Dragging the B3ta QOTW feature out for this long
Here's the number of posts for the previous 532 topics since Dec 2003. Notice a trend? Scrap it ffs. There are some old timers on here including myself who think it should've been switched off after FrankSpencer stopped posting rather than turning it into the internet's answer to Last of the Summer Wine.


( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 16:30, 37 replies)

You don't like something = scrap it.
Sorry son but you are outnumbered by those who still want to contribute. I never understood this regular complaint on here when if you don't like something there is no effort whatsoever involved in avoiding clicking on it. If you've given up footy and you are walking past a knock about do you tell them they should stop because you don't want to play any more?
BTW you're not an old timer. The members who have decided to maintain QFTW are old timers.
hth.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Thu 24 Jul 2014, 16:44, closed)

I've been here even longer than you, so appaprently that makes me more right.
It needs to be put out of its misery, now.
( Zuowan, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 17:36, closed)

Don't see the connection that you're labouring to make between membership time and being right.
The OP mentioned his and now you've mentioned yours. Please note I haven't.
If in your opinion it's shit here then may I suggest a few ways to go.
1) It's shit, so don't read it. Leave it to those like me who are far less discerning.
2) It's shit, so don't add to its shittiness by filling the board with shitty posts complaining about how shit it is.
3) It's shit but it didn't used to be so give us some fine examples of the style of posting that isn't shit so that we may learn how to turn it back into a not-shit board.
There's three of you at the top of this message so surely between you we can expect an informative and interesting answer.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Thu 24 Jul 2014, 18:30, closed)

can i ask us all just to pause for a moment,
and reflect on the main issue, which is that this lonely, lonely man has collated information from 2003 onwards and made a fucking graph to prove some sort of horribly laboured point.

this is autism with bells on.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Fri 25 Jul 2014, 18:45, closed)

^
Very, very, very much this.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 9:48, closed)

I regret coming back.
I used to like it on here, but I stopped visiting and posting last year. I've not seen the decline as it's happened, so it's all the more jarring how shit it's become around these parts. And I'm too out of the loop to go back on /talk. I miss that.
( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 16:50, closed)

/talk hated you anyway.
;p
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Thu 24 Jul 2014, 17:01, closed)

Yeah, but it was amusing hate, and isn't that the real love?
The answer is no
( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 17:01, closed)

:D

( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Thu 24 Jul 2014, 17:02, closed)

It's all my fault, apparently.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 16:57, closed)

Must be, after all JMG's not here to blame...

( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Thu 24 Jul 2014, 17:00, closed)

Most of the time the Vault is the only thing worth looking at on here.
You terrible bully.
( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 17:00, closed)

Oh. now you've done it.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 17:10, closed)

It's a wonderful testament
to the powers of autism
(Baggenfrock get fucked, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 17:44, closed)

Says the bloke who's now signed up for the 632nd time just to be abused.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 17:51, closed)

Oh I dunno. Dr Shambolic must take a fair proportion of the blame.

(Woodlouse say it with flowers. Send her a Triffid, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 19:30, closed)

I'm the only reason half the people on here post at all.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 21:09, closed)

Hah. I was thinking of doing that
but I'm too lazy.
(username failed moderation, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 17:21, closed)

it needs to be kept going as a monument to scaryduck's failures as a Moderator
and as a human being
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 17:32, closed)

/boards has been going through a similar decline.
The whole thing should be kept as an example of what happens when you let a once-decent site fall into decline and neglect.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Thu 24 Jul 2014, 18:00, closed)

Which question was the huge spike near the beginning?
Maybe it should be that question every week.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 17:43, closed)

If only there was some way you could scroll to the end of the qotw page and find out ...
(Sick jokes)
( Ghoti Fingers, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 18:09, closed)

sick unfunny racist

+that were used to start up sickipedia
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 18:13, closed)

you take this way too seriously m8
Also, having a lower user number doesn't mean your opinion is any more valid than anyone else's. If you don't like qotw any more don't visit it.

Or kill yourself, whatever works best for you.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 18:19, closed)

Oh do fuck off you moaning queef.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 19:07, closed)

^

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 25 Jul 2014, 12:40, closed)

The point at which replies were allowed
may be more relevant.
( social hand grenade I was a lurker before you were a lurker, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 20:58, closed)

Or the rise of all the other forms of social media intercourse.

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 21:15, closed)

The Guardian does QOTW now
and it does it much better: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/series/openthread

Perhaps some of our regulars might like to try their luck over there. I believe the Guardian has mods who actually read their own site.
(Guy Debord cette mauvaise réputation..., Thu 24 Jul 2014, 23:41, closed)

That's just pitiful

( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 25 Jul 2014, 11:57, closed)

Not one use of the word 'shitcunt' on there :(

( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Fri 25 Jul 2014, 12:06, closed)

you typoed
'shite'
(cymrococh, Fri 25 Jul 2014, 16:25, closed)

I must be bored this morning...
I clicked that (after checking it wasn't horse related) and the top article: "What have you done with your life since a 2012 solar storm nearly wiped us out?" made me chuckle...I read the subhead as "coronal mass erections"

/kidmode
( snee held his breath since, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 8:29, closed)

I'm confused by this graph. Exactly where are the peleton?

( cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 27 Jul 2014, 14:33, closed)