Re: Member Announcements Thread
I've already been a little meh about the forums recently, haven't been checking it as much, avoiding going into certain sections, finding that there are only a few threads here that even hold my interest anymore.
The Hentai Games section no longer has that special feel of being mostly good games that appeal to the general fetish of those that visit the forum, instead they tend to mostly be Youngmike spamming links and threads, and random lurkers/lurkers with registered accounts replying and complaining.
The Roleplay section, which held me interest for the longest time, has gradually become a cesspool of two general types of roleplayers:
1. "I minmax my characters/I play to win!"
or
2. "Rape meeeeee"
It slowly became less and less enjoyable to play with these kinds of people, and there are far too few people that don't fall into this category, and most of them aren't even online that much anymore and overall, I am losing interest in even attempting to do anything.
The Everything Else section has to an extent become 4chan lite, not going to point fingers or anything about why/how this is happening. I have casually voiced a complaint a few times but as there wasn't really any damage done, nothing resulted. Either way, I avoid that section unless there's something really catches my eye, and even then, I usually click the thread, facepalm, then go do something else. This trend also seems to slowly be creeping over to the blank page section.
At any given time, the forum is generally populated by about 75% lurkers, guests who don't bother registering and are only here to check out the hgames posted to see if we have something that hongfire/hentaipalm/other hgame sites doesn't have yet given our semi more lax rules on posting. A minor annoyance at best, but it slowly builds.
The actual forum goers themselves have, to an extent, isolated themselves into different sections, only briefly crossing over if something piques their interest, which generally isn't much.
1. Hgame Browsers/Posters, people who are just here for the hentai games, like to moan and complain a lot about indie games. Generally don't care enough to associate with group 2, probably think group 3 is crazy, assumes group 4 is 3.
2. Everything Else/Blank Page, people who come by for light banter or to drop something off, then they leave on their merry way. May sometimes go into group 1, generally avoids 3 because it doesn't interest them as much or they think 3 is being creepy. Sometimes wanders into 4.
3. ERP/RP Posters, people who come by to roleplay in one of the various games running, lurks 1 for inspiration, doesn't really care for 2 as they didn't come here to talk, and sometimes goes into 4, then realizes that 4 isn't really roleplaying and then goes back to 3.
4. Lite PBP/ERP Posters, consists of mostly older members who drop by periodically for the simple 'games' that can be done in a single post or so, generally makes their daily post then disappears for the rest of the day.
The lines between these groups used to blur more, and many people in the older forums would cross between them daily. Now it just seems everyone squats in their social circles and gives the other ones an evil eye with the exception of the few social butterflies that float from one group to another.
Overall, the forum has stopped being the fun, semi close knit community that I had grown to love when I first joined. Plus to a degree, I still feel that it was my fault our first home/forum blew up.
