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jedifart · #1 Post by **jedifart** » 24 Apr 2012 23:51

A decade ago or so, this was a thriving community. Now I see posts from way back still on the first page.

I've only popped in here a handful of times over the past 7 or 8 years, but was a regular poster before that.

Did everyone leave because they missed me so much?

#2 Post by **Orodaran** » 25 Apr 2012 00:16

No, because they knew you'd be back eventually

Well, I'd daresay that the downtime of the forum is due to being a no-news time for the band (a greatest hits doesn't draw THAT MUCH attention) added to the explosion in popularity of social networks. Forums tend to suffer from that....

jedifart · #3 Post by **jedifart** » 25 Apr 2012 00:27

Orodaran wrote:No, because they knew you'd be back eventually

Well, I'd daresay that the downtime of the forum is due to being a no-news time for the band (a greatest hits doesn't draw THAT MUCH attention) added to the explosion in popularity of social networks. Forums tend to suffer from that....

Hehe... I'll probably disappear now for another few years

I'm guessing that things like facebook have taken the value out of forums such as this. The only other forum that I've ever been a very poster on (metalireland.com) has been going downhill over the past few years too.

last.fm · #4 Post by **Joost** » 25 Apr 2012 01:03

jedifart wrote:I'm guessing that things like facebook have taken the value out of forums such as this. The only other forum that I've ever been a very poster on (metalireland.com) has been going downhill over the past few years too.

Yes, unfortunately this seems to be true.

I like the forums of olde (where there is real community going on) a lot more than Facebook, which basically seems mostly the equivalent of broadcasting one's narcissistic impulses.

t.a.j. · #5 Post by **t.a.j.** » 25 Apr 2012 07:52

Now we hang out on facebook.

Sleeping Dragon · #6 Post by **Sleeping Dragon** » 25 Apr 2012 11:28

like all the cool kids

Little Dragon · #7 Post by **Little Dragon** » 25 Apr 2012 14:59

yeah.

jouzinka · #8 Post by **jouzinka** » 26 Apr 2012 03:22

Well, some of us still enjoy forums, apparently.

Palantyre · #9 Post by **Palantyre** » 26 Apr 2012 04:37

Forums are the bee's knees. Well, good forums are.
I don't really frequent that many forums that I'd have a good view of the big picture, but it does seem that the kind of smaller, sortof "niche" forums like this one are in decline somewhat.
Huge forums such as those of really big video game developers/publishers still bustle with activity, though they obviously don't have the same sort of communal spirit this place did in its heydays.

The Something Awful forums are going strong, too. That place is fantastic, in its own fucked-up way.

ThePKH · #10 Post by **ThePKH** » 07 May 2012 15:37

I'm still watching you people. Lurking around...

Andreas · #11 Post by **Andreas** » 11 May 2012 15:08

Despite my promising first year on this forum, I'm not that active here anymore.

Mackasfour · #12 Post by **Mackasfour** » 22 May 2012 04:05

I still like to lurk here... good community.

NDS · #13 Post by **NDS** » 30 May 2012 21:38

Almost a year and a half has passed since I last logged in here. It seems like every forum is dying.

Lilyael · #14 Post by **Lilyael** » 30 May 2012 21:50

I still lurk but nothing ever happens and no-one posts

Mackasfour · #15 Post by **Mackasfour** » 01 Jun 2012 04:10

I apologise

I haven't been here as much as I should of

Bender B. Rodriguez · #16 Post by **Bender B. Rodriguez** » 05 Jun 2012 15:26

what i really miss is the Metal section full of new topics everyday.

Sarah · #17 Post by **Sarah** » 12 Jun 2012 11:31

Gotta love a good ol'forum, fortunately, we're here and we keep the flame burning (says the girl who hasn't visited for aaaaaaages)

Damn i miss you guys

Gandalf de Grijze · #18 Post by **Gandalf de Grijze** » 12 Jun 2012 14:07

miss you too dear!

End Of An Era · #19 Post by **End Of An Era** » 12 Jun 2012 18:07

yeah.. I've talked with Little Dragon about an after-summer meet in Netherlands!

