Let's face it - the level of discourse has gone down on this board.

Since I’ve joined anyway - so, I could be a part of the problem.

As you can see I’ve only been around for two years, and I really like the Dope. It is a haven for free thought in my opinion. IRL you will never get such candid views from so many intelligent people.

It seems that lately, however, everyone is clutching their precious little pearls about every stupid little thing, every vague injustice, every minor or subtly offensive thing to every little group.

For the love of god, please just get over it - (or at least some of it!!!)

Nobody asked *you *for your lame-ass opinions, now did they?

Tagus. Two billion years ago. Now THOSE guys knew how to party!

That’s been happening here since the beginning, at least on the internet. I’ll bet on the previous AOL site too.

This board has always been a mixture of self righteous twats slabbering at each other in GD, pity party losers hugging each other in the fluffy forums, anal wankers making lists in cafe society and a metric shit ton of trolls and bored shit stirrers floating around waiting for the drama of the day.

Same as it ever was.

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money’s gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

Same as it ever was…Same as it ever was…Same as it ever was…
Same as it ever was…Same as it ever was…Same as it ever was…
Same as it ever was…Same as it ever was…

Grampa? What’s an “AOL”?

I tried to help you guys out and raise the bar so I left for about a year. But the average didn’t seem to go up any so I came back.

I consider this more of a lame-ass rant than a lame-ass opinion, YMMV.

As a matter of fact, the board has been going precipitously downhill ever since I joined 15 years (and about every six months someone bemoans that fact).

You can only imagine what an Elysian place this was back then.

(Actually, try “search threads from the beginning, ascending” to show that the board was a morass back then too.;))

And such small portions!

Sometimes I see myself as a self righteous twat; other times I think I’m more of a fluffy forum type.

I always thought it stood or Assholes On Line.

Sorry, I’ve been busy lately.

You should have seen how cool this place was in Dec. 2013.

I’m a bored shit stirrer some of the time. The rest of the time I’m drinking.

Do you know what ELSE has gone down on this board?

::::waits for a second for the mental image to sink in::::

You’re welcome.

I’m sorry, I don’t post as much as I should, and sometimes this place suffers for the lack.

I shall endeavor to pick up the slack.

Dr Matrix and UncleBeer would whip this place back in shape, let me tell ya!

Yeah, give me Vanilla, Handy, Bottle Blonde Jeannie, and JarbabyJ any day over this current crowd… grumble, grumble…

Meh, I forgot my password so the old account ‘Occam’ was deleted. I’ve been coming here since the late 90’s.

The SDMB’s level of discourse comes and goes. Fresh dedicated minds rise to the challenge when aggressive ignorance displays itself, so you need both for interesting debates. Otherwise we all agree, or we don’t care enough to bother.

The Pit has surely gone down hill. This OP would have his nuts stuffed down his throat for such a weak whiny Pitting a decade ago.