What will be the end of SD.net?

Post by **Zaia** » 2004-04-18 11:25pm

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:What do you think would be the end of the forum?

Too much of TEH SEXY. Naturally.

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2004-04-18 11:31pm

Zaia wrote:
Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:What do you think would be the end of the forum?
Too much of TEH SEXY. Naturally.

Granted, durring the act of fornication, one can not post. Thus, the more sex the less posting, THE END of SD.net.

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2004-04-18 11:39pm

John Ashcroft finds the site, and proceeds to invade Canada with the Delaware National Guard to shut it down on the grounds of 'moral indecency'.

A massive Warsie uprising then occurs around the world, proceeding to overthrow all governments and establishes the Galactic Empire.

Post by **Zaia** » 2004-04-18 11:43pm

I actually meant our combined sexinesses would make the site implode, what with threads like my Adonis thread in A&P and all...

But yeah, Knife, that too.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-04-18 11:45pm

The worst-case realistic scenario is some kind of horrible internecine soap-opera conflict that drives people away in disgust, and we have a pretty good record of finding a way to shut down soap operas; some kind of action is usually taken within a matter of days in order to stop a burgeoning soap opera from running out of control. We will allow people to flame each other while arguing about some kind of abstract subject, but when it starts devolving to vendettas, we generally try to shut it down.

In the long term, if interest in the board were to die down, the costs associated with running it would also decrease commensurately with the traffic, so the board would stay up in one form or another; it just wouldn't get traffic any more. Eventually, if it became a ghost town many years into the future, I could foresee that it might be converted into a static webpage format. Our words of wisdom and depravity will live on.

PrinceofLowLight · Post by **PrinceofLowLight** » 2004-04-18 11:47pm

Webboards haven't really been around in any meaningful way for very a long time. How does a popular webboard die?

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-04-18 11:50pm

Darth Wong wrote:Our words of wisdom and depravity will live on.

Woohoo!

Kick ass...our words of how to get laid and the joys of anal sex will be added to the whole.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-04-19 12:01am

PrinceofLowLight wrote:Webboards haven't really been around in any meaningful way for very a long time. How does a popular webboard die?

The reason for its existence might die (for example, if webboards had been around in the 1970s there might have been a lot of Battlestar Galactica webboards which would have languished after the show was cancelled).

Alternatively, I've heard of cases (as I mentioned before) where there was a massive political conflict which had the effect of dominating all discussions on the board. Over the long term, this is horribly poisonous because if nobody on the board talks about anything except for the dislike of other members, it won't be long for this world.

And of course, there are boards where the founder/owner simply decides he won't support it any more and shuts it down unilaterally. For example, Bob Brown did that with his Star Wars board.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2004-04-19 01:08am

SyntaxVorlon wrote:
Crayz9000 wrote:
Ghost Rider wrote:Pshaw...you really think the destruction of Earth would finish us off?

I say if when the heat death of the universe comes...then the board come to an end.
Well, if we're going that route, we might as well put the board into a time-loop, so that we can watch the heat death of the universe. Over and over again. And maybe make a little money while we're at it.
Start a little restuarant, serve some roast suicide beast, gargle blasters and wait for the prophet Zarquan.

Sorry I'm late, traffic was terrible, now, have I just got five min-...

If/when it comes, I think it will be due to a lack of interest, maybe it's just the effect of seeing a bigger forum, but the old places I used to hang out on and have done for 3 years now seem dead and lifeless - part of it is due to modding communities for HW being in a transition phase, but still - I wonder what this place will be doing in 5 years or so for activity...

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-04-19 01:12am

I know of one board that had a resident hydra (troll of many accounts). He argued both sides of everything until he got everybody else riled up. Board admin finally gave up and took down the board. One of my friends figured it out and IMed him to call him on it, and he just sent a big ol' grinning smiley and said "Yup." It was far too late by then.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-04-19 01:19am

Rogue 9 wrote:I know of one board that had a resident hydra (troll of many accounts). He argued both sides of everything until he got everybody else riled up. Board admin finally gave up and took down the board. One of my friends figured it out and IMed him to call him on it, and he just sent a big ol' grinning smiley and said "Yup." It was far too late by then.

