...and that doesnt even count all the ones being deleted...

Historical (hysterical?) data:

DATE       AVG. NEW THREADS
July 1998: 5
Jan  1999: 50
July 1999: 95
Oct  1999: 120

-- Fora Mortis (@ .), December 02, 1999

Answers

On that matter: please, please, please go to yahoo (or anywhere else) and create an anonymous email account. Please. Look, here's a link for you. Please, it only takes a couple of minutes, and you can fill in any old junk you want (I did). You never even have to read it, but it'll make things a lot easier for the rest of us. Thanks!

-- Colin MacDonald (roborogerborg@yahoo.com), December 02, 1999.

It does bring to mind the Yogi Berra quotation:

"Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded!"

-- nothere nothere (notherethere@hotmail.com), December 02, 1999.

Have to agree, Fora Mortis: we're experts on dying and this Forum has never exhibited any of the signs ;-)

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/statistics.tcl?topic=TimeBomb%202000%2 0%28Y2000%29

Number of archived messages: 268546

Well over a quarter of a million posts, thousands of lurkers ... hhhmmmm. And it's *** DECEMBER 1999 ***

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), December 02, 1999.

Guesstimate of breakdown by subject...

Historical (hysterical?) data:

DATE       AVG. NEW THREADS   Contrails  Walmart-trailors  Gold
July 1998: 5                     0              0            1
Jan  1999: 50                    1              0            25
July 1999: 95                    8              0            33
Oct  1999: 120                   73             0            26
Nov  1999: 143                   97             32           6

-- CD (not@here.com), December 02, 1999.

Works for me. More threads means fewer posts per thread, generally, and half the titles now (some of mine included) are skip-throughs.

No time to follow any long-winded technical debates now anyway!

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-- SH (squirrel@huntr.com), December 02, 1999.

How could a "growing" & "expanding" forum be dying. This is about conversation, the more participants the better. Would you rather live in a city that's growing, or where everybody's moving out? A city that's growing has problems (traffic, noise, etc...), but a city where everyone's moving out is worse.

This is evolving into a "fear of the future" forum, of which Y2K is a main focus. AFter all, if Y2K is a system-wide problem, it's only natural that many elements of the system will be examined.

Lately, I've talked to professors & software writers related to the oil industry & they say NO PROBLEM with embedded chips. I hope they are right............

-- I Never !!! (inevercheckmy@onebox.com), December 02, 1999.

On Track posts:

   Nov 1999      10

Valuable posts:

   Nov 1999       5

-- walt (walt@lcs.k12.ne), December 02, 1999.

CD -- Now, that IS funny. We are in the "re-entry blackout" period of Mercury capsule landing phase (wow, does that date me or what?) Providing Net stays up and .gov doesn't "filter" what can be published or discussed, I would suspect, that, um, err, eh, January of the year of our Lord 2000 should see considerably more Y2K- specific threads .....

-- BigDog (BigDog@duffer.com), December 02, 1999.

Good analogy BigDog.

-- CD (not@here.com), December 02, 1999.

This forum breathed its last (after struggling for months) when it decided to censure good news, optimistic posts (based on handles NOT content, and even links to optimists sites/news.

Thank God.

-- Finally (you killed this forum @ll. by yourselves), December 02, 1999.

Well, 'finally', if we killed it, it's the sexiest-looking corpse I've ever laid eyes on.

-- lisa (lisa@work.now), December 02, 1999.

Please delete the troll response above from "Finally".

-- (brett@miklos.org), December 02, 1999.

Hey Finally, what are you talking about? Nobody is deleting good news or optimistic posts. I guess you weren't here about a week ago, when that jerk-off "You Know Who" posted the same thing 75 times, then posted more crap 75 times, followed by more and more. Then his buddies joined in. They deserve to be tossed out of here. If you don't like it here, get lost! <:(=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), December 02, 1999.

