Seriously?
qftw has always been shit. It's dreary people with no self awareness telling unconvincing lies about the slightly less dreary lives they wish they had. The tiny pool of amusing anecdotes was used up by about 2003.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 21 Nov 2013, 15:48, 3 replies)

*massive 2003 5s*

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 21 Nov 2013, 15:51, closed)

It did use to be shit, but now it's shitter.
There, everyone wins!
Except stevierar, you made him sad.
( Zuowan, Thu 21 Nov 2013, 15:53, closed)

There's always been a decent proportion of well-written humour though,
it doesn't matter if it was made up. I can still cry with laughter reading old QOTWs. Stories that good are still written, but they're drowned out by all of this and that causes those people to not come back - last week's popular page is the first one I've seen that's been actually unreadable for all the in-jokes and drivel.

But you're both probably right - it's certainly not going to get better, I just have very fond memories of this being very good. I shall just read the carefully-selected three stories in the newsletter.

Rant over.
( stevierar, Thu 21 Nov 2013, 15:53, closed)

There are other, better sites. There always were. This place was never good.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 21 Nov 2013, 15:57, closed)

There are, and I read and enjoy them, few have that specific
humour b3ta has though. You know, penis jokes.
( stevierar, Thu 21 Nov 2013, 15:59, closed)

Eh?
The b3ta aspect to qftw is the piss-taking and in-jokes and general idiocy. The very things you're whining about. Last week's popular page is the most b3tan it has been for years.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 21 Nov 2013, 16:08, closed)

All the piss-taking, bitching and idiocy used to be funny and slightly on topic.
Now it is just generic trolling and points-scoring. That's the difference. It's only entertaining to the people gurning angrily and flapping their limbs at their keyboards.

If you can't see the difference between the popular page last week and a few years ago, then you're too wrapped up in that trolling.
( stevierar, Thu 21 Nov 2013, 16:20, closed)

The worst thing about QOTW is people moaning about QOTW.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 21 Nov 2013, 16:29, closed)

Guilty.

( stevierar, Thu 21 Nov 2013, 16:30, closed)

I agree with this.
None of it should come as a shock to anyone, though.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 21 Nov 2013, 16:42, closed)

I genuinely haven't the first fucking clue what you're weeping about. Soz.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 21 Nov 2013, 16:53, closed)

Well, yes.

( stevierar, Thu 21 Nov 2013, 17:02, closed)