[LomodiorCon]

Yikes anyone still here from the old days

[denyffishh]

Yikes anyone still here from the old days

Well yeah, but your avatar has changed.

[NicolasOL]

Why so worried? You got someone pregnant?

[Anaerbguagree]

Yikes anyone still here from the old days

Plenty of people still around. Plenty of new faces as well though.

[MrsGoo]

Plenty of people still around. Plenty of new faces as well though.

Hm, I wonder what happened to FuryX?

[BoarmomorurrY]

Hm, I wonder what happened to FuryX?

Pft, that idiot... We're better off without him.

[Gazeboss]

Still here, but now plenty of lurking thanks to the Old Republic!

Times have definitely changed...

[BEyng6hj]

Still here, but now plenty of lurking thanks to the Old Republic!

Times have definitely changed...

From what some of the older users have told me, things haven't really changed that much. Sounds like some of you may be a tad delusional.

[seawolferr]

Still here, but now plenty of lurking thanks to the Old Republic!

Yeah that guy was a grade-A ahole [thumbdown]

[LorencoLoricelli]

From what some of the older users have told me, things haven't really changed that much. Sounds like some of you may be a tad delusional.

Things have changed since mr. natural and that ilk of mad onion roamed these boards for sure. Mad Onion wasnt always so... stringent. Around 2003 (when my original account was banned...) the forums became much more strict.

Speaking of, anyone remember the advertising debacle over this?

[reachmanxx]

From what some of the older users have told me, things haven't really changed that much. Sounds like some of you may be a tad delusional.

Some things are the same. The remote control is always on here. FM is my homepage. Many users from 2000 and 2001 frequent the forums.

If you plan to stick around till November 2016, your ten year anniversary, you can tell me if things feel different to you.

[Allbrunette]

Things have changed since mr. natural and that ilk of mad onion roamed these boards for sure. Mad Onion wasnt always so... stringent. Around 2003 (when my original account was banned...) the forums became much more strict.

Speaking of, anyone remember the advertising debacle over this?

Ha, I could never forget that. I wouldn't buy OCZ for years after that.

[ElegeExcest]

Things have changed since mr. natural and that ilk of mad onion roamed these boards for sure. Mad Onion wasnt always so... stringent. Around 2003 (when my original account was banned...) the forums became much more strict.

Speaking of, anyone remember the advertising debacle over this?

Ah, yes - however as they didn't sell down here is was more of a curiousity. RAM not mmeting the spec's, relabelled RAM and poor customer service or something, IIRC.

I thought you may have been referring to the banner advertising that was a bit of a heated topic for a while - but as I had bought some FM/MO benching suites which disabled it on registration, it wasn't an issue for me either

I'd say things have definitely changed s while things would often get heated back in the day, it was honest arguements, rather than the loser resorting to insults, etc, that would have meritted a stand-down ban for a week or two.
Some of the older guys would remember getting infringements, or bans, for things that seem to be ignored now.

[AutocadOemM]

Another user with more than ten years here!

[Htb48JBf]

Yeah, mine was a couple of weeks or so ago. Completely forgot about it [no]

[Obgrfbke]

10 years for me in about a month

Although I've been only 'active' for around six or I suppose seven of them. Has this place changed? Yes, although when you're on a site for long time it'll always feel as though it's changed somewhere down that line... Re-brands often don't help.

This place is good to drop into now and again, just watch out for the trolls. [shocked]

[gugamotina]

pfft told you fools id never leave muhuhahahah

[boffincash]

pfft told you fools id never leave muhuhahahah

It is time to change those socks, though.

[larentont]

I don't come on here as much as i use to, I was never away from the place a few years ago, but these days i don't have the same intrest i use to in PC hardware.

[rootoronpunty]

From what some of the older users have told me, things haven't really changed that much. Sounds like some of you may be a tad delusional.

The subforums I frequent have certainly changed. Part of that is cyclical, part of that is because of big changes in the gaming industry. For instance, people hardly ask if stuff will run on their PC, people aren't bothered with their 3DMarks anymore, as hardware has become advanced and cheap enough that almost any gamer can put something together that'll run his favorite games. And the popularity differences of PC gaming and console gaming have gone with the flow of the generation: as the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 fall further and further behind, the console gaming forum grows quiet while the PC Gaming forum has picked up... Steam. Ha.

As far as the people go, I think what's changed most is the intelligence of the trolls. Many people have come and gone, both good and bad, but a couple of years ago trolling was much simpler. Someone would spout his ridiculous opinions as fact, would make fun of other members, would get into a swearing match and end up banned. The trolls have learned not to just call names, not to state their personal opinions as loudly, they've become much more subtle. They're still forum assholes, they still use foul language and they're grumpy as heck, throwing their arms up in the air or throwing a fit over the next big port, but at least they use whole sentences now. This has made the resident trolls much more acceptable as part of the community - a negative voice to tome down what used to be the extreme hyperbole of hype machines we used to have (Unreal 2, anyone?).

In time, the forum trolls have become more mellow, have begun adding reasonable thoughts to their rage posts, and start forming an acceptable opinion rather than an extreme one. They might just turn out fine.