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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2020 4:48:22 GMT 10
It's still better than Personality Café though.
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Post by slashpop on Oct 11, 2020 5:12:11 GMT 10
Honestly it was always a kind of average to bad site until a number people on this site made it better in 14-2015 for a few years by changing how things work and with way more interesting posts. There is such a big difference since it’s not the same. I find straight up weird how people pretend the site it better than it is and the denial how many of the older regular members tend to lack manners or have a really obnoxious attitude. Been saying this for the longest. At my time of joining, 2015-2016 InThe00s felt like the official go to as a new generation of users were joining with new nostalgia. Ever since then, we grew older and drifted. It might take another universal link to get InThe00s back to its peak. InThe00s gave off a neat vibe in 2015-2016. Honestly the site looks the layout feels like something from 1997.I shit you not I visited in the site in 2001 when it was inthe80s.com once or twice lol and it still looks the same. While it seems like some section is doing what they went, you could even say some kind or repetitive topics, whatever they enjoy doing their thing and thats fine, but in the other section I see kind of some a bit of posting of some of the most generic and neutral discussions ever possible almost made deliberately to be like that, of course all in the name of prove how much they are NOT decadelogists since they don't think impure thoughts, and of course to get bigger browie points by the most popular posters. While its pretty much relaxed now but you can sill kind of sense it.
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Post by John Titor on Oct 11, 2020 6:17:59 GMT 10
Honestly it was always a kind of average to bad site until a number people on this site made it better in 14-2015 for a few years by changing how things work and with way more interesting posts. There is such a big difference since it’s not the same. I find straight up weird how people pretend the site it better than it is and the denial how many of the older regular members tend to lack manners or have a really obnoxious attitude. Been saying this for the longest. At my time of joining, 2015-2016 InThe00s felt like the official go to as a new generation of users were joining with new nostalgia. Ever since then, we grew older and drifted. It might take another universal link to get InThe00s back to its peak. InThe00s gave off a neat vibe in 2015-2016. Lyricboy stealing our threads for the past year killed it for good tbh, it will never go back to how it was all due in part to one poster. I mean it was going down before but that really nailed it. Inthe00s can thank LyricBoy for killing the website.
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Post by dount2005 on Oct 11, 2020 7:01:36 GMT 10
Never bothered with inthe00s. And from what I heard lately, I don't have any desire to.
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Post by slashpop on Oct 11, 2020 7:10:58 GMT 10
Been saying this for the longest. At my time of joining, 2015-2016 InThe00s felt like the official go to as a new generation of users were joining with new nostalgia. Ever since then, we grew older and drifted. It might take another universal link to get InThe00s back to its peak. InThe00s gave off a neat vibe in 2015-2016. Lyricboy stealing our threads for the past year killed it for good tbh, it will never go back to how it was all due in part to one poster. I mean it was going down before but that really nailed it. Inthe00s can thank LyricBoy for killing the website. I know but before enough of you guys got together and made it better after sometime it became a good site for 5 or so years. Even at the beginning of when you guys came they were still picking on members, honestly I think more people should speak out on it. Before that it literally was crazy toxic just reading posts from 2011. The mods and their friends would ban and belittle people left and right over nothing. It was a dictatorship.
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Post by John Titor on Oct 11, 2020 11:37:57 GMT 10
Lyricboy stealing our threads for the past year killed it for good tbh, it will never go back to how it was all due in part to one poster. I mean it was going down before but that really nailed it. Inthe00s can thank LyricBoy for killing the website. I know but before enough of you guys got together and made it better after sometime it became a good site for 5 or so years. Even at the beginning of when you guys came they were still picking on members, honestly I think more people should speak out on it. Before that it literally was crazy toxic just reading posts from 2011. The mods and their friends would ban and belittle people left and right over nothing. It was a dictatorship. Thank you, yeah it was good for a bit but as you said yuppp they started doing coo coo crap, and then when they ban someone they keep talking smack, the latest development in some of the peoples responses defending LyricBoy honestly shocked and surprised me. It was obvious there was a lack of empathy with Lyricboy and some of the posters that endorsed him. It literally is a Dictatorship. There is nothing Lyricboy or the mods there can do to bring it back its over and dead they shot themselves in the foot with a foolish move that cost them the state of the site. I said it before and Ill say it again inthe00s is like a low rent channel like CMT or TV Land - Trash, annoying and forgettable and Popedia is like HBO - premium,exclusive and thought provoking
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Post by slashpop on Oct 11, 2020 13:07:15 GMT 10
