What is happening with MB?

jackhammer · 12-30-2010, 06:30 PM

Whether you are aware or not, there has been another couple of mod resignations over the past week or so namely Urban and Loathsome Pete which has continued the trend over the last 12 months or so with big names and genuine contributing regulars such as Right Track, PMO, Bulldog, Big 3, myself and Seltzer all stepping down.

I am really wondering whether MB is beginning to run it's course. The journal section is probably the most quite I have known it to be since I have been here and the lack of really juicy threads that encourage in depth discussion have certainly made me post in a lot fewer threads over the past year.

I know that there was real hope that this forum could actually become something very special and rise above it's mere forum status due to many members with fantastic knowledge and writing skills but that has failed to materialise for whatever reason.

Are social networking sites hampering the need to write and be heard unless it's only a sentence for the attention deficit or is it the lack of good music around or is it the lack of a certain age demographic which means we feel surplus to requirements?

Everyone gets bored at some point with visiting the same site over and over again that is a given but for this many mods to hang up their blue cloaks over the past year? It's not mere coincidence.

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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	What is happening with MB? Whether you are aware or not, there has been another couple of mod resignations over the past week or so namely Urban and Loathsome Pete which has continued the trend over the last 12 months or so with big names and genuine contributing regulars such as Right Track, PMO, Bulldog, Big 3, myself and Seltzer all stepping down. I am really wondering whether MB is beginning to run it's course. The journal section is probably the most quite I have known it to be since I have been here and the lack of really juicy threads that encourage in depth discussion have certainly made me post in a lot fewer threads over the past year. I know that there was real hope that this forum could actually become something very special and rise above it's mere forum status due to many members with fantastic knowledge and writing skills but that has failed to materialise for whatever reason. Are social networking sites hampering the need to write and be heard unless it's only a sentence for the attention deficit or is it the lack of good music around or is it the lack of a certain age demographic which means we feel surplus to requirements? Everyone gets bored at some point with visiting the same site over and over again that is a given but for this many mods to hang up their blue cloaks over the past year? It's not mere coincidence. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”