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[Darkflame]

Id say, no, it wouldnt.

[zip accident]

Would a total reboot be a reasonable solution? Just start again from scratch, carry nothing over. Either consign the current forums to the archives or else nuke them entirely. Might stimulate new content and gloss over current problems to a certain extent.

I don't see that helping in any way, the problem, if there is one, is lack of new content.

If there is a problem with the amount of old content, that's not been mentioned so far in this thread so far as I recall. If that was a problem archiving would seem plausible, but I know my view on that is naive.

[Harlequin]

I have just spotted the resurrection of this thread and have yet to read most of the new posts.

The early joining YakYak members came here to talk about Llamasoft. Other subjects less so.

Not me. I joined because Yak was here but I had little interest in discussing games. Llamasoft tends to attract people with certain similarities of mindset and it was the communication with others 'like myself' about random wandering topics that kept me here.

This place got a little shitter the day someone started the "put aeroplanes in a thread to mean 'kill it now'" meme

The planes thing was a response that generally translates as "you are too thick to converse with".

Not much point in that, is there. If you want to excuse yourself from a thread because you think it's tedious (which is rarely necessary, unless you know your input will be expected), then do so, but don't poo on the doorstep as you leave.

Well... The meaning of the planes was originally closer to, "That flew over your head," but the harsher intent appears to dominate these days.

[Harlequin]

… There's a feeling that if you post something, someone else will come along and say "oh no that's a load of crap", or the minute something starts to get interesting someone slaps an image in the post to kill it … there's a lot more thread pissing than there used to be, and while there did used to be thread pissing in "the good old days" it now feels more malicious as if people are doing it on purpose for their own amusement.

Perhaps it's people who are too vain to admit to being vain enough to have a blog but still want a space that's all about them, and so they need to chase away the stuff that doesn't interest them personally from something that isn't a blog.

I have noticed an increase in people ganging up to belittle other individuals. This in itself might indicate a swing away from a sense of community to one of society in general.

[PVB]

I have just spotted the resurrection of this thread and have yet to read most of the new posts.

The early joining YakYak members came here to talk about Llamasoft. Other subjects less so.

Not me. I joined because Yak was here but I had little interest in discussing games. Llamasoft tends to attract people with certain similarities of mindset and it was the communication with others 'like myself' about random wandering topics that kept me here.

And they call me petty.

Okay, the starting membership consisted of people interested in and/or with a history of Llamasoft/Jeff Minter.

[Orava]

I have just spotted the resurrection of this thread and have yet to read most of the new posts.

The early joining YakYak members came here to talk about Llamasoft. Other subjects less so.

Not me. I joined because Yak was here but I had little interest in discussing games. Llamasoft tends to attract people with certain similarities of mindset and it was the communication with others 'like myself' about random wandering topics that kept me here.

And they call me petty.

Okay, the starting membership consisted of people interested in and/or with a history of Llamasoft/Jeff Minter.

Exactly what got me here. Reading Yak's 'blog' back then and finding interesting people with something to say above the normal web-forum crapness. People may have left and there are not that many newcomers - which is a problem - but all the alternatives are not exactly any better.

Maybe it is forming into some kind of gentleman's club with Major Smith always sitting in the corner table, I do not know.

[Darkflame]

Would a total reboot be a reasonable solution? Just start again from scratch, carry nothing over. Either consign the current forums to the archives or else nuke them entirely. Might stimulate new content and gloss over current problems to a certain extent.

I don't see that helping in any way, the problem, if there is one, is lack of new content.

And maybe lack of new views and ideas on existing content?

[Harlequin]

Although I might not read or post here as frequently as I used to I am still on [url=irc://blitzed/#llamasoft]#llamasoft[/url] almost constantly.

I don't see that helping in any way, the problem, if there is one, is lack of new content.

And maybe lack of new views and ideas on existing content?

Are you suggesting that we should accept views other than those we already have?

BURN THE HERETIC!

[Alarm]

Would a total reboot be a reasonable solution? Just start again from scratch, carry nothing over. Either consign the current forums to the archives or else nuke them entirely. Might stimulate new content and gloss over current problems to a certain extent.

I don't believe that would work at all; I expect not every (semi-)regular reader/poster would sign up for the new forum.

Sadly, I think that Flabio hit the nail on its head earlier: the forum has of late become quite dull, with not many posts each day. We could really do with an intake of new blood/former members, but I have no real idea at the moment of what we could do about this.

[Zoot]

Would a total reboot be a reasonable solution? Just start again from scratch, carry nothing over. Either consign the current forums to the archives or else nuke them entirely. Might stimulate new content and gloss over current problems to a certain extent.

I don't believe that would work at all; I expect not every (semi-)regular reader/poster would sign up for the new forum.

Sadly, I think that Flabio hit the nail on its head earlier: the forum has of late become quite dull, with not many posts each day. We could really do with an intake of new blood/former members, but I have no real idea at the moment of what we could do about this.

I don't think that we should "DO" anything. It is what is is, and anything that was "done" would be a false indicator of what the place is. If people want to come, they will. If they do come and there is nothing to see, they will leave.

Despite what Harly says (which was perfectly ok, of course), I still belive that the great majority of original posters were here because of connections to Llamasoft. It isn't really a Llamasoft forum anymore, and so has lost it's primary focus. It's still alright, 'though, it just is what it is.

[Harlequin]

Despite what Harly says (which was perfectly ok, of course), I still belive that the great majority of original posters were here because of connections to Llamasoft …

Oh, I certainly came here because of my Llamasoft connection (I have known Jeff for longer than, I think, anyone else here aside from Wulf). I just have never been here specifically to chat about Llamasoft business.

[PVB]

Oh, I certainly came here because of my Llamasoft connection (I have known Jeff for longer than, I think, anyone else here aside from Wulf). I just have never been here specifically to chat about Llamasoft business.

I first met Wulf at an Atari Show (IIRC) in 1991, playing Llamatron, also think I remember you being mentioned in NOTB once or twice, possibly to do with Compuserve stuff?

Forgive my shit memory if I'm wrong?

I was just a shy Llamasoft fanboy back then*, not actually conversing with Jeff apart from a quiet "Hi" at shows.


*Still am really.

[Harlequin]

I was never involved with CompuServe. I was one of the people, along with Wulf, who used to hang around the stall, help to pack up then join Jeff in his hotel room after the shows (a tradition continued at the later YakYak jollies). RiK apparently has faint memories of me.

[PVB]

Were you ever mentioned in the newsletters though?

[Harlequin]

Were you ever mentioned in the newsletters though?

Not in the ones that I read.