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[Mass Distraction]

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I think the real problem here isn't the free thread or the fact that the chit chat thread is no more. The real problem is that these forums are suffering from stagnation; there are only like 10-15 people who actually post anything outside of submitting trivia and rarely anybody new coming in and sticking around to post on a regular basis. (Don't believe me? Just click on 'View Today's Posts' and point out anyone who isn't already a regular poster.)

I mean, I rarely read these forums anymore because whatever is posted here can be found and discussed on any other forum or social media output. Like what IS the big draw to posting on VGFacts other than submitting trivia anyway? To discuss it? Sure that happens sometimes. To discuss VGFacts videos? Yeah sure, but most of the posts in those threads are nothing but white noise "Good Job 10/10" posts; besides it's not like you can't do that in Youtube comments.

Remember when the site launched and there were lots of folks posting? What happened to them? It might have been that they just don't have time to read the forums, or they're already apart of another community (Like TSR or VGR) and don't want to commit to two communities. (I mean pretty much everyone that came from TSR went back to TSR after a few months.) not to mention when we came from DYKG we kinda posted in a circlejerky manner, and what I mean is that the first couple of threads posted had posts like, "Hey, I remember you from DYKG!" or "We used to do this back at DYKG!" Hell, there's was a badge in everyone's sigs to show you were from DYKG; that's as circlejerky as you can get! (And I'm not gonna lie I too did some circle jerking back then.) So what? Why can't we have our fun with our little badges or letting everyone know that we were on another forum before having to come here? It's not like it'll alienate anyone from registering or posting anymore. I'm not saying it did, but it could have.

Not to mention why would the chat thread being closed or open change forum activity anyway. Are you saying that you can only post like you're on Facebook or Twitter? I guess that's true because the most popular threads are ones where you just talk about whatever in gaming or repost funny picture/videos you find on 9gag or whatever. So why post here when most of the content on these forums is nothing but that? You could just go to those sites to look at them there.

Actually, why don't everyone take a good long look at all the threads that have posted so far and ask yourself, "Why would I want to post here." and assume that you know nothing about this community other than what gets posted here. I think you'll see that there's not many reasons to.

So, what you are saying is that the problem is not the threads but the users? Or more specifically, the way users make threads?

So... What? Reboot the forum? Again?

I'm not really all that in for reopening dead threads but I just wouldn't see the point in closing even more.