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Registered: 07-2004
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Re: So was I fooling myself to think that this place still mattered to people??


You can keep the archives, like was discussed before, but the forum serves no purpose. There are plenty of costuming groups on facebook where there are people willing to help others out. The question is about the forum. It's useless. That's the cold, hard fact. My post sat for 2 days before anyone replied. Just don't see the need to keep a forum open that has no activity for days/weeks at a time. Just for a dozen or so members who want to shun the social media platform? Heck, Ed can't even get them to actually respond to him on trying to keep this thing going. Believe me, I miss it. I really do. Bottom line, we aren't special any more. What we did, and do, is now common place. The BOTB as we knew it is obsolete. Time to evolve.

  

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The archives are seriously out of date since noone bothered to update them since 2009/2010.
Let me lay it out for you... you OBVIOUSLY don't want to use the forum anymore. So don't. Simple as that.
Car forums and bike forums are still very active so it isnt that forums are outdated so much as the content and the fact that noone on here bothered to adjust with the changing times. I am going to call Ed as soon as I can to discuss some stuff. It needs to be a community again and I think I have a way to drive it.
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I hate to say it, but I think it's going to be nearly impossible to revive this board. FB seems to be going very well, with lots of posts and lots of interest daily... Just can't see having both be successful. Well, I said nearly but I guess not completely. After 7 1/2 years of being here I hope so...

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All it's gonna take is for people to occasionally check in here but if no-one wants it then it WILL disappear, including the archives. If there isn't regular traffic then Runboard staff will drop it. The original BOTB on EZboard went that way. The staff here closed the old board thinking it could just sit there as an archive but after about a year of no traffic they pulled it down. Over the past 10 years I've been a member of several small private Runboards that died the slow death that way as well.

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Re: So was I fooling myself to think that this place still mattered to people??


i am realy sorry to hear that, but on the other hand i am as guilty as every one else who have not postet here in a while! the reasons for that is that i was busy with keeping our ghostbusters group organised! well actually i was more into rescuing it! but like shadowbat69 wrote before: sometimes it not worth it anymore to put a lot of energy into something!i like to concentrate more on the bat in the future, what makes me feel mory sorry about this great place here!

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I've been having a debate over on the RPF about shutting down the Facebook page completely as many of them are not real members and are rude and abusive.
I haven't check the Botb Facebook page but I can't imagine it's vetted like the forums are.

I will say I don't use this site much simply because I can't navigate it very easily especially on my tablet. A layout like theRPF (I'm on there daily) would be great because it's incredibly easy to navigate and find the answers you need.

Plus interest runs are always great.

I'll be sad to see this go just to Facebook and hope there's a way to save it :signal

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I care. I am not saying much but I come by and look and have fond memories. Places this foundational, need to stay. You can do other things too but the internet is messy and fragmented and caters ultimately to those who control it while they make you think you are constantly receiving gifts. You are no. You are making them rich and surrendering individuality, not gaining it. The best thing is to dabble in the latter without neglecting the former. There is a reason classics remain classics. There is a fundamental strength. Give it time for that to be seen as trends evolve. I am going through the same thing with my board. People have less and less attention spans and little loyalty sometimes but there is a place and a way to keep and build with all the tools there are and these bulletin boards can offer something other things that are impossible to get a grasp of can never hope to. Be old school and new school at the same time. Or As Bruce Lee would say, "Be like the nature of water."

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This makes me sad. I have been out of the Batman scene for a few years now. I decided to build a BVS suit so this is the first place i come to to see what people are up to. This is the state I find this forum in.
bummer
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Why has this happened? Easy... people running it not keeping up with trends.
There should be a section on 3d printing, a section on molding (up to date not 7 years old!!!) a dye sub area, etc etc etc. But as long as the powers that be keep ahold of this board as hard as a stripper keeps a hold of her dollars then nothing will change no matter how bad the MEMBERS want it to.
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When Jason made the announcement about moving to facebook, some members were very upset and one solution that we (old management, if you want to call it that) talked about was letting Ed have control as he had a vision for it and he would keep it going as it was and change what he wanted.
Warren and myself are no longer mods and as far as I know, Brin and Jason were helping Ed get the hang of things before stepping back.

No one is "holding on" to this place from our end and after that initial uproar, nothing much has changed.



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