b3ta.com board
You are not logged in. Login or Signup
Home » Messageboard » XXX » Message 10816300 (Thread)

# Flank Sinatra?
Also, b3ta is dying: Daily post count drops to half in a year
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 28 Jul 2012, 7:44, archived)
# I'm sad to hear that.
I'm still having fun here, just a bit less often that's all :)
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 7:48, archived)
# Mind you, the whole internet seems in a slow decline.
Facebook is a lot slower these days as are several other forums I use. I reckon it's smartphones - easy to read stuff on them, but harder to reply than when you're sat in front of a keyboard. I reckon we still have as many users/lurkers, just fewer of them posting.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 28 Jul 2012, 7:53, archived)
# that's because eveyone and their mum is on facebook,
annoying uncles who keep spamming you with stupid game invites and "liking" every coroprate shit sandwich in the hope of getting something free makes facebook a bit shit
(I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 8:02, archived)
# So much this^
"Cousin Fuckface like Vagisil. Like Vagisil for a free sample"
Bores me to fucking tears.
That and a whole bunch of people giving a blow-by-blow commentary on the olympic opening ceremony.

(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 28 Jul 2012, 8:05, archived)
# So your point is
"Tears; a better lubricant than Vagisil"?
(I helped save b3ta! Ghoti Fingers, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 8:17, archived)
# Yes.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 28 Jul 2012, 8:30, archived)
# ooooo!
where did you get this from?
(I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 7:53, archived)
# I looked up the dates of significant post milestones
and plotted a graph. The lower graph is the daily post rate between measurements.
Ah, how I remember the 10,000,000th post...
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 28 Jul 2012, 7:54, archived)
# does it include replies, or just new threads?
(I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 7:58, archived)
# All of the above.
Don't know if possible to separate them out.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 28 Jul 2012, 8:02, archived)
# so post more and be more creative
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 8:03, archived)
# Creative is what I do for work.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 28 Jul 2012, 8:05, archived)
# ^this^
(I helped save b3ta! HairyTwatter certified eel and sodium salesman, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 13:55, archived)
# Oh well
the trouble with cancer is it spreads
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 8:46, archived)
# Eh?
Is it a refernece to the QOTW fubar?
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 28 Jul 2012, 8:52, archived)
# If you let one part of the site be over run with retarded narcissist, bitter fuckwits
the odds were the rest of all this will inevitably follow, as overall interest being here will diminish
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 9:04, archived)
# I guess QOTW was the middle ground
between the different boards. Turned out badly, though. I see where some of the more abrasive personalities are coming from in terms of some of the real needy attention seekers, but it's too far when a story that fits all the criteria gets beasted for no real reason.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 28 Jul 2012, 9:28, archived)
# What's killed it is the usual tossers spreading discord and ill-will in replies, week after week
it's obvious who they are; simply remove them from this place, and harmony might return

Why the fuck have they ever been tolerated in the first place?
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 9:36, archived)
# That;s two QOTWs aborted in a month.
I wonder if the naughty step/banhammer will come out? Mind you, the whole place will be overrun with Honda Accord drivers and "I got the last laugh" stories if there's no counterbalance.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 28 Jul 2012, 9:53, archived)
# But at least that was more preferable to what's been allowed to unfold
I removed myself from the b3ta Facebook group I set up yesterday because it's simply become a mirror to everything that's shit about this place; they actually seem to relish antagonising other people. In real life that's a recipe for having the shit kicked out of you when your past eventually catches up with you.

It's a small world at the end of the day
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 10:09, archived)
# Aye, there's a point in that.
A certain mustelid-based chap does it very well, but some of the others a far too blunt to be amusing. One day, someone's going to really throw the rattle out of the pram. Internet lawyers at dawn, etc.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 28 Jul 2012, 10:36, archived)
# B&!
(I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 9:54, archived)
# browsing over the thread below i discovered hedgie left
why!?!
(Rattlehead all time with the gay, forever touching, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 8:59, archived)
# I know!
Especially with the level of genius that can make this image:
www.b3ta.com/board/8352212
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 28 Jul 2012, 9:31, archived)
# hahahaha
he made great pics, bloody shame. (at least his account is still active)

oi, hedgie, if you're lurking, get the fuck back here
(Rattlehead all time with the gay, forever touching, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 9:36, archived)
# he left because he was sick of happytoast
same as clay
(I helped save b3ta! Ham o' Shatner -.-- --- ..- .-. / .- .-.. .-.. / --. .- -.--, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 14:15, archived)
# to be clear, he was sick of me doing things I hadn't done
but never considered actually asking me if I had
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 21:29, archived)
# fuck him
(polished turd 404 pixels wide, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 17:42, archived)
# after carefully considering the information provided the conclusion reached was thus
(I helped save b3ta! Dick Wonder ₐ wₒₙₖy, wₐᵥy wₒₙdₑᵣ, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 9:10, archived)
# Pfft!
Well-timed cocksplash on that there.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 28 Jul 2012, 9:25, archived)
# timing is everything
(I helped save b3ta! Dick Wonder ₐ wₒₙₖy, wₐᵥy wₒₙdₑᵣ, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 9:54, archived)
# The internet has far more distractions than it did 2, 5 or 10 years ago.
A lot of the solid ideas became fractured and divisive, or tried to be all things to all people, and were distilled across other sites into streamlined upstarts - multiplying the demands for online attention and diluting people's loyalties.

There's also the matter of increased demands by the real world.
These vampires won't slay themselves, and I have much to do before sunset.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 10:00, archived)
# Aye,
Work is so completely draining right now that I can barely raise a mildly amusing thought these days, let alone make a picture of it.
My boss consumes results and goodwill int eh same way my children consume food - voraciously with no gratitude and no idea of how long it took to get it ready.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 28 Jul 2012, 10:04, archived)
# Your boss is probably a vampire.
Hammering two feet of wood through his/her chest will soon fix that.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 10:15, archived)
# Don't tempt me.
I have to try so hard not to look at him as some curious object when he's talking to me. Four months to go...
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 28 Jul 2012, 10:34, archived)
# I feel bad now for telling all those noobs to fuck off
(PR1CKBOT IS ONLINE, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 10:21, archived)
# Now think about what you've done.
Oh, you are already.
That's ok then.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 28 Jul 2012, 11:43, archived)
# Fuck off noob!
(PR1CKBOT IS ONLINE, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 11:50, archived)
# Ha ha! n00b!
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 28 Jul 2012, 11:53, archived)
# Think most forums have been hit in the same way.
I'd probably blame Twitter which appeals to the chattier types.

That said, I do think that b3ta remains unique in being a great place to launch work, since most rival sites focus far too heavily on mass-appeal virals rather than the more interesting or Brit-centric stuff.

Shame we've lost a couple of good members like Clay recently, though.
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 10:49, archived)
# It's a great place, even if it is quieter.
Why did Clay go?
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 28 Jul 2012, 11:39, archived)
# The usual reason, massive flounce.
(PR1CKBOT IS ONLINE, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 11:47, archived)
# It's only dying if netcraft confirms it
like it confirms the death of BSD
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Sat 28 Jul 2012, 18:53, archived)