Metal Sludge Gossip Board

I mean seriously, what are we down to...like, 20 posters or some shit?

21 posters when I kick in with the special goodness.

Sometimes I think it's even less than 20.

You wanna get all the lurkers out, then post an opinion on Vaccines.

Seems a little thin this summer as there really hasn't been much news to discuss. Sammy's tour held the line for rock and not much else going on. Not many new albums. Not many notable performances, good or bad.

It's come down to a Creed reunion tour, Linkin Park woman singer, and Bert refusing to tour with Poison. Even Motley's been uneventful.

There's 23 regulars, but 5 of them are the same person.

Message boards like this are out dated, kinda of like the bands discussed on here. Plus plenty of people who would post here have been run off for various reasons. Younger people, or new people, aren't going to replace the people who left. With Reddit, Discord, and all the other social media apps, there's too much competition and other places to talk about things.

Yes

Hey, i'm also a member of Electric Eye, so I came here and it feels like it's jumpin'!

All about perspective, i guess.

LitaStrauss wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2024 5:09 am Message boards like this are out dated, kinda of like the bands discussed on here. Plus plenty of people who would post here have been run off for various reasons. Younger people, or new people, aren't going to replace the people who left. With Reddit, Discord, and all the other social media apps, there's too much competition and other places to talk about things.

Yep. Every year it is slightly fewer people. People die, move on, family stuff takes over, they finally get a girlfriend, get fed up of having to login frequently etc. And they are not replaced by new people because we are talking about a bygone era with a byegone method.

Who is the youngest poster here? Someone like Mojo who is in his 30s. And even he posts less frequently since he started working in a prison.

HueyRamone wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2024 6:02 am Hey, i'm also a member of Electric Eye, so I came here and it feels like it's jumpin'!

All about perspective, i guess.

I post on a hockey board and some people say it is dying there. And then a new thread will happen which will have 100s of posts in mere hours!

I also post on a rugby board and it might be less happening than electric eye!

It is starting to get so dead here that I'm starting to be okay with dmbrocker updating us on every 'celebrity' death which happens.

pieceofme wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2024 6:23 am

HueyRamone wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2024 6:02 am Hey, i'm also a member of Electric Eye, so I came here and it feels like it's jumpin'!

All about perspective, i guess.

I post on a hockey board and some people say it is dying there. And then a new thread will happen which will have 100s of posts in mere hours!

I also post on a rugby board and it might be less happening than electric eye!

I post (or at least I used to) on a message board for people who work in customer service. Joined it around the same time I registered here, and that place is pretty much dead now.

I see this site as the metal equivalent of the two old guys in the balcony on the Muppet Show.

Who are all these lurkers?
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WentEast wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 10:58 am I see this site as the metal equivalent of the two old guys in the balcony on the Muppet Show.

I think some of it is the board changing to a PG format. As well I agree, Metal died long ago. Its become out dated, so yea, I look for this board to die, in time. For the most part it already has. Long gone are the Flame wars, the Dirty Pics, and rockers doing stupid shit while being fucked up. We are all getting older, and we just got tired of arguing over the same stupid shit, and giving and receiving the same stupid insults. Its true, the older you get, the less you care about the stupid shit.

tym wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 12:59 pm I think some of it is the board changing to a PG format. As well I agree, Metal died long ago. Its become out dated, so yea, I look for this board to die, in time. For the most part it already has. Long gone are the Flame wars, the Dirty Pics, and rockers doing stupid shit while being fucked up. We are all getting older, and we just got tired of arguing over the same stupid shit, and giving and receiving the same stupid insults. Its true, the older you get, the less you care about the stupid shit.

I still get a laugh or two per week out of this site. Free of charge I become aware of stuff happening in music and entertainment. That’s a value to me. Is it what it once was? Nah. All things change for better or worse. I would imagine the owner is trying to avoid lawsuits. He’s been there and done that. Not fun.

pieceofme wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2024 6:18 am

LitaStrauss wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2024 5:09 am Message boards like this are out dated, kinda of like the bands discussed on here. Plus plenty of people who would post here have been run off for various reasons. Younger people, or new people, aren't going to replace the people who left. With Reddit, Discord, and all the other social media apps, there's too much competition and other places to talk about things.

Yep. Every year it is slightly fewer people. People die, move on, family stuff takes over, they finally get a girlfriend, get fed up of having to login frequently etc. And they are not replaced by new people because we are talking about a bygone era with a byegone method.

