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#1 Feb 18 2015 at 8:17 AM Rating: Good
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Like seriously, what happened here? Where did everyone go?
#2 Feb 18 2015 at 8:19 AM Rating: Excellent
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Google AdSense happened, then this.
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#3 Feb 18 2015 at 8:36 AM Rating: Good
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I would've thought that Kao being fired would've made this a better place.
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#4 Feb 18 2015 at 8:37 AM Rating: Excellent
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(1) ZAM is increasingly obsolete as MMORPGs are more hand-holding (no need to look up quests) and host their own robust forums. So less people have reason to come here for gaming information. Dead as they are, the out of topic style forums are the busiest part of the boards right now.
(2) Administrative changes have helped increase the attrition of the "out of topic" regulars who were here, not for quest hints, but for social banter.
(3) Lack of new people (see point #1) means that the people leaving (#2) aren't being replaced. Previously, people always just moved on after a time (well, except me) but new people would become regulars. Now, no one new is filling those slots. The slower the forums are, the less the regulars have reason to post and the spiral gets worse.
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#5 Feb 18 2015 at 8:48 AM Rating: Good
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Adsense, Kao, and gaming is dead.
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#6 Feb 18 2015 at 8:52 AM Rating: Good
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Jophiel wrote:
(1) ZAM is increasingly obsolete as MMORPGs are more hand-holding (no need to look up quests) and host their own robust forums. So less people have reason to come here for gaming information. Dead as they are, the out of topic style forums are the busiest part of the boards right now.
(2) Administrative changes have helped increase the attrition of the "out of topic" regulars who were here, not for quest hints, but for social banter.
(3) Lack of new people (see point #1) means that the people leaving (#2) aren't being replaced. Previously, people always just moved on after a time (well, except me) but new people would become regulars. Now, no one new is filling those slots. The slower the forums are, the less the regulars have reason to post and the spiral gets worse.

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Adsense, Kao, and gaming is dead.


And I still don't know who you are,
#7 Feb 18 2015 at 9:15 AM Rating: Good
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4)Asylum has devoured most of remaining OOT traffic.
#8 Feb 18 2015 at 9:26 AM Rating: Good
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And I still don't know who you are,
I'm the guy with the gun.
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#9 Feb 18 2015 at 11:22 AM Rating: Good
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lolgaxe wrote:
Whoads wrote:
And I still don't know who you are,
I'm the guy with the gun.


And I'm the guy hauling the ammo.
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#10 Feb 18 2015 at 6:41 PM Rating: Good
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Shaowstrike the Shady wrote:
Google AdSense happened


It's not like the filter is that ******* intrusive. Hell, you barely even notice the damn thing unless you're drunk-posting like a *****.

Right?
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#11 Feb 19 2015 at 10:43 AM Rating: Good
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Mazra wrote:
Shaowstrike the Shady wrote:
Google AdSense happened


It's not like the filter is that ******* intrusive. ****, you barely even notice the **** thing unless you're drunk-posting like a *****.

Right?


Is Google AdSense the ******* ***** **** Filter?
#12 Feb 19 2015 at 10:57 AM Rating: Excellent
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Adsense is the reason for the filter. Apparently if you say ****, tits and cockmaster, you lose your adsense funding.

Edit: REALLY? Cockmaster isn't filtered? Where's that list of trivial **** that is, again? I want to laugh at it once more. Smiley: laugh

Edited, Feb 19th 2015 9:58am by Poldaran
#13 Feb 19 2015 at 10:57 AM Rating: Good
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It was actually kind of amusing at first when it was ridiculously broken. It didn't even parse correctly so if you had a sequence of "bad words" it'd only filter every other word, and even now some of the choices are amusing like poop gets asterisked while crap isn't. I personally lost it when fitted was filtered.
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#14 Feb 19 2015 at 12:46 PM Rating: Good
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tits

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That felt good.
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#15 Feb 19 2015 at 5:23 PM Rating: Good
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Facebook absorbed some of us too.
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#16 Feb 19 2015 at 5:32 PM Rating: Excellent
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Just picture a middle aged lady living in the midwest in the 50s, complete with ankle length skirt, sweater, and horn rimmed glasses. Then imagine which words she would say in a whisper because they're scandalous. That's how I figure the filter operates. Obviously, such a woman would not even know some of the more newfangled words, hence the filter not triggering on them.
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#17 Feb 19 2015 at 7:05 PM Rating: Excellent
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Just picture a middle aged lady living in the midwest in the 50s, complete with ankle length skirt, sweater, and horn rimmed glasses. Then imagine which words she would say in a whisper because they're scandalous. That's how I figure the filter operates. Obviously, such a woman would not even know some of the more newfangled words, hence the filter not triggering on them.

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#18 Feb 20 2015 at 9:35 AM Rating: Good
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Friar Bijou wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Just picture a middle aged lady living in the midwest in the 50s, complete with ankle length skirt, sweater, and horn rimmed glasses. Then imagine which words she would say in a whisper because they're scandalous. That's how I figure the filter operates. Obviously, such a woman would not even know some of the more newfangled words, hence the filter not triggering on them.

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"prats is not a meme"


Isn't there some other kind of company that ZAM coulda used other than adsense though?
#19 Feb 20 2015 at 3:14 PM Rating: Good
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Whoads wrote:
Friar Bijou wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Just picture a middle aged lady living in the midwest in the 50s, complete with ankle length skirt, sweater, and horn rimmed glasses. Then imagine which words she would say in a whisper because they're scandalous. That's how I figure the filter operates. Obviously, such a woman would not even know some of the more newfangled words, hence the filter not triggering on them.

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"prats is not a meme"


Isn't there some other kind of company that ZAM coulda used other than adsense though?


I think Adsense has a pretty big monopoly on the whole advertising thing. And I'm sure the way things are going on the management side of things, there' little incentive to spend the time and money to explore alternatives when they could just hastily add a filter (which, when it was first implemented was much worse than it even is now).
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#20 Feb 22 2015 at 5:43 PM Rating: Good
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#21 Feb 23 2015 at 8:58 PM Rating: Good
Fullchan is just better for talking about ****. Especially now that Halfchan is coming apart at the seams with their heavy-handed SJW moderators banning threads.
http://boards.4chan.org/v/thread/283970334/deleting-vidya-threads

/b/ is virtually in open revolt and anyone worth a **** in /pol/ has long since went to fullchan after the #GamerGate edict.


I for one am happy to see 4chan go the way of the dodo.
#22 Feb 24 2015 at 12:38 PM Rating: Good
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Only time I even go to a chan anymore is for Wednesday's Win-O threads on /co/.
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#23 Feb 25 2015 at 11:05 AM Rating: Good
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Good lord, why has no one upgraded the layout of those boards? I thought Reddit was bad, but this **** makes my eyes bleed.
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#24 Feb 27 2015 at 9:38 PM Rating: Excellent
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Alas, forums are passe. It's all Reddit and Facebook now.
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#25 Feb 27 2015 at 11:08 PM Rating: Excellent
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