# Welp, this place has changed **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 14, 2021, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welp-this-place-has-changed/948650 "2021-08-14T08:05:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2021, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welp-this-place-has-changed/948650/21 "2021-08-14T22:20:44Z")
Since her avatar appears to be a white square, she might have some trouble finding it. 😂 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welp-this-place-has-changed/948650/22 "2021-08-15T14:07:46Z")
Is this thread supposed to be about me? 👾 ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welp-this-place-has-changed/948650/23 "2021-08-15T15:26:21Z")
**Moderator Note** > [@madsircool](#): > > This place allows bullying and pileons which drive otherwise good posters to overreact. The Pit was around long before the software change. The purpose of ATMB is not to complain about the Pit in every single thread, regardless of the topic. If you want to complain about the Pit, do it here: > [@How should the Pit be changed, if at all?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-the-pit-be-changed-if-at-all/946859): > > [poll](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-the-pit-be-changed-if-at-all/946859/1) As there has been a lot of discussion lately on the Pit in many recent threads, I thought it might be helpful to try to get a feel for what the community as a whole wants to see done with the Pit. I feel like I’ve read as many posts defending the Pit as there are posts arguing for changes or even elimination of the Pit, but it’s awfully hard to tease out which views have the most support. Frankly, I think the Pit is a negative influence on this board and the arguments that I’ve seen in its… Do not bring complaints about the Pit into unrelated threads. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welp-this-place-has-changed/948650/24 "2021-08-15T15:56:56Z")
Apologies. Message received. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welp-this-place-has-changed/948650/25 "2021-08-15T17:31:41Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > It never hurts to add your voice to the discussion which was my bigger point…the more voices the better for everyone. Not unless they are able to communicate with each other. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welp-this-place-has-changed/948650/26 "2021-08-15T17:46:59Z")
Yes, you weren’t around in the Good Old Days. Software/format changes are always jarring, and generally not an improvement. In the case of the SDMB they _have_ been beneficial. For one thing, I can start working on a post, go to other sites to gather information to clarify a point I was going to make, and return to the partially completed post without finding it has vanished into the ether. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welp-this-place-has-changed/948650/27 "2021-08-15T17:51:23Z")
I just like that I can go to the SDMB and see that it’s not down. You couldn’t rely on that with the old software. I almost left for good because half the time I tried to visit, everything was broken. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welp-this-place-has-changed/948650/28 "2021-08-15T18:57:29Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Yes, you weren’t around in the Good Old Days. Heh, I remember when YOU were a newbie, old man. I was here over 5 month ahead of you. Neener Neener, who’s your diener now? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welp-this-place-has-changed/948650/29 "2021-08-15T23:14:50Z")
> [@](#): > > Neener Neener, who’s your diener now? During residency we had a diener (morgue worker who moves and does preliminary dissection of a corpse) named Don. He was sometimes known as Don of the Dead. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welp-this-place-has-changed/948650/30 "2021-08-15T23:50:31Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > He was sometimes known as Don of the Dead. I like that. It’s been a loooong time since I participated in any diener humor. One of my old roommates spent a summer working as a diener. You can imagine what we all said to him at dinner the nights we served hot dogs. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welp-this-place-has-changed/948650/31 "2021-08-16T00:01:43Z")
This is epic. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welp-this-place-has-changed/948650/32 "2021-08-16T04:52:10Z")
Thank you, with this advice I was able to locate my PM history. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welp-this-place-has-changed/948650/33 "2021-08-16T04:53:15Z")
I use Classic Reddit exclusively. No snoovatars, all 30+ subs, mature discourse without the echochamber that SDMB entails. No pile-ons, less bullshit, I’ll take it \<3 ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welp-this-place-has-changed/948650/34 "2021-08-16T05:08:52Z")
Yo yo yiggity yo! I vaguely remember your name, can’t remember if you liked or hated me, but hey internet personage. Hi there, hello. I haven’t been active here for at least 5 years. Timeline’s a little fuzzy and frankly, I don’t give enough of a shit to investigate further. I’m firmly post-SDMB at this point in my life, I don’t do echo chambers. I’ll forever be grateful for the many, many reality checks I received from SDMB as I (poorly/sans-therapy) navigated a very rocky, oversharey chapter of my life. I was a cringy, poorly-socialized legbeard entirely lacking in boundaries. I can hardly blame anyone who didn’t like the me of 2012ish - me today wouldn’t be friends with me back then, so I dig it. I hope you’re doing well. I hope Skald the Rhymer and BigT are still kicking. I hope DiosaBellisima and MeanOldLady are still kicking and notoriously cunty. I am doing well, for those who care. For those who don’t, that’s cool. Maybe I’ll pop back in again 5 years from now and see what’s what! Probably not, though. Thanks again, y’all! Stay pink, soft, and oily \<3 ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welp-this-place-has-changed/948650/35 "2021-08-16T05:11:31Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > I hope Skald the Rhymer and BigT are still kicking. BigT is very active, I don’t recognize any of the other posters you mention. I’ve been around more than 10 years as an active poster. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welp-this-place-has-changed/948650/36 "2021-08-16T05:14:28Z")
Skald has vision problems and rarely posts. MOL and DB seem to have abandoned the boards. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welp-this-place-has-changed/948650/37 "2021-08-16T07:38:49Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > I haven’t been active here for at least 5 years. May of last year, December of 2018, February, July, November and December of 2017. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welp-this-place-has-changed/948650/38 "2021-08-16T15:44:22Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > May of last year, December of 2018, February, July, November and December of 2017. Every step you take, every move you make, every dog you wake, every herring you bake Czarcasm’s watching you . . . ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welp-this-place-has-changed/948650/39 "2021-08-16T15:58:45Z")
It is just that she said she hadn’t been here for about five years, and I distinctly remember her posting last year and the year before that, so I checked to see if maybe I was mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welp-this-place-has-changed/948650/40 "2021-08-16T16:06:01Z")
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