Board not as active anymore?

[Pea-n-Me]

You can report for other reasons than just being offended.

I tend to think that’s probably the overwhelming emotion that causes someone to report something, but maybe I’m wrong.

 

[ronandannette]

Careful, you don’t want to come across as an angry Canadian lol


(Said with tongue in cheek) for those who think I’m trying to be one too

Not angry, no, but I do plead guilty to being irritated by posts like that. They have such an obnoxious air and add absolutely nothing.

That's a big problem on the Cruise Line Forum. People have thousands of dollars invested in cruises and want to be prepared for the rapidly changing situation with the pandemic but board rules forbid the topic so they go elsewhere for information.

And that's even more broadly true on the Canadian Trip Planning board. We're all desperate for first-hand experiences and advice about navigating the requirements for travel to the US; Disney and otherwise. Most threads that ask any questions about Covid, vaccination verification, quarantine and/or testing are immediately squashed even though the topics are not controversial or contentious between the posters at all. It's sad, really.

 

[kdonnel]

It's not just this one.

Cruise Critic is way less active than when I first started participating. I think much of the activity has transitioned to FaceBook and other social media sites as others have said.

 

[Mysterian]

I've said it before, it doesn't take much for fights to break out over non-political discussion. So the logic behind forbidding political topics is in practice completely arbitrary.

We have two threads about paying for someone else's order. I printed the pages, gave it to a publisher, and I was rejected because it "bore too many similarities to 'Lord of the Flies'". Regardless, the movie rights are locked in, and I'm currently talent scouting actors to portray many DISboarders. Ron Howard is set to direct, so that means one of you will have to be played by Clint Howard.

 

[Mysterian]

if I do react, I like to give a European perspective on this mainly US board. Usually appreciated, but not always

I for one appreciate your European input!

 

[easyas123]

Ron Howard is set to direct, so that means one of you will have to be played by Clint Howard.

Ugh...I'm reporting this!

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Things were certainly more, uh, dynamic with the Debates Board, but it must have been a nightmare for the mods, keeping it in control!

 

[ronandannette]

I've said it before, it doesn't take much for fights to break out over non-political discussion. So the logic behind forbidding political topics is in practice completely arbitrary.

We have two threads about paying for someone else's order. I printed the pages, gave it to a publisher, and I was rejected because it "bore too many similarities to 'Lord of the Flies'". Regardless, the movie rights are locked in, and I'm currently talent scouting actors to portray many DISboarders. Ron Howard is set to direct, so that means one of you will have to be played by Clint Howard.

Has the role of me been casted yet? Because I always wanted Tia Leone to play me in the movie. We don't look much alike but I like her spunk and I think she could really capture my essence.

 

[Mysterian]

Has the role of me been casted yet? Because I always wanted Tia Leone to play me in the movie. We don't look much alike but I like her spunk and I think she could really capture my essence.

I will have Ron's people contact Tia's people. Wise move, suggesting an actor immediately before risking being portrayed by Clint! Many of you other DISboarders might want to consider this, because Clint is open to play multiple roles.

 

[Sinder]

Compared to Magic, this place is much busier, and much more pleasant. So I will take it. Sure, more posts get deleted here regarding Covid, or politics. But it beats what goes on there, which is the 2 mods force their views onto the forum. Delete anything they don't agree with, and leave up anything they do agree with.

Give it some time………

 

[ratherbeshiny]

I'm just glad this board still exists!

I was super active on two others (not Disney related), both closed years ago. I enjoy this format much more than social media, but I'm not sure that is a popular opinion anymore!

 

[Dan Murphy]

There is a lot less activity for sure. Back when, literally 20+ years ago, the average number of pages of daily postings on the CB was 7-8. I just looked now, about 1 1/4 pages and then I hit Tuesday. I do keep the several of the heavy duty questioners on ignore, helps my sanity. I just did 'show ignore content' to me, 10 of the possible 30 slots on page 1 were the heavy duties. That's a lot of territory, day in, day out.

I know I have a number of friends whom I have met through the dis who no longer come here, for many various reasons. They have tried for years to get me to join in on their FB groups. I don't do FB, don't want to. So for me, these people are emails and texts with me, a phone call now and then.

If you take a look at this dis Way Back from back in 2001, you'll see a lot of moderator type people taking care of various boards.

dis Way Back Machine 2001

I may be in error, but I think the moderator people were more involved back then with the posters on the respective boards. I know we had 6 moderator type people on the community board back then and there were a lot of threads started by that group and a lot of interaction from us back then. I know I used to sort of 'spam' the other boards here about twice a week. I used to post a thread on each of, as that time, 30-35 boards, that I called 'Your State of the Day' and followed by a state name, like Illinois. In the thread, I used to include a map of the state and a few highlights of the state. And then I would include a link to the community board with a thread for that day's state, asking people to click it and visit the community board and tell us all the neat things about their state. People are typically proud of where they live and like to tell other people about their home areas. And people on the community board learned about the new people and where they were from, etc. It did bring quite a bit of interaction from people who never knew about the cb. That simple, though at times time consuming little exercise, brought a lot of people to the community board for the first time. Once here, they looked around and said like, hey, looks like a fun board and something different from the many other planning boards here and stayed, interacted, had fun. I know many people over the years back then said that simple idea is what made them even aware there was a community board and what it was like.

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It is much slower than years back.

 

[LoveSpringsteen]

I love the Dis and am so glad this site is still here. This forum is a welcome respite from all that is happening in our world. What some may view as fluff posts, I say “bring them on” Yes, it’s less busy than when I joined, but I suspect that is due to the popularity of other social media sites. I get tired of the hateful messages/posts I see on Facebook and I like that I don’t see that in this forum. Generally, this is a great group of helpful, friendly people.

 

[disneychrista]

I feel it is a sign of the times. Most message boards that I have been part of aren't as busy as they used to be. People move on. Other things take their place.

 

[Karin1984]

I also see it on other discussion boards I am on. Some have indeed moved to social media.
For the Cruise Meet-threads, most are now all on Facebook.

 

[shh]

I also see it on other discussion boards I am on. Some have indeed moved to social media.
For the Cruise Meet-threads, most are now all on Facebook.

The bummer about discussions moving to facebook is that there are so many different facebook groups for a single topic or destination. How to know which one(s) to join/visit? I see multiple groups, each with a few hundred or few thousand people, vs a huge centralized community like DIS or Cruise Critic used to be. On FB, it's so scattershot.

 

[nw6675]

The bummer about discussions moving to facebook is that there are so many different facebook groups for a single topic or destination. How to know which one(s) to join/visit? I see multiple groups, each with a few hundred or few thousand people, vs a huge centralized community like DIS or Cruise Critic used to be. On FB, it's so scattershot.

Plus there is so much repetition on them - way more than I see on here and there seems to be many more first timers who have done zero research of their own.

 

[_19disnA]

FB is also not formatted like the typical forum site. Forums I use all have various areas for different topics and the 'threads' are organized so you can follow the comments being made. Forums typically have a variety of search functions were you can easily locate words/phrases/topics. I doubt FB does as good of a job moderating the discussion. They are still mostly interested in how many users they attract so they can charge more $$$ for the ads they sell.

 

[_19disnA]

I don't view social media as a replacement for forums. I belong to various other non-Disney forums, some for a number of years. They are just as active as they have always been. Perhaps it depends on which forums you belong to and what topics they are focused on.

 

[mefordis]

I have to say I think the forum overall has adopted a much nicer tone. It used to be very nasty at times, over the most non controversial threads. I guess those people left.