What happened to this forum?

[Turkish Delight]

This place used to get a lot of traffic, now it's just filled with annoying ads. What exactly happened?

[Pay Ton]

Hey...

...**** you, man.

[Basel]

I don't see any ads.

[gi0rdun]

I see an ad at the top and 2 ads on the side.

[Basel]

Sucks for you.

[Luke]

I've got the three on my page too but it doesn't really bother me too much. I'm pretty sure that's the first time I've noticed them actually.

It's the offseason, and we're in the middle of a lockout, the place isn't exactly going to be booming.

I do wish there was a little more activity though, even during basketball season. There's no way RealtrollGM should be a more popular place than this one.

[thaKEAF]

You

[thaKEAF]

But in reality it's a mix of entire forums migrating to a place they thought was better than here at the time, lack of leadership from the people in charge, this place not doing anything to freshen itself when it was still very active in 07/08 and how strict it is (although it's lightened up a bit now)

[Prince]

I feel like a year ago we would get at least two or three shock threads everyday. We need more of that again.

[Hibachi!]

I honestly thought EBB would be more poppin during the lockout. It has been the exact opposite.

[Jamel Irief]

It's funny that people who haven't posted in a while are the ones to ask why it's slow.

It's because of people like you fool.

[ATLien]

Quality over quantity, its just too bad we've lost some quality posters over the years

[SheriffKilla]

^ I sort of agree. Most of the people, that post in the forums I read here, are long time members and I'm familiar with most of their styles and even to a certain point their personalities. I'm all good with discussing something with only 15-20 people (or even 5-10) when they are mostly knoweledgable and intelligent to the topics in hand and I know them very closely too. I mean as close as I need to know y'all for the sort of topics we discuss, not too much on a personal level but I don't really want to know your personal lifes too much, I have enough friends with enough issues in real life. Here I just want some people that are just as nerdy and well-versed as me in Basketball, Hip-Hop and TV and I have that and I know a lot of you relatively well on that particular level. Even 5 people is enough to have a cool discussion, as long as those 5 will post often and bring up interesting arguments and (counter)points. Sure I don't always agree with everyone and some people have some weird opinions here but that's just the way of the world and hey, I have a fair share of eccentric opinions as well.

So as long as it remains this way, I don't need too much more traffic to enjoy this forum. If I want 100 responses from normies of the world who are all casual fans and have no real understanding of these topics that I so enjoy, I can go on Youtube or something. I know some threads would benefit from more different opinions(such as the best player rankings) but for about 90% of the stuff, it's just fine the way it is.

[Ben]

The 3 forums here that I post on: Wrestling, KVBL, and Million Post Thread are still as active as ever, and the wrestling forums more active than it's been for a while, so I'm fine.

It's a lockout though, so I don't know why you'd expect it to be full of activity.

[BenDengGo]

there needs to be a merger with bbf and realgm, although i hate those posters over there. sound weird to says but people on this board are/post more mature.