I know but before enough of you guys got together and made it better after sometime it became a good site for 5 or so years. Even at the beginning of when you guys came they were still picking on members, honestly I think more people should speak out on it. Before that it literally was crazy toxic just reading posts from 2011. The mods and their friends would ban and belittle people left and right over nothing. It was a dictatorship. Thank you, yeah it was good for a bit but as you said yuppp they started doing coo coo crap, and then when they ban someone they keep talking smack, the latest development in some of the peoples responses defending LyricBoy honestly shocked and surprised me. It was obvious there was a lack of empathy with Lyricboy and some of the posters that endorsed him. It literally is a Dictatorship. There is nothing Lyricboy or the mods there can do to bring it back its over and dead they shot themselves in the foot with a foolish move that cost them the state of the site. I said it before and Ill say it again inthe00s is like a low rent channel like CMT or TV Land - Trash, annoying and forgettable and Popedia is like HBO - premium,exclusive and thought provoking Well stated. Everyone should know before considering to sign up that the user you mentioned posts borderline racist sympathizer material that he tries to word nicely and no one in the inner circle seems to have a problem or policy. Its one thing to have different or kinda conservative views and another to be a bigot and a bully, I wouldn’t be surprised if this person secretly posts on some KKK website based on his post history. Literally almost every single mod and long time member there has some kind of MAJOR attitude and empathy issue, I think it’s totally fair to say that many of them are high on the narcissist spectrum. Not as an insult or whatever. You can’t diagnose people but still likely to possibly true in some way. Another thing is you are taking about people possibly older or the same age as our parents or grand parents, like nothing wrong with that but you would think they would know better. Thing is I think ALL of us in one way or another have been treated unfairly at one point or another there while I think it’s a pointless to endlessly give them importance and talk about people and so on I still think it’s good to at least acknowledge people treated seriously unfairly and things that are beyond unacceptable constructively at least.
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Post by fusefan on Oct 12, 2020 13:03:40 GMT 10
InThe00s has a couple of evangelical Christian posters who are very rigid in their conservatism, support of Trump, and support of a Christian state in the US. One of the posters has promoted conversion therapy and is one of the "God will destroy the US for legalizing same-sex marriage" types. I think the input from those posters makes a big difference in why inthe00s seems more right-leaning. I feel they also more of baby boomer and core gen x crowd, kind of a small town, group oriented and older vibe, as opposed to a more cosmopolitan and individual minded one. It’s not good or bad bad thing just an observation. It seems like 5 or so years it took number of users to create their own place in the midst of that kind at atmosphere. I think prior to that there was some kind of greater generational animosity where a number of the mods and inner circle created a weird purinatical hierarchy clique and would randomly gang up, and viciously bully and ban just about any user they didn’t like over completely questionable reasons. They also would do this by also stretching out the term “decadeology” and abusing the term or making someone uncomfortable until they left, they would gang up together from what I’ve understood. I wasn’t there. I met a few people who explained to me who left the forums back in the 2000s who left for a totally unjustified reason, I think there was a back story but again there is something fucked up about that site was. The older archieved posts really reflect this. It’s not like that anymore but just hearing about from others and looking at really old posts is really revealing. I would agree that the site seems sometimes be neutral when it comes promoting almost far right wing, kinda bigoted or questionable topics which should be dealt with in rational way rather than ignored or glossed over. Again it still to some extent operates sometimes like if you are friends with the inner clique you get get away with saying messed up things or being obnoxious no matter what. Kind of narcissistic vibe going on... Like posting that David Hasselhoff gif and the history of the Chevy smallblock?
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Post by slashpop on Oct 12, 2020 13:16:53 GMT 10
I feel they also more of baby boomer and core gen x crowd, kind of a small town, group oriented and older vibe, as opposed to a more cosmopolitan and individual minded one. It’s not good or bad bad thing just an observation. It seems like 5 or so years it took number of users to create their own place in the midst of that kind at atmosphere. I think prior to that there was some kind of greater generational animosity where a number of the mods and inner circle created a weird purinatical hierarchy clique and would randomly gang up, and viciously bully and ban just about any user they didn’t like over completely questionable reasons. They also would do this by also stretching out the term “decadeology” and abusing the term or making someone uncomfortable until they left, they would gang up together from what I’ve understood. I wasn’t there. I met a few people who explained to me who left the forums back in the 2000s who left for a totally unjustified reason, I think there was a back story but again there is something fucked up about that site was. The older archieved posts really reflect this. It’s not like that anymore but just hearing about from others and looking at really old posts is really revealing. I would agree that the site seems sometimes be neutral when it comes promoting almost far right wing, kinda bigoted or questionable topics which should be dealt with in rational way rather than ignored or glossed over. Again it still to some extent operates sometimes like if you are friends with the inner clique you get get away with saying messed up things or being obnoxious no matter what. Kind of narcissistic vibe going on... Like posting that David Hasselhoff gif and the history of the Chevy smallblock? As a viewer I’ve seen perfectly legitimate posts across different members there be completely shat on with similar garbage a number of times over. It’s of really ugly and uncalled for way of degrading their users. Not to be ageist but I think the perfect response would have been to spam them to death with ok boomer. But I guess it predates the term.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2020 15:23:41 GMT 10
Both sites are left-leaning overall but have a diversity in opinions. I think there is one prominent racist poster on there but I wouldn't paint other users with the same brush.
