AO, im dissapointed...

[xmetal2001]

Actually, youre wrong with the "mostly automag owner forum", because even Tom Kaye has posted and said that AO started as an automag owners forum, but that it has expanded into a general paintball forum. This was posted by the OWNER of the forums. I just think we should be the "beakon of light" everyone says we are. I love AO and am only trying to get it back to its golden days.

That said, I'm going to bed... tata!

Gabe

I still think its safe to say that the majority of members on this forum are partial to AGD.

And unfortunately, there's no going back to AO's golden days. I've been around here for a long time, and I think AO has progressed quite well considering the rapid growth.

[SuiciDal Sn Y p ER]

Adrenaline_Junkie - "The only reaosn i think AO is getting "worse" is because of all the new people joining who are part of the hype and PBN generation, not because of SP and so on. "

or it's because we are getting more new members. I believe that if we educate our newer members they won't post stupid threads or replies or anything annoying. If someone sais something stupid don't just say something stupid back to the guy, that just makes more stupid stuff happen

i was dumb once....(ok maybe i still am but come on guys, i got a tad bit smater on ao! :))

Basically, set an example for the new aoers

NOTE: Whatever you do, NEVER EVER look up to me...if you do the world might as well end

[SpecialBlend2786]

Adrenaline_Junkie - "The only reaosn i think AO is getting "worse" is because of all the new people joining who are part of the hype and PBN generation, not because of SP and so on. "

or it's because we are getting more new members. I believe that if we educate our newer members they won't post stupid threads or replies or anything annoying. If someone sais something stupid don't just say something stupid back to the guy, that just makes more stupid stuff happen

i was dumb once....(ok maybe i still am but come on guys, i got a tad bit smater on ao! :))

Basically, set an example for the new aoers

NOTE: Whatever you do, NEVER EVER look up to me...if you do the world might as well end

Yeah, I agree with that, and also with what FooTemps said before. AO has changed, but it is also growing with many new members, some of which are just getting into the sport.

And yeah....Dont look up to SuicidalSnyper...please

[FooTemps]

... wait... people agree with me? ... that's just not right now!!!

Well, sure, i've been around on ao for a while and I've seen the changes... but I'm usually wrong... wtf, lol

Anyway, it's true that we can't keep up with the surge of new members.... a somewhat constant... and slow... and not really surgely surge of new members.... but um... crap, I was gonna say something good too. I'll edit when I remember what I was gonna say... something about the AO community changing and evolving for the good or something... yeah, growth. that was horrible...

[d00d13]

You guys are making AO sound like hip hop. "What ever happened to the glory days?"
Well, just like hip hop, the selected few is where the real AO lives. So why not spread
the knowledge to bring back those old times?

Remember: The present is what shapes the future.

Meet the new members and mentor them. It might sound dramatic, but that's
what needed. We all just need a little bit of mentoring...

[Blazestorm]

My pants itch...

[Lee]

maybe with the more diverse crowd joining an opportunity to educate has arisen.

people will hopefully learn something when they get shouted down for thier behavior. and hopefully, they'll learn the right lesson.

[the larch]

Well,
Using a thread about a Smart Parts marker as evidence that the maturity in AO is declining isn't really empirical. AO members have seen SP do so many lousy things that you kinda have to expect an ugly reaction to their markers just on that premise.
ALso, while this forum may not be exclusively Automag, it is still primarly automag. On that note, you MUST expect a dispraportionate (sp?) amount of buzz over new automag parts.
As far as the Hair goes: This is not just a new triggerframe, this is a NONELECTRIC trigger frame that can compete against electros. That idea is QUITE revolutionary and deserves every bit of attention it is getting.
If you take a hype comparison between Smartparts and anything on AO, I think you can come to your own conclusions. The buzz over the Hair is not being pumped up by the creaters, but by eager automag owners. Smartparts hypes its own products by stirring 14 year olds into a sexually charged frenzy.

[magking1971]

AO will get a little better when school starts.

[ilikePB]

AO will get a little better when school starts.

School already started here. So a bunch of the Florida punks probably won't be posting as much. However, you can't get rid of me, I graduated a few years back. Muahahahahahaha.

[slade]

The Nerve has been super hyped. It has been hyped for about 1 year now. And even after all that I bet it will have some bad issues when it comes out, just like the Shocker did. I think that's what all the fuss is about. I'm not saying there products are bad, but they are a bit notorious for hyping and releasing products that have some issues.

well said. aside from its looks and smart parts lack of ethics, the nerve is mainly being bashed because of the track record of SP products. the tes had many problems out of the box, and i have seen people miss a day of play because their "the one" wasnt working. so when dragun develops another gun, am i going to give them a clean slate, and regard it as a high quality gun? no, im going to regard it as a low quality gun until i am proven wrong. likewise, agd has had numerous high quality products with very few, if any, problems. so when agd develops a new product, i will assume it is another high quality product, unless i am proven wrong.

[Maus]

Yeah yeah. The, uh, "'cowpie' bucket" fills a whole lot faster when you get older. It doesn't mean every time you notice something bad, it's heralding the death of the game.

That being said...

Let's dodge the trend of posting "man, it was better back in the day" right now. You'll have plenty of time to be stodgy old farts when you're older.

[ntn4502]

I used the hAir during most of our games at IAO...

Am I still not allowed to hype it

[TeamNausea]

its not really hype if its being used by some and it does what it says

[slade]

its not hype if its been proven... thats why people ask if a product lived up to the hype.