[Ginkasa]

A lot of it is just the coming and going of members. A lot of the people from NDose or the beginning days of GT have left or don't post as much.

And I think we've become bigger in the sense of number of currently active members, which means that's there's a lot less sense of a community as a whole. Back when I first joined NDose, there was a big "anti-n00b" thing going on in the entire forum. Nearly everybody participated (that I could see from my then n00b-ish viewpoint). We don't have anything like that anymore. Its more like a conglomeration (is that right?) of sub-groups made of people who have come from different forums who have shut down or people who know each other in real life (not dissing you, just a fact). Then of course there are the veteran members who have been here from the early days of GT and some even from NDose.

The best analogoy that I can think of is a classroom and grade in elementary school. In elementary school, most people in one classroom get to know each other fairly well. They may not like all of the other people, but they're more or less comfortable with them. GT used to be like a classroom. There were few enough members that most members knew most other members fairly well.

Then you have the whole grade. A person in, say, 1st grade probably does not know everybody else in 1st grade, at least not very well. He/she may be able to recognize a few people and may be friends with a few people from different classrooms, but mostly his/her social interaction is contained in that one classroom (excepting recess). GT is now more like a grade. One member really only knows a few other members and probably only really socializes with that few, excepting things like Survivor or the character battles that encompass everyone.

I know it not very good, and I apologize if it didn't make sense. If someone understood it and think they can do better, you probably can...


*shrugs and walks away*