Originally Posted by thefinalw0rd

When I came here in years past, posts happened all of the time. You could happily kill a half hour waiting for dinner to be ready or whenever else with some good 'ol useless banter. Part of it was that there were so many people and they just kept posting, but it was mostly because we had some interesting conversations taking place in just about every subforum on the board. I remember that we couldn't get people to shut the hell up in politics when I moderated it with Dy.

Get back in gear! Start topics! Waste time! I'm sure that through the years, older members have simply lost some of the time that they used to have (as have I), but there're enough recent joins around here still that there's no reason for us to be so slow. This was a fun forum to post on and I think it was one of the tighter knit groups that I'd seen on the internet despite such a diverse group of people who are a part of it. If you build it, they will come.

In looking around, it seems that there are fewer of the teeny-bopper "OMGZ I'M A GOTH!!!!11!" folks around and maybe that's part of it. If that's the reason, then I'm ok with it. In real life, too, most of them have been supplanted by the "OMGZ I'M EMO!!!!11!!" folks, unfortunately... Luckily, you encounter that brand of person much less as a college senior rather than the high school sophomore that I was when I began posting here. Finally, if you are insulted at all by this specific paragraph, then you are admitting to being a teeny-bopper "OMGZ I LABEL MYSELF BECAUSE I'M SO COOL!!!!1! ANGST ANGST ANGST!!!!!!!!!111" type, and that is punishment enough for you.