yeah, this sort of thing is going on in a LOT of long living communities on the internet now a days. The internet moves so fast that the forum eventually becomes split between groups of members and remenicing on the old. It's not just here that it's happening so it's just another challenge that we have to try and cleverly overcome. Really it just requires some tolerance for the fact that these horrible internet memes are now becoming acceptable to many who are joining the big world of the internet when back when we were on these things were just growing and some figured it to be stupid. Unbiased opinions would help but, what are we gonna do? Were human. At least this boards sort of... "mid life crisis" isn't as bad as others. the joking and such just doesn't set in with some. sarcasm detectors recently are more broken and no respect, but more of a demand for it. It's a mess out there and it's too much to analyze in one post. uhg, I miss the days where the communities were small so we could have a decent spam forum AND realize that thats not the only reason we were here in the first place. But I have my /b/rothers for that so I'm fine :3
I've been here not that long, however I joined up back in... what? 1999 or something? My brother Blues was helping me with my games and he himself was working on it. the site had a slow like load and there was fancy music along with a sonic adventure like theme to it. I rejoined not too long ago and yeah things have changed. The jokes would be fine if EVERYONE would stop taking ANYTHING as an insult and just let it go. THAT won't be happening anytime soon so we gotta teach the old dog new tricks and act as the good guardians for the new members until they can get settled in.
just thought I'd throw in my twocents.