I mean, I've started to post a lot more now that Naruto is getting interesting, but all I see are the same 5 or so people responding and such.
I mean, I've started to post a lot more now that Naruto is getting interesting, but all I see are the same 5 or so people responding and such.
You seem to be limiting yourself to the naruto forums. While things have been slowing down here, its far from dying, I still see new people joining and though they might not always post right away, its still a sign that these forums are alive and kicking.
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I general, yeah, it's been a lil slow lately. I'm partially responsible for that too, since I'm putting almost half the shows I watch on hold as I save quota for 5-6 HD movies. I'll catch up on Xmas, as I get free traffic that day. I should have a lot to say then
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I suppose things might be slower than they were in the beginning when Naruto and Bleach still had their original flare and AonE was a Naruto subber. But considering that's already ancient history, the current state might be closer to the realistic state of affairs. All things considered, this is but a forum for a fansubber's distro site. Not even the site of the fansubber itself, just a distro. If you think about it, we are remarkably active. Quite a few fansubbers themselves have far more silent forums.
For me things look a bit sadder than they used to because so many of the people who were around when I joined have disappeared. But that's what always happens to web sites and forums so it can't be helped. People move on to different things.
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I've been real busy.
Not that I'm that much an avid poster anyway.
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I think maybe the Naruto fillers are responsible for a lot of this, not just people moving on.
I like cutting my opinions on everything down to a line of I like it or not and leaving it at that. Other times I dont bother even posting. And with the Fanart section as desolate as it is, it seems I may just evole into a lurker. =(
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Hmm, seems like GW has been "dying" for 3 or 4 years now.
Yeah, this is not a new trend. There's no real incentive for people to sign up here, and if someone is looking for an anime forum, they'll probably gravitate towards one of the more active ones.
What I think is really interesting is that the Flame Pit, which in theory would have been the fastest way to tear apart community by encouraging divisions among members actually seems to have had the opposite effect and made people there feel more connected, strengthening the community. That would make a really interesting sociolinguistic study.
Those of us who do stay here stay because we like the community, and we're familiar with the people here. Whenever I'm considering picking up a new anime, I always check out what gotwoot members are saying about it, because I trust the opinion of gotwooters. Well, certain gotwooters at least. And as we saw during the days when we were flooded with Naruto watchers, quantity != quality. I'd rather be at a forum with a few people that I enjoy chatting with than a forum with masses of people who annoy me.
I've only been around the forums for so long, but I think I got the jist of it. Even though I just noticed this, Flame Pit doesn't even count towards your post! Oh well...
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I totally agree with that, and if you look at it, the pit's activity too has fallen lately.
It's also only visible to registered GW members. It's out little secret forum
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I think a lot of people are just lurking. I've been a member on these forums for years, but I rarely ever posted. Before these past few months, I just haven't felt the need to. I didn't know anyone, and I didn't feel comfortable. I stayed in the Fanart section (when I did post) and, in connection to the Naruto forums now, it only had the same 5 or 6 posters. And this was years ago. But I've lurked here ever since signing up. More than half of the anime that I've seen now has been because I learned about it from these forums, and based on recommendations. My skills in Photoshop have improved by learning from what others have been experimenting with. So, while forum post count may be dying, I don't really feel the forum itself is dying.
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Pretty spot on for my situation too, except for im more in the general discussion/games instead of fanart threads.
It's pretty rare for me these days to follow on-going animes and even when i do i very rarely post anything about them. I just somehow feel that if you discuss it/analyze every episode in too much detail it removes some of the excitement for me, watching 20 episodes of a series in one go, being completely swept away is more my style. But that's just me
This is the only forum I post. And its not slow or dying. Its just not a spam heaven like animesuki, narutofan, gamefaqs or gaiaonline
don't you mean animesucki, narutard, gamefags, and gayonline?
on more serious matters, I think it's pretty amazing we even get new users, seeing as gotwoot hardly distributes anything nowadays..
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To be honest, I think its ok if some people are not posting but still around as long as there is some activity on the forums. What I think is sad is when some people just suddenly stop posting, never to be heard from again.
I've been pretty busy with school for the past little while, so I haven't been very active.
I'm hardly ever active. One post a week at most.
But its better to have a good small community than have a giant tardfest forum.
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