says much about the crowd it drew or quality of discussion, beyond TWD was, for several years iirc, the most popular show on cable TV. Meaning it drew a TON of traffic, which naturally signifies bringing in posters from many different cultures, walks of life and viewpoints.
Not unlike the Sopabox. I'm sure SB had more visitors than any other board in it's heyday – I just tend to associate the SB primarily with severe mental illness, given the likes of Miley, Christina (she's a sweetheart, not attacking her), Donna (she was SB, she dabbled in TWD/elsewhere later), PE, etc. Many of these people live in a separate dimension from the rest of us.
FB is a microcosm of what the respective communities were on IMDb; not everyone is here, but it's a fairly accurate representation of the overall.
I'm not too into the us vs them argument though since neither of those boards exist anymore (direct comparison is impossible) and admittedly I only browsed the SB a few times (and when I did the entire first page was all Miley selfies).
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dbentley666 — 6 years ago(February 16, 2020 07:56 PM)
Spot on! There was a lot of eccentricity, and a lot of sheer nonsense, a fair amount of pointed wit, but not too much malice. Almost the first rule of TWD board was: don't take yourself too seriously. Of the lot currently on the board, Rob and Bee are absolutely representative figures. If you don't get them, you won't get TWD board.