I think both sites are small enough that if you stick around for long enough you will see each poster as having their individual opinions rather than seeing the site as a hive mind. With some larger websites I've been on you get dogpiled real fast if you have a dissenting opinion; at that point the aggregate political opinion becomes dominant and self-perpetuating.
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Post by aja675 on Oct 12, 2020 22:30:40 GMT 10
I feel they also more of baby boomer and core gen x crowd, kind of a small town, group oriented and older vibe, as opposed to a more cosmopolitan and individual minded one. It’s not good or bad bad thing just an observation. It seems like 5 or so years it took number of users to create their own place in the midst of that kind at atmosphere. I think prior to that there was some kind of greater generational animosity where a number of the mods and inner circle created a weird purinatical hierarchy clique and would randomly gang up, and viciously bully and ban just about any user they didn’t like over completely questionable reasons. They also would do this by also stretching out the term “decadeology” and abusing the term or making someone uncomfortable until they left, they would gang up together from what I’ve understood. I wasn’t there. I met a few people who explained to me who left the forums back in the 2000s who left for a totally unjustified reason, I think there was a back story but again there is something fucked up about that site was. The older archieved posts really reflect this. It’s not like that anymore but just hearing about from others and looking at really old posts is really revealing. I would agree that the site seems sometimes be neutral when it comes promoting almost far right wing, kinda bigoted or questionable topics which should be dealt with in rational way rather than ignored or glossed over. Again it still to some extent operates sometimes like if you are friends with the inner clique you get get away with saying messed up things or being obnoxious no matter what. Kind of narcissistic vibe going on... Like posting that David Hasselhoff gif and the history of the Chevy smallblock? I used to just assume that every time that kind of thing happened that it was deserved. Could you give any examples in the archive where you think it was particularly undeserved? (If you could find any.)
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Post by slashpop on Oct 13, 2020 0:05:52 GMT 10
Both sites are left-leaning overall but have a diversity in opinions. I think there is one prominent racist poster on there but I wouldn't paint other users with the same brush. I think both sites are small enough that if you stick around for long enough you will see each poster as having their individual opinions rather than seeing the site as a hive mind. With some larger websites I've been on you get dogpiled real fast if you have a dissenting opinion; at that point the aggregate political opinion becomes dominant and self-perpetuating. While I don't have an particular personal issues with anyone, I do think it still has a bit of hivemind even if it quite different than earlier, and the general reaction after what happened with sharksfans and lyricboy how the mods and numerous frequent users dealt with it is probably the best example. Even outside of this case, the older users still do act reflect a sort of hivement to some extent. I think bchris mentioned a number of ultra conservative religious types still posting and I do recall reading a lot of conversative opinions and heated debates on numerous subjects over the years just browsing as an outsider. I've seen numerous ex members, I've even talked to a few on city-forums a long long time ago, were viciously dogpiled real fast in the mid-late 2000s and early 2010s and bullied for being the wrong age or innocently writing something barely resembling "decadedology" or assumed to be banned user with no proof and witchhunted. I think there was a big fallout with some guy that started this around that time. But this kind of toxic forum behavior is unnacceptable imo. I'll give it credit and admit that the site got better with time thanks to a number of you guys. But the site it pretty much almost dead and I think what happnened recently with how they dealt with what happened is beyond unacceptable.
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Post by fusefan on Oct 13, 2020 2:21:23 GMT 10
Like posting that David Hasselhoff gif and the history of the Chevy smallblock? I used to just assume that every time that kind of thing happened, that it was deserved. Could you give any examples in the archive where you think it was particularly undeserved? (If you could find any.) I admit, I don’t read too much in it. I’m not the biggest poster there. It took me 14 years to get 400 posts there. Maybe it was justified.
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Post by mc98 on Oct 13, 2020 2:29:15 GMT 10
Another issue about inthe00s is that the older users like to hijack threads with irrelevant conversations.
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Post by slashpop on Oct 13, 2020 2:39:57 GMT 10
I used to just assume that every time that kind of thing happened, that it was deserved. Could you give any examples in the archive where you think it was particularly undeserved? (If you could find any.) I admit, I don’t read too much in it. I’m not the biggest poster there. It took me 14 years to get 400 posts there. Maybe it was justified. When the use of those examples is just teasing around or truly justified it doesn't matter but I find those kinds of reactions still pretty hostile and unjustifed when it someone not posting anything wrong or innocently saying something. Its pretty degrading.
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