klezmer electro-thug beats said:
Waxi is a unique case though because it has a population that if there's one thing (aside from weird records that suck) that unites its population it is being holdouts, or at least people who have no concern with keeping up to date with trends. SS has always had more people ready to jump onto the next thing. Even at its most "backpack" nobody here wanted to look like the stuck-in-1994 the-breaks dude.
Aside from the usual things already mentioned – we’re older, in different stages of our lives with other priorities where listening to music is probably more enjoyable than chatting and flexing about it; that SS has to compete with a dozen other platforms which didn’t exist at the Board’s peak – not only to keep regulars but to attract new posters – and the excellent point made above by ketb – I can say the look has nothing to do with my falling away. I check in now and then, will maybe post but usually just read through old threads instead.
I would say there were a few weeks (months?) where the assholes had the run of the place and no one reeled them in. That turned a lot of people off, and there was little left to bring them back given the rest of the world kept moving along and providing other options, be it Waxi or real life. We were already losing people at that time, and that politics clusterfuck sealed the deal. Maybe moderators would have helped given the self-regulation the Board operated under was gone as key people left.
Speaking personally, why would I want to be part of a Board where people got to say some pretty heinous shit unchecked and got run of the place? I had stayed long after my friends and favourite posters left but that time-span left such an awful taste.
There used be enough of a variety of people here that even with whatever BS people were spouting, that didn't define the Board. Not the case anymore.
There’s just no vibe here.
