Current Events > were the debates here more intelligent 10 years ago?

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Jabodie
08/26/20 7:45:21 PM
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Or was I just 14 and easily impressed?

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Smackems
08/26/20 7:46:41 PM
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You damn youngin

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Wii_Shaker
08/26/20 7:46:41 PM
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More or less the same from what I remember. You take the good with the bad always.

I don't remember the boards being so racially or politically charged, even during the Bush years.

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Geisterdrache
08/26/20 7:47:32 PM
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Highly doubtful.

Wii_Shaker posted...
I don't remember the boards being so racially or politically charged, even during the Bush years.
This board got a lot worse around the time of Gamergate, and probably peaked in awfulness around the 2016 election. Still entirely awful now though.

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Chicken_Butt
08/26/20 7:49:09 PM
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Nope. It's always been shit and it always will be.

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Jabodie
08/26/20 7:51:39 PM
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Wii_Shaker posted...
More or less the same from what I remember. You take the good with the bad always.

I don't remember the boards being so racially or politically charged, even during the Bush years.
Some of my favorite topics to read were the were the race related debates on CE with people like SArm. Tbh, I probably first heard many concepts about systemic racism from CE.

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Doe
08/26/20 7:51:39 PM
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When I was younger I argued in the Ike vs Smash Bros series on the Sm4sh board. that must've been a shitshow

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Jabodie
08/26/20 7:52:56 PM
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Doe posted...
When I was younger I argued in the Ike vs Smash Bros series on the Sm4sh board. that must've been a shitshow
I've looked at my early archived posts and boy are they cringey. I refuse to read any of the KH board posts where I was literally ridiculed and laughed out of the board at around 13 lol.

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Chadwick69
08/26/20 7:54:17 PM
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I've been here for 10 years and I can tell you it was always crap here. Why do I keep coming back? I wish I knew.
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Doe
08/26/20 7:56:58 PM
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Also on an earlier account I wrote a stupid, violent and insensitive fanfiction on a board that got mass replies but, to this day, is miraculously up. Makes me wonder what worse stuff is out there.

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lincoln002
08/26/20 7:57:58 PM
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People used to type more. Now that folks are browsing from their smartphones the amount of characters a person will dedicate towards a retort or discussion of any kind is less. The real difference here is that 10 years ago the average age on this site was like 20 years old, so naturally the conversations were at that level. So although people don't respond with as much "effort" the responses are more intelligent than they used to be.



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inloveanddeath0
08/26/20 7:58:12 PM
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Hard to say. Because even back then I didn't give a fuck

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DrizztLink
08/26/20 7:58:50 PM
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Geisterdrache posted...
Highly doubtful.

This board got a lot worse around the time of Gamergate, and probably peaked in awfulness around the 2016 election. Still entirely awful now though.
It was either GG or Teayvon that really kicked off CE in political shit.

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Jabodie
08/26/20 7:59:29 PM
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lincoln002 posted...
People used to type more. Now that folks are browsing from their smartphones the amount of characters a person will dedicate towards a retort or discussion of any kind is less. The real difference here is that 10 years ago the average age on this site was like 20 years old, so naturally the conversations were at that level. So although people don't respond with as much "effort" the responses are more intelligent than they used to be.

Interesting. It probably really is that I've gotten older.

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Chicken_Butt
08/26/20 8:00:12 PM
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Chadwick69 posted...
I've been here for 10 years and I can tell you it was always crap here. Why do I keep coming back? I wish I knew.
Dude. Just do it. I did. Fuck it, man. You don't need this in your life.



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inloveanddeath0
08/26/20 8:00:19 PM
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DrizztLink posted...
It was either GG or Teayvon that really kicked off CE in political shit.
Wasn't Afro in the political stuff?

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Jabodie
08/26/20 8:02:23 PM
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Political CE has been a big part of what I read (basically lurk) for all the time I've been here. I don't really think the political side grew, I think the other aspects of CE just started to die.

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Doe
08/26/20 8:03:21 PM
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Chicken_Butt posted...
Dude. Just do it. I did. Fuck it, man. You don't need this in your life.
See you next Tuesday.

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Chicken_Butt
08/26/20 8:04:35 PM
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Doe posted...
See you next Tuesday.
Account bet. I won't be here to see if you honor it, but when I'm gone close yours too. Bet you won't.

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NeonOctopus
08/26/20 8:04:46 PM
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I feel like in the mid-00s, people made fun of you for posting about actual current events on the Current Events board lol

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Unsugarized_Foo
08/26/20 8:05:54 PM
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It was higher quality crap

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Endgame
08/26/20 8:06:22 PM
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Not really, no.
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Jabodie
08/26/20 8:06:55 PM
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NeonOctopus posted...
I feel like in the mid-00s, people made fun of you for posting about actual current events on the Current Events board lol
I first started lurking a bit before Big Samus died, so I missed that era.

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Theon_Greyjoy
08/26/20 8:07:15 PM
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I remember semantics being a lot worse about 5 years ago

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Chicken_Butt
08/26/20 8:09:05 PM
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Chicken_Butt posted...
Account bet. I won't be here to see if you honor it, but when I'm gone close yours too. Bet you won't.
Wait, I just realized they were calling me a see-you-next-tuesday. Walked right into that one.

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The-19th-Sparta
08/26/20 8:10:04 PM
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CE was much more vicious 10+ years ago.

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The_Creep_2020
08/26/20 8:10:15 PM
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The ecosystem has changed slightly, but thats to be expected.

