Whens a good time to stop posting?

[Typhoid]

Seriously?

How do you know?

This is my first forum, and I feel emotionally attatched somewhat.

So im wondering what do you consider the right conditions to stop posting here at Gametavern?

Does your age matter? Your location?

Will you keep posting into your mid-twenties or thirties?

Will you stop once you scavenge a life for yourself? (joke)

Will you slowly fade away, not to be noticed, as if you just forgot to post one day.

Or will you make a big showy exit saying as to why your leaving, where your going, and what you'll be doing?

[Seth]

Once school ends I'll be working for a few months and then using the money to travel for a year.

So yeah, I won't be here too much longer. Meh, people outgrow these forums anyway. It's not 2000 anymore and I'm not 14.

some good laughs though. i'll miss the gremly the most. and maybe gamemaster but we haven't made it to third base yet so it's not quite the same.

[Canyarion]

Well..... http://www.gametavern.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4576 :p

But I got back. :(

Some day the site will end. Then we won't search for a new forum. (theory)

[Joeiss]

Whenever. I doubt I'll make a big speech, but rather just post less and less until I post no more.

But I agree on the site closing down thing...

[Su-Yin]

i guess mayb when i start working and when i start having less time to get online to surf and browse .... when i get online less i suppose

[Happydude]

i don't think i'll ever leave :p...well, maybe in my mid-twenties, GT doesn't take up that much of my time for other things to be able to interfere.

[The Germanator]

I'm not really sure. I've already almost stopped posting here a couple of times, and I didn't make a big deal out of it or anything, I just stopped for a while... I've been posting on this (well, Nintendose) since 2000, and so I haven't stopped since then, and I don't imagine stopping till at least I'm out of college and that's three years from now.

So, you bitches will have deal with me for a while longer.

[Jonbo298]

I'll stop posting when RL owns me completely or the site shuts down and we all shuffle to another forum.

[Canyarion]

Well my point was, I WON'T shuffly to another forum. I'm attached to this one, but I don't want to get attached to another one.

[Yugi Starwind]

I just randomly jump in and out of GT. But if I were to go out completely, i'd probably post and fade away, just linger a little bit.

[Dyne]

My attendance will slowly dwindle once I start working at EA. They'll be on me like HAWKS, I swear.

[Neo]

GameTavern shall never die.


Btw, I'm testing out the new style now and it's bad-A.

[Teuthida]

I've left many times (sometimes against my own will). I tried the forums at the-magicbox and nintendo.com but once you know group of people it's kind of difficult to abandon them no matter how hard you try. Think the longest I went without posting on a messageboard since I started to was a year. Now I post here and browse the IGN boards...can't post there since not there under my own name but interesting reading nonetheless.

[Canyarion]

Hehe, you just have to learn the rules by heart, so they can't find a stupid reason to ban you. :p

:(

[Stray_Bullet]

Don't let people know you're leaving or they'll beg you to come back.

[ZebraRampage]

I got attached to my first forum, Gamecube Central. When it shut down, a few of us came here, and then I got attached to this one. I never thought I would, but I did. It's been 2 1/2 years now too. I guess I'll just leave by not posting as much, and just fade away. I don't want to get attached to another forum either. I have spent way too much time online to begin with.

[Neo]

This is my first forum, and I feel emotionally attatched somewhat.


I feel emotionally attached to you, Typhoid.

[BlueFire]

I just post less and less but I still check up on the old place. lol
Been here since Jan 01 like most of you people. About leaving, naah i don't have the need to do that yet. whenever im online i'll take a gander in here and post randomly :P

But yeah, when this place closes down, goodbye to internet forums :P

[Crash]

we'll stop posting if neo ever stops paying the bills....

to me this forums is great... everyday is like getting a letter in the mail... i check it a couple times a day for sure...

[Neo]

I think dramatic "goodbye" threads are a little silly. If you know you aren't coming around much anymore then it's fine to say so, but don't say things like "this will be my absolute final post ever." People often times come back, if just to visit.

[Acebot44]

GT was the second Forum that I regularly posted on (The first was the Egomaniacs/BBB/AlterEgo Project Ego/Fable forum). I think I'll stick around till the forum loses its flavor but I don't know if that will ever happen.

[Perfect Stu]

I feel emotionally attached to you, Typhoid.



are you cheating on me?


cause that would be awesome. I've been trying to get out of this relationship since it started.

[Dyne]

I feel emotionally attached to you, Typhoid.

Gamemaster's got into Neo's account again.

I say it with love.

[GameMaster]

GT will shutdown before I ever leave. Unless something traumatic happens in my life in which then I'll make a big, dramatic farewell thread. This place is the wind beneath my wings. I couldn't have made it this far without GT.

[Typhoid]

I owe many things to GT.

Like my newfound ability to post coherent sentances on internet forums.

My ability to argue at length, without a point..No...I could do that already.

But If it wasnt for GT, I wouldnt know of Zatchy-Boy, John, How nork Ashleigh is, or the everpopular kind hearted Jeff.

