What happened to people spending their day on this website. It seems like this place died out quite a bit. This is my first time back in a few years, well last night was. Where is the traffic? Where are the people with biting judgements; the people with strict how to’s on getting better; the people ranting about non-events in their life?
I enjoyed reading the dramatic, and sometimes helpful, banter here. It was a good way to spend a Saturday, perhaps I shall move along, there are too many tumbleweeds in these parts. This site was a good place with little rules, which allowed you to speak your mind. Now that it’s died out a bit, the forum has lost it’s charm. Perhaps this is the fault of the moderators. Maybe suicidal ideology has been cured with some atypical antipsychotic, and we are the only ones who haven’t caught on. My bet is the drama alone here killed the forum on it’s own, a sort of forum HIV if you will.
Who or whatever is to blame, I will probably continue to post my life detriments here, because I honestly haven’t found a better place. Those of you who are still here should as well, and perhaps we can pray that the moderators will find a way to repopulate a dying website. Hell, a little variety never killed anyone, perhaps offer something new and interesting aside from the monotony. Maybe call on old souls who frequented this place to come back, and be moderators themselves. Do something because I am bored, and I want more feedback when I am in an unstable mindset dammit.
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I’m not sure what happened in recent weeks as I’ve been away, trying to jump off a cliff (how I f’d up something as simple as that I’ll never know). But I’ve been here for a long time and seen the overall personality of SP come in cycles. It’s mostly like you said, helpful, ranting, cathartic. And then every few months it turns into a dance party & drama fest which spooks off those of us who come here with nooses around our necks. Then the party moves on, and after a period of tumbleweeds the lost souls (those who are still alive or whose nooses broke) come back and it resumes the cycle.
I guess they got lives, or got rid of them…
There are a few of us new faces around here. Hi!
Been here off and on for a little over a year, and I feel like I’ve seen about one whole cycle that Salt described. Or at least up until the “tumbleweed cycle” that it’s apparently in now. I quite liked that description actually. The last few months I haven’t really been able to tell whether it’s actually becoming more deserted, or if it just feels that way to me due to the new names that I don’t recognize, and the absence or rarity of several of the ones I did. The frequency of posts does seem to have dropped a bit, though.
i been here for like a year and posted several times. i am just hear to let myself know that i am not alone with my suicidal emotions and ideations.
Also left for about two months and when I came back it had a very different feel