Housewarming/B-day/heersching meeting at my place

wade-newb · #20 Post by **wade-newb** » 12 Jun 2012 19:21

On the plus side, you lot do seem like the Old Gods of this forum. The Ancients. Anyone who's signed up in the last two years knows that.
Even ol' Hansi Smurf... I miss that guy, actually

Sleeping Dragon · #21 Post by **Sleeping Dragon** » 12 Jun 2012 19:23

We're not gods, we just have a cold.

wade-newb · #22 Post by **wade-newb** » 12 Jun 2012 19:36

Sleeping Dragon wrote:We're not gods, we just have a cold.

Not solving the Hansi Smurf problem...
Smurf... If you are there... If you're reading this... Please come back.
You'll get just as much hate as before, but it'll be so worth it.

End Of An Era · #23 Post by **End Of An Era** » 12 Jun 2012 21:06

wade-newb wrote:Smurf... If you are there... If you're reading this... Please come back.
You'll get just as much hate as before, but it'll be so worth it.

Explain that to the mod/admin team:
http://blind-guardian.com/forum/viewtop ... =7&t=39767

t.a.j. · #24 Post by **t.a.j.** » 13 Jun 2012 00:32

End Of An Era wrote:yeah.. I've talked with Little Dragon about an after-summer meet in Netherlands!

Housewarming/B-day/heersching meeting at my place

Sounds good to me.

Little Dragon · #25 Post by **Little Dragon** » 13 Jun 2012 09:17

wade-newb wrote:On the plus side, you lot do seem like the Old Gods of this forum. The Ancients. Anyone who's signed up in the last two years knows that.

Jess and the Ancient Ones is a really good band, you know?

on the other hand: this makes me feel old.

but then again: PAHTEY! \o/

Gandalf de Grijze · #26 Post by **Gandalf de Grijze** » 13 Jun 2012 09:27

a wizard is never ancient, nor is he young, he is precisely the age he means to

t.a.j. · #27 Post by **t.a.j.** » 13 Jun 2012 15:28

Gandalf de Grijze wrote:a wizard is never ancient, nor is he young, he is precisely the age he means to

jedifart · #28 Post by **jedifart** » 13 Jun 2012 18:58

Little Dragon wrote: Jess and the Ancient Ones is a really good band, you know?

Yep, they're pretty good.

#29 Post by **Led Guardian** » 22 Jun 2012 05:50

End Of An Era wrote:
wade-newb wrote:Smurf... If you are there... If you're reading this... Please come back.
You'll get just as much hate as before, but it'll be so worth it.
Explain that to the mod/admin team:
http://blind-guardian.com/forum/viewtop ... =7&t=39767

I only wielded the banhammer against the now extinct spambots, but I would definitely cast a veto against this motion. If I never see his nonsensical posts again (and I'm pretty sure I won't), I will be satisfied.

last.fm · #30 Post by **Joost** » 22 Jun 2012 17:22

I think this actually must have been pretty much the only ban on this forum (other than spambots, who seem to have a hard time figuring out the title of the fourth BG album) in a bunch of years...

Gandalf de Grijze · #31 Post by **Gandalf de Grijze** » 23 Jun 2012 00:41

and a justified one at that, in my humble opinion...

Andreas · #32 Post by **Andreas** » 25 Jun 2012 10:30

So the guy from India who said everything and everyone is gay and should die and especially Israel, never got banned? If he got banned, I think that was more justified than Hansi Smurf. At least he was harmless. Boring and annoying, but harmless.

Sleeping Dragon · #33 Post by **Sleeping Dragon** » 25 Jun 2012 17:07

well, what's wrong with everyone being gay? or killing off all the Israelis, for that matter.

#34 Post by **Led Guardian** » 25 Jun 2012 22:49

Andreas wrote:So the guy from India who said everything and everyone is gay and should die and especially Israel, never got banned? If he got banned, I think that was more justified than Hansi Smurf. At least he was harmless. Boring and annoying, but harmless.

I vaguely remember this, and I'm pretty sure he did get banned.

Lorn_Songster · #35 Post by **Lorn_Songster** » 03 Aug 2012 16:06

This is for talking relaxedly . Im not relaxed at all so I SHALL DO NOT SPEAK

Drahcir · #36 Post by **Drahcir** » 14 Aug 2012 01:57

Yes, I also noticed this. I used to post here 6 years ago under a different username (I forgot my username and password), and I realized that this forum isn't as active as it once was. Neither are other metal band forums which I once frequented.

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