"Finally" is probably Y2k Pro or YouKnowWho posting under another name. If you don't like it around here, leave. Make your own forum instead of whining about non-existent censorship. Censorship whiners need to get off their dead *sses and do something instead of sitting around pouting. What a bunch of crybabies.

-- haha (haha@haha.com), December 02, 1999.

Many, many posts are OT. Regular doomer posters know Y2K will fall short of their "Great Expectations" and in order to continue the "gov. is out to get YOU" b.s. are transforming it into an anti-government forum. They can deny and flame all they want, but it's obvious.

Poor suckers, don't even live in the real world. Pity them.

-- Screamin' Demon (prepper@abouta4.com), December 02, 1999.

I beg to differ, sysman. There have been REPEATED removal of optimistic posts....you don't know because they are being deleted VERY quickly. These deletions are not based on the contents of posts, but on the IP identity of posters....I'm amazed YOU don't find that ludicrous.

There is now a website that is posting deleted material from this site.... It is eye-opening.

What some people won't do to 'win' a debate.

RE: the 75 posts....why hasn't someone asked for Stan Faryna's posts to be deleted? He has spammed this BBoard with his ***!$ DAYS TO PREP**** thread almost 75 times. Worse, his post has links that will set a cookie on your browser which indentifies you and if you should buy anything, the kickback goes to Stan. Doesn't that make him a vendor posting ADS on this forum?

(stan claims that the money he gets from this goes to a bettered womens shelter. Fine. He still gets the tax write-off. And I would like to point out [using the same logic as y2k pessimists on self-reported data] where is the IV & V of Stans 'charity'?)

-- Big Fat Nobody (nowhere@nd.nohow), December 02, 1999.

The only posts being deleted are those by the worthless polly trolls trying to disrupt the forum with their mindless drivel. Nobody is mourning their absence.

-- (brett@miklos.org), December 02, 1999.

>> stan claims that the money he gets from this goes to a bettered [sic] womens shelter. Fine. He still gets the tax write-off. <<

Tax write off? The horror! Let's run him out of town on a rail.

BTW, I bet you are such a noble soul that you never write off any tax deductible charitable contributions on your taxes.

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@ims.com), December 02, 1999.

Fora --

Yep. You got it. Forum is dead. D E D dead. I mean, *only* 195 posts? (Got to mean its dying.)

Big Fat Nobody --

In case you didn't notice, there were about 40 different individuals who *REQUESTED* that Stan post that daily, as the number of new lurkers (and posters for that matter), has increased significantly lately, (and I would expect, based on my experiences the last two days at work, will increase even *faster* the closer it gets to the big day), and the threads tend to 'roll off the list' a lot faster than even a couple of months ago.

Most of the people who post here believe that Stan's thread about 14 days of preps and Linkmeister's posts of useful sites, threads and topics are both *highly* useful and *highly* informative. Both were *ASKED* to post regularly. My suggestion is, if you don't like it, go on back to the 'debunker' dugout and cry in your beer to them.

As for the 'good news posts', if the individuals who posted them are the same who indulged in a little 'friendly' denial of service routine the last couple of weeks, I *WHOLEHEARTEDLY* and *THOROUGHLY* support the sysops in deleting *ANYTHING WHATSOEVER THAT THEY POST*. And I suspect that I am joined in that feeling by just about every person who posts here, regardless of their 'doomer' or 'polly' leanings.

-- just another (another@engineer.com), December 02, 1999.

The only posts getting deleted are written by people who refuse to believe the "truth" as we define it. Good riddance. Who wants to have to THINK??

ALK

-- Al K. Lloyd (all@ready.now), December 02, 1999.

If you don't like it here Al, then leave. Nobody's forcing you to stay.

-- (brett@miklos.org), December 03, 1999.

interesting. What do you all think of the situation now, in light of what happened last week between Stan and Ron?

-- (TrollPatrol@sheesh.now), December 28, 1999.