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immamac

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  1. You guys think this place just magically exists and have opinions that are really actually just wrong, they aren't well formed, they are drive by and they are completely based on incorrect data and a very myopic point of view. The attitude I have in this thread is that I'm stating what is happening and you are sitting here telling me NUH UH I DO A LOT FOR THE SITE YOU ARE JUST FUCKING IT UP CUZ YOU ARE AN IDIOT AND LET THE CLOAK ROOM HAPPEN LOLOL(OLOLOLOLLOLOLOL like shut the fuck up.
  2. You guys realize one of the best threads of the year was me having a heatstroke at a tailgate and promoting a pair of shoes that were sponsored, right? You also realize some of the other funniest things that happened were from me posting my adventure to the Michigan game with my family and the "sea monster" image was pretty funny. If you can't have a sense of humor, you can't figure out that none of this is really for anything but some brevity and a good laugh then don't talk to me about what the problem is. The problem right now is I'm not a single man who can just make the content that I know works all the time because I have a family and it's really hard to do this stuff when you are juggling these experiences with a wife and kids and not just producing content. Last year in NOLA we did a ton of stuff with Will, people are really into it. There's a lot we can do here, but it takes time and effort and that's something that shouldn't be all on a single person. Everyone thinks the bar for creating content is high, it isn't - it's extremely low especially if you are just genuine and open to everyone poking a bit of fun at it. Hunting adventures, shit you cook, fun vacations you went on, memorable experiences at games, funny bar night stories, stories from work events, etc etc all that is a huge driver.
  3. this is the issue, people think there's something to discuss, there's not really anything to discuss it's very obvious what is happening and the data supports it. There is no new posters, posters are dying, posters are moving on in life etc. that leads to growth stagnation. Now that there's no fresh blood, everyone becomes less anonymous because you have a history of interacting with them very frequently and now that you are older things are not as silly/funny as they used to be and poof here we are. This isn't some difficult and convoluted problem, it's a very plain and simple problem and I don't need a bunch of discussion on what or how it's become this way from a bunch of people whining about "people on the internet being mean to me" "people doing middle fingers to me even though it doesn't matter at all"
  4. This isn't a discussion. I'm not sure how many people came and stayed because of Thujone - there's a few people who did, but most people "went back home" and didn't "rehome" to shaggy/surly. Now, I do think that there's a complete lack of new people who come in, and that's what the main issue is. This used to happen because Google and search engines, because there's tons of content here. Now if you don't spend on SEO and run Googles ads (we don't) then they just derank you to irrelevance. We have by far the most content/biggest thread for quinn ewers anywhere. We get no web traffic from that, we get no web traffic from a lot of stuff and the top incoming traffic comes to the "Lauren boobert" thread, because people search lauren Boebert boobs and we rank at the top there because of the funny thread name. Remember the joke about craig james killed 5 hookers while at SMU? and how that boosted the search engine etc? Yeah well that doesn't happen anymore when someone does something shitty - everything is different on organic traffic acquisition. Now you have to do in person activation or have peer invitations etc. People don't just stumble on message boards anymore like they used to.
  5. I didn't ask for your feedback, I am telling all of you what is happening. This isn't a "help me I need this site to succeed and grow" thread, this is a this fucking site is dying and twitter embeds and generally the internet has really fucked up how places like this site survive.
  6. rep wasn't a problem on shaggy, wasn't a problem here forever etc etc. all of the sudden it's a problem? Oh wait every fucking board on the internet has rep? NO WAI they should take it away cuz it's a problem. Oh wait, crowdsource bans only happen to shitty trolls, morons from other fanbases that come to troll and fucking toxic pieces of shit? WEIRD IT SEEMS LIKE ITS WORKING. Getting a neg here and there when you have 45918 rep isn't the problem jesus fucking christ.
  7. see my post. You don't really understand the entire dynamic of this community or how communities work. The problem isn't shouting and crowdsourcing it's that everyone is internet srs business all the fucking time instead of joking about shit. There's time to be serious and that's almost none of the time - it's why this place was this place. "doing it for the lulz" is different than being cruel or being a complete fucking idiot on completely provable/disprovable discussions. There's some shit that goes on here where things are serious and people are trying to be serious making completely boneheaded arguments that take 5 seconds of research to know they are terrible. It's different than joking or adding brevity to a situation. Again, you have no idea what the fuck you are talking about. People don't care about rep, they care about the content, and the community.
  8. You are all completely wrong. The problem is that everyone thinks this stuff is serious and they can't joke about it, because it isn't funny to them. Younger people (15 years younger) think this stuff is funny. There's a ton of stuff to make fun of and be absurdist about. Everyone here is just too old and too "mature" to joke about some of this stuff and are starting to get worn down in real life because the internet isn't a fucking game, it's real llife now. This is why we need young people to come here, to bring the silly side back and have an irreverence for what's going on and create the funny silly spin on it.
  9. I don't waste a single second thinking about you. Leave me the fuck out of whatever the hell it is y'all are doing here.
  10. stupidity has invaded everywhere post covid. It used to be unacceptable to be stupid, now it's completely normalized so everyone is becoming more and more stupid.
  11. this is terrible, but I think the answer is kind of obvious...
  12. what? check now. I'm messing with a sample embed card.
  13. I also think there's a way to make the feed much better and conducive to a media rich experience.
  14. The core posters aren't going anywhere, but they are starting to die off quite literally. There is no fresh blood coming and it's been a problem for a while. Twitter absolutely sucks, but the media is posted there. I have a plan to change that soon, but we really need people using surly first and Twitter second or never instead of using Twitter and then posting stuff here from there. I think a clip generator tool where people can do analysis of the games/plays or just clip certain segments and post their thoughts would go a super long way. I also think a season replay/media repository will help keep people here on the site. I'm also trying to build out a gif repo going so we host the gifs everyone uses instead of having to go to yarn or giphy or whatever. There's a lot to do to really modernize this place and make it a place that everyone who is a fan should come beyond just a discussion/message board. People just aren't that into that form anymore.
  15. TBH this place is on the verge of death. Football is becoming less and less important and everyone just wants to dumb down to consumption instead of participation. This place wasn't started as a content aggregator and it didn't evolve into one either, but embeds have really made it hard to participate.
  16. screenshots and commentary isn't the same thing as just posting a bunch of twitter links. TBH the overall discussion has been a lot better without hit and run embed posts, because it forces people to actually have an opinion. I do think that for some of the announcement type stuff and the hype videos I need to figure something out (which I'm doing now) and then we will be fine. I've got something that can replace all prior embeds with just a link to twitter already done, but I want to see about replacing it with a rich media version first and get that working so it won't just suck.
  17. I'm actively working on a solution for video
  18. So surly is supposed to just be an index of tweets?
  19. Nope. They are volume keys that are legit.
  20. So why don't news platforms make a Shorts style app etc?
  21. You have to wait a few seconds. Twitter is slow as shit.
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