There's too much decadology going on around here if you ask me.  I'm not pointing any fingers.
::)

There's too much decadology going on around here if you ask me.  I'm not pointing any fingers.
::)


It's a fine line, Max. Some posts in several topics have definitely crossed the line IMO, but I'm feeling lenient lately and haven't been reporting much.

Maybe I should pick it up again.

It's a fine line, Max. Some posts in several topics have definitely crossed the line IMO, but I'm feeling lenient lately and haven't been reporting much.

Maybe I should pick it up again.


I find some of the topics and posts rather silly, but maybe the younger people don't and it's important to them?  :-\\
But yeah some of them have crossed the line into decadology.

I agree, there is a bit too much of decadeology on here.

There's too much decadology going on around here if you ask me.  I'm not pointing any fingers.
::)


Their boards imploded, so they migrated back.

That is all I will say, because if you don't have something nice to say..... :-X

It's the inanity.  My God!

What year between 1983 and 1984 was the best?
:D

It's the inanity.  My God!

What year between 1983 and 1984 was the best?
:D


or are the 90's better than the 80's?  ::)

Why do you read those threads anyway? If I am not interested in a topic, I don't click on it.

I wouldn't say anything if there weren't threads in here like

"The Who's Online Thread", "OMG", "Names A-Z" etc...

It's not that we're flooders who have thousands of posts with nonsense.

Why do you read those threads anyway? If I am not interested in a topic, I don't click on it.




I have been saying that for years but no one listens to me.



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Why do you read those threads anyway? If I am not interested in a topic, I don't click on it.


It's not that I'm interested in those threads per se, but these boards need moderation. That means someone has to read stuff, and report if necessary. You can't expect Chucky G. to read everything and all.


I wouldn't say anything if there weren't threads in here like

"The Who's Online Thread", "OMG", "Names A-Z" etc...

It's not that we're flooders who have thousands of posts with nonsense.


You're right - there's plenty of nonsense around these boards. But nonsense in general is allowed around here, unlike decadology.
I'm personally not fond of the Penguin Board Games section, and only post there on rare occasions. And I agree with you that that section requires less...how shall I put this... creative thinking than decadology. It wil probably never seize to amaze me how people bend over backwards to try and prove that 1987 is actually in the 1990s.

Why do you read those threads anyway? If I am not interested in a topic, I don't click on it.

I wouldn't say anything if there weren't threads in here like

"The Who's Online Thread", "OMG", "Names A-Z" etc...

It's not that we're flooders who have thousands of posts with nonsense.


I don't read them.  They f*cking clutter up the walls of every damned board and knock down topics that I'd be much more interested in.

I don't read them.  They f*cking clutter up the walls of every damned board and knock down topics that I'd be much more interested in.


Thank you.

I don't read them.  They f*cking clutter up the walls of every damned board and knock down topics that I'd be much more interested in.


and they waste too much time.  ::)

and they waste too much time.  ::)


So that's why you keep posting there? ???

So that's why you keep posting there? ???


only if it's interesting.

So that's why you keep posting there? ???


;D

I am the Anti-Decadeologist, but I like watching them squirm when their topics get ruined.  Not saying who ruins those topics, but let's just say I don't have over 41,000 posts for nothing LOL

Isn't the premise of this forum to discuss different decades?  ???

Some threads may be more asinine than others but you don't have to read them if you dislike them. I know I don't.

Isn't the premise of this forum to discuss different decades?  ???

Some threads may be more asinine than others but you don't have to read them if you dislike them. I know I don't.


I read and reply to them only once in a while.

It's the inanity.  My God!

What year between 1983 and 1984 was the best?
:D


Inane.

Perfect word.

I too, try really hard not to read those threads, but sometimes when I log on, half the New Threads are "do you feel inferior about the year you were born?"  or "songs that sound like they are from the 80's."  I could go on and on.  Not to say that I don't participate in nonsense.  Nonsense in and of itself is a necessary part of life.  I just like my nonsense to be spread across several different topics rather than just "what was the fashion of 2005?"

