Disclaimer: When I criticise the 'community' I don't mean the forums, I mean the brony community in general
I've began to notice, that as a veteran member, I've stopped posting or visiting the forums on a regular basis. This is something I've been trying to solve for a while now, because I like the community here, and I want to continue to be a part of that.
After a while, I think I found out the answer.
I joined the fandom about a little way through Season 2 at the start of the year. By then, the community was still fairly new, and really, we weren't that big in numbers. We were big, but nowhere near as big as we are now.
Anyway, as many of the older members may know, after Season 2 ended, there was pretty much a rather large period of boredom, and there weren't that many threads that provoked a lot of discussion in the way that it used to.
It was during that period that I became absent from the forums, and stopped posting, for the sake of waiting for Season 3 to come, and the forum to flood with posts.
Now, this is where I start to get cynical. I watched the first couple of episodes of Season 3, and returned to the forums to begin posting. Now, what I noticed was, that I stopped posting after that, so I wanted to know why. I wanted to continue posting here, as I was a fairly well known member at the time.
After a little while, I started to notice changes in the community (see disclaimer, not the forums, but the brony community) and started to wonder if these changes were what were stopping me coming on the forums.
A lot of the newer members of the brony fandom, are simply annoying. They just are (remember, disclaimer, a lot of new members here are pretty cool) and they are because of the way they talk about the show. For example, some will pretty much talk about it in places that aren't related to MLP, and want a MLP this, and MLP that, which, in my opinion annoys me.
I do remember here, that we would talk about things like 'what if this was MLP related?' but not to the scale that a lot of newer bronies take it to.
I don't actually know if this is what's keeping me from posting here, or it's just the danger of boredom lingering in the back of my mind.
So, what do you guys think? Are you noticing changes like this in the community? Does it affect your picture of the community as a whole? (It doesn't change my opinion at all, really, just the newer ones).
I hope someone reads this, and can hopefully, understand what I mean, and not take it too personally, or offence if you feel I may be targeting you, because really, I'm not.
Thank you all, and have a nice day.