Why has fluther become such a snoozefest?

Some people moved on. By death, banning or retiring. Also it is start of the academic year and some of us are in school/college/university.

I’m TRYING! Jeez. It’s not easy being interesting—it takes a while for me to wonder you guys with my amazing questions.
I could always flood the site with my relationship issues. Wouldn’t that be a good time

Lol Sarge

Reddeer very true… alas…

Well, set an example. Instead of continuing to ask those dull Qs of yours, why not ask an interesting Q yourself?
Be the change you want to see <eyeroll>

Waiting on you to ask some interesting questions Zen.

Half of my questions just piss everybody off…

I have to let the pond settle for a bit, before I throw a big stone in. Otherwise, you get ripples from multiple threads, that make them circular.

A lot of people left when Coloma was banned. I left for a while myself. Some of us were really upset. I personally was mostly upset at the mods, but also annoyed that many jellies were ok with it.

Then, not only were jellies ok with it, but happy to see a lot of us jellies go, they said as much on Q’s. They said they liked that it was calmer and nicer. Once in a while I would lurk, or another jelly would text me and tell me they saw the comments. So, for me personally I saw comments like that and just thought that that is not what fluther is supposed to be. No one should be attacking anyone, but the whole reason I got sucked into fluther was the strong debates and amazing knowledge of the members here.

Moreover, one jelly started to become sort of the self appointed person in charger of whether jellies were being empathetic enough or kind enough. He received some positive reinforcement from some, and negative feedback from others, and then he left too.

I’m back, but it’s definitely not as active here as it used to be. Not as many interesting Q’s, but there still are some, and some of the people who I count on for technical Q’s are still here, which I find very helpful.

Seek started a new website, some jellies moves over there. I have an account, but rarely log in. A lot of us see each other on Facebook.

It’s like the bystander effect. Everyone is just waiting around for someone else to do something. And this site does seem to have a way of pushing people off. I don’t know all the details of the drama and past users and why they left, but if what @JLeslie says is true, that getting rid of users was seen as a good thing because it made this site “calmer”, well, that’s just sad. Some want an echo chamber where there aren’t any interesting discussions, but that’s not why I personally post on sites like these.

Let’s pray that it’s a phase, though it’s difficult to dispute the tendency for mediocrity to dominate here as it does everywhere else. Fluther merely replicates the blahs defining the society at large.

Challenge accepted!

Fluther has been dying a slow death for the past 4–5 years. This is nothing new. I’ve seen it quieter than this many times before.

@JeSuisRickSpringfield You answered the challenge well!

Alright whoever doesn’t ask a question within the next 24 hours (Excluding @JeSuisRickSpringfield because he might not be able to ask anymore) gets kicked off the site forever. That’s my solution.

And for those of us unfortunates who miss your ultimatum?

it depends. If I like you. You stay.

Sounds reasonable. I ajudge you officer material.

it’s not just the questions, it has to do with answers too. Both count. A great question is nothing without the answers.

And @yesitszen, the political questions weren’t going so well so a few of us just stopped contributing to those for the most part. It’s fine, there’s plenty of other things to talk about until 2020.

So zenwhatever, several people have posted questions since this Meta one and you haven’t chimed in on any. Did you you come here just to kvetch?

I recently read that it’s also getting just too ugly spirited….

I’m sleepy and deeply offended by…ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Still going! Once upon a time, I tried asking a question every day. That lasted for about a week. I don’t know if I can keep asking three questions a day, but I’ll give it a try!

Apologies in advance for the decline in question quality that will inevitably occur.

@JeSuisRickSpringfield We will overthrow the government

So, Zen?

Another Jelly once compared someone else’s occasional visits and rants here to an acquaintance who shows up at your house every 6 months and asks if he can take a dump in your toilet.

…and then complains that you don’t have his favorite brand of toilet paper.

@raum Great!!

To be fair, there have been many more questions asked over the past few days and that might not have happened without this thread. Sometimes we need a little nudge :)

Zen, man.
You’re more than an acquaintance in my book. My loo is your loo. But if you’re gonna drop in, come hang out with us, man. Use some air freshener. Wash your hands. Then join us in the kitchen for pancakes or Dutch’s questionable German bread. :P

Political correctness. Once you get the hang of this place you learn to watch your steps.

:-)