I wish some of these decadeologists would concentrate more on dissecting actual human events in history, or even better, dissecting and discussing CURRENT EVENTS.  Half of the reason our country is in the mess it's in is because people care more about hairstyles of 1993 than they do about our presidential election!  How about we all live in the now?

I read and reply to them only once in a while.


:] There's nothing wrong with doing so either. You should respond to whichever threads you wish.

I think forums should be a marketplace of free ideas so long as those views are not inherently racist, sexist, vulgar, or offensive in nature.

Personally, I enjoy reading and replying to a variety of different topics.

Although, I can understand that these long-winded "decadeology" threads which seem to be an endless debate leading to nowhere can become rather old. I can think of a few threads myself which fit that description -- not that I will name any.

How about we all live in the now?

agreed.

How about we all live in the now?


If I want to talk primarily about current topics , I'd choose a different forum.  ::)
What are the decades subforums for?

If I want to talk primarily about current topics , I'd choose a different forum.  ::)
What are the decades subforums for?


Nothing wrong with discussing decades, but when it comes to topics like "Vibe of the mid 2000s" or "did the early 2000s feel more like the late 90s or the early 2000s", it's just silly.  And there's nothing wrong with being silly, but when the topic like these are started hoping for a serious discussion, then it's a little sad

If I want to talk primarily about current topics , I'd choose a different forum.  ::)
What are the decades subforums for?



Sometimes it can be a bit too much.

If I want to talk primarily about current topics , I'd choose a different forum.  ::)
What are the decades subforums for?


Events, pop culture or otherwise, that happened then.  Or questions about something you remembered from once-upon-a-time and wondered if anybody could help fill in the gaps.  Anniversaries of things, like the 30th anniversary of the compact disc, Atari, Nintendo, the PS1, or whatever.  Cultural and technological shifts don't happen on a calendar schedule.  They're driven by actual events, like how gaming changed when systems got powerful enough that a game distributed on a ROM-based cartridges would have been too expensive compared to one distributed on a CD, and the CD would also give the game designer an opportunity for background music that wasn't possible on any system of the time. 

Or, much earlier, the shift from 45 RPM singles, to long-playing vinyl albums that lent themselves to being recorded as two musical movements of about 15-20 minutes per side, to the CD with 74 minutes per disc, and when the pressure to fill up all 74 minutes became too great, people realized that "albums" were characterized by one or two good tracks and the rest as blatant filler.  When digital distribution arrived, attention was shifted back to the single.  The sound changed with Chuck Berry, the Beatles, disco, new wave, metal, rap, electro, and so on.  (Did our parents ever own a Chuck Berry album when they were kids?)

8-bit gaming had a vibe distinct from 16-bit, as did the early CD games that were heavy on prerendered cutscenes, as do our modern games.  Ditto the music people heard on juke boxes, zoned out in their dorm rooms listening to Pink Floyd in quadraphonic glory, the mix tapes they made when the cassette made analog recordings portable, and the playlists people build today when not hanging out on message boards.

:] There's nothing wrong with doing so either. You should respond to whichever threads you wish.

I think forums should be a marketplace of free ideas so long as those views are not inherently racist, sexist, vulgar, or offensive in nature.

Personally, I enjoy reading and replying to a variety of different topics.

Although, I can understand that these long-winded "decadeology" threads which seem to be an endless debate leading to nowhere can become rather old. I can think of a few threads myself which fit that description -- not that I will name any.


You are absolutely correct, Inertia.

The 'decadeologists' can potentially get on people's nerves (I try to work out their inanity and I think I may have been annoyed by them myself before). However, this is a forum dedicated to decades. Even though their ideas can be misguided and often pointless, they have come to a forum that should allow them to talk about the subject. The question we should ask ourselves is; "What gives us the right to ban or restrict people's freedom of speech? People go on about their constitutional rights and freedoms, why can't a person discuss a topic that is designed for a forum because of how pointless it seems to be to others (even if those 'others' are the majority - even myself)?

