Why are you less active than you used to on the Neowin forums?

By +Frank B.
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  1. 1. Why are you less active than you used to on the Neowin forums, or what prevents you from being more active?

    • I'm more active on social networks these days.
      47
    • Technical aspects - e.g. downtimes, design
      14
    • Moderation is too lax.
      25
    • Moderation is too strict.
      24
    • Staff member x is shouldn't be on staff. I'm not coming back until (s)he is demoted.
      17
    • Member y should be on staff. I'm not coming back until (s)he is promoted.
      4
    • Flamewars, fanbois, constant personal attacks
      129
    • Topic x I used to be interested in is hardly discussed anymore. (e.g. OS customisation)
      62
    • Too much discussion of non-technical topics.
      61
    • Too much focus on technical topics.
      1
    • The attitude of certain members of staff.
      42
    • The attitude of certain community members.
      105
    • Who needs the forums? I prefer Neowin IRC.
      9
    • I have a life away from the internet.
      119

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Grand Master

Doli

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Usually you're amongst the highest quality contributors on here, so please, step it up again and don't let the butthurt people annoy you for speaking freely and most of the time sensibly.

Glassed Silver:mac

Thanks :D I'll post more frequently and lurk less.

Glassed Silver is right, I wonder why you haven't been slapped with +MVC status yet.

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Steven P. Administrators

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This is perhaps not a bad idea. If the gaming sections' individual subsections are deserted, why not merge them into the main Gamers Hangout section? Console specific threads can simply be prefixed as such (e.g "[Wii U] Super Mario Galaxy 3"), much like threads in other sections are prefixed.

I'll take a look..

Grand Master

FMH

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I think a whole a lot of regular posters, don't do it any more. Like me! I used to have several posts a day, and now I hardly post.

I have been pretty busy, and occupied by other stuff. But now that I have more free time, I intend to be more active.

Grand Master

FMH

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And also, I voted for the option: "Member y should be on staff. I'm not coming back until (s)he is promoted.".

Not that I won't come to Neowin till he isn't the staff member, but I strongly think that Hum should be on the moderating staff. He has given so much to this community, and he single handedly runs the entire Real World News section. He deserves something back. There is no other person who has done more for this community.

And he really is 'moderator material'.

(And also add Mephistopheles to that list.)

Grand Master

Groovedude

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im less active than i used to be back in 2001, i think back then i was soo crazy about every little bit of beta news about XP i was glued. i don't find the euthasim the same for upcoming rls's (probably just me though)

Grand Master

Glassed Silver

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We try, but it's much harder to organize than you might think

Maybe we could do some Kickstarter product reviews?

I've invested into the HAND stylus and they just sent out samples to various papers and tech blogs (NY Times, TUAW, The Verge, etc...)

Glassed Silver:mac

Grand Master

simonlang

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- i blame microsoft! no joke! some mentioned earlier that years ago you could get very good technical tips and tuts. i remember i found neowin when i was looking for visual styles for windows xp. found a LOT of amazing ones here, even better than on deviantart. then came vista and visual styles were gone (thanks microsoft and their joke of aero)

others than that? always been more of a reader, except in the f1 section and politics (if there is an election year :p)

Grand Master

Jeston Veteran

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And also, I voted for the option: "Member y should be on staff. I'm not coming back until (s)he is promoted.".

Not that I won't come to Neowin till he isn't the staff member, but I strongly think that Hum should be on the moderating staff. He has given so much to this community, and he single handedly runs the entire Real World News section. He deserves something back. There is no other person who has done more for this community.

And he really is 'moderator material'.

(And also add Mephistopheles to that list.)

No offense to Hum, but no, he really isn't "moderator material". He's more of a news posting bot than anything. We tried to give him something back years ago and renamed "Real World News" to "The Daily Hum". Then he left us high and dry for something like a year.

Also, Meph is already an ex-staffer (not that I'd be against him being staff again).

Grand Master

MikeChipshop Member

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Personally i've slowed to a crawl due to the amount of trolls and the general attitude of a huge percentage of the posters.

Seems people come here when they're in a bad mood so they can flame others, every thread seems to become fodder for opposing fanboi factions to slag off anything and everything.

I still come back here and there are still some brilliant members and interesting threads but i do tend to spend more time on forums with a more mature user base.

Grand Master

Sir Topham Hatt

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That's a great idea.. We can do some sort of monthly giveaway, but how would we vote on best desktop, staff shortlist a few and then members vote? We could also allow members to link to a post in that thread and then just select the person with the most votes?

Maybe the MVC's should vote?

For me I guess it's this:

  • I don't have as much spare time any more.
  • Not too many "new" things to talk about these days.
  • I agree, gaming isn't as fun any more.
  • Some members have turned me off, but I can't put my finger on any of them now.

Still a great forum and one I will visit every couple of days instead of every day now that's all. The forums themselves are better organised though. I agree with all the layout and category changes which have been made over the past and the change in topics (a lot more non-technical ones) is welcomed in my book.

I haven't noticed an increase in trolls in the forums, more in the front page comments. But then it is mainly people trying to out-geek someone else more than often than not.

I guess I'd prefer to see more gadget reviews by members, but I'd like them to be large, not just text. Anything from 99p gadgets to ?199, but perhaps not much more as these days people simply don't have the disposable money to spend like that *shrugs*

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ShMaunder

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I've lurked here for a long time (~2004'ish onwards) though haven't posted much nor am I less active. The only thing that I would say lacking is new active members - I would say this is due to the lack of community focused projects and front page news (in terms of the very inconsistent quality of news posts where some are great, and others are frankly a re-worded copy & paste from hours/days before).

Staff and/or moderation IMO are fine. I remember some years back when the moderation was so strict that it turned me off posting.

Members are generally nice and most would admit if their wrong (unlike some of the comments on certain popular news blogging sites).

Grand Master

Haggis Veteran

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I have been on here for a few years now and not posted much

the main reason of this is i see a lot of posts that people post something asking a question (which is asked because they don't know or are unsure) and they get absolutely slated for it

Grand Master

Vice

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It is for that reason I don't post as frequently because that is most of the content on this forum now. I try to just respond to topics where there is no way what I say can be misconstrued or replied to in a way that would start a flame war but it is difficult because I feel some on here are just looking for an argument constantly. I even made a comment in some lottery ticket topic and someone quoted me and was condescending.

Felt the need to revive this topic and quote myself to illustrate the problem I described. Just look at this thread, http://www.neowin.ne...t__p__594906497

I comment on-topic to the story and this user quotes me and lets out a barrage of swears. It is these kind of hostile posts that just make me not want to reply to anything around here anymore.

Grand Master

fix-this!

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forums in a whole are on the down swing everywhere not just here. i don't post much anymore becuase im not fond of some of the responses people seem to get anymore on here. sometimes it border line spam & trolling.

Grand Master

Growled Member

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forums in a whole are on the down swing everywhere not just here. i don't post much anymore becuase im not fond of some of the responses people seem to get anymore on here. sometimes it border line spam & trolling.

Yeah, forums are down everywhere. I think one reason is for the reason you gave, people on the forums are a tad harsh and normal people don't have time for that nonsense.

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moloko

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I am actually more active now. But I do see there less activity. For me when I first started coming here I was active in changing the looks of my XP machine and skinning. now i really don't care about that. More about photography and techno news. But its still a good community.

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