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King Shit *board owner* | posted on 01-26-2002 @ 4:20 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Feb. 01  | At one time or another a lot of you have said to me that you just don't have much fun here anymore. I'm curious as to why that is, and it's something I'd like to fix. Beyond the normal headaches of just dealing with idiots at times, what is it that is preventing you from enjoying yourself and your abilities to screw around on the site? What can we all do to change this feeling? With the changes that are being made, sure life is easier for you guys, but is it necesarily better?  I believe in the Faith... that can save me. I believe in the hope and I pray... That someday it may raise me... above these badlands Over The Limit | ||||
| GonzoStyle | posted on 01-26-2002 @ 4:28 PM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | Well I know I am trying to make my own fun truthfully around here. I haven't been too intruiged to post lately with the mental midgets posting lately. Sorry but when a post like "spoo" and "i win" get hundreds of replies just makes me sick. What happened to having more than one word when starting a post? I'm doin my best to enjoy myself but to go through the entire explanation again isn't something I wanna do. Mainly the abundance of quality posters we had are not here. No matter what people like afrika, seph, maynard, among many others who have disappeared even JustJon made things interesting with their replies. But people like alkey have bought things down, I'm not telling them how to post but people compalin that alkey is doing what people like tequila used to get torn for, one word posts. Plus we had chat threads the ones opak started and I don't mind threads becoming chat threads but not when it is the same 3 or 4 people at night; alkey, rape, ants, and crx. They bring foundry chat to OT, it's ok when an abundance of people turn a bunch of threads into seperate chats like the c-blockers had and the ufc, hljc, slackers etc etc you had a bunch of seperate groups making chats at times but when it's the same people with trully mindless fuckin drivel it makes it a pain for me to wanna come up with a good idea to post or even a story when you can get 400 replies with "spoo". It's not anyones fault at this point it is just the snowball getting bigger from when it started many many months back but that is what is pissing me off now. There's something about alkey lately also, I know he's been fingerbang lite with all the chicks he is banging and private little parties they have at CRX's house, which is why they have become such a clique. But there is something about Alkey lately he is acting like fuckin mister board savior. I really couldn't name a decent addition to the board in the last 3 months besides kensPen.  I'm Deep Inside Your Children. They Will Betray You In MY Name. This message was edited by GonzoStyle on 1-26-02 @ 4:37 PM | ||||
The sky is blue | posted on 01-26-2002 @ 4:28 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Oct. 00 | No new members to tool around with (or at least ones that stick around). I don't listen to the show as much, but we haven't gotten a mention in a while. Also, no member can stay forever, so we end up being left with the fucking Maynards and Alkeys and no one else.  Fez® blah blah blah ©2001 blah blah blah. Fez™ blah blah Email me at [email protected] | ||||
| TheGooch Mullet Master Yo Gooch, Moron here... how's that for some fucked up shit... Fez is giving you status... Karma sucks, huh? | posted on 01-26-2002 @ 4:31 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | same here...lack of new blood. Some tendency lately of threads just to become chat between a few people, just b/c there is nobody else posting in them. How many markets are these boys in now...yet not many trickle down to this site. Word is not getting out, and this board screams for new blood.  Here's a tip that will save you alot of grief and time... Don't believe in and depend on anyone but yourself. | ||||
| GonzoStyle | posted on 01-26-2002 @ 4:46 PM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | Well like I said we trully should try and make something happen, I know personally I am a tad tired and just truthfully not myself this past week. Not on the board just in my personal life so i do not have the want inside me to do anything right now as far as starting topics but I think we give it a week or two and we start taking back what is ours. We always say "don't complain about it, do something." Well lets do something. I know it sucks cause it probably will go unnapreciated and we'll get few replies but hey when alkey came on he was getting no feedback but he kept on doing it and it caught on. The people will follow but they need something to follow. I mean i write those friggin OTL columns and I haven't gotten one positive response and I just don't feel like doing it no more cause why do it if no one cares? Well hey maybe someone out there will care. You don't always get 500 replies, hell I never had a thread with more than 200 replies and I think I garnered a tad more respect and have kept it over a longer period of time than alkey. As have many of us back here. PS the new list of the latest 100 joined members is a really nice addition. I always asked "hey anyway to know the last few members that joined?" and now we got it, so great job on that. I'm Deep Inside Your Children. They Will Betray You In MY Name. This message was edited by GonzoStyle on 1-26-02 @ 4:47 PM | ||||