It would be like going to a forum on gardening and being told you can't talk about how many petals a certain flower is supposed to have. Yes, the topic in itself is pointless but it is a topic that is relevant to the forum. Even if people go there and discuss it ad nauseum. That is what makes living in a 'free country' great.

Obviously, this is a moderated board so if that freedom of speech goes beyond the rules of this forum then it becomes an issue (especially when it comes to swearing, hating on someone in general, sexuality or the promotion of anything offensive to someone else - even though I believe swearing and sexuality seems to have been relaxed since I left the boards in 2005. I don't consider this a good or a bad thing, just an observation).

I may even go one step further and say this: If you (directing this to any member of Inthe00s) started here brand new and was told by the majority of people in the forum that your topics and discussions were pointless and stupid, how would you feel? Intimidated? Annoyed? If I came here as a new member and that happened to me, as much as I love nostalgia, pop culture and social forums, I wouldn't stay for long. In my opinion, new members (or 'new blood' as I call it) is what these boards need because they add character and freshness to the forum.

I will level this off, it also boils down to the intentions of the decadeologist (though I guess this applies to any member of Inthe00s creating topics too). If a decadeologist is creating or writing in a topic because this person is passionate about the subject matter then I say leave them be. If a person is creating or writing in a topic to 'troll' or spam a board up (which I believe happened quite a bit previously) then I guess that is a different matter. However, the subject matter is not the issue here. The issue would be how a person misuses the boards.

Bobby you raise some valid points, but the better analogy would be going to a gardening forum, and asking people whether blue handled clippers were more popular five years ago and the people responding all chimed in yes or no with nothing to really backup their claims.  No proof, or reason to ask the question in the first place.

There was something that predated the Web on the Internet called Usenet.  It was a big unmoderated set of forums, it's still around but mostly used for piracy now. The had something called the Usenet Oracle. It worked on the principle of the Delphi Oracle you may have read about in history class.  One person asks a question, and someone else (unknown to the person asking the question) answers it.  It was meant to be humorous, and the best question/answer pairs got collected at the end of the week.  It quickly got filled with garbage, the most unoriginal question being asked "How much wood, would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?".  It got asked constantly. 

Decadalogy is similar. It's not original, it's not in the least bit interesting, and it's being used by a small cadre of individuals who all got banned ages ago as a means to rile up people. Since we can no longer ignore, we just have to ban it entirely. 

No one, and I mean no one, would ever come up with stupid topics like this if they weren't trying to tick people off. I've never seen it anywhere else on any other forum.  From here on out, it's a zero tolerance policy on the crap.  Not even going to warn people anymore, just going to ban and block.

Bobby you raise some valid points, but the better analogy would be going to a gardening forum, and asking people whether blue handled clippers were more popular five years ago and the people responding all chimed in yes or no with nothing to really backup their claims.  No proof, or reason to ask the question in the first place.

Haha.  ;D

Well...If I start talking about blue-handled clippers let me know, lol.

There was something that predated the Web on the Internet called Usenet.  It was a big unmoderated set of forums, it's still around but mostly used for piracy now. The had something called the Usenet Oracle. It worked on the principle of the Delphi Oracle you may have read about in history class.  One person asks a question, and someone else (unknown to the person asking the question) answers it.  It was meant to be humorous, and the best question/answer pairs got collected at the end of the week.  It quickly got filled with garbage, the most unoriginal question being asked "How much wood, would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?".  It got asked constantly.

Ah, I know nothing about this (or even about the Delphi Oracle, lol). Yes, I could imagine the old 'woodchuck question' would lose it's sparkle after the 14,376th time...

Admittedly, I only have had a superficial glimpse at decadeology before leaving the boards for a while so I guess don't know what the final straw was. I'm sure if I looked back I would probably find past messages of myself asking; "What on earth...!?!" Lol. I think it was Donnie Darko and a few others that seemed to have this decadeology fascination and do remember being annoyed by the spamming of topics rather than the subject matter. At one point, Darko streamed about 5 or 6 topics in quick succession relating to how years fit where in a single decade/between decades.  ;D

Decadalogy is similar. It's not original, it's not in the least bit interesting, and it's being used by a small cadre of individuals who all got banned ages ago as a means to rile up people. Since we can no longer ignore, we just have to ban it entirely. 

