Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that is worrying

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Geoff
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Facebook groups killed a lot of forums. I went back to a forum that I was on back in the day, and it was totally dead. There were threads from 2 years ago, on the first page. It used to be pippin’. Still have a bunch a friends from there on fb
 

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Yea moderators ban all the good posters trying to control and politicize thought on forums and then those folks just head places where there's less moderation. Chips away at the lifeblood of the forum till it's an echo chamber that no one posts in.

Remember when the locker room wasn't a diet Higher Learning
 

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Yea moderators ban all the good posters trying to control and politicize thought on forums and then those folks just head places where there's less moderation. Chips away at the lifeblood of the forum till it's an echo chamber that no one posts in.

Remember when the locker room wasn't a diet Higher Learning

posting right-wing propaganda doesn't make for a good poster.
golden rule of the internet: less moderation leads to racism and illegal porn.
nothing of value was lost.
 

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posting right-wing propaganda doesn't make for a good poster.
golden rule of the internet: less moderation leads to racism and illegal porn.
nothing of value was lost.
Well ban extreme racism and illegal porn. Pretty simple. Creating ideological echo chambers doesn't create value. Expressing conservative values in and of itself isn't wrong. Opposing sides create value
 
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Well ban extreme racism and illegal porn. Pretty simple. Creating echo chambers doesn't create value. Opposing sides create value

not all arguments or opposing sides have merit and when people persist in the same rhetoric that have been disproved etc they just exhaust others and waste time.

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“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, and open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. (…) If then (…), the anti-Semite is impervious to reason and to experience, it is not because his conviction is strong. Rather his conviction is strong because he has chosen first of all to be impervious.”

 (Sartre 1995b[1946], 19–20)
 

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not all arguments or opposing sides have merit and when people persist in the same rhetoric that have been disproved etc they just exhaust others and waste time.

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“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, and open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. (…) If then (…), the anti-Semite is impervious to reason and to experience, it is not because his conviction is strong. Rather his conviction is strong because he has chosen first of all to be impervious.”

 (Sartre 1995b[1946], 19–20)
There is already a No BS section of the forum. :manny: this is supposed to be the barbershop section.

Who's deciding what has merit in the goofy section of the forum where people are asking if they'd have sex with midgets, celebrate the deaths of others, call black people c00ns, call black women bedwenches, etc.?

Political thought is heavily guarded by hidden gatekeepers who work in secret to have posters removed. Competitors don't have this problem.

This sites traffic dropped lile 77 percent from like 20 million visits this year. People take their cliques and form little enclaves outside of the forum, post less and then someone who isn't interesting fills the void and traffic continues to fall.

If People on a alleged black forum can't be free to voice their opinions and are treated like teenagers, someone else fills the void.
 

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i miss IMDB forums.
What a damn shame , had some threads on my tabs went on it was redirected to the shop smh

MANN!!! To this day fam!!! Some good ass post for movies you think people never watched . Site was dead to me after they removed it

theres a site that inserts a forum page into every imdb page




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