King Shit *board owner* | posted on 01-26-2002 @ 4:53 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Feb. 01 | quote: Actually if you look at the numbers, we've had over 500 sign ups in the last week, and a lot of them are posting at in trickles. I'm just asking how you guys feel, I think it's time that the mods started to enjoy themselves again. Because it certainly rubs off. I believe in the Faith... that can save me. I believe in the hope and I pray... That someday it may raise me... above these badlands Over The Limit | ||||
| GonzoStyle | posted on 01-26-2002 @ 5:02 PM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | Well dude you know what kinda gets to me and I am sure some others. How some of us make several arguments and points yet you only reply to the one or two that you can easily get an answer for. No offense to you but it's something that itches me, just come out and say it. You want us to post more and you want us to be more involved as mods and mainly posters but give us an opinion give us something anything. You are the man around here you do realize that, you're supposed to be "the king". Yes we've had 500 joinings and I bet you 100 bucks they barely combine for 100 posts together. We've also had almost 16,500 members join over the last couple years yet how many were duplicate accounts or one time posters or even 0 time posters. The numbers are not what counts, maybe financially and as a bragging point they do but not in the long run of fun here. We're telling you how we feel, but why not start off by leading by example and tell us how you feel. Because your posting as ours has also fallen waaay off, both of us should be at or nearing 9,000 by now in the post counts. I'm Deep Inside Your Children. They Will Betray You In MY Name. This message was edited by GonzoStyle on 1-26-02 @ 5:07 PM | ||||
King Shit *board owner* | posted on 01-26-2002 @ 5:17 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Feb. 01 | I'm not asking anyone to post more or be more active. I just want to see how you guys are feeling about your own time on the board. Every once in a while, someone gets bored and takes some time off, but it seems lately that general interest among the group has been dying, and I'm just trying to figure out why and what people are thinking. We've spent a lot of time discussing the pros & cons of the board for the regular memebers, but it didn't seem like I ever gave you guys the chance to bring out your own feelings on what you expect or what you are looking for or looking to avoid. Now just seemed like the time to do it. I believe in the Faith... that can save me. I believe in the hope and I pray... That someday it may raise me... above these badlands Over The Limit | ||||
| TheGooch Mullet Master Yo Gooch, Moron here... how's that for some fucked up shit... Fez is giving you status... Karma sucks, huh? | posted on 01-26-2002 @ 6:50 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Eddie, i'm completely in agreement with you. That one word alkey-cult bullshit has got to go. alkey's falling into the I-am-a-posting-god bullshit. and i see the fingerbang-lite stuff too...he is using the board, though perhaps noit as ham-handed and conniving as fingerbang did, as a dating and sex tool, and thereby turns every thread, event, etc...into his own dating and flaunting himself tool. Here's a tip that will save you alot of grief and time... Don't believe in and depend on anyone but yourself. | ||||
I have Cool-Mod-Powers and can read the Cool-Mod-Forum, then I drive home in my Cool-Mod-Car UFC | posted on 01-26-2002 @ 7:57 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Hey.. I read all the time.. I reply when I have something to say or can make a bad joke at a thread/poster's expense... Lately there just hasn't been very much material to feed off of. I think what they mean when they say we need new blood is we need new QUALITY blood  No! I am NOT a Goth Dude!! "I'm gonna change my name to Pimp Daddy Payne!" | ||||
USA Autoban Head Slap... Swim Move... | posted on 01-26-2002 @ 8:14 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Oct. 00 | quote: Substitute the name "Froy" for "Alkey" and I'm in complete agreement. Privately, I call him "The Heat". Fucker. Using his Board to get laid and shit. What a shameless bastard.  | ||||
King Shit *board owner* | posted on 01-26-2002 @ 8:17 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Feb. 01 | quote: Is that why you keep telling me I'm under-sexed? I believe in the Faith... that can save me. I believe in the hope and I pray... That someday it may raise me... above these badlands Over The Limit | ||||
USA Autoban Head Slap... Swim Move... | posted on 01-26-2002 @ 8:23 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Oct. 00 | The term I used was "oversexed" but I only said that because you were humping my leg at the time. | ||||
...And now the battle between us and them has begun. JYD-4-LIFE. | posted on 01-26-2002 @ 8:42 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: May. 00 | I think the spoo thread is the stupidest thing we have ever had on this board. I read the 1st couple of posts and then got out of it. But i do notice that there are a hell of a lot of spoo-related statuses out there. and in my opinion, that looks like its sponsored by and accepted by the mods, but hey I could be talking out of my ass again. I am the game, you don't want to play me i am control, no way you can shake me i am heavy debts, no way you can pay me i am the pain ,and i know you can't take me | ||||
