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[Kiki]

No worries. I keep puppy training pads on me at all times.

Great!

 

[WVduckchick]

Bugs the poop out of me too...but I think Nifty hit the nail on the head here:
People just don't pay attention....or are paying attention to the wrong things.

IMO stupid phones have ruined forums sorry, yes, that's an exaggeration and a generalization, but it's true too, tho it's not really the phones themselves, but the people who use them have no inkling of what a forum is and how it works(worked), or what a bulletin board was(to age me). Forum etiquette is rare to non-existent.
Staccato 'texting' has replaced thoughtful discussion.

I've been participating in forums for decades, and I have seen a sharp decline in content integrity since the phones/mobile devices got more popular in the last few years. Forums have always had chatting/social sections and topic discussion sections were mostly kept on topic, the shucking and jiving was kept in the social sections and it was 'self enforced' by forum members, worked great!

Growing ones post numbers, likes, and yakking seems to have taken precedence over content...look at this thread.....geezuz can't anyone stay on topic?!?! I'm not against chatting and joking and bantering, but gawd, 'get a room'! It's not just about solutions found, many topic discussions that could go on for months or years are derailed and clogged by the flotsam...making them near useless unless one wants to spend the whole day scrolling thru all the crap to find good info. I could go on and on, be glad I'm tired(but not inebriated). RantOver. Apologies to those offended.

Hear hear! Thank you.

Would be nice if the OP had the power to delete drivelous posts.

 

[BantyChooks]

Bugs the poop out of me too...but I think Nifty hit the nail on the head here:
People just don't pay attention....or are paying attention to the wrong things.

IMO stupid phones have ruined forums sorry, yes, that's an exaggeration and a generalization, but it's true too, tho it's not really the phones themselves, but the people who use them have no inkling of what a forum is and how it works(worked), or what a bulletin board was(to age me). Forum etiquette is rare to non-existent.
Staccato 'texting' has replaced thoughtful discussion.

I've been participating in forums for decades, and I have seen a sharp decline in content integrity since the phones/mobile devices got more popular in the last few years. Forums have always had chatting/social sections and topic discussion sections were mostly kept on topic, the shucking and jiving was kept in the social sections and it was 'self enforced' by forum members, worked great!

Growing ones post numbers, likes, and yakking seems to have taken precedence over content...look at this thread.....geezuz can't anyone stay on topic?!?! I'm not against chatting and joking and bantering, but gawd, 'get a room'! It's not just about solutions found, many topic discussions that could go on for months or years are derailed and clogged by the flotsam...making them near useless unless one wants to spend the whole day scrolling thru all the crap to find good info. I could go on and on, be glad I'm tired(but not inebriated). RantOver. Apologies to those offended.

I have to admit I am a chief offender of this. One thing we (participants of the Educational Incubating thread) have done is set up a notes section with meaningful discussions linked so that nobody has to read 100,000 posts of blather to get the 50,000 posts of invaluable information. I think it has worked rather well.

 

[Kiki]

I think what forums used to be will never be again.
Things just change.

 

[Parront]

Bugs the poop out of me too...but I think Nifty hit the nail on the head here:
People just don't pay attention....or are paying attention to the wrong things.

IMO stupid phones have ruined forums sorry, yes, that's an exaggeration and a generalization, but it's true too, tho it's not really the phones themselves, but the people who use them have no inkling of what a forum is and how it works(worked), or what a bulletin board was(to age me). Forum etiquette is rare to non-existent.
Staccato 'texting' has replaced thoughtful discussion.

I've been participating in forums for decades, and I have seen a sharp decline in content integrity since the phones/mobile devices got more popular in the last few years. Forums have always had chatting/social sections and topic discussion sections were mostly kept on topic, the shucking and jiving was kept in the social sections and it was 'self enforced' by forum members, worked great!

Growing ones post numbers, likes, and yakking seems to have taken precedence over content...look at this thread.....geezuz can't anyone stay on topic?!?! I'm not against chatting and joking and bantering, but gawd, 'get a room'! It's not just about solutions found, many topic discussions that could go on for months or years are derailed and clogged by the flotsam...making them near useless unless one wants to spend the whole day scrolling thru all the crap to find good info. I could go on and on, be glad I'm tired(but not inebriated). RantOver. Apologies to those offended.

Not offended, sorry, I know that I am one of the offenders. I do haunt computer repair threads, and they also degenerate. I would post: if I had any authority.

 

[WVduckchick]

I have to admit I am a chief offender of this. One thing we (participants of the Educational Incubating thread) have done is set up a notes section with meaningful discussions linked so that nobody has to read 100,000 posts of blather to get the 50,000 posts of invaluable information. I think it has worked rather well.

For a thread like that, indeed! But for the random person just asking for help, that wouldn't work.

This thread is a great example of how the original content gets lost, and someone wanting to actually help will pass by all the junk. It is not in the random ramblings section. That's what that section is for.

 

[Kiki]

I'd take a wild guess that 90% of the threads go 'off topic.'

 

[Parront]

I'd take a wild guess that 90% of the threads go 'off topic.'

Just because it is "Off topic", it does not have to be unusable. I hope that these conversations would be what foster community here. One reason I joined, was a very long thread that I read for days.

 

[aart]

drivelous posts.

Great phrase. Gratuitously Drivelous!

I think what forums used to be will never be again.
Things just change.

....and they could change 'back' for the better too.

I'd take a wild guess that 90% of the threads go 'off topic.'

They do, but they don't have to if folks would stay focused.

See there two posts when one could have been used.

 

[WVduckchick]

Great phrase. Gratuitously Drivelous!

....and they could change 'back' for the better too.

They do, but they don't have to if folks would stay focused.

Never going to happen, but i do agree. we have a social section for getting to know other members and socializing.