What happened to this place?!

Mirtiz

I used to be a lurker (different account that I can't remember the details for) on this particular part of the forum here years ago, from 2007 through to 2011 or so and am sure this sub forum used to be a lot busier. Now, I'm seeing hardly any new threads on here..what happened?

michaels

EU ref and Scottish 'independence'

vivatifosi

Yep, exactly as michaels said. They are like twin black holes that suck in any other thread that may have been started previously. But then if you look at pretty much any economic story, there's a line connecting it to Brexit, or Scottish Independence. It's very hard to start a new thread that doesn't touch on one or the other.

Thrugelmir

vivatifosi wrote: »

It's very hard to start a new thread that doesn't touch on one or the other.

Yet there's much going on............

vivatifosi

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Yet there's much going on............

Start one Thrug! Start one!

Mirtiz

What happened to that Hamish chap? Also Graham Devon?

padington

Also house prices are stagnating, it's become a boring spectator sport. Speculators are looking elsewhere, renters have given up hope.

PasturesNew

It was all repetitive/boring and never went anywhere .... and/or there were those "over-informed" types quoting high falutin' sources and using long words to get their point across.

I stopped reading many years ago.....

Graham was last seen 2 months ago: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/72065526#Comment_72065526

mayonnaise

PasturesNew wrote: »

Graham was last seen 2 months ago

Graham fulfilled his lifetime ambition of 100k 'thanks' and decided to retire.

wotsthat

Graham and rewired both seemed to lose interest around the same time....

A_Medium_Size_Jock

Mirtiz wrote: »

I used to be a lurker (different account that I can't remember the details for) on this particular part of the forum here years ago, from 2007 through to 2011 or so and am sure this sub forum used to be a lot busier. Now, I'm seeing hardly any new threads on here..what happened?

I too was a lurker for years but was persuaded to participate a year ago for reasons including those described below:

A cabal of the more ignominious posters drowned out much of the genuine debate for a while.
Distraction and downright lies together with childish name-calling and derisory comments directed towards posters disagreed-with became commonplace.
Leading (after various disagreements) to a number of posters being no longer wanted by The Forum Team on these forums.
On both sides of the spectrum, I should add.

Also during this time along came our referendum and as a few others have said, this turned into a kind of black hole for anything not Brexit-related.

The ignominious cabal mentioned before remains at least partially effective in dissuading new threads by their continued use of purely argumentative and/or derogatory posts which otherwise generally contribute absolutely nothing to the debate.

A quick look through a few pages on almost any of the threads is sufficient evidence of this.