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West Of East wrote:

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Who the fuck cares what "posters from the old boards" might or might not think? Much of that shit is archived on the so-called Wayback machine, and I assure you, it's about 95% drinkie threads and "Bush-is-a-stoopidhead"-type drooling from moronic NDPers. Apart from the genuinely funny Chretien parodies, most of the space was filled by people pretending to laugh at shit that wasn't even arguably funny, and, hey, let's whack up some more no-brainer five-word posts, and then beat the dead McBeckley equine YET AGAIN!

Yes, most of the people on those old boards shared similar sensibilities... and attitudes, and hatreds, and jealousies, and, to some extent, postal codes. Wow, a bunch of subliterate Ontario lefties congratulating themselves about cocking very unconvincing snooks at Americans and Albertans... man, that was some real cutting-edge stuff.

Jesus.

Yeah, whatever you say, but you'd be on stronger ground if the board activity here were 3 or 4 or more times what it is, i.e. it's not about the politics and biases, it's about the motivated "critical mass". Look: if you want an antidote to all that you state, even Free Dominion is way healthier than this place. You don't fight insularity with even greater, and more cricket-chirpingly barren, insularity--and to those who've been following, the signs of barrenness were already there within a year or two of Franksters being started up.

I don't disagree that the archived stuff may be silly in retrospect; but maybe that's also a measure of how anachronistic is all is today. As I stated, a lot of the flotsam that this and "the old boards" represented is a relic of a pre-Facebook/Twitter/whatever age. The early noughts are over, maaan.

Such is why I post as a ghost. That's why Cap Anson's telling me to put a gun in my mouth seems rather wan when we're dealing with a 5-people-in-a-100-capacity-bar situation at most any given moment. And if he thinks I'm the reason why that situation prevails, that's his problem.

Cap Anson wrote:

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Have you not pulled the trigger yet diddler? Need some help?

And you're that one person in a 100 capacity bar.

West Of East wrote:

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This board and its immediate predecessor became less rather than more insular in 2004; the focus widened, it became bipartisan where once it had been rather solidly leftist. Some NDP types and congenital Haters of Yanks believed themselves afflicted by that cirumstance (and others related to it) and left, but a number of gLib/NDP types stayed on here for years. Ernie is still fluffing for the fucking gLibs here, for god's sakes.

"Message-board entropy" is not an inevitability; with periodic and meaningful troll/tard purges, a good board with interesting people contributing to it will keep rolling on, regardless of whatever the contrasting cyberflavor of the day might be.

But note Elvid's "....more likely one person in a bar that has a 100 person capacity" point. "Less insular" becomes meaningless when you're significantly less trafficked than when you were more insular.

And, once again, don't blame pervs like me for the circumstances that prevail, either.