Champ182 Posted January 14 Report Share Posted January 14 16 hours ago, Brannigan said: Care to elaborate? Design/aesthetic-wise it's just walls of plain text, harder to differentiate between posters, the upvoting/downvoting system is unique but I prefer reading things chronologically, etc. Classic message boards have much more personality and ease of communicating in my experience. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JarJarBlinks Posted January 14 Report Share Posted January 14 11 hours ago, Speedo said: I don’t wanna get canceled. you'll definitely get canceled lol. DON'T BUG MARK. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghent Posted January 14 Report Share Posted January 14 12 hours ago, daveyjones said: i greatly sympathize with this position. i live my life in a very similar way, actually. this is probably because i use discord for work, but for me it's like slack. it's always open on my second monitor and i ignore it most of the time unless someone tags or DMs. and i know there is this misapprehension that it's just a bunch of stans waiting around on mark's every breath. it's really not like that. everyone chats with each other and mark stops by and says hi from time to time. the two of us mostly talk in the disney channel, like he tagged me last week when he found some pictures of his mom as a young girl at the park in 1956 and wanted to know what was behind her in the frontierland pic. stuff like that. Is it weird that I would honestly rather talk to Mark about Disneyland than blink lol? The things I'd like to know about blink he would never disclose anyway, so it would be a mostly fake conversation and the power dynamic would be uncomfortable. A super fan talking to the boss... sounds awkward and fake. One party (me) has to blatantly kiss ass and walk on thin ice not to say the wrong thing and the other party (Mark) has to pretend that the underling fanboy (me) is an equal. 🤢 I'd rather just hear his thoughts on the upcoming Toontown renovation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Champ182 Posted January 14 Report Share Posted January 14 8 minutes ago, Ghent said: Is it weird that I would honestly rather talk to Mark about Disneyland than blink lol? The things I'd like to know about blink he would never disclose anyway, so it would be a mostly fake conversation and the power dynamic would be uncomfortable. A super fan talking to the boss... sounds awkward and fake. One party (me) has to blatantly kiss ass and walk on thin ice not to say the wrong thing and the other party (Mark) has to pretend that the underling fanboy (me) is an equal. 🤢 I'd rather just hear his thoughts on the upcoming Toontown renovation Haha I bet he feels the exact same way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nasa Posted January 14 Report Share Posted January 14 14 hours ago, Cheerios4u98 said: I think this is why I don't like it. I like that I can post here casually and it will be understood that I won't respond immediately to whatever replies or quotes I get. The fact that it isn't real time makes it better for me. I can read at my own pace, reply at my own pace, and take my time to write up a proper response to things when I feel like I need extra time to properly get my thoughts out, without a stream of messages zooming by in the meantime. As I've gotten older I've increasingly disliked being able to be contacted 24/7 and I've started letting text messages build up in my inbox and letting calls go unanswered because I don't want to be on all the time. It was so much fun to be connected with my friends 24/7 as a teenager but now I just want time to breathe and I wish people couldn't contact me whenever they wanted. A message board fits the way I prefer to communicate much better than a constantly updating mass chatroom ever will. Though even when I was younger I never liked chatrooms. It just feels like the most chaotic way to have discussions. Same, that’s why I don’t really use Discord. There’s a growing anti-always-being-online movement against the hold that social media has on our attention anyway, so we’re not alone. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twentytwenty Posted January 14 Report Share Posted January 14 9 hours ago, Cheerios4u98 said: Remember when blink-182 had an official message board after the reunion announcement? I registered there, maybe posted once, but I was already a member here and this board was way better. That message board certainly didn't last long. They had a message board before it as well, I was there 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveyjones Posted January 14 Report Share Posted January 14 2 hours ago, Ghent said: Is it weird that I would honestly rather talk to Mark about Disneyland we don't talk about blink really Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveyjones Posted January 14 Report Share Posted January 14 14 hours ago, Speedo said: I cut my teeth on chatrooms, I didn’t join a message board until 2009 and I still don’t like discord. it's almost like people are unique Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedo Posted January 14 Report Share Posted January 14 1 minute ago, daveyjones said: it's almost like people are unique Superficially, my friend. We’re basically all the same with various color schemes. Your windows are manual and mine are powered. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveyjones Posted January 14 Report Share Posted January 14 2 hours ago, Nasa said: There’s a growing anti-always-being-online movement for sure. this is why i have no apps on my phone. discord is only on when i am at my desk. no "online always" for me, no way. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghent Posted January 14 Report Share Posted January 14 It always weirds me out when I encounter the "always online" types that will respond to you INSTANTLY upon receiving a message. I'm from the era where its ok to let a message simmer for a few minutes (at least) before responding.. I mean you wouldn't want to look like a loser who has nothing better to do right? That mentality is long gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedo Posted January 14 Report Share Posted January 14 Just now, Ghent said: It always weirds me out when I encounter the "always online" types that will respond to you INSTANTLY upon receiving a message. I'm from the era where its ok to let a message simmer for a few minutes (at least) before responding.. I mean you wouldn't want to look like a loser who has nothing better to do right? That mentality is long gone. You missed me when I was gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveyjones Posted January 14 Report Share Posted January 14 21 minutes ago, Ghent said: I'm from the era where its ok to let a message simmer for a few minutes (at least) before responding. i check for texts maybe twice a day. my cell lives plugged into the wall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghent Posted January 14 Report Share Posted January 14 1 minute ago, daveyjones said: i check for texts maybe twice a day. my cell lives plugged into the wall. You'd rather just send a letter in the mail wouldn't you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay Posted January 14 Report Share Posted January 14 Best use of blink ive seen on TikTok thus far 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveyjones Posted January 14 Report Share Posted January 14 9 minutes ago, Ghent said: You'd rather just send a letter in the mail wouldn't you? the only person who mails me stuff is mark 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedo Posted January 14 Report Share Posted January 14 4 minutes ago, daveyjones said: the only person who mails me stuff is mark My grandma still mails me stuff, it’s nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theedge00 Posted January 14 Report Share Posted January 14 4 hours ago, Ghent said: Is it weird that I would honestly rather talk to Mark about Disneyland than blink lol? The things I'd like to know about blink he would never disclose anyway, so it would be a mostly fake conversation and the power dynamic would be uncomfortable. A super fan talking to the boss... sounds awkward and fake. One party (me) has to blatantly kiss ass and walk on thin ice not to say the wrong thing and the other party (Mark) has to pretend that the underling fanboy (me) is an equal. 🤢 I'd rather just hear his thoughts on the upcoming Toontown renovation I think Tom would be more easy to talk to. Even about Blink stuff. Just a feeling ✨ Actually I think Tom would be more fun to talk to in general lol 😅. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheerios4u98 Posted January 14 Report Share Posted January 14 20 minutes ago, Kay said: Best use of blink ive seen on TikTok thus far One of the few tiktoks I’ve actually lol’d at 😂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay Posted January 14 Report Share Posted January 14 2 minutes ago, Cheerios4u98 said: One of the few tiktoks I’ve actually lol’d at 😂 It’s so dark lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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