Urban 75’s time is up

[ska invita]

How exactly do you know this ?

Posters willingly say a lot about themselves, freely post pictures, tell anecdotes etc. Looking through the list of people who have posted on this thread I know something about 95% of them.
Its not a totally unfair point, Urban has become more homogenous over the years from what I can tell.
We have lost many Posters of Colour over the years and several trans posters, for example.
IME thats at least partly because of the tone of conversations that have taken place on the boards.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Urban 75 does lack diversity, it is true.
Urban's posters are 90%:
white, male, heterosexuals, with left wing voting tendancies. Mostly working or middle class.
It is far too homogeneous.

Yeah but about 90% are neurospicey and/or plain odd, so that’s great representation for ND circles!

 

[_Russ_]

You forgot the very vocal Prosecco socialist contingent

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

You forgot the very vocal Prosecco socialist contingent

They've been at war with the cava communists and the asti anarchists as long as I can remember.

 

[DotCommunist]

Bollinger bolsheviks etc

 

[Pickman's model]

You forgot the very vocal Prosecco socialist contingent

And the cava cunts

 

[On Fire]

Yeah but about 90% are neurospicey and/or plain odd, so that’s great representation for ND circles!

Urban 75 now does not really represent Brixton or London though, which is somewhat different to how it started out and original aims. But to make it more diverse would require limits on members freedom of expression, which I am not much in favour of either.

 

[ouirdeaux]

How can any online forum represent any flesh and blood community? Increasing diversity by restricting speech is a new one on me, though.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

Increasing diversity by restricting speech is a new one on me, though.

Sounds similar to what Elon Musk said shortly before he let all the White Supremacists back onto Twitter.

 

[_Russ_]

They've been at war with the cava communists and the asti anarchists as long as I can remember

The Judean Peoples Front have a lot to answer for if you ask me

 

[Supine]

The Judean Peoples Front have a lot to answer for if you ask me

I think you mean the Peoples Front of Judea

 

[fucthest8]

Splitters

 

[steeplejack]

U75 will be around for as long as folk want it to be.

Yes it- and the role of bulletin boards in digital culture- have changed profoundly in the last twenty years.

Who knew?

 

[Supine]

U75 will be around for as long as folk want it to be.

75 will be the average age at some point

 

[steeplejack]

Probably.

 

[two sheds]

and then the youngest age

 

[_Russ_]

I think you mean the Peoples Front of Judea

Fuck Off!!...etc etc

 

[xenon]

Should there be a U75 Telegram channel? (I've never actually used Telegram but would join one I reckon.)

 

[xenon]

Urban 75 now does not really represent Brixton or London though, which is somewhat different to how it started out and original aims. But to make it more diverse would require limits on members freedom of expression, which I am not much in favour of either.

It didn't then either. Hint: London even Brixton, wasn't all just young lefties / anarchists going to raves.

 

[moochedit]

Should there be a U75 Telegram channel? (I've never actually used Telegram but would join one I reckon.)HHH

I don't like all this modern new fangled change...etc...

 

[xenon]

And I don't think it was ever claimed to represent London you wolly. It's a community that has grown up around some shared ideas, interests, locality and people who like the chat and lack of ads.

 

[xenon]

I don't like all this modern new fangled change...etc...

Generally I'm quite into new stuff. Even if I CBA using it myself, good to know about.

 

[PR1Berske]

Messageboards will be around as long as the Internet needs them, and that's 20-odd years so far. I'm very fond of messageboards, the workhorses of the internet, carrying on for decades with their bespoke emojis, strict poobah admins, weird quote functions, injokes, cliques, friendships, beefs going on for so long three of the involved parties have actually died since it started, marriage proposals, funny photographs, 21 different FAQ threads borne of about six long-forgotten arguments, only three available fonts, one unforgettable real life meetup (in a good way), one unforgettable real life meetup (in a bad way).

 

[_Russ_]

Should there be a U75 Telegram channel? (I've never actually used Telegram but would join one I reckon.)

Nah, Telegram is for dodgy geezers with nazi memorabilia collections and crypto con men..... if you want to be down with the hipsters you need a Discord Server with a meme channel

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Should there be a U75 Telegram channel?

surely that's a bit old tech even for us

 

[brogdale]

surely that's a bit old tech even for us

Suddenly taken back to wedding receptions at the Labour Hall when I were a nipper...always a seemingly endless list of telegrams to be read out by the best man.

 

[not a trot]

75 will be the average age at some point

For me, only 11 years to go. I'm sure the time will just fucking fly by.

 

[editor]

Urban 75 now does not really represent Brixton or London though, which is somewhat different to how it started out and original aims. But to make it more diverse would require limits on members freedom of expression, which I am not much in favour of either.

It's never claimed to represent Brixton or anything other than the opinions of its contributors.

 

[On Fire]

It's never claimed to represent Brixton or anything other than the opinions of its contributors.

Thanks for replying. I was not really sure. I should not have wrote that in retrospect.

 

[a_chap]

We have reached peak Urban.



It's all downhill from here...