abraker wrote:

Hear me out.

When there were more threads locked, we had to make new threads to be able to post something. The content was boiling, OT was lively. With Uni rarely locking, I have noticed the forum started to slow down. A lot. Stupid threads popped up that were never locked, causing stale content. This eventually causes a feedback loop where the forum cools down enough that memes and inside jokes die down too, which causes even more stale and unrelated content. We need to raise the heat again!

Lyawi wrote:

I assume because you all moved to Discord?

abraker wrote:

Hear me out.

When there were more threads locked, we had to make new threads to be able to post something. The content was boiling, OT was lively. With Uni rarely locking, I have noticed the forum started to slow down. A lot. Stupid threads popped up that were never locked, causing stale content. This eventually causes a feedback loop where the forum cools down enough that memes and inside jokes die down too, which causes even more stale and unrelated content. We need to raise the heat again!

Lyawi wrote:

I assume because you all moved to Discord?

johnmedina999 wrote:

It changed OT by making its content more meta. Before, we never had any means to easily communicate with each other, and that brought on things like metaposting (e.g. this thread), coordinated spamming, and inside jokes which only someone from the server could possibly hope to understand.

kai99 wrote:

i like it tho we dont have obligations to keep ot alive
yes it's a stale place and it's on life support but yakno it's not dying yet

Tae wrote:

You do realise new people will come along either way?
Just because you're not flooding the forum with threads doesn't mean it's dead. Just look at the other sections, for example.

abraker wrote:

Lyawi wrote:

I assume because you all moved to Discord?

I barely see this as main reason why there are no new threads. Some discussion, like Railey's car death debate, could be stuck or almost stuck in just discord, but there are not plenty topics and discussion in discord that would have, historically, made a great thread in OT. Historically, original content is what thrives, which is something that discord server has none of. So I am not worried at all that the discord server made less of those as they would have been shit anyway.

abraker wrote:

Starlog 143

It's the year 30XX and I have yet to hear word from the other side of the OT galaxy. It's been long since I left the fellow denizens in search for a greater meme in the cosmos. Each passing galactic year I plug in the holodisk into the gigacomputer with a 2017 copy of the entire internet to remember the great times we had. I wonder how they are now. I bet B1rd has converted a few star systems to capitalism by now. John is likely running an intersolar news network. Blitzfrog is... actually, I have no idea what he does without me around. Kai is being kai. Railey I believe went out like me to find something more wild and edgy. Endaris, he is ...

[ INCOMING TRANSMISSION ]

...oh speak of the devil.
Argh this signal sucks. I hope I can make out what he is saying.

• You, sį̕͜͞r̴̨,̡̧̀ ̨͘͝live b-beh̴̢͢͡i͟͟͡͡n̸҉͜d the mò̸͠o҉̢͝n̢̢̛.
  I̡̧͝ ̶̴̧҉k̴҉̸͠now, it is for̵̨̨͟͡ ͠҉̸͢͞ş̨̕c̵̡͘i̛͡e̢͘͢n̨̢ć̕͜e҉̨́̕ ̸̀͟҉a̴̕ņ̷d̶̶͘͢͢ ̶̀͏ę̢͘͟͠v͘͢͜erything but ̶̶̵́I̡҉́'̵̧́̀d reco̧̢͏̶͜m̴͘m̧͠ȩ̵͘̕n̸͡҉d̴̡͟͢ ̡͘͡͠f̸̡̀r̀҉̧̢͠e͏̛q̶̧͜͟ù̸ent comḿú͘҉nicatio̸̵̡̧͠n with̷̡ ̡̛́͟͜t҉̢̀͟h̴͏́e͞͞ ̡̕͠m̵̡̢̛̀ǫt͏̸͠͡h̶̶͢͡e̷͝rship.

[ END OF TRANSMISSION ]

Oh OT. It never changes. I don't know what I expected, but the silence was nice while it lasted.

ColdTooth wrote:

stop you two are not funny

Blitzfrog wrote:

Diary #978

5th March 2978:

We have been attacked by aliens. We are all going to die. Everyone is being infested and coming back to life as another individual. They're faster, stronger, more ferocious and lewd. Each day, thousands of people are being converted and it is only happening faster. Government has been corrupted and the free market is established since there are no policies anymore. John still hasn't returned from his mission. I presume he has found elsewhere to live. Railey and Endaris has been converted, the last time I saw them, they were trying to stab me. Luckily I was in a truck and ran them over - But they're still alive and hunting. It's been decades since I have heard Dad. He has sailed off, with kai sneaking into the plane without his notice. They're both far away. I hope someone finds this someday.

abraker wrote:

Hear me out.

When there were more threads locked, we had to make new threads to be able to post something. The content was boiling, OT was lively. With Uni rarely locking, I have noticed the forum started to slow down. A lot. Stupid threads popped up that were never locked, causing stale content. This eventually causes a feedback loop where the forum cools down enough that memes and inside jokes die down too, which causes even more stale and unrelated content. We need to raise the heat again!

DJ Enetro wrote:

Let me get something straight...

Are you saying that the presence of a mod that constantly locks is required to produce quality content?

• We do need locked threads to produce more threads
  Lack of locked threads leaves an overwhelming amount of shit threads present