King Shit *board owner* | posted on 01-26-2002 @ 8:50 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Feb. 01 | The spoo shit will fade quickly. I believe in the Faith... that can save me. I believe in the hope and I pray... That someday it may raise me... above these badlands Over The Limit | ||||
Nay. We are but men. ROCK. The man with the plan. | posted on 01-26-2002 @ 9:59 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Spoo statuses are my fault. I was there for the start of it, it was funny at first (knowing how it started), but the thread has made it get really old, really fast.quote: It's a question of numbers, really. Compare Magus's join date and member ID # against mine. Four days difference, numbers are over 900 apart. Almost 1000 people in four days. If we were mentioned on the show now, between 18 cities, we might be able to pull those numbers again just from mentions, even without something like the Bang Party to make people come here for sex. Point is, if you have thousands of people coming to the site, you're bound to get new regulars who are actually worth a shit. As far as spoo is concerned, it may be ridiculous, it may be stupid, it may be a chat in-joke, but it was also the most popular and fastest-growing OT thread in a long fuckin time. The only other thread on the entire board that has come close to it was the goddamn Carol thread in GD. With new blood comes a new board. The board has changed. I see how the old generation is pissed off about that. Hell, the new generation (led by Alkey) has taken over in such a way that the old generation has been driven out. The thing that kept that from happening in the past was constant change, which we have lost. Think about this: who is the newest regular poster on the board? Alkey? Noelle? They joined late August/early September. I think we need to raid the WNEW studio during the show, screaming "OPIEANTHONY.COM!!!!!!" Maybe that would help. Another thing popped into my head - perhaps one reason for lack of plugs is that "opieanthony.com" is way too close to "opieandanthony.com", and they don't want people to get confused. They could plug us via the link on opieandanthony.com, but look at it - it might be a pain to explain. Whatever the reason, we need fuckin show plugs if we want to get rolling again, simple as that. Matt, I know you've been trying, but it's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum.  | ||||
Pompous, Arrogant, Enigmatic, Bitter, Quirky, Misanthrope with a Weird Sense of Humor and an Iron Clad Memory while flooding the board with my Stream of Consciousness UFC STRIKE 3 (I'm a dick and I like to ruin people's plans) | posted on 01-26-2002 @ 11:06 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Aug. 00 | I don't know for sure, but the 'spoo' thing to me seemed like an experiment to see if a stupid thing like that would get replies from the idiot members of oa.com. It may be a show reference or something, but I hardly listen so I don't know. I never asked anyone what it meant 'cause quite frankly, I haven't had the energy to care about what it meant. Inside joke or whatever it is, I couldn't care less. However, without all of these "stupid threads" the board would have less than zero activity. I always said that these chat threads were ruining the board. As far as me starting threads, I hardly ever did in the past, and I hardly will in the future. I don't think about my replies, I open a thread and if I don't have a reply to go right away, I close the thread. It is as simple as that. Like magus said, "Lately there just hasn't been very much material to feed off of." I have never participated in the chat or idiotic threads such as "spoo," and I don't plan on supporting them in the future. As far as my feelings around here, I don't think I have kept them hidden. I will put them here all in 1 place - I feel like oa.com is the old toy that no-one wants to play with come xmas morning. This attitude, I feel, stems from the top (read: Froy). When oa.com came along SP mostly took a back seat. After the merger of the boards, it was evident that SP was kept for nostalgic reasons. Slowly but surely, forum by forum, the SP forums are fading away from lack of activity. I feel the same trend is going to be the case for oa.com, now that OTL is online. Here is how I see it... oa.com WAS about a radio show (opieanthony.com). But it, through the nicey-nice / Let's all get together for board gatherings, has become all about OT -- Plan a party -- FU/FC let's fight about what happened at the party we planned and attended. Since the GD forum has been pretty much a wasteland, for months on end, the board has become all about OT. Now OTL has a message board that is basically the only active forums that oa.com has (OT / Music entertainment type stuff). When, or rather "IF," OTL takes off with the members that you, Froy, are using every opp'ty to sign up from oa.com with your spamming masked as a joke, there will be no need for oa.com since it is not a money generating site as OTL intends to be. I have been to OTL based on links that I was sent and I ventured over to OTL message boards. I know that those message boards are even deader than oa.com right now. But, I also know that that is not the future intention of