I dont think I'll be leaving for a long time (pauses for disapointed faces), but my posts just might dwindle down.

Even now, my post per day count is almost under 10. Do you know how good that is for me? I plan on making a thread when I go below 10 PPD, because its like a record day. Not one day that I've been on GT has my daily post count been below 10.

But I owe a few friendshiops to GT, and many sick days to its Arcade.

If I leave, I'll probably make a small "goodbye" thread, Or maybe I'll just stop posting.



EDIT: Stray, My PPD count used to be like, 21.

[Stray_Bullet]

I plan on making a thread when I go below 10 PPD, because its like a record day

:lol: Things like that are what get you your insane post-per-day record.

[Blackmane]

I already left once for a long while, but I couldn't stay away forever. It's so great to be a part of this community because you always remain a part of it even if you are gone for a long time. I thought it would be weird posting again, or at least that it wouldn't be the same, but it was so easy to start talking to everyone again.

I don't think I will ever leave forever, because even if you can't keep up with how much you used to post, you always come up with time eventually to come back and visit and say a few words. It's never goodbye with GT

[Zen]

People dont really leave, ever, ok they do but....yeah...

[DeathsHand]

Not anytime soon, the new console waaaarzzzz are about to start up... All the good ol speculations and seeing the new game systems for the first time... It's why I started posting here in the first place >_<

None of you should disrespec' like that... NONE OF YOU!

[Perfect Stu]

Not anytime soon, the new console waaaarzzzz are about to start up... All the good ol speculations and seeing the new game systems for the first time... It's why I started posting here in the first place >_<

None of you should disrespec' like that... NONE OF YOU!


DH...funny you bring up the CONSOLE WARRRRZ

I remember at nintendose...you and I were like the only people who would ever take the "PS2" side...sometimes just for arguement's sake.

Good times, bro, good times...

[jeepnut]

DH...funny you bring up the CONSOLE WARRRRZ

I remember at nintendose...you and I were like the only people who would ever take the "PS2" side...sometimes just for arguement's sake.

Good times, bro, good times...

I remember my first post at nintendolphin.net being this retarded, fanboyish post about all these conclusive "facts" I had discovered about how the PS2 was going to be better than the Dolphin. I bet if I could read that post now, I would be really embarrassed.

When I first started off there, I made a few enemies and got in a verbal fight or two. Guess it's all part of being new to the whole internet forum thing.

I also remember when DH was relatively new and I tried to take his side and back him up. He didn't really seem to want my help but I was anxious to make friends with the only other person I could find who held views similar to my own. This episode culminated in one of the members (can't remember who), commenting that "Death's hand was on Jeep's nuts," or something to that effect. Quite an interesting time.

5 or 6 years and two site moves later, I still come here. I still enjoy it and this is still my favorite of any forum on the internet. I like pretty much everyone here in their own unique way. I enjoy the fact that we have many different ideas and we can argue and get on each others nerves but we still come back and forgive each other. It's a forum, a place for expressing opinions in a more liberal manner than you do in real life but I still feel that we put our friendships on here before our opinions which makes this place seem a bit more real and closer than most forums I've been on. The most important part of that though, this place somehow, at least to me, seems miraculously devoid of cliques. This is something that amazes me as you tend to find cliques pretty much anywhere else you go.

Basically, I don't see me giving up posting here anytime in the near future. It's possible that I may fade away as my life evolves and I move on to new responsibilities and lifestyles, but I'm sure I will still check in every couple of months as long as the site doesn't go down and I don't forget the address. This place is my home on the internet and you never truly leave home.

[Dylflon]

I plan on fading into obscurity.

It's happening even now. I don't read a lot of the threads. I don't check up or post as much.

I came on tonight and there were 346 new posts.

I was all o_O

[GameMaster]

I remember my first post at nintendolphin.net being this retarded, fanboyish post about all these conclusive "facts" I had discovered about how the PS2 was going to be better than the Dolphin. I bet if I could read that post now, I would be really embarrassed.

When I first started off there, I made a few enemies and got in a verbal fight or two. Guess it's all part of being new to the whole internet forum thing.

I also remember when DH was relatively new and I tried to take his side and back him up. He didn't really seem to want my help but I was anxious to make friends with the only other person I could find who held views similar to my own. This episode culminated in one of the members (can't remember who), commenting that "Death's hand was on Jeep's nuts," or something to that effect. Quite an interesting time.

5 or 6 years and two site moves later, I still come here. I still enjoy it and this is still my favorite of any forum on the internet. I like pretty much everyone here in their own unique way. I enjoy the fact that we have many different ideas and we can argue and get on each others nerves but we still come back and forgive each other. It's a forum, a place for expressing opinions in a more liberal manner than you do in real life but I still feel that we put our friendships on here before our opinions which makes this place seem a bit more real and closer than most forums I've been on. The most important part of that though, this place somehow, at least to me, seems miraculously devoid of cliques. This is something that amazes me as you tend to find cliques pretty much anywhere else you go.

