Forum Dying?

[PcBeExpensive]

Is this forum dying or does everyone just hate me? For the last two posts I posted I got zero responses, thats not normal. 

[PcBeExpensive]

14 hours ago, 8tg said:

The forums not dying you just made two kinda lackluster posts in a row.

You asked about VR headsets in the “Displays” sub forum, and honestly everything you asked you could just google.

Whats the difference between the quest 1 and 2? I don’t know, I would literally just google it and provide you the information but then, why would I do that? People are happy to help but if you’re not doing the bare minimum on your end they won’t really feel any obligation to help.

 

And then your other post is another self explanatory issue. It’s far too vague with the description of the issue to reliably provide information on what to do or troubleshoot. From what happened it could be a large variety of problems in play and the amount of people who know how and would want to sit down and babysit a post like that going through the troubleshooting is very small. There’s so many possible things to try and narrow down the problem that it’s time consuming. It’s why there’s common guides on handling a lot of basic issues and troubleshooting steps, so you can enter a forum like this and request help on something while already having done a lot of the basic steps to rule out common situations.

People will be more interested in a narrowed down problem they can try and solve, than stating from “my gpu is slow after I poked it”.

But it wasnt the GPU. It wasn't anything I have seen before. The fans went overdrive the GPU didnt display anything and after a restarrt it was slow.

[dalekphalm]

14 hours ago, Caroline said:

I wouldn't say the MOTF incident was the LAST nail on the coffin but it was an important one for sure.

What is the MOTF incident?

[AudiTTFan]

28 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

What is the MOTF incident?

The Moderators On The Forum thread was apparently wiped from existence recently. Unfortunately that's all I know about it, I haven't logged in for ages

[Guest]

1 minute ago, AudiTTFan said:

The Moderators On The Forum thread was apparently wiped from existence recently. Unfortunately that's all I know about it, I haven't logged in for ages

It's okay, I got...

Spoiler

 

[dalekphalm]

1 hour ago, AudiTTFan said:

The Moderators On The Forum thread was apparently wiped from existence recently. Unfortunately that's all I know about it, I haven't logged in for ages

Huh... you're right, it does appear to be missing. I wonder why? Last time I saw it, it was locked and the Mods were having fun posting in it still (you know, mod powers). Seemed harmless to me.

 

But it's possible maybe some users started to attack the mods in that thread? I've seen the occasional user take moderation targeted to them way too personally before.

[AudiTTFan]

3 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

But it's possible maybe some users started to attack the mods in that thread? I've seen the occasional user take moderation targeted to them way too personally before.

Yep, that sounds plausible. I tried checking the Internet Archive to see if anyone saved the last few pages before they got rid of it, but unfortunately I could only find the first page. This is all still a mystery to me

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

1 hour ago, dalekphalm said:

But it's possible maybe some users started to attack the mods in that thread? I've seen the occasional user take moderation targeted to them way too personally before.

It would be really surprising since it’s usually the same core group that comments on that thread as well. So it must’ve been a substantial and sudden fall out.

[Skiiwee29]

3 hours ago, AudiTTFan said:

The Moderators On The Forum thread was apparently wiped from existence recently. Unfortunately that's all I know about it, I haven't logged in for ages

 

3 hours ago, fpo said:

It's okay, I got...

  Reveal hidden contents

 

 

18 hours ago, Caroline said:

I wouldn't say the MOTF incident was the LAST nail on the coffin but it was an important one for sure.

 

3 hours ago, dalekphalm said:

What is the MOTF incident?

 

1 hour ago, dalekphalm said:

Huh... you're right, it does appear to be missing. I wonder why? Last time I saw it, it was locked and the Mods were having fun posting in it still (you know, mod powers). Seemed harmless to me.

 

But it's possible maybe some users started to attack the mods in that thread? I've seen the occasional user take moderation targeted to them way too personally before.

 

1 hour ago, AudiTTFan said:

Yep, that sounds plausible. I tried checking the Internet Archive to see if anyone saved the last few pages before they got rid of it, but unfortunately I could only find the first page. This is all still a mystery to me

 

24 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

It would be really surprising since it’s usually the same core group that comments on that thread as well. So it must’ve been a substantial and sudden fall out.

 

The main reason was due to all the spam. It was no longer producing anything resembling even a semi coherent conversation beyond people spamming. This is why it is no longer viewable to you guys. 

[kpluck]

On 4/17/2023 at 8:31 PM, PcBeExpensive said:

Is this forum dying or does everyone just hate me?

Why can't it be both?

 

-kp

[Guest]

16 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The main reason was due to all the spam. It was no longer producing anything resembling even a semi coherent conversation beyond people spamming. This is why it is no longer viewable to you guys. 

Is this acceptable? 

 

 

[Guest]

2 hours ago, AudiTTFan said:

Yep, that sounds plausible. I tried checking the Internet Archive to see if anyone saved the last few pages before they got rid of it, but unfortunately I could only find the first page. This is all still a mystery to me

Last page was mods posting cat pictures, then someone saying "hey look it's unlocked" and then I posted that gif of "in before the lock" and it disappeared. 

57 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

It would be really surprising since it’s usually the same core group that comments on that thread as well. So it must’ve been a substantial and sudden fall out.

As the mod said, it was very incoherent. 

Mostly just a copy of the "random chit chat" thread with occasional mod questions and then mods messing around with all the fancy tools they can utilize.