What happened to AO?

[phantomhitman]

I've got to say that wang force has got to be the epitome of of the "cool kids" of AO.

first rule of being cool is to never call yourself cool.


I honestly believe the mods took alot of crap out of the forums that was posted (either flames or just silly useless info). You could actually read a thread and follow it, now its like playing a game of telephone. It could start out with "check out my new gun" and end with "would you like butter and syrup with your pancakes". Its all in fun but its gets old and very lame. I say bring back the dictator mods and let them clean up again. The mods were hypocritical alot (only problem I had with them) but they helped the forum out as a whole. It will piss off alot of people, then again those people are the ones acting stupid.

[BigEvil]

I wish Zak Was still around.

Yeah, what ever happend to Zak anyway?

[Crazy]

HOLY CRAP CRYER! i always loved your sigs.

But anyway, the old guard is long gone and so is the wang force. I've got to say that wang force has got to be the epitome of of the "cool kids" of AO. And with this cool kid era, I've got to say that the old guard was also at its best. The mods actively participated in conversations (both silly and serious), members discussed ideas that were fresh and not those mundane "can i buy this or that" or "how do we save mags" or "is agd dying" and the list could go on even further. (Sure, these conversations always existed, but not at the ratio that the forums have now) Another big contribution to the old guard was that Tom Kaye himself posted on these forums. As of now, AGD's participation in the mag community is rather diminutive at best. With this decline in contributing members, of course AO is going to go down the drain in quality.

examples of cool kid era:
Dream mag photochop contest
Beta release of SUPERBOLT
Development process of INTELLIFRAME
Xmag teasers
the round table discussion forum
multiple thread parties
wang force
pie

I mean, we don't even have interesting flame fests against postwhores anymore. (yeah man... wtf happened to mango and flamebo)

/Warped is a bad lawyer. he doesn't know his rights on this forum.
//Maybe he should have read the disclaimer before he checked "i agree"
///slashes are cool

mIRC too

[shartley]

I don't see the flaming. I think we all got softer skin and take everything that might be construed as against us as a flame, and turn things into flame fest, as a collective whole. I don't see anyone flaming you here.

[rkjunior303]

There are no victims here though, aside from the forum itself. And that is the sad part.

[Lohman446]

I hope noone expects any thread, anywhere, that involves the demographics that paintball does, to make it three pages without flaming. I looked back, there may be some flames here, but there minimal, and I took them as being less hostile and more humorous in tone.

As to what happened to AO: The changing demographics of paintball happened, and are reflected here.

[shartley]

I hope noone expects any thread, anywhere, that involves the demographics that paintball does, to make it three pages without flaming. I looked back, there may be some flames here, but there minimal, and I took them as being less hostile and more humorous in tone.

As to what happened to AO: The changing demographics of paintball happened, and are reflected here.

[Lohman446]

Demographics are not always age - have you seen the majority of paintball player's behaviour at events lately? And this is not speedball or woodsball, its both.

How do you expect, on a forum with open enrollment, mostly unmoderated (which AO seemed to indicate they want in the AO vs moderates debates of the past) to be different?

Its not a cop out, its a simple consideration of the difference of paintball today, and ten years ago.

Edit: of course you gave the counter examples, but you noted it as attributed to moderation... somehow moderation on AO does not go over well.

[shartley]

Demographics are not always age - have you seen the majority of paintball player's behaviour at events lately? And this is not speedball or woodsball, its both.

How do you expect, on a forum with open enrollment, mostly unmoderated (which AO seemed to indicate they want in the AO vs moderates debates of the past) to be different?

Its not a cop out, its a simple consideration of the difference of paintball today, and ten years ago.

[phantomhitman]

The internet is a great mask for alot of people. I can say, without a doubt, that all of the idiots that do post here (from flamers, jokers, new gen haters, old school haters, tools, trolls, etc) DO NOT act like this at their paintball fields. They will do it online, and with their group of friends, but not even attempt to do it in real life especially around people that they do not know. Forums are a great tool for showing how ignorant a person really wants to act, but cannot for various reasons. It turns little idiots into super villans of the interweb and gives them a chance to act as stupid as allowed, which is an increasing problem.

Who are the moderators now come to think of it?

[Automaggot68]

Yeah, what ever happend to Zak anyway?

Actually, the people who know aren't supposed to say anything.

[SCpoloRicker]

*flames WARPED1*

Go to AO events, people.

[Automaggot68]

Warped1.

I think that part of the reason that AO's going downhill, is because of people like you that insist on complaining (read: bi******) about "the old days."
Change happens naturally.
If you hang on to what happened in the past, then the natural flow of it gets all messed up.
you have to enjoy what AO is NOW. Because it wont ever be what it was then.
I just think the more people complain about AO not being what it used to be and sucking, the more it starts to suck, because everyone is in a bad mood.
I don't think AO's that bad.
Oh yeah, flames. You're a lamesauce.

[FooTemps]

Warped1.

I think that part of the reason that AO's going downhill, is because of people like you that insist on complaining (read: bi******) about "the old days."
Change happens naturally.
If you hang on to what happened in the past, then the natural flow of it gets all messed up.
you have to enjoy what AO is NOW. Because it wont ever be what it was then.
I just think the more people complain about AO not being what it used to be and sucking, the more it starts to suck, because everyone is in a bad mood.
I don't think AO's that bad.
Oh yeah, flames. You're a lamesauce.

roffles, lamesauce

also, I wasn't calling myself a cool kid (even though i was part of wang force), I was just stating the existance of the cool kids.

[Automaggot68]

Warped1, why havent you addressed your circumvention of that ban?