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Nonon Jakuzure - Best Kill la Kill baePretty damn great! #spoke2soonOta "The Cutest Otaku" 2016 - Lol, how's your account doing lately? Oh wait.
So how about we get back to the original, slightly modified, topic on the forum activity and how we can work together to fix it?
And by that I mean stop feeding the wannabe VG with comments that only serve to derail things... =/ Otherwise I might have to actually do some work as a mod.
I agree with @Yoko Littner
If people keep telling people to "stop complaining" then the community will never prosper.
I think the real problem is that you have a juxtaposition of of the old AF community (get off my lawn members) vs new members.
Well, you're killing my grass by standing and playing on my lawn! How else am I supposed to react?! XD
Not going to lie, you're absolutely right. The older members tend to resent change and harbor nostalgia more than anything. We've seen that a lot with AF Chat. I don't think we've seen it too much with AnimeGlobe though, even though I'm one that still misses the old layout. But that happens with anything, and anywhere. Not just here. We all have to work together. It's not bad to be nostalgic, but it's better to let people know why you're nostalgic for things, as well as be open to newer things too. A good case in example is the old RPG game we had when on vB3... Every time I talk about it, I get teary-eyed and the people I tell about it are all "WHY DON"T WE HAVE THIS ANYMORE?!!!!" (Mainly because it was an old code for an old vB system that we're not using anymore, and there's currently nothing like that for the current vB we use or the newer vB that's out.) But to say we're out of ideas is false, and to say we haven't tried is false too. There's a bucket of 1000 ideas we've dumped into all of the sites, and out of that only half lasted longer than 3 months before being dead. So when someone says features and gimmicks aren't what makes a site active, that's what they mean... lol Still, we cannot surround ourselves with nostalgia only nor only use what's new.
At the same time, even if we did try to keep everything like it "used" to be, that in itself would be impossible due to the fact of we all joined at separate times... I came in when the chat and forum was on AnimeGlobe. My Brother came in when it was TuxedoMask.com and MoonieMail. Some came to AF during its vB3 days while others remember only the vB4 days. So yes we're all nostalgic for the old days, but whose old days? I remember calling the veterans from the TuxedoMask days "oldies", and not too many years ago I ended up calling myself that... Still even if we tried to take things back to the way it was, it doesn't mean it'll be any better than now. I mean, who really wants to download Java to run Chat again? Even the oldies agree, no java is good. XD Now I know some would be delighted in reverting back to vB3, but that's not really all that great of an idea either. Especially if we're trying to stay modern to bring in new folks.
Now with that,
I turn my back to the wind
To catch my breath,
Before I start off again.
Driven on without a moment to spend
To pass an evening with a drink and a friend
I let my skin get too thin
I'd like to pause.
No matter what I pretend
Like some pilgrim --
Who learns to transcend --
Learns to live
As if each step was the end
Time stand still -- I'm not looking back
But I want to look around me now
See more of the people and the places that surround me now
Freeze this moment a little bit longer
Make each sensation a little bit stronger
Experience slips away...
I turn my face to the sun
Close my eyes.
Let my defenses down --
All those wounds that I can't get unwound
I let my past go too fast
No time to pause --
If I could slow it all down
Like some captain, whose ship runs aground --
I can wait until the tide comes around
Make each impression a little bit stronger
Freeze this motion a little bit longer
The innocence slips away...
Summer's going fast, nights growing colder
Children growing up -- old friends growing colder
Experience slips away...
-Rush, Time Stand Still (From Hold Your Fire).
I agree, but generally the kind of people who specifically complain about the topic of a thread rather than find a new one to go to or who just whine without sticking to the topic, have trouble spelling ironic and rarely know the meaning.
You really want to make this place popular? Allow hentai.
Last edited by Clayton_n; 01-30-2015 at 03:10 PM.
Anime is a lot like sex. Done right it's a beautiful act of creation that brings a little more light into the world. If it's sick and wrong... it's even better.
Author of "Slasher School Days", "How to Be an Anime Character", and "The Complete Lesbian Storybook" available from Amazon.com
really allow hentai? not a good idea .
clayton this is a family website. you can't even swear, what makes you think posting naked anime characters would be okay? think of the children.
Ew. No!
Anyway I know it won't happen. I'm just saying it would work.
Last edited by Clayton_n; 01-31-2015 at 07:36 PM.
Anime is a lot like sex. Done right it's a beautiful act of creation that brings a little more light into the world. If it's sick and wrong... it's even better.
Author of "Slasher School Days", "How to Be an Anime Character", and "The Complete Lesbian Storybook" available from Amazon.com
Thats cool, i'll allow it.
i noticed this place has been more lively as of late. lots of new members. it's a good thing
eh we've always had those.
it's uplifting to know we have new members that don't just make a post in the introductions section then leave never to return, which is the norm for this site. what are we at, 50 new members a day? and of those, normally none would become active or even semi-active members, one if you're lucky. it actually surprises me when i see a new member make more than a few posts, if any at all. hopefully that's all changing. i was feeling kinda down about this place before, now it seems okay.
long live AF
tru dat.
on a side note, i'd like to personally thank @Astral_Mage for being an extremely active newish user. seems like every time i open the miscellany you're the last poster in about ten threads. reminds me of myself, kekeke. keep up the good work.
New member checking in, doesn't look dead to me.
Look closer. Lol nah jk we doing alright.
All the world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies, and when they catch you, they will kill you... But first they must catch you.
that would not make it livelier that would just cause in an increse in Trolling. Then you would have to make the XXX portion a purchase on the Store kind of like the serious talk. Then that would in turn cause influx of SPAM. That is not a can of worms you want on a younger crowd allowable forum. If you want the XXX you can easily google search a billion other places to get your fix in. This will not happen to be one of them. Too many Cons that out weight the Pro's.
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