<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Smackie Chan:
This board had me at "hello."
Like Python, I once felt that SC would be around forever and I with it. But after SCIII melted down, what rose from the ashes didn't have the same feel, and the spell was broken.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Allow me to expand on this.
When I originally joined SCIII, it was about smack, but it was real smack. Ripping idiots who either did stupid things (rayenthal), or morons who said stupid things (Fuzzy Zoeller). And while smacking of clones did occur, it was usually deserved for saying stupid things (Josh Bigfoot). And clones could always count on others for help when it was needed (it was a great place for advice on almost any subject).
When SCIV came out, it gradually fell apart. First, tards were allowed to run free running takes that were not only stupid, but homo accusations were allowed to flow freely, even when they disrupted quality threads about subjects not even remotely relating to homosexuality. Second, the removal of mods resulted in the tards running amok with graphic porno pics (i.e. scat pics), and spamming was permitted to disrupt both thread subjects and the actual individual threads. This wasn't anything resembling what smack was about. It grew very old, and I was about to end my invovlement with SC when it went down.
Now that I'm here, I'm glad to see more of what SC used to be like. Yes, we've had some imigrants who should have gone down with the ship, but at least I've seen some of them, unlike what would have happened in SC, had mods take them on and bring the hammer down.
Would I go back to SC? I might, but I would still stay with THE since it's looking pretty well run right now. And SC would really have an uphill battle to prove that they have it under control enough to sway me to return.
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[This message has been edited by Diego in Seattle (edited October 14, 2001).]
