Beast's Lair History

[I3uster]

hes a no good troublemaker you better stay away

[Mooncake]

a god from the highest heavens

a fiend from the lowest depths

[Rafflesiac]

A veritable King of Shitposters, one could say

[SeiKeo]

hes a no good troublemaker you better stay away

Young men and women, and nonbinary persons, need a safe environment in today's online ever-connected web 3 world, and I can't think of a better way to provide that than a forum of girls willing to flirt who are definitely sweaty neckbeards.

[Escavalien]

hes a no good troublemaker you better stay away

Well he's batting a thousand so far.

[Bloble]

He's a girl worth fighting for.

[Ideofago]

I just have no idea how the fuck someone actually gets nearly 50k messages. Did he just find some way to spam that wasn't stopped fast enough? Was he just that much of a forum addict?

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controversial opinion: high thirst environments can be quite fun as long as drama doesnt get too shitty

Also, this only works if the people involved are hot, so never happening on the internets.

[SeiKeo]

I have 3,666 posts in one thread.

[Five_X]

Once upon a time, people posted on forums.

[Ideofago]

I don't think I've posted that many messages on discord. I wonder if there's a way to check that.

[Escavalien]

There is but it only works in any specific chat which means you have to do it for every place you've talked in

[Mattias]

I have never once used discord.

[Ideofago]

The mileage depends on the community.

[Escavalien]

The community I was a part of for a few years was actually just a massive discord server, though I joined it before it got really big back in 2016.

[Scrubland]

At its height, in the 7th dimension. You could go to sleep for like 5 hours and come back to over 50 pages of thread had been posted. In like 4 different threads.

I distinctly remember at some point we were posted with such frequency we actually just put placeholder messages and edited in context afterwards. It broke proboards a couple times, like the phantom jan.1st,1696 blank messages or things just getting shuffled in a way they shouldn't have been.

I don't mean trap in a transphobic way, I was just around for the sockpuppet nightmare that was the RP section and 7th for awhile where some people went on years long long-cons role playing as girls. I also know in particular one active female member of the 7th dimension who was in fact, not a girl at all. Trap is unironically accurate in this context. It was essentially yes, catfishing.

[aldeayeah]

I mean trap in a Strife way. Whatever happened to Strife? Alive somewhere in the discords?

[Deathhappens]

best girl is also accepted terminology

That's an asymptote.

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The ideal forum user life cycle in the golden age of forums tended, I think, to be:

1. User A joins forum to discuss fandom/cars/etc.
2. User A makes friends with some people on the forum
3. User A starts exploring off-topic areas of the forum
4. Friend circles form that cross on/off-topic boundaries
5. User A settles into a sense of community, on/off-topic forum boundaries dissolve
6. User A's interest in on-topic declines relative to investment in friends.

Alternatively:

1. User A joins forum to discuss fandom/cars/etc.
2. User A discovers the RP section
3. They are never heard from outside RP again.

In the age of Discord, step 4 onward transforms into a Discord server invite and while forum on-topic discussion remains healthy, off-topic ossifies as the community experience is transplanted to Discord. I think your other point is very spot-on though, and in BL2's case specifically it never helped that we were part of a larger circle of forums that trickled down directly from SomethingAwful and by default had a very dudes-dominated culture.

BL doesn't really have a discord of its own though (as far as I'm aware, most BL discords are more "discords of people related over BL and/or #notes" rather than "discords intended for BL members in general"). Which more or less accounts for the off-topic forums being in generally pretty good health (7th notwithstanding).

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I mean trap in a Strife way. Whatever happened to Strife? Alive somewhere in the discords?

He does pop up every now and then in Neir's discord, though 'active' would be a stretch for anyone in there bar maybe me, Neir and Zurvan.

And fallacies.

[Nikiri]

strife tweets

[Spinach]

Strife is trans. She's active on twitter and discord and comes to things IRL with some people.

[aldeayeah]

Glad to hear that. Wasn't sure if she had transitioned.