INTPc is boring now

[MasterMerk]

Yes, you all wanted it.

I've been reading the old '04 threads lately. Reminiscing.

I dig the laid back atmosphere. The discussion was not all MBTI oriented, people IMO seemed to share more personal info about themselves even though there was not 30+ posters online at a single time. It was fun and strangely looked more like a support group than what it is now.

Oh, and yes, Andre the chook was awesome, we should bring him back. ^_^

This is not some idealisation on my part. I truly believe the place changed as it grew. Although I am sure part of me grew tired of it as well.

I think small-to-medium sized forums are always the best. After a certain point the amount of members becomes too much to keep track of. You stop caring. You don't really want to participate or share directly with the forum as a group of individuals - and to make it worse the place eventually becomes cliquish and divided. This is natural, of course. It happens in real life too.

I still hate my older posts, heh. Lovin' that teenaged angst.

How has the forum changed in your eyes?

[MacGuffin]

No chooks!

It has changed, but I've been able to keep up with it. It requires more effort now, and if you aren't willing to put that in, you will like it less.

[Avengardh]

It's not that it requires more effort, it has become some sort of social forum with a few members being praised by the newbs.

It just means different things to every member now, I highly doubt it can suddenly "turn back" to what it used to be, that would be illogical to assume.

But facts? It's boring, yeah, sometimes, the rare good thread will come up and I suppose this is why I am still here.

[antireconciler]

Perhaps it was a little of the forum changing as it grew, and a little of yourself changing as you grew too. I only say that because that's how I think it is with me. The forum did seem to be such a more welcoming place to me, but because I cared so much about fitting in. I picked out my rivals and my friends and perhaps it was my own sense of needing to be a part of the forum that really made me a part of it. Today, I remember it warmly, but I know it's something I wouldn't want to go back to. I figure that after a point, you simply no longer need to remake the forum to reassure yourself that you are, and are important. It's perhaps a little lonely though, at least to me. I want other people to engage my thoughts when I post, to ponder them and take them seriously, but when few people take any of it seriously, I can't help but think of how I used to do the same thing to others, in my need for my own thoughts to be heard and accepted, rather than simply conversationally engaged between friends. Ironic that today I'm much more interested in actually knowing other people, beyond the thoughts they think define them, and yet the assumption by most anyone who hears it is that I have my own self to convince them of with a hammer, like they. It's all too ironic that it only ends up NOT making them known at all. INTPc as self-dialogue, lol.

The only thing to do though is to do your part to make INTPc the place you would have it be. Share what you would talk about. Be kind to the angsty. People hear your voice, and never, never doubt that.

And yeah, my old comments were oh so angsty. ^_^

Aven, as always, it's great to see you. It's great to see everyone.

[kuranes]

It seemed more intense at one time, which could be both good and bad, depending. But its true that I've changed some since. I can only suggest people post the kind of thing they want to see more of vs. waiting for someone else to do so.

I was surprised more people didn't want to discuss the merits of digital audio workstations and microphones in my thread on trying to decide between vendor offerings. But its true that microphones are not computers, of which I know people like to debate the trade-offs for. Also there is a low threshold of tolerance for complexity or details. If I had just said simply "What are some of the best values in microphones" I might have gotten more response, but also people might have wanted to first know what I was planning on recording, before they answered. So instead of making people wait for that answer I had a thread on it. http://forums.intpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=18352&highlight=field+recording
A couple people responded to that, and then I had a thread on the next step.http://forums.intpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=18860&highlight=Help+Me+Decide

I think many people prefer to have the details given to them on interrogation vs. offered upfront. And yet I often like to show that "Yes, i know it depends on so and so" before having someone point that out to me later.

[ApeTheDog]

I think people were more shy - would show less of themselves, unless they had something awesome to show. You'd not see the same person post in one thread 6 times in a row (with a few posts in between each time) because said person would be thinking: "will this not appear rude/will other INTP's not think this kind of behavior unappropriate".

Now, precedents have been created for how to post here, and people can just follow those to their own desire.

Or not, because - what do I know?

[Avengardh]

Aven, as always, it's great to see you. It's great to see everyone.

It is always great to see you, glad you came back ^^.