Do only sad losers still post on internet forums?

[ouirdeaux]

Well let's look at the alternatives to forums:

You left out real life. Probably with justification.

 

[krtek a houby]

You left out real life. Probably with justification.

Tbf, forums are real life, for many people. There's certainly an overlap.

 

[Humberto]

I always talk with the assumption that I am talking to Bart and Millhouse.

 

[petee]

Culchies, boggers, muck savages, mud people etc etc

It's Dubs being snooty, for the most part.

feckin' jackeens

 

[krtek a houby]

feckin' jackeens

On behalf of fellow Dubliners, sincere apologies and stuff.

 

[editor]

Urban75 is probably the best forum, but it is losing posters.

I didn't realise that you had access to the user stats.

 

[spitfire]

On behalf of fellow Dubliners, sincere apologies and stuff.

Some of my best friends are culchies.

 

[Pickman's model]

I didn't realise that you had access to the user stats.

Doesn't need that to see the disappeared posters threads

 

[Pickman's model]

You left out real life. Probably with justification.

He's justified if not ancient and he likes to roam the land

 

[NoXion]

You left out real life. Probably with justification.

Well the only "real life" location I know of for example, reliably finding people with whom to talk about the video game Elite Dangerous, is the Elite Community Meet, and while it's certainly a lot of fun, it costs money and only happens for a limited time once a year.

My going to the pub and buttonholing random strangers about the subject does not, on the face of it, seem like it would be satisfactory for either party.

 

[singsongfun]

I didn't realise that you had access to the user stats.

I don’t. It’s just from reading the forum.
I ain’t the fuzz. Pretty sure they have more pressing issues to deal with than posting on Urban.

 

[Silas Loom]

I don’t. It’s just from reading the forum.
I ain’t the fuzz. Pretty sure they have more pressing issues to deal with than posting on Urban.

The boards have had their fair share both of warranted officers posting openly, from a wide spectrum of ranks, and of covert ones posting to further their legends.

 

[editor]

I don’t. It’s just from reading the forum.
I ain’t the fuzz. Pretty sure they have more pressing issues to deal with than posting on Urban.

So you're just making up negative shit. Twat.

 

[Hollis]

Urban’s average age of poster is getting older too. I suppose the kids like Instagram or TikTok.

Who cares? If I felt the need to need to scroll through 10 second wacky video clips I could do that. On TikTok.

 

[ouirdeaux]

What do happy losers do?

Asking for a friend.

 

[krtek a houby]

I don’t. It’s just from reading the forum.
I ain’t the fuzz. Pretty sure they have more pressing issues to deal with than posting on Urban.

What's your excuse?

 

[danny la rouge]

I ain’t the fuzz.

That’s what a cop would say!

 

[ouirdeaux]

Frankly, I wouldn't have thought anyone would say 'the fuzz' for the last several decades, but obviously I was wrong.

 

[krtek a houby]

I think

Unconvinced

 

[danny la rouge]

Frankly, I wouldn't have thought anyone would say 'the fuzz' for the last several decades, but obviously I was wrong.

So he’s either a cop or a try-hard vicar? I agree.

 

[krtek a houby]

So he’s either a cop or a try-hard vicar? I agree.

He doesn't like RAYE and probably doesn't like Who, either.

Definitely a wrong un.

 

[newbie]

Well let's look at the alternatives to forums:

Facebook = Home to unhinged Boomers with chronic lead poisoning. Also an enabler of genocide, thanks for that Mr Zuckerberg.

Xhitter = Formerly the home of a character limit that encouraged "hot takes" (ugh), grandstanding and bad faith engagement, has now become a major outlet for 4chan/8chan-style nihilistic fascism, courtesy of that dickhead Musk.

Instagram = Holy shit does that place have hordes of incels and similar creeps.

TikTok = Its insistence on short-form videos means that being primarily a source of hyper-active brain-rot was an inevitability. It also may or may not be part of a CCP psy-op against the West.

Reddit = Funnily enough the most forum-like of the non-forum alternatives, and IMO that is why it's still a good place for specialised interests. Unfortunately the news and politics subreddits have a bit of an issue with astroturfing, and the site as a whole suffers from repost bots. This has not been helped by the recent API changes made at the behest of the Reddit CEO, who is a useless shithead that idolises Elon Musk.

YouTube = Not sure if this counts as a social media site and/or an alternative to forums, but I have decided to include it for the sake of completeness. The world's biggest source for freely available audio-visual media, but the comments on videos can be utterly vile and the algorithm has a tendency to funnel viewers towards the far-right.

Whatever problems might exist with Urban75, MumsNet, Digital Spy or any other online forum, I don't think they are as bad as the alternatives, whose sheer size can make for a greater impact.

No-one ever mentions the Stack Exchange ecosystem in this sort of roundup, possibly because there are no pictures of kittens (or anything else). Google reckons there are 100 million visitors per month so it's not an insignificant arena in which like-minds can gather and attempt to establish accuracy. It's serious, grownup, very structured and doesn't tolerate rambling threads like this, but that's what makes it useful, unlike most sm, which is so cluttered that the real gem posts sink into the morass, never to be found again.

There's a question of definition, maybe it doesn't count as social media, precisely because there are no kittens?

 

[Aladdin]

Interesting..
Case claims young social media users damaged by social media META and Instagram.

 

[NoXion]

No-one ever mentions the Stack Exchange ecosystem in this sort of roundup, possibly because there are no pictures of kittens (or anything else). Google reckons there are 100 million visitors per month so it's not an insignificant arena in which like-minds can gather and attempt to establish accuracy. It's serious, grownup, very structured and doesn't tolerate rambling threads like this, but that's what makes it useful, unlike most sm, which is so cluttered that the real gem posts sink into the morass, never to be found again.

There's a question of definition, maybe it doesn't count as social media, precisely because there are no kittens?

Stack Exchange is a great resource, it's everything that shithole hellsites like Quora should be but never will, unfortunately however its SEO game is really weak and so it doesn't really turn up in Google results all that much, at least in my experience.

I think its lack of consideration in discussions of social media has less to do with a lack of kitten pictures, and more to do with the fact that its "social" aspect very definitely takes a backseat. Stack Exchange is a lot closer to Wikipedia than it is to TikTok, and I've yet to see anyone argue that Wikipedia is a social media site.

 

[ska invita]

Urban’s average age of poster is getting older too. I suppose the kids like Instagram or TikTok.

A healthy sign

Over-70s are UK’s most online adults after twentysomethings, survey shows

ONS data also reveals working mothers spend on average an hour and a quarter more a day on household chores than male partners

www.theguardian.com

 

[singsongfun]

He doesn't like RAYE and probably doesn't like Who, either.

Definitely a wrong un.

Insight!

 

[two sheds]

Insight!

Fuck off will you with the harassing of krtek across threads.

 

[Ax^]

has this fuck wit come out as a trump supporter or just a bitter anti woke crusader yet?

i mean it is normally the way

 

[Aladdin]

has this fuck wit come out as a trump supporter or just a bitter anti woke crusader yet?

i mean it is normally the way

Judgjng from their profile pic they are probably living in a glass dome on the moon.

 

[singsongfun]

Hostile crowd.
No, I don’t support Trump and am not anti-woke.
I don’t live on the moon either!
Happy to answer any further questions!