- Phil H - wrote:
I'm amazed this has not been mentioned there yet.

It's been three years since the mods made a (much appreciated) effort with the fooling.  Since 2013, this has been the extent of it.  Why would you be surprised (still less, amazed) that it passed without mention?  Even scary cat was more clever, a better n00b booby trap that got more entertaining outrage in SR.

Fotticelli wrote:
Most of the forums on this site had fewer than twenty active threads today. In the days prior to the what the current owners did with it had screenfuls of active threads. This place feels like a ghost town. A ruin of a vibrant community that it was before.

And here was me thinking the forums have been more active in the past week or so.

- Phil H - wrote:
I'm amazed this has not been mentioned there yet.

How about something new.

Fotticelli wrote:
Most of the forums on this site had fewer than twenty active threads today. In the days prior to the what the current owners did with it had screenfuls of active threads. This place feels like a ghost town. A ruin of a vibrant community that it was before.

It would be interesting to make a list of the current active forum posters who still visit and post on a more or less daily basis in an attempt to keep the forums going. Filter out the mods, the newbs who are looking around and the random transients.

I wonder how long that list would be for what remains as the most active forum?

25? 40? .... 15?

Some days it seems to be 5.

Maybe 40 is the number of long time loyal posters who now show up a couple times a week?

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It would be interesting to devise a way of automatically collecting data on the current number of posts per most active member posters ranked in order on a graph. Say .... daily or weekly. Then to figure out what would be the result of eliminating the top 20-40 contributors.

Do the forums any longer serve any purpose here? What if we came one day to take a look and the forums were no longer here? What difference would having forums or not make now, or to the future of MM? Maybe none.

When Model Mayhem was launched and grew so rapidly in the heady early days, I think a large part of the initial success and meteoric rise was due to the networking and posting that was going on in the forums, along with the fluid exchange of percolating ideas and enthusiasm that built upon itself. Now that Model Mayhem has become huge as a thing to be massaged in other ways, maybe the forums have become nothing more than distracting static by the remaining few hard core babblers who will never leave at the end of the party until the lights are turned off and the doors are locked?