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Jabodie
08/26/20 8:11:16 PM
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The-19th-Sparta posted...
CE was much more vicious 10+ years ago.
Without a doubt. Nobody gave a single fuck back then. (Exaggeration obviously.)

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Chicken_Butt
08/26/20 8:12:28 PM
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Jabodie posted...
Without a doubt. Nobody gave a single fuck back then. (Exaggeration obviously.)
lmao... nah dude. It's pretty much the same. Y'all were edgy kids and now you're edgy adults. Exact same shit.

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FrankJaegr
08/26/20 8:12:34 PM
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@Chicken_Butt



you got me good in the other topic :P
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NeonOctopus
08/26/20 8:13:04 PM
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FrankJaegr posted...
@Chicken_Butt



you got me good in the other topic :P
lol

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Chicken_Butt
08/26/20 8:14:20 PM
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FrankJaegr posted...
@Chicken_Butt



you got me good in the other topic :P
aw shit lol

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s0nicfan
08/26/20 8:14:29 PM
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The overall userbase didn't change, but for CEmen what changed was LUE going private. CE now is what LUE used to be (albeit less active). It had less to do with a change in global politics or even users growing up, but more LUE moving on to either CE or RI, and RI eventually collapsing and those people moving on to CE as well.

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Politics
08/26/20 8:19:43 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
The overall userbase didn't change, but for CEmen what changed was LUE going private. CE now is what LUE used to be (albeit less active). It had less to do with a change in global politics or even users growing up, but more LUE moving on to either CE or RI, and RI eventually collapsing and those people moving on to CE as well.

Yeah seriously. In fact LUElinks isn't even really like old LUE anymore. It's a bunch of old nerds being boring and shit.

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Ving_Rhames
08/26/20 8:20:28 PM
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No, but the walls of text were WAAAAY bigger

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inloveanddeath0
08/26/20 8:20:38 PM
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The-19th-Sparta posted...
CE was much more vicious 10+ years ago.
Somedays I wish it still was

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Jabodie
08/26/20 8:21:29 PM
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Chicken_Butt posted...
lmao... nah dude. It's pretty much the same. Y'all were edgy kids and now you're edgy adults. Exact same shit.
Idk bro. I've only been back since COVID started hitting in February, so idk if doxing, directly contacting acquaintances, leaking (underage) nudes, and the level of harassment users like FlawlessLee and Kassie got back in the day is the same shit as CE these days. But who knows, maybe I just missed some stuff right before I got back.

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TheSavageDragon
08/26/20 8:24:27 PM
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Jabodie posted...
I've looked at my early archived posts and boy are they cringey. I refuse to read any of the KH board posts where I was literally ridiculed and laughed out of the board at around 13 lol.

Really? I was a regular on the KH2 board at that time. Though I don't recall any names save for aliengundamneo, the nut that played KH2 Proud mode using only his feet
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Jabodie
08/26/20 8:27:39 PM
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TheSavageDragon posted...
Really? I was a regular on the KH2 board at that time. Though I don't recall any names save for aliengundamneo, the nut that played KH2 Proud mode using only his feet
I posted very briefly, and was probably just trying to get attention online. Back in those days it was cool to own 13 year olds for being dumb. The particular thread I'm referring to was when I made my alt @Bejodixa (just Jabodie mixed with an X, I thought it was so cool lol) and made a thread asking users to guess who I was. I could probably find it if you're interested, but I'm not ready to read it lol.

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Bio1590
08/26/20 8:31:10 PM
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Chicken_Butt posted...

Dude. Just do it. I did. Fuck it, man. You don't need this in your life.



That's going to get denied by the Admins though
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Chicken_Butt
08/26/20 8:31:36 PM
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What? Why?

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Bio1590
08/26/20 8:32:42 PM
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Also as for the actual topic absolutely not.

10-15 years ago the debates were all about religion/atheism and whether gay people deserve rights (or even to exist at all)
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FL81
08/26/20 8:33:20 PM
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Absolutely not, but the people here seem more jaded and bitter now.

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The-19th-Sparta
08/26/20 8:33:26 PM
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Fun fact, Vegy was still here 10 years ago but he did not have his i talk like dis gimmick yet.

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TheSavageDragon
08/26/20 8:34:08 PM
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Jabodie posted...
I posted very briefly, and was probably just trying to get attention online. Back in those days it was cool to own 13 year olds for being dumb. The particular thread I'm referring to was when I made my alt @Bejodixa (just Jabodie mixed with an X, I thought it was so cool lol) and made a thread asking users to guess who I was. I could probably find it if you're interested, but I'm not ready to read it lol.

I'm going to see if I can find it. Mostly because I hope I wasn't being a dick in there. Chances are likely though...especially back then. I've read some 10+ years old archived posts of mine that are cringy as hell.
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Bio1590
08/26/20 8:35:21 PM
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Chicken_Butt posted...
What? Why?

Wait did they change it?

You used to have to acknowledge that you know it's permanent and can't be reversed in the actual message text.
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Kaliesto
08/26/20 8:35:39 PM
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Not really; go back further.

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Kaliesto
08/26/20 8:36:19 PM
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The-19th-Sparta posted...
Fun fact, Vegy was still here 10 years ago but he did not have his i talk like dis gimmick yet.

So it was a gimmick! o.o

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inloveanddeath0
08/26/20 8:36:47 PM
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The-19th-Sparta posted...
Fun fact, Vegy was still here 10 years ago but he did not have his i talk like dis gimmick yet.
He definitely did in 2013 at least

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