What do you think of the MyBroadband forums?

[PsychoFish]

Stackoverflow, expertsexchange and LinkedIn

[Ichigo]

Almost left here when Eugene was around, but now that Metalsoup is here I changed my mind .

Mybb is alright if you stay away from certain sections like PD or TK.

There are a lot of opinionated people there who think their opinion is the only one which is right.

[FarligOpptreden]

Stackoverflow, expertsexchange and LinkedIn

They added the hyphen in their domain after years of confusion.

[mottamort]

They added the hyphen in their domain after years of confusion.

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[MetalSoup]

Makes me think of that QI episode:

www.whorepresents.com
www.expertsexchange.com
www.therapistfinder.com
www.penisland.net


hehehehe

I love that this is on the FAQ page for penisland.net:

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[MickeyD]

A lot of us here are most likely originally from the MyBroadband forum, and many of us left that site behind completely when we signed up here. I was wondering what everyone's opinion on that forum is these days.

Going back there about once or twice a year I just find that it becomes more and more toxic towards people who aren't popular regulars there, that's if they don't all just ignore you completely.

While it has happened, it's important that other members detect this and either self-moderate or report it to the moderators. It has crept in and rpm is aware of it as are the moderators.

Also in this thread are references to a clique. That is not true, as there is not A clique but many of them... The interesting dynamic is to see them opposing each other in (for example) a News thread but then splinter up and agree with each other in the Football thread !!

I guess that's a problem when a forum just becomes too big.

That is true and why rpm (mybb and myg site owner) has appointed more moderators to assist with it. Even now it is impossible to expect moderators to read every post, hence it becomes important that members assist.

Do you think the same might eventually happen to MyGaming? I suppose it helps that we all have something important in common: we all love gaming.

I doubt that it will happen on MyGaming as there is a common thread here and that is Gaming. MyBB is very diverse and virtually any topic you can think of is covered there.

The ideal would be for the two forums to co-exist, with each having its own identity.

[Graal]

I think over here we are sometimes a bit clicky. At least that's how my wife describes it and that's why she doesn't want to post here. People see us as the Elitists as we've seen before. Which is strange since to me it feels like we are friendly to new people.

I wouldn't say clicky is the right term. Some regulars can be a bit unwelcoming and unnecessarily hard on new members, which tends to make it feel like it is a very unfriendly place. It takes a while for any person to adjust in a new social situation, so I think it would be very beneficial for members to keep in mind that they shouldn't be overly hard on new members. I registered a new profile a couple of months ago as something of an experiment and posted on it a bit. Despite not actually doing anything wrong, I ended up getting a lot of flak for simple things simply because I was a new a member. My conclusion at the time was that if that was my first experience of the forum, I would not have stuck around. Over the years I've also told a number of people from other forums to register here, many of whom echoed similar sentiments and none of whom I think still post. Cynikill was one of them, if I remember correctly.

I think it's just a slight attitude shift that needs to happen. Even when a new member is being a dick, I think it's going too far for the entire community to jump on their back and quite literally tell them to fuck off. It might just be that the person is not used to interacting on a social platform of this type and might need time to adjust, after which they could become valuable posters.

[Crableg]

I only really browse there for adsl info etc, nothing else really, just find it is a hard forum to get started on. Here it felt really easy.

I suppose we have the regulars here, but it seems way less toxic here, I don't think we chase people away.

[ViperGTI]

I find MyBB very useful. These days I don't really use the forums unless I need something. Then I get in, post my question, thank people for their advice and get out. I don't hang around and "mingle" anymore. Used to post opinions on topics relating to Motoring, Software Development and Banking, but I don't really monitor the forums anymore unless I'm searching for something specific.

Otherwise I'm mostly here. Not that active when it comes to posting these days due to time constraints, but I still read the MyG forums daily.