Whatever happened to EF C & C?

[theoldone]

1.Because it got to the point where you couldn't say anything to anybody unless it involved rainbows and unicorns.

2. People were made mods who had NO BUSINESS being a mod and things got extremely unfair around here.

3. Certain People, mods included could start shit and provoke anybody they liked and when that person said anything back they were bombed or banned.

 

[jd_uk]

Was meant to add this too but somehow i created two threads:

September 11th today...I remember being on here while the attacks happened. The thread was obviously 15+ pages within an hour and had been bumped every year since but I suppose not many are here now from that time to do so? I even remember the names who were posting in that thread. One of them was plifter who got the P8ss taken out of him for posting ridiculous c*ck pictures lol.

I think Javaguru has a good point. I remember posting a politics thread and a sport one, both were moved to sub forums where nobody read them. WHY??? Nobody reads your threads, no communtiy develops. It got boring for me for this reason so I stopped posting...I think I actually signed up in 2000. Not good business EF!

 

[jd_uk]

I can find threads just like this for any year of C&C's life.

Sure, but those threads tend to just be people saying 'where have the old guys gone...'

I'm not saying that. Of course people will leave but I'm talking about stats here...even when all these sub forums were first introduced it seemed quite a lot busier around here.


Having said that, there should be more old members here. Like the sign of a good company (to work for) is low employee turnover, isn't the sign of a good forum low turnover in members?

 

[binö]

Sure, but those threads tend to just be people saying 'where have the old guys gone...'

I'm not saying that. Of course people will leave but I'm talking about stats here...even when all these sub forums were first introduced it seemed quite a lot busier around here.


Having said that, there should be more old members here. Like the sign of a good company (to work for) is low employee turnover, isn't the sign of a good forum low turnover in members?

i think it's beyond EF control...chatting on boards seemed to really blow up right around 2000 when it was fresh and new.
no facebook, no twitter, etc...now with these other mediums, plus hundreds of new boards that have sprang up, really not much ef can do about it.

 

[jd_uk]

Because it's been moved to 'politics'

http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/politics/plane-crashes-into-world-trade-center-53491.html

 

[jd_uk]

i think it's beyond EF control...chatting on boards seemed to really blow up right around 2000 when it was fresh and new.
no facebook, no twitter, etc...now with these other mediums, plus hundreds of new boards that have sprang up, really not much ef can do about it.

I bet social networking has affected traffic to chat forums but I've seen some on the net which are way more popular than this one. I doubt social networking accounts for even 25% of the decrease in traffic.

 

[binö]

I bet social networking has affected traffic to chat forums but I've seen some on the net which are way more popular than this one. I doubt social networking accounts for even 25% of the decrease in traffic.

there is a handful of rival boards that have sprang up
from ex members here.
so that def soaked up some traffic...but even those boards,
with one in particular being the best (good joose info there), there traffic isn't moreso than here, def slower.
i think EF at one time had the chance to blow like bb.com did (site is caking millions $) but they missed the window for whatever reasoning.
that site gets a lot of traffic

 

[75th]

Was meant to add this too but somehow i created two threads:

September 11th today...I remember being on here while the attacks happened. The thread was obviously 15+ pages within an hour and had been bumped every year since but I suppose not many are here now from that time to do so? I even remember the names who were posting in that thread. One of them was plifter who got the P8ss taken out of him for posting ridiculous c*ck pictures lol.

I think Javaguru has a good point. I remember posting a politics thread and a sport one, both were moved to sub forums where nobody read them. WHY??? Nobody reads your threads, no communtiy develops. It got boring for me for this reason so I stopped posting...I think I actually signed up in 2000. Not good business EF!

Indeed. Not only is it a retarded concept, but the total lack of consistency is even more laughable. They are basically there for when one or two mods gets into a tizzy and basically wants to use the sub forums as an excuse to move a topic they dont like for whatever reason.

 

[nimbus]

i dont think anyone ever visits the subforums unless they get tricked by clicking a subscribed thread that got moved

 

[puddlemonkey]

i dont think anyone ever visits the subforums unless they get tricked by clicking a subscribed thread that got moved

precisely