Posted by alexandra_k on July 22, 2013, at 18:30:30
In reply to Re: Why Babble is in trouble..., posted by Moishe Pipik on July 22, 2013, at 15:26:27
i think part of the peak was in the newness.
do we really want things to go back to then / there, though?
i think one of the major reasons for the reduction in posting numbers was that so many people were given lengthy blocks. like... me. don't know how many times i was blocked for one year. then other people seeing that and wondering whether they wanted to be part of a community where they could be blocked for one year for posting 'sh*t' without an asterisk (it would have seemed to them since they may not have had the context).
i remember spending a great number of hours here during my posting peak. i mean, really, at least 3 2 hour sessions per day. i remember checking the boards first thing in the morning then last thing in the evening. i remember some of those long admin threads would consume me for days. i remember my first anti-psychiatry exposure was with some blocked poster who posted under a different name... we had a back and forth on admin over the weekend... till bob came back on monday and reblocked him and removed the threads...
it was unsustainable. it was special, for sure, but... i don't think it was ultimately in my best interests for babble to mean that much to me. for me to give bob that much power over me. at least one of my blocks nearly killed me. well... i probably exaggerate... but it hurt. a whole f*ck*ng lot. really. and i am no wuss when it comes to tolerating physical pain.
do i really want things to go back to there?
i remember being so very happy indeed that we didn't get emoticons here. i'm glad babble didn't try and go all high tec. the verbal walls of texts encourage / are only likely to appeal to verbal posters, you see. i think people always thought that babble attracted a different kind of poster than psychcentral, and some of the other sites out there. i mean, a few people would post to both - but they posted differently at the different sites (myself included). i'm glad we aren't more like psychcentral.
i'd rather babble be as it is now than have the posting numbers of psychcentral.
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