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Internet forums are going down the drain
Posted on 3/12/26 at 1:31 am
Posted on 3/12/26 at 1:31 am
Even our precious TD will eventually fall prey to overzealous moderation.
RIP to to the wild west internet: Pre-2015 is when it was still great.
RIP to to the wild west internet: Pre-2015 is when it was still great.
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Posted on 3/12/26 at 2:09 am to FAT SEXY
In fairness, speaking as someone who has spent a significant amount of time on forums since the early 2000s, people’s online behavior has become fricking abhorrent. I was always very laid back on anything I modded, but I’m sympathetic to mods feeling like they have to nip things in the bud if they don’t want something to grow out of control these days.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 6:16 am to FAT SEXY
Reddit still seems to be alive and well,
But they gave in to the doom scrolling mechanism and are now just being used to data mine for large language models.
But they gave in to the doom scrolling mechanism and are now just being used to data mine for large language models.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 6:35 am to MyRockstarComplex
The sec rant yes
The ot no way
The ot no way
Posted on 3/12/26 at 6:36 am to FAT SEXY
Well if FAT SEXY says so...
Posted on 3/12/26 at 6:46 am to FAT SEXY
TD does a pretty good job of moderating these forums IMO.
Some moderators certainly shouldn't be moderators however.
Some moderators certainly shouldn't be moderators however.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 6:49 am to Joshjrn
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I was always very laid back on anything I modded
Where is the fun with that? I helped run a forum for sports video games way back in the day. Had to deal with a ton of smartass kids. I created a hidden forum category called "Jail." When a user was banned they only had access to this and was read/write only for mods/admins and banned users. It was a blast, banned users could complain about bans, we got to make fun of banned users and then the banned users would start attacking other banned users.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 7:08 am to FAT SEXY
It’s not going to be over regulation that brings TD down… it’s going to be 100,000 agents swamping the site with slop
Posted on 3/12/26 at 7:16 am to MyRockstarComplex
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Reddit still seems to be alive and well
Reddit is the poster child for the dead internet theory. I'm not kidding when I say 99% of their traffic is bots.
Reddit's thing is allowing anonymous users. At no point do you need to verify you're human to post once you're logged in.
Reddit ENCOURAGES bot behavior because they drive engagement, and traffic, and all the numbers advertisers want to see.
Next time you see someone with a username of bluesquirrel-8765 or mistyknoll-2346 check their post history. I bet it's like 10 posts over a span of 5 years.
Next time you see a highly upvoted article, look at the source, I bet it's from hindustan times or the daily mail, or the mirror, or even medium.com - none who are valid news sources.
I know a guy who is a big reddit user, uses it for basically all his internet activity. He went to bed on election night convinced Kamala Harris won, and was completely blindsided by the Trump landslide the next morning. Reddit isn't the real world, it's the world the people with the bots want you to see.
This post was edited on 3/12/26 at 7:19 am
Posted on 3/12/26 at 7:29 am to BitBuster
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Reddit isn't the real world, it's the world the people with the bots want you to see.
None of the social media platforms are the real world. Not just Reddit.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 7:31 am to FAT SEXY
Thread after thread of embeds to slop is killing the site
Posted on 3/12/26 at 7:41 am to MyRockstarComplex
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Reddit still seems to be alive and well,
Alive? Yes. Well? No. Reddit was known for its highly specific different sub Reddits. Now so many of them have the same content posted in multiple different subs at once. Lots of engagement farming. Power tripping mods. Extremely ham fisted politics. Basically every single large sub Reddit is completely garbage. But of course this applies to the internet as a whole like OP said.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 7:43 am to UltimaParadox
quote:YouTube embeds are fine. Twitter embeds was the worst idea the owners of this site have ever had
Thread after thread of embeds to slop is killing the site
Posted on 3/12/26 at 7:43 am to Joshjrn
The problem with modern moderation is that it is too proactive. Moderation should be reactive to complaints and only proactive in keeping illegal images off the forum. A mod that actively seeks things to censor (beyond the illegal) or reaches out to a user without receiving a previous complaint is abusing their position.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 7:48 am to Joshjrn
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In fairness, speaking as someone who has spent a significant amount of time on forums since the early 2000s, people’s online behavior has become fricking abhorrent.
Like the Poli Board
Posted on 3/12/26 at 7:48 am to FAT SEXY
Eventually message boards will be nothing more than regurgitating AI prompts and Twitter reposts.
It's already starting here. Posting a twitter video and putting the twitter video title as the thread title is so lame
It's already starting here. Posting a twitter video and putting the twitter video title as the thread title is so lame
This post was edited on 3/12/26 at 7:49 am
Posted on 3/12/26 at 7:56 am to Pelican fan99
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It's already starting here. Posting a twitter video and putting the twitter video title as the thread title is so lame
Eurocat does this. Posts a link to a story and then just copy and pastes it and that’s it.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:00 am to nola tiger lsu
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Like the Poli Board
The OT has become the poli board lite..
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:10 am to FAT SEXY
Not just forums, used to be able to say what you want online when you played games. Cant even dance around automated systems now. Hell, they even have "reputation" bans. Sissified everything. Was kind of nice having a place to go blow some steam, be an arse, and not have consequences. Golden era CoD being the prime example.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:10 am to UptownJoeBrown
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Eurocat does this. Posts a link to a story and then just copy and pastes it and that’s it.
Yes, Temu John Barron.
Love or hate my body cam thread I do try and put some detail into what to expect.
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