What is the most boring website/forum you frequent?
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There are sites I visit that should be interesting to me yet somehow never manage to come up with anything worth reading.
For me it's Flyertalk. I love travel, I find airlines weirdly interesting, yet I can flick through page after page and find not a single post that informs or enriches me. Most of them drone on about 'pax', airline points, and how they refuse to fly economy.
I forget about it and then come back expecting some exciting content this time and then the cycle starts again.
Are there places you keep returning to hoping for a change?
For me it's Flyertalk. I love travel, I find airlines weirdly interesting, yet I can flick through page after page and find not a single post that informs or enriches me. Most of them drone on about 'pax', airline points, and how they refuse to fly economy.
I forget about it and then come back expecting some exciting content this time and then the cycle starts again.
Are there places you keep returning to hoping for a change?
www.ukcampsites.co.uk
The international forum is frequented by the same bores,trying to out do each other with how”French” they are and how cheaply they can do it for.
The international forum is frequented by the same bores,trying to out do each other with how”French” they are and how cheaply they can do it for.
Pistonheads forums are getting a bit like this for me. Used to really enjoy them mainly decent people/ bit of banter etc.
But now name calling/ belittling and just pure rudeness (by a small group of members may I add) seams to creep into a lot of threads and it just takes the edge of the forums a bit for me atleast.
But now name calling/ belittling and just pure rudeness (by a small group of members may I add) seams to creep into a lot of threads and it just takes the edge of the forums a bit for me atleast.
keo said:
Pistonheads forums are getting a bit like this for me. Used to really enjoy them mainly decent people/ bit of banter etc.
But now name calling/ belittling and just pure rudeness (by a small group of members may I add) seams to creep into a lot of threads and it just takes the edge of the forums a bit for me atleast.
No one is making you visit But now name calling/ belittling and just pure rudeness (by a small group of members may I add) seams to creep into a lot of threads and it just takes the edge of the forums a bit for me atleast.
Wacky Racer said:
This is the sort of thing I find "charming" for want of a better word - some (I assume) bloke is able to share his slightly odd interest with other like minded souls. The same with similar sites about roundabouts and motorway service stations.These of the sort of things I would stumble upon, have a nose around for a few minutes and then move on.
I can certainly see the logic in this more than following some celeb on insta or some of the tosh on tic toc.
I think the way the question is posed is interesting - asking about "websites" and "forums" - I assume that those of us who witnessed the emergence of the www in the late 1990s still think about "the internet" in these terms while I imagine that for "younger people" the "internet" is something that's always been there and they access it mainly through social media and apps. They may find the entire concept of a "forum" - anonymous, text heavy, few pics, no videos quaint and dated...
Anyway to answer the question I'm afraid to say housepricecrash.co.uk - I used to think they were bang on the money with their central assumption that house prices were unsustainably high. There used to be quite a few interesting discussions on there. Now activity seems to have slowed there and it's the same few posters shouting into the wind.
I also used to participate in a peak oil forum called "life after the oil crash" - how wrong I was...
bloomen said:
There are sites I visit that should be interesting to me yet somehow never manage to come up with anything worth reading.
For me it's Flyertalk. I love travel, I find airlines weirdly interesting, yet I can flick through page after page and find not a single post that informs or enriches me. Most of them drone on about 'pax', airline points, and how they refuse to fly economy.
I forget about it and then come back expecting some exciting content this time and then the cycle starts again.
Are there places you keep returning to hoping for a change?
I quite enjoy flyertalk too, the DYKWIA threads are usually a giggle, assuming they're not been taken off topic for the millionth time. For me it's Flyertalk. I love travel, I find airlines weirdly interesting, yet I can flick through page after page and find not a single post that informs or enriches me. Most of them drone on about 'pax', airline points, and how they refuse to fly economy.
I forget about it and then come back expecting some exciting content this time and then the cycle starts again.
Are there places you keep returning to hoping for a change?
keo said:
Pistonheads forums are getting a bit like this for me. Used to really enjoy them mainly decent people/ bit of banter etc.
But now name calling/ belittling and just pure rudeness (by a small group of members may I add) seams to creep into a lot of threads and it just takes the edge of the forums a bit for me atleast.
It’s always been full of keyboard warriors.But now name calling/ belittling and just pure rudeness (by a small group of members may I add) seams to creep into a lot of threads and it just takes the edge of the forums a bit for me atleast.
It’s reputation outside of PistonHeads is well deserved.
Small parts are pretty good but the main forums is just full of wannabe edgelords.
Wacky Racer said:
I have to ask, how on earth did you stumble across this ?In the words of John Travolta "It's electrifying"
StuntmanMike said:
keo said:
Pistonheads forums are getting a bit like this for me. Used to really enjoy them mainly decent people/ bit of banter etc.
But now name calling/ belittling and just pure rudeness (by a small group of members may I add) seams to creep into a lot of threads and it just takes the edge of the forums a bit for me atleast.
It’s always been full of keyboard warriors.But now name calling/ belittling and just pure rudeness (by a small group of members may I add) seams to creep into a lot of threads and it just takes the edge of the forums a bit for me atleast.
It’s reputation outside of PistonHeads is well deserved.
Small parts are pretty good but the main forums is just full of wannabe edgelords.
fastraxx said:
keo said:
Pistonheads forums are getting a bit like this for me. Used to really enjoy them mainly decent people/ bit of banter etc.
But now name calling/ belittling and just pure rudeness (by a small group of members may I add) seams to creep into a lot of threads and it just takes the edge of the forums a bit for me atleast.
No one is making you visit But now name calling/ belittling and just pure rudeness (by a small group of members may I add) seams to creep into a lot of threads and it just takes the edge of the forums a bit for me atleast.
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