I knew one of those. We call them puppetmasters (for the Sock Puppets they have).

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-04-19 01:23am

If it's any comfort, Spacebattles has been around in one form or another for 8 or more years.

So I imagine this one might go on for a bit while too.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2004-04-19 01:26am

Lord Wong hit it on the head, if an end ever comes for this place, it'll be because of some sort of piss-assed politcking bullshit from within.

But we call him Lord Wong for a reason, and it's not just because of his Sithy online persona.

StarDestroyer.Net will never die. Not as long as he's around.

Robert Walper · Post by **Robert Walper** » 2004-04-19 01:52am

The forums won't die, they'll just be assimilated. Resistance being futile and all.

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2004-04-19 01:52am

I don't forsee an end to this board any time in at least the next few years. If everyone stopped talking about Star Trek vs. Star Wars tomorrow, it wouldn't impact this board hardly at all since we don't really talk about that very much anyway. We're too diverse to die that way.

Similarly, there are too many things being discussed on the board for a single political issue to be so all consuming that when nobody is talking about that issue any more, there's nothing on the whole board to talk about any more.

Hack attack death isn't likely, Mike has good habits of backing stuff up.

Troll death is even less likely since we're better protected against them than ASVS was and they never had a serious troll problem for almost 7 years.

Because the board is based in Canada, I don't see the extremely disturbing Orwellian tendencies taking place in the US causing the board to be shut down any time soon.

Because Mike already has a family with 2 kids and a full time job, I don't see any new developments causing him to lose all interest in the board.

I think that covers pretty much all the ways that a discussion group can die. So no, we're not going anywhere.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2004-04-19 02:13am

Actually, as more and more people learn of the existance of this phenomenon called "the Internet," SDN will always have idiots to mock and fresh meat to flame.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-04-19 02:42am

One unlikely possibility is Mike loses his job and shuts down the board due to financial problems.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-04-19 03:24am

evilcat4000 wrote:One unlikely possibility is Mike loses his job and shuts down the board due to financial problems.

If that happens, someone else could take up the job of hosting the board.

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2004-04-19 04:31am

I've noticed that during one of Mike's short hiatuses from the board, the general driving energy died down a little. While the amount of people that contribute around here is quite high, I still think that this place languishes somewhat when he's not around. A board this driven needs a glorious leader and if Mike left, we'd need someone equally driven to run the place.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-04-19 04:35am

Shinova wrote:
evilcat4000 wrote:One unlikely possibility is Mike loses his job and shuts down the board due to financial problems.
If that happens, someone else could take up the job of hosting the board.

Donations would probably also help.

*myan*

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-04-19 05:13am

SyntaxVorlon wrote:Start a little restuarant, serve some roast suicide beast, gargle blasters and wait for the prophet Zarquan.

We could have Colin working the kitchen, Rob as the bouncer...

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-04-19 07:29am

Board shutdown. Somehow I have a feeling even beyond the extinction of the human race, someone, somewhere, will be using these forums.

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2004-04-19 09:20am

Shinova wrote:
evilcat4000 wrote:One unlikely possibility is Mike loses his job and shuts down the board due to financial problems.
If that happens, someone else could take up the job of hosting the board.

Heck, I'd be tempted to volunteer for that if Mike had to close down for $ issues.
'course, I'd have to get my girlfriends permission....

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-04-19 09:28am

Howedar wrote:Lack of interest will eventually kill SD.net. I give us five or six years.

I think we'll last much longer- at least 10 years. We have expanded the forum topics sufficiently that Wars vs Trek need not be the only, let alone predominant, issue. Just look at N&P.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-04-19 09:34am

Stop depressing me, guys!

I wants to be with you... FOREVER! AHAHAHAHA!

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