This site has been around since what, '97, '98? First it was run by Miroslav, then he gave it to Odin (who, as far as I can tell, has lost any and all interest in the site. He seems to only pay the domain's server fee, and that's about the extent of his involvement with NMA). Miroslav is long gone, and it seems so is Odin. The website is now held together by a small, niche community and the "Triple Threat" of administrators (Sander, Tagz, Brother None) who are really the only active moderators/admins left besides Yamu, and occasionally Per drops in every once in awhile, most often without posting (I guess Voof counts, but I don't know shit about her, and I really never planned on "knowing". The way I figure it, with most of the mods here and myself anyways it seems to be a type of "I don't know you and I don't want to know you, and that's cool just let it be" mutual relationship. The most contact I've had with a mod is Sander, and while I might not agree with him on certain subjects, he's a good person and a good admin in my opinion. As for Voof, as far as I can tell anyways; she sticks to the Order, along with Yamu, Tagz, and Brother None, the rest of NMA's active admin/mod team).
Maybe, the Order doesn't seem like it might be dying, but NMA might. The only active admins almost never post on the NMA boards (except Sander, who at least drops in every now and then to chime in his opinion on whatever topic is currently popular). Brother None is pretty busy in general, and Tagz and Yamu stick to the Order. To them, and many other posters, it must seem like NMA doesn't even exist outside the Order category. Though, Yamu drops in every once in awhile, the time between her bouts here extends longer each time.
And yeah, we get new members, but most of them either stop posting or get chased away/ban themselves because they are Beth fans, which doesn't sit well with most on here. Personally, is it really THAT big of a deal they like Bethesda? Enough to, in a general sense, call them idiots with no taste in gaming so they can pretty much say to themselves "fuck that website", and then ban themselves. Every time a new Fallout game comes around, we get an influx of new users, small to other boards but large to us considering NMA's active members (not counting the Order). Maybe, maybe one (or two if we get lucky) will stick around to become long term members, while some other former veteran member whose been here for years at the same time either moves on from the website or disappears already (I can note more than a few. Alec, mainly). So around every new Fallout game, in a general period of about two years before and after release, we seem to both gain and lose members. The noobies, as I said, never stay. If they don't get chased away, they get (understandably) bored with a message board that has so few active members that new post additions to a thread are scarce, a new post averaging what seems to be every six to eight hours or so, by the same exact people (even less if they are posting in the Fallout area of the site. Very few people go in there anymore).
NMA was never truly extremely popular in the general sense of the word, but it's always been able to sustain itself and has never died down to the point where it was finally near death. But, it seems like, after thinking about it and taking a look around, NMA might just be on it's last leg. Let's procrastinate, and say it actually is. The site will live for for several more years. It won't die tomorrow, or even next year. But, each day it would slowly wither away, just a little bit more. The Order would probably survive, but in the end NMA becomes a desolate place with no one ever posting, a lot like the same fate the Duck and Cover forum met (last time I was there looking around, Jesus. It was just a graveyard full of threads. You didn't even have to dig down to find the dead threads either, they were everywhere). No Mutants Allowed is over 17 years old now.
Anyways, that's the gist of what I was thinking about. Just something to dwell on.
Maybe, the Order doesn't seem like it might be dying, but NMA might. The only active admins almost never post on the NMA boards (except Sander, who at least drops in every now and then to chime in his opinion on whatever topic is currently popular). Brother None is pretty busy in general, and Tagz and Yamu stick to the Order. To them, and many other posters, it must seem like NMA doesn't even exist outside the Order category. Though, Yamu drops in every once in awhile, the time between her bouts here extends longer each time.
And yeah, we get new members, but most of them either stop posting or get chased away/ban themselves because they are Beth fans, which doesn't sit well with most on here. Personally, is it really THAT big of a deal they like Bethesda? Enough to, in a general sense, call them idiots with no taste in gaming so they can pretty much say to themselves "fuck that website", and then ban themselves. Every time a new Fallout game comes around, we get an influx of new users, small to other boards but large to us considering NMA's active members (not counting the Order). Maybe, maybe one (or two if we get lucky) will stick around to become long term members, while some other former veteran member whose been here for years at the same time either moves on from the website or disappears already (I can note more than a few. Alec, mainly). So around every new Fallout game, in a general period of about two years before and after release, we seem to both gain and lose members. The noobies, as I said, never stay. If they don't get chased away, they get (understandably) bored with a message board that has so few active members that new post additions to a thread are scarce, a new post averaging what seems to be every six to eight hours or so, by the same exact people (even less if they are posting in the Fallout area of the site. Very few people go in there anymore).
NMA was never truly extremely popular in the general sense of the word, but it's always been able to sustain itself and has never died down to the point where it was finally near death. But, it seems like, after thinking about it and taking a look around, NMA might just be on it's last leg. Let's procrastinate, and say it actually is. The site will live for for several more years. It won't die tomorrow, or even next year. But, each day it would slowly wither away, just a little bit more. The Order would probably survive, but in the end NMA becomes a desolate place with no one ever posting, a lot like the same fate the Duck and Cover forum met (last time I was there looking around, Jesus. It was just a graveyard full of threads. You didn't even have to dig down to find the dead threads either, they were everywhere). No Mutants Allowed is over 17 years old now.
Anyways, that's the gist of what I was thinking about. Just something to dwell on.
