State of the Forum

[Hassun]

That has changed unfortunatly...and I doubt things will return to how they once were.

That's something that's impossible. I believe we shouldn't be searching for that either.

[Sinistra]

We have undergone many changes since the start of this site/idea. We were at once a fairly small tight-knit community and now we are much larger and much more loose in terms of being a community as a whole. It used to be the case that I knew well at least half the active users and anyone with over a few hundred posts was pretty much known throughout the community. Unfortunatly we've gone from a site with a couple hundred active members, around 80 of which being fairly prominent and well known throughout the community to being a site with perhaps 400 active members (though thousands of registered members) with probably only 4-5 users which are well known even to the 'newbies' and these members are well known probably due to how often they post. I doubt that I'm one of them. Besides the lot of you in the 'veterans clan' how many people in the chat forum do you think even know my username? I remember when I had around 300 posts I started talking to Gig on the pm system, the head of the site, and he chatted with me from time to time, I was amazed! There was much respect with all members and each year we would even go to Otakon with eachother. That has changed unfortunatly...and I doubt things will return to how they once were.

I would have to agree. back in 2003 AO was a nice community. alot of inteligent discussions. alot of devoted members that posted.

AO's stats back then before the site went under

Registered: 11,017
Attachments: 490
Threads: 17,597
Views: 2,028,299
Posts: 360,900

With this new AO that SpiderWeb, Then Dan, Then Spdude. created was just another spam site. All sold the site for money. I could see if the site was beeing a burden on the owners but thats just bull. I wish we had the old 2003 site today. with all the staff and members that posted.

[jaderabbit]

Alot of the old gallery members coming back would be prety cool beans.
but the site itself i think is like a hangout for people of every style; ive seen emos to christians to highschoolers, and older naime fans. its just a all around site no reason to let the few ruin it.