those boards. So, these past contributing members are spending their time elsewhere. Now we can sit and argue over why these members don't post over here, but I think it boils down to 'hypocrisy.' The 'hypocrisy' of the way Kid was banned especially after the public lynching of Opak for banning kid without good reason in the Kid A Banning and Board Policy thread. I don't know this for sure because like I said when it happened, I wasn't going to acknowledge any conversation pertaining to that subject matter outside moderators and BTS, and I haven't. It is just a feeling. As far as me having any fun here? What can be done to make things better? I kinda think, at this point, it is kinda like putting the condom on after fucking the 10 pound crack whore. Unless we can somehow retain the 500 plus membership signups like we had in the past week or 2, it is just going to get worse. About all these new members, I am a bit curious where they are all coming from. I mean, if we haven't had any plugs on the show, and the past members left (so obviously it isn't positive word-of-mouth) then where the hell are they coming from? Sure, I have been known to be a bit paranoid in the past, but c'mom something is fishy. At this rate we will be at 25,000 non-active members by summer. I have to wonder if we have disgruntled former members signing up all these names for some sort of an attack on the board or whatever.  AIM: SmarterChild Write To Me Here
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I have Cool-Mod-Powers and can read the Cool-Mod-Forum, then I drive home in my Cool-Mod-Car UFC | posted on 01-26-2002 @ 11:26 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | quote: THAT is something that's been gnawing at me the past few days... It seemed to me that we were getting WAY to many newbies with no show mentions... sure.. a small amount should filter in through Foundry and o&a.com, but this seems to be a LOT more than there should be... hell.. I've practicly turned into Moron with running IPs over the past few days No! I am NOT a Goth Dude!! "I'm gonna change my name to Pimp Daddy Payne!" | ||||
Pompous, Arrogant, Enigmatic, Bitter, Quirky, Misanthrope with a Weird Sense of Humor and an Iron Clad Memory while flooding the board with my Stream of Consciousness UFC STRIKE 3 (I'm a dick and I like to ruin people's plans) | posted on 01-26-2002 @ 11:32 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Aug. 00 | quote: LOL, I knew you would have heard the panoia cries hehehe. Yea, I started noticing for some odd reason at the turnover to 16,000 that we had 40 or so members in 5 hours without any show mention. I never took notice of ot to that day, and the members have been pouring in ever since. AIM: SmarterChild Write To Me Here
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King Shit *board owner* | posted on 01-26-2002 @ 11:32 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Feb. 01 | We are getting a lot of sign ups because of the guys plugging O&A.com, many people are getting confused about the address and coming here. I know this because every day I get emails asking where the naughty nightie pics are or where the IF link is, etc. I believe in the Faith... that can save me. I believe in the hope and I pray... That someday it may raise me... above these badlands Over The Limit | ||||
Nay. We are but men. ROCK. The man with the plan. | posted on 01-26-2002 @ 11:39 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | quote: My guess at that would be that the boys have been plugging opieandanthony.com a lot lately, and there is a (quite visible) link to our site on their main page. Do you guys think newbies are intimdated by the HUGE post counts that have been built up on here? When I joined, hundreds were big.... now there are thousands and thousands, everywhere. 128 members with 1000 or more, and if you read the list, most are regular posters. Click here to see it. So, if we do manage to get show plugs, would it be a good idea to kill post counts? Or perhaps pick a date and reset them all to zero? It may be less intimidating for new people. (Oh, by the way Froy, the poster you see as "Matt" near the top is your old account - I thought that got deleted, no? But it's there...) Holy crap, add the two post counts together and Froy has 10,601... nice. This message was edited by FollowThisLogic on 1-26-02 @ 11:44 PM | ||||
King Shit *board owner* | posted on 01-27-2002 @ 12:05 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Feb. 01 | I don't know if people are intimidated by the number of posts that older members have. I really don't think it would be much of an issue. And I think that the older members enjoy having their counts visible as a status symbol of sorts. I really wasn't trying to turn this into a 'what can we do to make this site better thread,' in all honesty I just wanted to see how you guys felt personally about your own posting and outlooks. I believe in the Faith... that can save me. I believe in the hope and I pray... That someday it may raise me... above these badlands Over The Limit | ||||
| GonzoStyle | posted on 01-29-2002 @ 2:19 PM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | quote: You know what I never did notice that you are right. Plus remember how long we had little to no sign ups for like 3 months prior to the 16k. I'm Deep Inside Your Children. They Will Betray You In MY Name. | ||||
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