I'm sorry to say this, but..... Options

[DoubleJ]

What the hell has happened to this place? It has gotten to be really boring around here as of late. Now I know that as a mod, I am not supposed to say that, but it is honestly how I feel.
Some of you people need to leave cb, as it has turned into consuming your lives, and you are starting to look petty and childish at the minimum.

If you notice, the same bullshit topics are getting bumped left and right, and everything in cb seems to be going in one big circle. There are only so many times when you can honestly say that it is slow because of summer. Hell, I have more interesting convos and discussions on cbc than I do in cb. As a matter of fact, cbc is way more active than cb is.

My point is this, we have got to start changing things up in the form of new topics, people, and what not. This place really could use a stiff kicking in the ass. I remember when I first joined back in November, I would post like 100 times a day....Now I am lucky if I post 6 or 7 times a day.

COME ON PEOPLE! WAKE UP AND LET'S START MAKING THIS PLACE HAPPENING AGAIN!

[tokyo-rose]

the new crowd is crap.

The new crowd isn't crap. It's just that a lot of them get the wrong impression of CB, leave, and most likely never come back. The ones that survive the initial bashing given to them by the veterans think that the right way to avoid further bashing is to flame the veterans back, and to start flaming other newbies that try to post. That's a misguided, but understandable way of thinking. If you're faced with threats to your pride, reputation, etc., you're going to want to fight back, and also lash out at whoever else you can, and sometimes you end up looking dumb. Other members see your mistake, make fun of you for it, and unless you handle it the right way, they'll keep picking at you until they drive you away or break you down completely. It's just in human nature to do that, and unfortunately, it's manifested itself to an extreme on CreateBlog.

Another problem that I see is that most CB veterans seem to have forgotten what it was like to be new here. I don't know firsthand what CB was like in 2004 (it seems like people were less harsh to newbies back then), but it shouldn't matter what year it is, or how much you want to mock someone you think is "lower" than you. It doesn't matter if "it's just the Internet" and that it's "not my fault if people get hurt so easily"; that doesn't mean that you can't learn to be less cruel to the poor newbies trying to have fun here.