No one, and I mean no one, would ever come up with stupid topics like this if they weren't trying to tick people off. I've never seen it anywhere else on any other forum.  From here on out, it's a zero tolerance policy on the crap.  Not even going to warn people anymore, just going to ban and block.

One of the things I have noticed is the decadeology subject matter seems very...autistic? It's like the members involved haven't grasped certain elements of life beyond figures, an obsession with order and self placement/identity. However, only they can work that one out.

Fair enough, Chucky. You know what you are doing with more understanding and experience of the internet than I have. I hate 'gang mentality' and hope that when people collectively don't like something/someone that they understand the reasons why they do rather than jump on a bandwagon.  :)

No one, and I mean no one, would ever come up with stupid topics like this if they weren't trying to tick people off. I've never seen it anywhere else on any other forum.  From here on out, it's a zero tolerance policy on the crap.  Not even going to warn people anymore, just going to ban and block.

And I don't know how they got away with it...  ::)

Bobby you raise some valid points, but the better analogy would be going to a gardening forum, and asking people whether blue handled clippers were more popular five years ago and the people responding all chimed in yes or no with nothing to really backup their claims.  No proof, or reason to ask the question in the first place.

There was something that predated the Web on the Internet called Usenet.  It was a big unmoderated set of forums, it's still around but mostly used for piracy now. The had something called the Usenet Oracle. It worked on the principle of the Delphi Oracle you may have read about in history class.  One person asks a question, and someone else (unknown to the person asking the question) answers it.  It was meant to be humorous, and the best question/answer pairs got collected at the end of the week.  It quickly got filled with garbage, the most unoriginal question being asked "How much wood, would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?".  It got asked constantly. 

Decadalogy is similar. It's not original, it's not in the least bit interesting, and it's being used by a small cadre of individuals who all got banned ages ago as a means to rile up people. Since we can no longer ignore, we just have to ban it entirely. 

No one, and I mean no one, would ever come up with stupid topics like this if they weren't trying to tick people off. I've never seen it anywhere else on any other forum.  From here on out, it's a zero tolerance policy on the crap.  Not even going to warn people anymore, just going to ban and block.


Thanks Chucky.
O0

They had something called the Usenet Oracle. It worked on the principle of the Delphi Oracle you may have read about in history class.  One person asks a question, and someone else (unknown to the person asking the question) answers it.  It was meant to be humorous, and the best question/answer pairs got collected at the end of the week.  It quickly got filled with garbage, the most unoriginal question being asked "How much wood, would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck woo
ZOT!

You owe The Oracle a crate of new keyboards, because he's about to spew beer, coffee, and other fluids on at least a dozen of them while catching up on the last 15-20 years.

I was a frequent reader of the so-called silly decadeology topics. :(

Strange interests, I guess. I will miss them.

Maybe it's time for a specific decadeology subboard? So people who want to talk about it have their own part, without 'destroying' the rest of the board?

I was a frequent reader of the so-called silly decadeology topics. :(

Strange interests, I guess. I will miss them.

Maybe it's time for a specific decadeology subboard? So people who want to talk about it have their own part, without 'destroying' the rest of the board?


sorry, not on this site there won't be

I was a frequent reader of the so-called silly decadeology topics. :(

Strange interests, I guess. I will miss them.

Maybe it's time for a specific decadeology subboard? So people who want to talk about it have their own part, without 'destroying' the rest of the board?


They went and set up their own form somewhere.  I don't know where it is, but it is out there

If somebody from that group is still reading here: what's the url?

I JUST came back from a two year break from this forum, and if I NEVER see another gd thread with decadeology (hereby called D-crap) in it, it will be too fkn soon. One particularly persistent asswipe ruined it for everyone. One topic here and there would have been fine, however the D-crap spreads like cancer. I wouldnt be surprised at all if I personally handed out 30 or more bans and wiped thousands of posts for D-crap when I modded.

Ant