Our own Photosaurus Rex probably didn't find this forum provided enough nourishing edification and therefore lumbered off to greener pastures. Maybe it was something else, but suggesting that he lumbered off stage might bring him back in a huff to refute the notion that he is capable of lumbering under any circumstances. See what I did there? Where I come from they call it bait, and if I'm anything it's as a master with bait ... I'm not going to state the obvious.
Many forum readers and contributors left after the site crashed, or was hacked, which is the fate of anything online with content. There are so few eyes on this forum at the present time that hackers and bots are discouraged from infiltration. Forums are old-style online vehicles that lack what most would view as essential features and yet that is the only reason that I have remained onboard. Once an online platform develops too many dendrites and tries to become all things to all people then it also becomes invasive and derivative. As systems become more complex and capable of doing more they also demand a commensurate increase in user participation and that can only be achieved by becoming generic, and symbolic. None of that appeals to me, but it means everything to most users and a forum may not be the most efficient way of hosting opinion and popular culture through symbolic shortcuts. Anytime anyone has tried to enlighten me about such matters I remained incredulous and a little dismayed. So, do I care too much, or too little, or perhaps not at all? I could do without this forum, take it or leave it, ... just give me a night on a starry hill and I'll be happy.
