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Things that have changed with posting forums over the years

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Ghost busting is stupid. If you get in the habit of trying to find out who is really the person behind a posting handle (specially if you don't have the tools) you'll get in an endless cycle of mistrust. If someone wants to role play they are female by all means go ahead, it doesn't affect me one way or the other.
 
Things have certainly changed since I signed up at SBR 3 years ago. I'm sure a little has to do with meeting some posters, making it easier to prove my female card.

As for new female posters signing up? I really don't pay attention.
 
Wally I hear what you're saying but to me it makes as much sense as someone hanging out at a gambling forum when they don't even gamble. There are forums out there solely dedicated to various sports for the fans who don't bet. I would've thought they'd rather be there. The Internet is a big place - surely these lonely people you refer to who just want attention can find a community who accepts them as they are.
 
wal66
Muddy, was there more sports interaction when you first started? Obviously the available Sportsbook information has evolved over the years you've been active as well.
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I would say that there is more off-topic discussion now than there was when I first came around but the difference is not dramatic. ~2002 there were always discussions at Covers about breaking up the main forum for that reason. People wanted all the political talk to go to its own forum. There were always lots of guys babbling on about sex/TV/movies/music just like now.

It has changed a bit though. Back then you were a bit apologetic about starting an off-topic thread. Maybe not so much at Covers but at theRX which was the other big forum at the time. You would always put "OFF TOPIC or O/T" right in your title. Even after 2005 when SBRforum opened, there was still that feeling that you needed to do that.

But I think it has gotten to the point where guys just go for it now.



As for sportsbook discussion, yes that has changed. Things were much freer way back when - not always wisely. The industry itself has changed a lot and so the discussion of it has had to.
 
Oksana
Wally I hear what you're saying but to me it makes as much sense as someone hanging out at a gambling forum when they don't even gamble. There are forums out there solely dedicated to various sports for the fans who don't bet. I would've thought they'd rather be there. The Internet is a big place - surely these lonely people you refer to who just want attention can find a community who accepts them as they are.
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I really think you are trying too hard to apply logic to the actions of dopes. Wally is right. There are a zillion pathetic attention-seeking behaviors you see on forums and being a tranny is just another.
 
I'll tell you what hasn't changed. Guys calling themselves The King. We had little guys marching onto the forum with their little chests puffed out calling themselves the King of the Forum back then - and we still have them.
 
I get more and more out of touch all the time. With the simplifying of my betting activities - combined with the intolerably stupid and witless level of discussion at other forums compared to gamelive (last I checked) - I have no motivation to look at anything else.

TBH, I don't even feel qualified to comment on this topic any more. As far as what is currently going on anywhere else, I only have stale impressions.
 
Blitty
What was the mind state of so many guys pretending to be women back then? Purely for the attention.
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Yes, basically. I mean, I'm sure you could pick it apart and write a damn textbook about the psychology but at the root of it:

Females get more attention and a lot of guys are needy and loserish as fok, et voila ---> trannies.



Actually Roxygurl could be seen as somewhat justifiable. The dude behind her, Journeyman, was working for theRX at the time he created her - and she did get a lot of attention. So you could chalk that one up to a business strategy.

I personally would not (chalk it up to that). J-man was as needy and loserish as anyone and I'm sure that's why he did it. Much like jjgold, the fact that his particular brand of pathetic neediness translated to traffic was a coincidental side-effect.
 
over time, most forums i have posted at have simply outlived their usefulness for me by getting too big, too crowded. have had the same experience with bars in my life. i prefer the smaller saloons, perhaps 'quaint' is the right word. there was a bar in houston that the mrs. and i really liked. could always go find some regular to chat and share a cocktail with. occasionally there would be a bigger crowd on friday-saturday and maybe once a year a fight/shoving match would break out, but for the most part everyone was friendly and respectful. then it started to become more popular when a new office building opened up in the area, lots of loud-mouth starched shirts showing off their obnoxious and arrogant sides. we eventually just quit going and found another place to enjoy.

have done the same thing at various sports or gambling message boards over the years. many just started to be places to hurl smack talk or otherwise insult each other instead of exchanging good info.
 
Bay Bud
over time, most forums i have posted at have simply outlived their usefulness for me by getting too big, too crowded. have had the same experience with bars in my life. i prefer the smaller saloons, perhaps 'quaint' is the right word. there was a bar in houston that the mrs. and i really liked. could always go find some regular to chat and share a cocktail with. occasionally there would be a bigger crowd on friday-saturday and maybe once a year a fight/shoving match would break out, but for the most part everyone was friendly and respectful. then it started to become more popular when a new office building opened up in the area, lots of loud-mouth starched shirts showing off their obnoxious and arrogant sides. we eventually just quit going and found another place to enjoy.

have done the same thing at various sports or gambling message boards over the years. many just started to be places to hurl smack talk or otherwise insult each other instead of exchanging good info.
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Says the guy insulting everyone with his chosen avatar.

Roguey where do these people come from???
 
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