Did anybody else hear this? - On o&a yesterday

[Keyser Soze]

So keyser how hard were you when you heard OnA bash the board?

I was packing at least 3 inches, thanks for noticing.

Because lord knows they are the end all and be all of existance and whatever they say has got to be true.

Opie and Anthony are here to entertain me. I enjoy the show. I'm not the one who devoted a message board to them. I'm not the one who decided to become a moderator of said board. Who is the "super fan" who is now disappointed with his heros? I don't put enough emotional stock into the show to be disappointed with it. I enjoy the show, sometimes I enjoy discussing it. Thats about where it ends. As far as whatever they say is true, whether it is or not isn't the point. The point is that they said it and the motives behind them saying it.

As for us needing OnA, I know you don't check the board anymore, coughcoughbullshitcoughcough but if you would you would notice that until the naughty nightie contest, GD was the ghostown of oa.com. There were times when there was 3-5 posts a day during the show. Thats sad for a message board that supposedly lives and dies and is totally dependant on OnA.

I don't recall saying I never check the board, and if I did it should have clarified that I only check it for certain purposes. For example to validate what someone else tells me was said there. How else would I have the right to say the board has gone downhill if I haven't been there?

As far as it sinking, your statements pretty much echo that sentiment. If you feel the need to blame that on the Opie and Anthony show for the lack of interest in the board, well in that case you proved my point for me.

Is the board not as fun as it used to be, shit yeah. Why's that you may ask? It may have to do with different people bringing different things than before, it might have to do with the admin, it might have to do with mods, who knows.

I agree. So where exactly do our opinions differ?

Everyone has an opinion and everyone is entitled to it. What's mine? I think otl became a bigger priority than oa.com and the board suffered from it. Jeff was too busy coding otl and editing messages on rf.net to worry about chaging things that the mods asked him to. As a result, I know I for one stop giving a shit what happened.

Oh I see, the board went downhill cause Jeff wasn't around to babysit it? The board lives and dies on content. If there are not interesting posts and activity, the board dies. Simple as that. If moderators and administrators hinder the ability of people to speak freely, people lose their interest in speaking at all. So unless Jeff was responsible for censorship, i don't see how some technical issues lead to a lack of interest by posters.

Once jeff gave up control to our 2 new codeboys, things got better and although the board isn't as great as it once was, its a hell of a lot funner for me than it was a couple of months ago and that's important in my book.

What does coding have to do with interest in the board? I'm actually really interested in hearing how these new codeboys revitalized the board.

As for your personal vendetta against oa.com well I think it's time you moved on. I've seen you make comments about oa.com on here more than you've commented on FBP and thats saying something. How about you stop worrying about what we are or aren't doing and just let it go. It's not healthy to keep all that anger all subdued. You are going to blow a gasket one day

On one hand you tell me to move on, on the other you tell me not to keep my anger subdued. Which is it? I think its healthier to air it out, i think it would improve relations instead of hinder them. Lets lay it out on the table and try to understand one another instead of have animosity over things that are left unsaid. Or we could go the oa.com route and make like they didn't exist, sweep it under the rug, delete posts, edit them, ban people for pettiness, censor, hypocratize, etc.. etc..

The great thing about this place is free expression of ideas, positive, negative, because without conflict and resolution there is no progress. Haven't we already learned that lesson?