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Since it's new* improved* moderation team took over and fundamentally changed autoshite to an all inclusive safe space with rules randomly generated to suit the moderation teams whim on that day, the main part of that forum has nothing of value any longer, it's more about bangernomics, pushing the mods political views and ensuring nobody can get offended by anything. How many times can you read "Oh my £200 car is broken - I can't afford to fix it, who will sell me another £200 car I won't do any repairs or maintenance on then curse word about it when it breaks down." There are a couple of excellent ongoing threads that have been going on for years and the open forum is good. That's it. I have found that forums on the hole are dying of in favour of Facebook  |
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Since it's new* improved* moderation team took over and fundamentally changed autoshite to an all inclusive safe space with rules randomly generated to suit the moderation teams whim on that day, the main part of that forum has nothing of value any longer, it's more about bangernomics, pushing the mods political views and ensuring nobody can get offended by anything. How many times can you read "Oh my £200 car is broken - I can't afford to fix it, who will sell me another £200 car I won't do any repairs or maintenance on then curse word about it when it breaks down." There are a couple of excellent ongoing threads that have been going on for years and the open forum is good. That's it. I have found that forums on the hole are dying of in favour of Facebook Aaahhh... I was on there 10 years ago iirc. But it was a name I remembered. Rods n Sods is an equally dire shuthole |
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stealthstylz
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I've been struggling to remember what I looked at on the internet before Facebook came along (well apart from THAT! obvious stuff) now I've got rid of it. Most of the forums I was on now seem to be dead - even Barry Boys has (thankfully) gone as I found out the other day when I randomly googled it and it turns out they actually shut the forum off from positing nearly 12 months ago.
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Dez
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And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
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A lot of forums are gone now, usually a victim of their own poor moderating/running or inter-site bickering. The fact this one is still here says a lot.
That and social media is much lower effort in interaction terms, so is what sees most use, to the detriment of traditional forum usage.
In a way the way Facebook etc. works is like it was before forums where really popular, when it was things like yahoo email groups where what was used.(I still know people from those groups nearly 20 years ago, some of whom are on here too). Because they ‘come to you’, I think it keeps interest/interaction higher than on forums you have to specifically visit.
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ovimor
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...It'll be ME!
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Auto$hite:
FWIW I thought the 'morris dancing' thread... subversive hole it below the waterline take on the LGBTSnowflake thread... was a true *embodiment of AS, in its glory days.
*alternative agendas may be felt under critique here..
LMFAO
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Last Edit: Nov 2, 2019 16:29:18 GMT by ovimor
Knowledge is to know a Tomato is a 'fruit' - Wisdom, on the other hand, is knowing not to put it in a 'fruit salad'!
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Nov 18, 2019 10:33:22 GMT
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I’d love to find some more Speedhunters type sites which good quality, original content. Alas I think the only reason Speedhunters is able to do so is via the might of EA games funding it in the background, so fairly unlikely to be repeated. Hoonigans actually get pretty close : www.hoonigan.com/pages/landing-read-copy ... but it doesn't get added to as often :/ |
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Nov 18, 2019 10:34:38 GMT
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I have found that forums on the hole are dying of in favour of Facebook You're about 8 years too late for the observation. Interestingly it seems to be swinging back the other way as people are abandoning facebook, its rubbish features, its terrible advertising, its dodgy business practices and just its general overall toxic community management. |
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Nov 18, 2019 10:39:47 GMT
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^^^that's why I don't and wont ever use facebook, so keep up the good work here please!
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dikkehemaworst
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