Did I miss something? It’s spooky seeing Sunday traffic on a workday.

we told everyone in the aim chat

I logged onto Aim the last day it was around.

ive been checking the boards through the day but havent seen much for me to reply to.

i wonder if anyone else is still listening to the bobby feeno (arian foster) album. still enjoying it.

I forget which post it was but had a bunch of folk showin up.

... "A Beautiful Struggle"
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Musically.Entertaining.Lyrically.Alluring.

some good days, some bad days, but overall a slow steady decline

It’s sad. I still come here multiple times a day but...the traffic is dying. The old heads are gone to Twitter or wherever else and it’s just petering out.

I mean the initial draw when this first launch was interaction with Quest. Then the community was super dope and that became the draw. But this place can't compete with Twitter and Reddit or even Instagram. Like its not even close.

And then on top of that, many of us have built our own tribes online and else where to monitize them, so its kind of like whats the point.


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a lot of the discussions that used to be had here are had on FB, twitter, etc...

^^^became real^^^

disco-dj

But, then I posted again and it made me feel nostalgic for the mayhem and laughs around here.

we can criticize their music tastes and lifestyles all day..

would discover

I remember first getting put on to OKP during the DSL era
around 99 I think
the design, the functionality, ain't shit changed since then!
the rest of the world moved on and the boards stayed the same
Yahoo Groups, SOHH, UGHH, Sandbox Automatic, Fat Beats: taken out by Twitter, Reddit, and Amazon
Lyrics Archive taken out by Rap Genius (fuck em)
Geocities and Angelfire taken out by Tumblr
MTV and BET taken out by YouTube
Yet OKP is still here
no new users, just us old heads kickin it on the e-porch and shit
it's become our safe space

Once again we have a post about how the boards are dead and dying, instead of a post containing whatever seems to be missing on the boards, in order to generate the sort of bygone interest said post laments.

It's sort of like when underground rappers spend all their time complaining about wack mc's/commercialism or what have you, instead of, you know, actually spitting about the sort of things they claim is missing from hip hop.

The boards ebb and flow. Thursday they immediately stopped. It was weird.

*Tips hat*

Carry on.

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"I cannot see how nature could have created itself. Only a supernatural force that is outside of space and time could have done that. ~ Francis Collins

I could probably post some slick shit and it'd stay up the rest of the day...

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"I cannot see how nature could have created itself. Only a supernatural force that is outside of space and time could have done that. ~ Francis Collins

I'm sure I'll get banned for a few weeks for saying this too. but these joker were cherry picking rules, making up rules as they go and being totally rude to those who didn't ignore them or glad hand them about the dumb stuff. Jokers were editing post, deleting post, and locking post for personal reasons.



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Current Favorite Song: https://youtu.be/8v_KFHnPImY

"I cannot see how nature could have created itself. Only a supernatural force that is outside of space and time could have done that. ~ Francis Collins

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Current Favorite Song: https://youtu.be/8v_KFHnPImY

"I cannot see how nature could have created itself. Only a supernatural force that is outside of space and time could have done that. ~ Francis Collins

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Current Favorite Song: https://youtu.be/8v_KFHnPImY

"I cannot see how nature could have created itself. Only a supernatural force that is outside of space and time could have done that. ~ Francis Collins

the other day. It was like someone actually turned the boards off for like 4 or 5 hours. I think he's saying, mods had nothing to do with that particular occurrence.

I rarely log into this cap on the weekends anymore.


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Current Favorite Song: https://youtu.be/8v_KFHnPImY

"I cannot see how nature could have created itself. Only a supernatural force that is outside of space and time could have done that. ~ Francis Collins

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Current Favorite Song: https://youtu.be/8v_KFHnPImY

"I cannot see how nature could have created itself. Only a supernatural force that is outside of space and time could have done that. ~ Francis Collins

when you've got mods bammin' up poasts

http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=4&topic_id=13277862&mesg_id=13277862&page=2

we've hit bottom

I do remember a few regulars that were banned

subsequent poasts asking why

but if you weren't in the poasts, they were usually removed

...shrug...

I never understood deleting poasts

if folks don't fuck with it, it would just fall off the page

what was the point of that?

some of the more heated exchanges between poasters seemed to potentially spill over to real life

...but outside of that, I don't have a problem with typed text on a message board...

so sensitive.

And if you say something to them they'd freeze your login for weeks at a time. They banned all the good crazy people and then all the other cool folks started to leave for FB. No it's just regular and plane here. Any signs of thinking different is quickly killed off.

But it wasn't the Mods, so let me stop over exaggerating the point. I still blame them for about 40% of the death of this place. The other 60% can be broken down this way - of the 60% the women were 30 % of the conversation. When they left we were stuck with 20% Hard Legs.

40% MOD ACTIVITY
30% WOMEN GONE
30% HARD LEGS

I'm making all of his up, but this is how I feel today...



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"I cannot see how nature could have created itself. Only a supernatural force that is outside of space and time could have done that. ~ Francis Collins

Mods would delete post or change your shit up.

Everyone says aids job is thankless and stressful

Shit seems like the easiest gig on the planet.

Just ignore niggas complaints... 99% of it was good theatre. A few times it got ugly but niggas asking mods to lock a post because they didn’t like the responses to a question they posed?

Pfft.

They Banned J..ANU..S for no dang reason. But he's happy anyway - good for him too.


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"I cannot see how nature could have created itself. Only a supernatural force that is outside of space and time could have done that. ~ Francis Collins

whether it's doing big things, or dealing with family. a lot of people don't have time to be on here like that, or just grew tired of this place... and as traffic decreases, the less people will check in. it kind of becomes self-fulfilling

while the over-policing might be a factor, i think it's a small factor. i always preferred to watch posts play out. even if it's offensive or assholish, let the op take their lumps, let the drama play out, etc.. Even people i don't/didn't like. I just avoid them all together. But mods also have to deal with people inboxing them about who or what they're offended by, or rule violations, and they gotta address it somehow. it's pretty thankless. i wouldn't want to do it.

i dunno. i don't know how to *not* come here but i give it 2 years maybe until its over over.

I've seen boards legit die and this board is in much better shape than those types of boards. It's just way smaller than the Good Old Days. We basically turned into a 'Playery version of The Coli, which is fine. In fact, our traffic is probably comparable to theirs, and they seem to be doing ok.

More likely due to the data breach for government employees and also the equifax breach