wtf?

ORIGINAL: phersan

word... silly decision. That section made this forum what it was. That was how I killed my countless free hours at work. I'll stick around for that competition we got going on and keep posting on my journal just for personal reasons to see progress and stuff, those two threads will be my getaway I guess... but I can't promise how much longer I'll stick around if I'm not having any fun.


Good decision in terms of keeping the forum "informational", terrible decision in terms of keeping it a "community"

I totally agree.

Find something worth living for, or you better find something worth dying for.

i think it was dumb personally. i know i asked many queestions in there that had nothing to do with body building

That's the forum I went to when I wanted to see posts from the smarter members who rarely go to the other forums, since they know what they're doing. Anyways, every forum has a seperate section for other talk. A lot of friendships are built throughout the forums and it's just a place to hang out like you normally would with a bunch of people.
 
Bad move IMO.

the oob forum allowed us to talk about things that were on our minds.

it was interesting to share stories and what not about what we did over weekends and what not. it was a place where u could bond and find out what other bodybuilders like to do and what they think about. it was the place where u found out who people really are outside of the weight room.

bad move!

[id=tmppasteie1218149165564]Current: 18, 5'11", 194

bench:290 squat:405 deadlift:420

might as well remove the "birthday" notifications while we're at it... it's not like we can celebrate them anymore. Useless knowing whose birthday it is if we can't wish them a good one. Unless you make a new "Happy Birthday" section, which would be just as silly as removing the OOB section.

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ORIGINAL: SexyVixenSF

Could we have just one thread?

Call it the BS thread where anyone and everyone can come in and chat about w/e is on their mind at the moment so it'd be open for questions/answers, weekend chats, other hobbies, personal ordeals/vents and the like? No real topic, just an ongoing thread.

Put a disclaimer on it saying that any and all things in the forum are un-moderated (to a point of course...but dont power trip) and warn people to not take things to personally in the thread? That way if anyone has a problem with it they just dont have to participate in that thread or block/ignore the offender.

I agree that every forum needs an open section/thread, just for people to talk to their peers in matters unrelated, on the other hand I see the Mod POV too that it can cause some problems if it gets out of hand.

I hope there is a way to find a compromise.
especially now seeing how against this many of the members are...

heck for me...the less members there are, the less wealth and variation of knowledge I have to learn from.

Why not just do that with oob?

Find something worth living for, or you better find something worth dying for.

yea, this sux

Name:Corey 
Age:18
Supplements: Whey, Creatine, Multi Vit, Fish Oil
Weight:170 Height:5'8
Bench:205
Squat:225
DeadLift:235

   I think what they are trying to tell everyone here is: Its a Body Building Forum.
Not a "what do you like to drink or did I get messed up last weekend" forum.
They are just trying to keep it to business. We can still show progress, chat about Sups, food, Lifting Technics. No biggy just go with it.

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ORIGINAL: Wetdawg

   I think what they are trying to tell everyone here is: Its a Body Building Forum.
Not a "what do you like to drink or did I get messed up last weekend" forum.
They are just trying to keep it to business. We can still show progress, chat about Sups, food, Lifting Technics. No biggy just go with it.

 
They go hand in hand

ORIGINAL: SouLja

ORIGINAL: Wetdawg

  I think what they are trying to tell everyone here is: Its a Body Building Forum.
Not a "what do you like to drink or did I get messed up last weekend" forum.
They are just trying to keep it to business. We can still show progress, chat about Sups, food, Lifting Technics. No biggy just go with it.

They go hand in hand

 
When presented properly you can still talk about it. As in: I had 3 beers last night will that effect my workout. Just keep it Body Building orientated.

Team Keine Ausreden
47 yrs young

All I can say is if deadly never came OOB would still be there...imo.It really sucks I am afraid we will lose some really valubale members such as Yet and other cool guys. This is rather upsetting I say we petition toi have it brought back! I never got to thank people for my happy birthday thread.

"A girl phoned me the other day and said... Come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. Nobody was home." Rodney Dangerfield

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." Albert Einstein

It has been deleted, its not coming back with any of the original stuff.

Its kind of like having a sacred book, with all of our stories, all of our turmoils, and only one copy was ever made, and then burned .

Though wyrms anology was spot on

TBH though...It doesn't really shock me, they moved OOB to the bottom of the boards to try and deter people, and then everyone was getting all flamey, so it doesnt surprise me...

Most forums when they become truly popular and have grown mature have to delete there general disussion threads due to lacking activity of the actual forums subjects, and because of arguments.




EDIT:They might have limited access to it for admin only so they may not have deleted it entirely...but we'll see.

TBH i dont see either scenario going down well.

we get it back and everyones going to be treading softly and it will feel like OOB, but it wont be, we will feel a need to not express ourselves incase it gets deleted again and feel we owe someone a favour for giving it back to us

This Cialdini social validation technique will not work on me!!! yeeeeheeeehehehehee

Or we dont get it back...thats obviously just something not going down well lol

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness of a belief - Arthur Schnitzler

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Also i wasnt here last night, did some real big shxt go down last night in OOB or something? That might explain its deletion if something BIIIIG went down.
 
Any members here to see the BIIIIG event?
 
If so can you post or PM the details, i love a bit of gossip
 
I think many will find most people came here for OOB, and that the activity on the forums will plummet, maybe thats what they wanted, a whole fresh set of members, and to do that, just destroy OOB haha.
 
Whoever said it will destroy the community is correct though, im going to feel like a complete tool going into a nutrition thread and making some comment about someone like in OOB to have the new people going "eh?"
 
were now going to feel the need not to speak to anyone in that way, in fear of going so off topic they ban us @_@
 
So then it will be like 21st century planet earth.
 
Everyone follows a certain expected behaviour
Nobody says hello to anyone anymore, they just pass while staring each other down
Everything is going to be majorly PC.
 
 
Yo diggy dawgs, shockingscience@hotmail.co.uk
 
Add me if you want to continue speaking with me

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness of a belief - Arthur Schnitzler

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I'll miss you twisted...

"A girl phoned me the other day and said... Come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. Nobody was home." Rodney Dangerfield

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." Albert Einstein

Errr....Maybe its because i spent a lot of time in OOB, but ive just visited a lot of the other sections...theres a LOT of "deleted user" @_@
 
Thats not good....Theyre PURGING DBB.COM
 
I can just imagine now computer game style Kris and Marc with giant magical staffs laughing atop a mountain in a castle.
 
And 4 heroes must save the day.
 
I shotgun main character

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness of a belief - Arthur Schnitzler

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