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3 hours ago, byalexandr said:

I'm still here (check my profile to see when I joined).

 

The only reason I'm still here is because of the car thread in Off Topic. And sometimes I want to see some nice builds. But the main reason I don't post that often anymore is because it's all the same questions, all the same answers, over and over again. I've seen it for years now.

 

Same thing, maybe I've just matured (made my LTT account when I was 11) but I'm just not that interested in PCs anymore.

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1 hour ago, Drak3 said:

Honestly, asides from mods and admins, I never got why most people stick around as long as they do.

Most forums consist of people asking the same questions, often times basic ones (albeit not always easy to Google with their personalized search bullshit). Then there are the trolls, and what few interesting conversations typically don't last that long.

Hell, I only hang around in hopes that @MageTank does his RAM OC guide, talk to @leadeater on occasion, and in hopes that Thread212 will come back and I can talk to her again. I generally get bored of a forum after a week otherwise.

 

If you look at some car forums, there are still active accounts from the late '90s.

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5 hours ago, byalexandr said:

I'm still here (check my profile to see when I joined).

 

The only reason I'm still here is because of the car thread in Off Topic. And sometimes I want to see some nice builds. But the main reason I don't post that often anymore is because it's all the same questions, all the same answers, over and over again. I've seen it for years now.

Ha, I beat you by 1 day. Suck it! :P

 

On topic forums kinda boring now i barely watch Linus anymore because of the way his channel went and I'm not really into PC's anymore.

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1 hour ago, leadeater said:

similar questions will be asked that have been covered in the past. 

Everything thats been asked, has been answered a trillion fold online

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22 minutes ago, yathis said:

Everything thats been asked, has been answered a trillion fold online

For many the problem isn't knowing that the question has been answered before but finding that answer they know exists, we live in an age of almost limitless information but it's not necessarily making us any more informed or intelligent.

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Dumb and Dumber its making them

 

They dont even know how to find a book in the library, let alone write a book.

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7 hours ago, arnavvr said:

Same thing, maybe I've just matured (made my LTT account when I was 11) but I'm just not that interested in PCs anymore.

I still am but not nearly as much as I used to be.

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All true. it is repetitive which is why i think some people get crabby when they answer, they have answered many times before. However you should note that while it is not your first time and you possess more knowledge (supposedly), it most likely is their first time and they possess less knowledge which is why they are asking.

they do not see their question as dumb or answered a million times, they just want to understand the subject and have not trained in it. You see it as elementary level crap because you have spent years studding this stuff, it is so easy, why can they not just understand or research more. You just want them to go away but you (hopefully) have a good heart and try to help them but get all elitist about it because you are annoyed. they see it as insulting, which it is. bottom line is if you are at that stage it is best simply to go away for a while till it is fresh and new again or you achieve a different life view.

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17 hours ago, byalexandr said:

 I don't post that often anymore is because it's all the same questions, all the same answers, over and over again. I've seen it for years now.

Well, someone gotta do that ugly work right? Veterans leave, Novices enter, novices becomes veterans, veterans leave again, and so on... life goes on [:

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17 hours ago, legacy99 said:

I do agree with this. Same things over and over with the same answers given... I do feel people do not take the time to do research and just go HELP ME RIGHT MEOW!!! im to lazy to go search the answers myself. 

 

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7 hours ago, Conan1600 said:

All true. it is repetitive which is why i think some people get crabby when they answer, they have answered many times before. However you should note that while it is not your first time and you possess more knowledge (supposedly), it most likely is their first time and they possess less knowledge which is why they are asking.

they do not see their question as dumb or answered a million times, they just want to understand the subject and have not trained in it. You see it as elementary level crap because you have spent years studding this stuff, it is so easy, why can they not just understand or research more. You just want them to go away but you (hopefully) have a good heart and try to help them but get all elitist about it because you are annoyed. they see it as insulting, which it is. bottom line is if you are at that stage it is best simply to go away for a while till it is fresh and new again or you achieve a different life view.

or you do what the rest of us do. Realize we're now all bitter old meme-war veterans and lurk off topic and a few choice subforums we know by heart,  while letting the new members take care of the questions that have been asked and answered a thousand times over. 

 

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10 hours ago, Conan1600 said:

All true. it is repetitive which is why i think some people get crabby when they answer, they have answered many times before. However you should note that while it is not your first time and you possess more knowledge (supposedly), it most likely is their first time and they possess less knowledge which is why they are asking.

they do not see their question as dumb or answered a million times, they just want to understand the subject and have not trained in it. You see it as elementary level crap because you have spent years studding this stuff, it is so easy, why can they not just understand or research more. You just want them to go away but you (hopefully) have a good heart and try to help them but get all elitist about it because you are annoyed. they see it as insulting, which it is. bottom line is if you are at that stage it is best simply to go away for a while till it is fresh and new again or you achieve a different life view.

The problem is that a lot of people just come here and post half-assed posts that don't contain enough info to answer properly, get mad when they don't get the answers then want and in the end they could have saved everyone a bunch of time if they had just googled something.

I shit you not, I have seen several threads where I just googled the title of the thread and found the answer to the question in the first result on Google.

 

If you're smart enough to post a thread on the forum then you're smart enough to google it.

If you don't even bother spending 10 minutes googling it for yourself, why do you demand that someone else spend maybe 20 minutes of their time answering the question for you?

 

 

Also, the reason why "veterans" are leaving is because it happens all the time. It's just that now some people felt like they wanted to announce them leaving and get their dicks sucked on the way out. Then other people saw what was going on and wanted to join in on the fun. I am fairly sure announcing that you're leaving is against the rules. It used to be at least, because the forum used to be flooded by "I am leaving!" and "why I am leaving" threads all the time.

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4 minutes ago, DoctorWho1975 said:

I'm a veteran and I'm relatively new here.

We mean a forum veteran

The geek himself.

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The people. There are about 3 people still here that I only talk to through the forum. The other 5 are gone.

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10 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

I've seen it for years now.

LOL Yet you kept coming back, and back, and back, and back

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im kinda still here, but not nearly as much as i used to be.

i used to have a job where i could just sit on the forums all day and hang out.

new job, new responsabilities. cant hang get on the forum as much.

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On 4/23/2017 at 7:27 PM, Being Delirious said:

i'm a little confused, if you guys are having problems in real life. I still don't get why you leave the forum. Makes zero sense in my opinion.

I read every reply to this thread before I realized that we were talking about forum veterans and not military veterans.

But, it's a little bit of every reason listed IMO. 

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Because they got bored of this place.

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Been here awhile. But yeah, it gets pretty blah seeing the same topics that could be resolved by a simple google search.

 

 

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On 4/23/2017 at 8:27 PM, Being Delirious said:

i'm a little confused, if you guys are having problems in real life. I still don't get why you leave the forum. Makes zero sense in my opinion.

Maybe they got tired of it, idk.

 

Honestly I stayed on this forum cause of @deXxterlab97. Now I have to stay on to keep the blue going. I just hope he comes back, eventually. :/ 

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