36. That's the amount of views that my last blog post apparently received. Perhaps if I want to gain the attention of a larger audience, I shouldn't start off with a topic on a common cycle, because the thought of the ending inevitably being one of those "and everybody stopped giving a damn" tropes when the reader has skimmed through half of the paragraph obviously isn't entertaining. So what can I do? Feature a research paper from some university webpage so the reader can later interpret it as "I know what you didn't do last night relating to a certain blog, and I don't let go of grudges"? I then realized that just as it isn't anyone's obligation to go to a website or for me to meet demands for a reader, it goes the same for the reader too.
I understand that some of my recent blog posts tend to be boring and irrelevant because it is not pop culture or a funny YouTube video or a video game review or even anything remotely of interest to a majority here, and now that I think of it, it is actually a huge motivator for me to keep typing. I can't exactly explain now of why it is, but I believe that it relates to competition. While it isn't good to lack the attention of readers when you're a blogger on any site, it gives a bigger understanding of how I could possibly present myself in my blog posts. Perhaps it isn't just the material, but also the size of the paragraphs? After all, most people won't bother to read a block of plain text, especially when they're on an informal social community environment (Where most people come for instant gratification through a few sentences in forum posts and the like.) and not Wikipedia (Where most people come exclusively for the information provided and are willing to acknowledge the usual amount of paragraphs in a single section for a topic that a person would have probably shown no interest for reading if it wasn't for Wikipedia being the website from which it is being read from.).
Unrelated: If you have been aware of this blog's existence since the beginning, you may have noticed that I have been posting much more regularly. I hope to continue posting on this blog at a comfortable pace. For anyone that has ever been genuinely interested with any of my posts, I say, "Thank You."
Just found a reliable community with an owner I can trust to not be so unpredictable. I'll refer to this as A and owner as G, and I'll refer to the former forums as B and the owner as J. After so much arguing, I don't think I can reinstate common sense for J. How can someone be so forcibly well-intended to be successful that it results in the completely opposite and in fact total destruction of what remained of the late great members (Alright, I'm being a bit narcissistic here.) that fueled the livelihood of a forum that understood each other?
Let me specify a few things here. B has in fact been started over significantly several times. Please excuse me if I later realize that there are inaccuracies/typos in the dates or order as I am not exactly in the condition to be typing out years or months from memory at this time.
B-1 December 2010-August 2012
B-2 August 2012-October 2012
B-3 October 2012-June 2013
B-4 Early 2013-Current (And failing)
All I see in B-4 is an average game and a misled young man that betrayed his own goals in favor of a abusive moron's opinions (UPDATE: While her opinions were an obvious factor, it shouldn't really be said as J really took any advice from her since J admitted sole response for making bad decisions.) (We'll call her "Q," nothing out of the ordinary to point out besides being a moderator since almost the beginning and a female teenager) and an awful solution for a relatively peaceful and completely on-topic environment. Too bad that if you want people to even discuss anything, you would have to have people. The problem that J believed to exist was that people who came to the forums that were not explicitly focused or interested in the game were somehow creating this magic barrier between people randomly choosing to play or forum, and that mental barrier would effect the potential players in such a way that if they even consider leaving a compliment on the forums, the discussion on it will provocatively gain the attention of the user which would strike them in such an unsettling way that we can almost be considered the main cause of losing users. I was and I am still held as the scapegoat for virtually any problem that occurred during the remaining period of time that was officially left for B-1 to B-3 (Note: B-4 isn't a continuation. The reason why we are familiar with it is because of J's method of telling everyone to play his game on B-4 by putting a banner on the upper midcenter of the website) Here's an analogy for the many elaborate scenarios that the story behind this is based about that I may be continuing to type about; it is of more complexity than the coding of a typical forum (Hehe).
I am open to all suggestions for what I can provide through my blog, but understand that I am not obligated and/or willing to fulfill, entertain, or be up to any expectations.
Nearly a month ago, when I was discussing about a community that I have then believed to have abandoned its own morals, I didn't really put any thought to the fragility of the forum that I referred to as "A", and when I speak of fragility concerning forum communities, I often speak of how one little action could bring one community down, even when it's not as blatantly displayed as the moderator/admin actions on "B-1-4". It wasn't blatant at all, though. The closing of A was the result of apathy. "G" (The owner of A) could not be blamed for anything that followed the attempt for site reconstruction, seeing that he provided a link to the "archive" (Which was in fact an exact copy of G before the site reconstruction). No one cared about being a community anymore simply because it didn't feel "real" (As explained by one user) and because of the declining post rate which was somewhat inevitable in the last weeks from the lack of innovation to keep updating site features, and this lead to apathy. It wasn't anyone's concern or obligation to go on a website constantly, and there would certainly be alternatives that are just as good or better. It was better to forget things, and I'm sure this cycle is perpetual for as long as humanity has formed groups and cultures. So that's gone, what's next? That's what I've been trying to answer. On an unrelated note, I think my writing on here tends to be over sensational, but the thing is, is that it entertains me. Besides from a few other places, I have never viewed writing as a hobby or even entertaining, but I guess it's the diverse audience here that enables me to type out thoughts without worry. You all have different opinions and personalities, and that's wonderful.
Don't ask me about this. Just go with it or do your own Googling. These comics may contain inside jokes within the 4chan/krautchan /int/ community as well as the subreddit dedicated to it, so there is a chance (Let's be real, you won't get it at all.) that you may not get the specific rules for it which are mainly decided in said subreddit.
These comics are meant to be satirical and inaccurate all in good fun.
