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let's find the source of the problem |
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Do you think that there is a reason why very few old members are still here, and the ones that are still here hate the place?
How can we find the reason behind this so we can solve the problem? |
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Do you think that there is a reason why very few old members are still here, and the ones that are still here hate the place? How can we find the reason behind this so we can solve the problem? I don't think there's a unique answer for that question since it does depend majorly on the specific traits of each single case (aka each single user). This doesn't rule out the possibility of there being a common cause for the discontent amongst CB's earliest members, of course. But I think we should first take into consideration that said common cause is likely to have a different impact on each person. Because of this, even if the final conclusion is that Createblog has indeed changed for the worse, such result should still be taken with a healthy grain of salt. Generally speaking, the longer you belong to an online community the more chances you have to think it has changed for the worse at one point or another. If there were a book for the Internet Murphy's laws, this one would certainly be in the first chapter. Despite each user has its own personal views as to what this site should be like, it is also true that each generation of users shares some common ideal vision of the community. Said concept of the "ideal" site usually keeps changing from one generation to another. Now, for each generation there are members that stay on the site for the long run. Within these people, some are chosen to become staff members and then their impact on how things are run is even bigger. One could safely say that the more waves of users, the more different the site becomes from what it originally was. To me it's simple social evolution, only that in the Internet it happens in a matter of months/years (depending on how concurred the site is) as opposed to real life where such changes can take decades. The process itself isn't negative, since renewal should be preferred over stagnation. The changes that happen under this evolutive course are a different story, though. Speaking of CB again; whether the different mutations this site has suffered have been for the best or else for the worst? Shit, I don't know. I haven't been around long enough to notice them, so that's probably a matter to be debated by more experienced users. In any case, you guys should take a look at the bigger picture before doing any cherry-picking. That is all. |
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With all due respect, you weren't here that long at all and you wouldn't know how much fun it was before. But hey, you acknowledge this so it's cool.
But even if you want to say it was a matter of opinion, there is no denying activity has severely dropped. Closed topics are more common sight now than before, even though there is less activity now. You probably all think that I don't like change. That couldn't be further from the truth. We're all getting older. But why can't cb change with that? There are old people like Duchess of Dork on the website. Plenty of people with children. I just couldn't stand it when one by one, people that I got to know, people that built createblog from the ground up- one by one they quit, many of them disgusted with how users were treating them. createblog has gotten very political and it is the cancer that is killing cb. The "well if you don't like it, then gtfo" attitude is not conducive to building a community. Me, I'm not sure how much longer I'll stay here (hooray for you guys). Perhaps I've been taking the internet too seriously myself. But if you think what's been going on is bad, wait till the day I leave. There's definitely a lot of stuff I want to say that would definitely explain why I feel the way I feel. But won't say here because I don't want to embarrass people publicly. Hopefully you can understand this and it's not because I'm just some grumpy person. I could go on, but I'll save some for later. Hope you decide to stick around, Kurd Jam. |
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