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Olya
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Сообщение Olya »

The latest posts at Флудилка show that the forecast for the forum is rather bleak. Or is it? ) This state of affairs is hardly new - people come and go, as we all know.
In my opinion no one here can promise that they are going to stay forever despite all the circumstances and factors which may be beyond our control. Sadly, there is little reason to expect that the people will return only because we are missing them.)
However, hope is a good breakfast, but a a bad supper.
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Сообщение Philipp »

Help me, Father! Help, for I am dying!
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Сообщение well well well »

The forum's been dead since Nina killed it. All attempts to revive it have lead to this animated corpse we see today.

Someone said it's become a place people come to out of nostalgia, and I agree. It's always hard to let go of a beloved one, that's why in real life we have graveyards and tombstones, and commemorate annual death anniversaries. But enough is enough. I personally don't believe in resurrection.
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Сообщение Philipp »

I personally don't believe in resurrection.
However, hope is a good breakfast, but a a bad supper.
Abominable pride insists upon your accepting it.
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I think the forum will live as long as there are enough people interested in its living. Whether some individuals are among them may or may not be critical. Frankly, all these grim forecasts have become a bit annoying. If you don't enjoy playing anymore, maybe you'd better leave and not spoil the game for others with your sour face.

Apparently you don't realize that you offend those who stay here by implying that their presence doesn't matter. That they are nobody, just worms in a corpse. That's a bit insulting, don't you think?
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Сообщение Michelangelo »

Olya, I insist that even if any forum is dying, that is because of new interests which have appeared with arrival of newest technologies. It is just a general lose of interest to forums among people. They started to travel more and meet people directly without any forums or other means and they can maintain their contacts now directly, there are more various sources which have become easier available as compared with the previous situation, that is why forums started to become obsolete.
Nina wouldn't have closed her forum should it have been alive. It started to decay years ago. Maybe she should have closed it in 2010, or even earlier as at that time a lot of very advanced people had been driven away from the forum, including Nina herself facilitated runaway of a lot of advanced participants from her forum. She wasn't an angel.
On the one part it is good that many old friends and participants of that forum moved here - they knew each other and they are more tolerant to each other, on the other part, they transferred here all their problems which they had before and they couldn't get rid of them and continue to discuss them here.
As you can see the stick has two ends. Something that is good, can turn out by another end.
It is not dying because it was created 10 months ago, it started to dye ten years ago and nobody wanted to help it survive including Nina herself. Most participant had been working for digging a hole and burying the previous forum there for years.
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Michelangelo пишет: 18 дек 2018, 13:00 They started to travel more and meet people directly without any forums
Like if they couldn't do that 10 years ago.
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Сообщение Michelangelo »

Why are you always following me and trying to say something unpleasant?
If you have anything to say or write, please do, but do it as you see it, not just to contradict me.

10 years ago they did it, that is why the forum started to decay ten or even more years ago.
Anyway, now people have more opportunity to travel even in Russia despite the sanctions to say nothing about other countries.
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Сообщение Strange Quark »

The forum's been dead since Nina killed it. All attempts to revive it have lead to this animated corpse we see today.
Nina wouldn't have closed her forum should it have been alive. It started to decay years ago.
I have the same feelings: "The forum is dead, it has been dead for some time now. Maybe be it was dead already when Nina put the forum to sleep. Maybe she switched it off because the forum was on life support, really a corpse."
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Сообщение Olya »

Michelangelo,

My goal has been to figure out if the forum's popularity is due to how many people and what people are taking part in its discussions or whether it depends on the level of those discussions. Frankly speaking I've had my moments when I'd like to leave it too, some people are not very friendly, you know.) But I hope I'd never want to leave permanently.
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Olya, both - how many people and how they like communicating with each other, or otherwise
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Some people are not very friendly, so what? They have no obligation to be.
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Сообщение Philipp »

twiddling her friend's goal but friendless outcast !
It is a pity.
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Сообщение Olya »

Some people are determined to write their posts here by hook or by crook. )))
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Сообщение QwestDay »

I'd like to reply with words from the song by Boris Grebenschikov:

Rock’n’roll is dead, but I am not yet.

Unfortunately, we’re losing some good folks. Sometimes it’s difficult to get any sound advice, I’ve counted at least 4 people whose posts I always skip, but it’s still a special place for me.
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Сообщение Philipp »

Olya пишет: 18 дек 2018, 18:30 by hook or by crook.
Who cheated you out of your own peace of mind ?
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Сообщение garans »

I am not so pessimistic - Nina is a person from another world now.
We are looking for English as the foreign language for Russians.

Of course it is a specific English and it is not so developed as the Great English.
We (at least I) are looking for a pragmatic version that is more instrumental than culturally and psychologically full-fledged one.
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Сообщение Princess Leopoldina »

Olya,
No more users left to meet your needs? Then, the thread title is true solely for you, not for the rest.
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Сообщение Olya »

Princess Leopoldina,

How come you drew such conclusions after reading more pessimistic opinions than mine?)
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Сообщение Philipp »

Having stated your opinion, you did not alter the opinion of your sharpness.
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Сообщение Olya »

Philipp,

Many might have been wondering if it was the same Philipp, who stood no chance of ever combining English words properly.)
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Olya пишет: 20 дек 2018, 23:43 Philipp,

Many might have been wondering if it is the same Philipp, who stood no chance of ever combining English words properly.)
a monomania combined your English words )
Little sense criticism turned the apprentice into indispensable faith in lieu of the soundness.
Calm down. the circumstances have knocked you off the delusion pedestal.
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Сообщение Princess Leopoldina »

Olya пишет: 20 дек 2018, 21:40 Princess Leopoldina,

How come you drew such conclusions after reading more pessimistic opinions than mine?)
Olya пишет: 20 дек 2018, 21:40 Princess Leopoldina,

How come you drew such conclusions after reading more pessimistic opinions than mine?)
There's your single voice atop whatever multitude of them appears further
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Сообщение Philipp »

Olya пишет: 21 дек 2018, 22:56
There's your single voice atop
???

What on earth do you mean? )))
In favor of contours of sense in the text, a specific divine combination of words weakened people in kneeling down, chose you prophet.
Do you lust to be a prophet ?
You may answer me and must answer TO yourself.
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