Basically, I don't see me giving up posting here anytime in the near future. It's possible that I may fade away as my life evolves and I move on to new responsibilities and lifestyles, but I'm sure I will still check in every couple of months as long as the site doesn't go down and I don't forget the address. This place is my home on the internet and you never truly leave home.

I agree and that was a beautiful post.

I remember when I first joined Nintendose, I was referred there by a real life friend at the time (geist) and my first post was actually a thread titled 'Did Anyone Dislike the N64 Controller?' And I remember coming back a little later and seeing that it had received some replies and that felt good. Since it was my first forum experience, I got the idea in my mind that the only objective was to create threads that would generate lots of posts. In my mind, doing this felt like the only purpose of posting. I never thought about making friends at the time. When I did start becoming involved with the community, I acted disrespectful by relinquishing false details about my identity. Later I became appreciative of the people and this special place.

I like how tightly woven we are also. Most of us know each other's real names and many of us have shared pictures. And we're all comfortable enough to talk about issues that haunt our real lives. And in turn, we respond to these people with generally sensitive and heartfelt feedback.

To me GameTavern feels kind of like a big family. I know you all well enough to be able to 'envision' how you may respond to any given topic presented here. And we've all come to develop our own little quirks and trademarks which is funny and enjoyable too. Now in college, you guys mean more than ever since I've been separated from my real-life friends. GameTavern is where I go before school, after school, in between breaks, and at night before bed. And through the changes that have occurred and will occur, this is the one place and you guys are the one group that will not change or leave. I can always count on this place and it will always be a 'comfort zone' and 'restful haven' to retreat to when my external life is in a state of chaos, stress, or anxiety.

[Neo]

are you cheating on me?


cause that would be awesome. I've been trying to get out of this relationship since it started.

Look I've told you before it's over between us, Stu. :mad:
Typhoid makes me feel like a real virtual person.

[BreakABone]

Am I the only one who finds the statement.. real virtual person a little weird?

On the subject of posting, there was a time I faded away for a well.. then posted irregularly.. and I still think I'm on that streak.. I mean I think my PPD dropped from like 8+ to a little over 3 now if I'm not mistaken.. I hate 2000 like 3 years ago..

[KillerGremlin]

People dont really leave, ever, ok they do but....yeah...

Damn Zen, since when did you post here.

Once school ends I'll be working for a few months and then using the money to travel for a year.

So yeah, I won't be here too much longer. Meh, people outgrow these forums anyway. It's not 2000 anymore and I'm not 14.

some good laughs though. i'll miss the gremly the most. and maybe gamemaster but we haven't made it to third base yet so it's not quite the same.

Mmmmmmm....Seth, you're one hell of a guy. Not just a Canadian, but a real human being! :P

To be honest, I was an AGB user....I never really posted at Nintendojo, although I did know about it. I registered here ages ago.....hahaha, before like half of the members that post here now. I remember when Angrist was making daily posts.....and when Neo had his crazy Canadian avatar thing....or that was someone else.

But yeah. I came back here because I can finally keep up with this place, now that it has calmed down a bit, and there aren't 500 new posts per day.

I enjoy the discussion here, and I figure I'll probably check up with this site as long as I check up with forums...and that will probably be forever, because forums are often full of valuable information.

Plus, I'm one opinionated bastard. I like to complain, bitch and moan (not in that context you sickos), and forums are an awesome vent. Because sometimes real people don't want to put up with crazy lengthy arguments about pointless crap that doesn't really matter in real life.

[jeepnut]

Because sometimes real people don't want to put up with crazy lengthy arguments about pointless crap that doesn't really matter in real life.

Sometimes virtual people don't want to either. ;)

[KillerGremlin]

Sometimes virtual people don't want to either. ;)

Maybe so, but you continue to come to the forum.

[Stray_Bullet]

Sometimes virtual people don't want to either. ;)

I'll take care of him if you need me to, Jee-eep.

Also... Zebra/Saxy. GameCubeCentral days were fun... I still sit with Spike at lunch. HOOAH.

[dropCGCF]

I first strated at EGW, then went to The No Homers Club.

The people here are a lot better than at the other forums. Except, I still have a soft spot for EGW.

[Neo]

I first strated at EGW, then went to The No Homers Club.

The people here are a lot better than at the other forums. Except, I still have a soft spot for EGW.

http://egw.proboards12.com/ :unsure:

[Typhoid]

http://egw.proboards12.com/ :unsure:



/me signs up

[Dyne]

http://egw.proboards12.com/ :unsure:

Hahahahaha... I remember this one kid. He took electronic-gaming-world.cjb.net long after Tim registered Electronicgamingworld.com. I found his site one night and I emailed him.. turns out he was only 11 or so, and I frightened the crap out of him. I see he created a forum too.

His geocities still works: http://www.geocities.com/electronic_gaming_world/Home.html

After EGW there was http://gamingheaven.proboards10.com/, so that proboard is a fako.

I miss running EGW. Sometimes. Gametavern is better because I don't have to run pretty much everything like at EGW.