Hey guys, I loved 2+2 when I was 21-24. thought it was mediocre at 25 and generally thought it is one of the most dog**** useless forums imaginable at 26-27.

Does this have to do with 2+2 or my brains development? I would guess both. OMG WTF LOLZ TLDR just got really boring, but was fun for awhile. I feel like there was actually some kinda biological change in my brain.

This is a mostly serious question.

When you read the same forum everyday things start to get stale, we as humans love new and unexpected things!

Had you limited yourself to only a fraction of the time you used to spend here in the beginning you would NOT feel this way.

yet your still here?

Striiing link to video that is in your avatar?!?!^^^ that's awesome!

there just are many more trolls and dumb kids here then before.
if they woulda ban everyone with a 2011 reg date, the forum woulda been a better place for sure

same here, i loved it at 18-20 as a lurker, made 2k+ posts from 20-24 and regularly browed BBv, the zoo, and NVG....and now I just think it's **** and can't be bothered posting here because it seems lame and I just don't give a **** anymore. I can't explain it. I used to want to be a part of the poker "community' but i really dont give a **** since I'm a reclusive misanthrope, even online. I've been enjoying lurking and will prolly continue to do that though when I need some laughs from BBV/NVG 5 star threads.

I think the change is called maturity. A recent poll showed a bell curve peaking at age 21, so I bet there are a ton of underagers on here. I was that age too, and really got a kick out of arguing/dissing on usenet newsgroups. I grew up and realized the stress of flame wars are not worth it. I won't even respond to people who provoke/argue nonsensically with me online anymore.

The signal to noise ratio has gone WAAY down here in the past 5 years. I used to frequent Stanford Wong / Bishop Snyder / Don Schlesinger's gambling forums, and have been lurking on 2+2 since it's inception. Back in the day we were all insiders, and questions would get sincere answers. A lot of bad advice is posted here now, and some long threads have no correct answers at all.

So the question is, what can we do to make 2+2 better? I think mods deleting useless posts that say only "this" would be a start. Also, a posting limit of a few posts per day might help. When someone starts a thread and 2 hours later we're on page 20, not many people can read the whole thread before responding.

Maybe take Apple's appstore approach, and force people to prove their age by providing a credit card on file, which could also be used at a 2+2 online e-book store to improve sales. Or perhaps implement an age filter, where all posts by people under 21 can be ignored. I sense many of 2+2's troubles are cause by a drooling mass of 13 year old boys.

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Mature avatar.

Sry.

to each his own

Did you grow out of women? ,-)

+1

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I was 21-24. thought it was mediocre at 25 and generally thought it is one of the most dog**** useless forums imaginable at 26-27
Join Date: Jan 2009 WTF???? it's only been 3 years, how can you start at the age of 21? and now you are 27?

heh heh

age verification doesnt work. I am in the Pokerstrategy.com community and you have to be 18 to join most of their forums and these forums are worse than 2+2 is now. But the moderators are much more active there because they get paid, so all the trollthreads get deleted pretty fast and trolls get banned or read only.

I think the forums are great. If you want to talk strategy, go to a strategy forum. If you want to talk ****, go to bbv. If you want to learn intellectual ****, go to smp. It is what you make of it.