Who is the youngest poster here? Someone like Mojo who is in his 30s. And even he posts less frequently since he started working in a prison.

I guess it is probably harder to post when you are getting ass raped.

pieceofme wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2024 6:18 am Who is the youngest poster here? Someone like Mojo who is in his 30s. And even he posts less frequently since he started working in a prison.

He probably yearned to interact with a better class of folks.

Message Boards in general are just dying off.

Remember chatrooms? In 10 years, message boards will be like chatrooms - long gone.

People can discuss their interests on Social Media now.

For me personally, I check the board regularly for some interesting topics or news. Unfortunately, i have no desire to join another discussion about Kiss albums or what band is under/over rated. So i don’t .

But since it was brought up, Alive 1 is the best Kiss album and The Killer Dwarfs should have been bigger.

FreddyFender wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 6:22 pm Message Boards in general are just dying off.

Remember chatrooms? In 10 years, message boards will be like chatrooms - long gone.

People can discuss their interests on Social Media now.

Chat rooms were really exciting in 2000.

Sludge chat back in the day was amazing. So many laughs! I remember being on there late at night with Nate, Tig, so many others.

MattleyCrue wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:47 pm Sludge chat back in the day was amazing. So many laughs! I remember being on there late at night with Nate, Tig, so many others.

You've been around for that long? I honestly thought you joined a couple of years ago just to show off your t-shirts

Anyone else just not like interacting on social media? On Facebook, it's either with people you already know, a lot of whom have taken on many stupid ideas that they wouldn't have before smartphones, or just being an anonymous person in a group. Reddit is pretty bad too. Myspace had the right balance. Facebook and Reddit are so bland and reduce people into text. These Metal message boards had really developed characters going back to the 90s. You didn't feel like a faceless being. The scene has more albums than ever but a lot less enthusiasm. 2002 was probably the last year where we had more than a dozen really good new albums released. Something like Crucible or Long Way Home seemed kinda mediocre then, but are masterpieces compared to modern albums. This has to be one of the last message boards. The Steve Hoffman forum still exists but most of the talk is dedicated towards talking about music from 50+ years ago. There's still boards for Film Score Monthly. Gearspace. Head-fi. Home Theater Forum too, I think. There just isn't a lot of new and exciting things to talk about. Most people seem to want to go online to engage in the team sports of arguing politics. 25 years ago it was difficult to get anyone to care about anything to do with politics. Nowadays most people are obsessed with it. I'm not even sure it's the politics that they care about. I think they're more interested in fighting and using politics to batter groups they don't like on Facebook.

The whole state of society with social media is just sad. I'm just counting down the days til AI and new tech makes it all irrelevant. Eventually tech will make fighting about politics irrelevant as well as it starts to solve major problems in all areas while creating much more abundant resources. There won't be much left to fight about. Very few people seem to use the Internet to really seek legit knowledge and build character. It's really become more like a giant battle for status.

"These Metal message boards had really developed characters going back to the 90s. You didn't feel like a faceless being". Think about how true this statement is. Maybe Arch Hall, Jr will make a return and livin' things up.

It's pretty slow. I'm at my desk at home all day, every day. Since I can't walk to the coffee shop (everything is a drive from home) to clear my brain, I hop on here for a minute. I've been around since 2010 or earlier but had to rejoin with a new account. I still don't post much...mostly read and get a chuckle now and again. I have no other social media accounts except YouTube, so this and that are my go-tos with coffee in the morning. There is still some funny shit with the 20-30 regulars.

“Think about how true this statement is. Maybe Arch Hall, Jr will make a return and livin' things up.”

Wow…. That’s a name I haven’t thought about in a long time. My favorite thread of all time was when someone asked if anyone could photoshop Eddie over a cool picture of Seattle’s skyline. The poster was referring to Iron Maiden mascot, Eddie. Well someone photoshopped EVH with full on meth mouth instead. Still never laughed so hard on this site and that’s saying a lot because there were some crude, mean, funny fuckers on this site.

VincesGarterbelt wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 3:57 am Well someone photoshopped EVH with full on meth mouth instead. Still never laughed so hard on this site and that’s saying a lot because there were some crude, mean, funny fuckers on this site.

That makes me laugh remembering that. There were some good Paul Stanley ones over the years, too.