So long as we're not artificially inflating numbers by reposting news from other outlets, needlessly, I don't mind.

RainStryke
Thanks Afterburner for your insight. The correlation between getting a ticket and getting in trouble by the mods brought me to a realization. Personally I have not had a negative run in with a moderator for a very very long time. After reading various old/dead threads from the 2010-2012 range. I remembered a lot about those times, especially the forum spammers. One of them had 6K posts within 7 months and another was not far behind. With the drama that came along with all of that, it was extremely hard for anyone to manage the amount of content that was being posted to the site at that time. Which is why it personally seemed a lot more relaxed and entertaining around here during those times. Right now content is pretty slow, so it's going to be a lot easier to moderate.
 
I've seen many members come and go. It's just the nature of peoples interests. Not a whole lot different than a co-worker moving onto a new job or someone retiring an old game they played for a long time. Few will stay, most will move on to new things.
 

MSim
This place could be much better if those in charge of it would put more effort into it. All we can do as normal members is give our suggestions, the rest is up to evga. 
 
What use to make this place fun and entertaining for a lot of us, has been taken out back and shot. We try to kid around with each other, only to have select moderators overact at times. We make a comment a moderator doesn't like, we have a good chance of being singled out or followed around in hopes they find something we did wrong so they can yell/threaten us with.
 
I will admit that I'm not perfect by any means. I sometimes let things get to me that i shouldn't and overreact sometimes. I usually speak my mind about things as you guys on here probably already know.
 
 

It was nice when we had EVGA chat, that's where we could really let loose without offending for the most part.

Lol i remember some of those people, one even became a mod for a bit.

knightsilver
Life happens!  
 
Some have families now, and got sick of the cupcakes crying to the mods.....

It's more than "some people have families now". It's how the forums are being managed and amount of effort being put into improving things.
 
Click on one of OCN news sections, it's night and day difference between evga news sections. You see at least 5+ pages of replies from members. We also see news articles from different sources, quote from the articles, not just techpowerup url over and over and over or the word "link" posted.
 
 

I wish EVGA can make me a moderator. Or at least something in that realm. I want to help out with managing forum issues and ticket issues so I can help contribute to the community. That is one reason why I dont lurk around as often as I used too even though I make jokes about it(such as me having nothing else better to do with my life lol ). I feel like I have nothing to offer. I feel like me doing such things like that can allow me to give back since I am not the best when it comes to PC advice like the main 5 people that we know of on here that always post in the GPU, OCing and motherboard sections. But I must credit myself I do know some things but I am not up to speed in the latest trend of cards and boards. And the other reason why is I still dont lurk around as much is how some members "betray" you and pretend to be your friend and what not. This is not just me because I had a few members let me know about their animosity of how some members betrayed them too with it be big or small things.  But yeah is there like a moderator limit EVGA can have at one time? I would imagine they can add like 5 more moderators to help out with things. Lately I have nothing but time to help too.

candle_86
Forums are dying off, like Chat rooms already did, its that darned social media, if we can cause social media to somehow go away chat rooms, message boards, and im clients can return, but right now we are all clinging to internet 1.0 tech when our peers moved onto 2.0

Social media and sites like reddit have becoming the new "forums", but we still see forums like OCN that has 10x the member activity and web traffic evga forums receives. EVGA hasn't put effort into the forums. Years of allowing members (mods included) to post just a URL for news article topics and heavy handed moderating has taken it's toll.
 
If a person was looking to have a discussion about upcoming hardware or software, which industry news section would you pick to take part in.
 
http://forums.evga.com/Computer-Industry-News-f27.aspx
 
or
 
http://www.overclock.net/f/149/industry-news
 
Open up a few topics from each forums, which one promotes having a discussion to you. 
 
 
 

MSim

candle_86
Forums are dying off, like Chat rooms already did, its that darned social media, if we can cause social media to somehow go away chat rooms, message boards, and im clients can return, but right now we are all clinging to internet 1.0 tech when our peers moved onto 2.0

Social media and sites like reddit have becoming the new "forums", but we still see forums like OCN that has 10x the member activity and web traffic evga forums receives. EVGA hasn't put effort into the forums. Years of allowing members (mods included) to post just a URL for news article topics and heavy handed moderating has taken it's toll.
 
If a person was looking to have a discussion about upcoming hardware or software, which industry news section would you pick to take part in.
 
http://forums.evga.com/Computer-Industry-News-f27.aspx
 
or
 
http://www.overclock.net/f/149/industry-news
 
Open up a few topics from each forums, which one promotes having a discussion to you. 
 
 
 

Yea here, I felt OCN's heavy handed moderation, people are just oblivious to it for whatever reason, but I'd rather use any site over OCN. They stay active because they attract teenagers, who then ask stupid obvious questions, so no thanks

The whole reason I never became very active on OCN is because of their moderators. I lurk their FS/FT section from time to time, but that's about it.

The only way to find the forum now is to have it come up on Google.  The EVGA website needs a little updating.  Maybe instead of having to click on, "Community," to find the Forum section the sub categories could just be written out  where it can be plainly seen.
 
I'd also like to point out the shocking increase in cost for Video Cards and other enthusiast tech.
 
There is a third reason:  There are hardly any five star games like there used to be.  I remember almost every week there was some thing and then it became every month and now everything is an Indie mobile phone game.  Why bother?  Even the games included with the high dollar Video Cards are pretty mediocre.  Games used to released on the PC and go to the different console platforms.  Not anymore.

brcromer
The only way to find the forum now is to have it come up on Google.  The EVGA website needs a little updating.  Maybe instead of having to click on, "Community," to find the Forum section the sub categories could just be written out  where it can be plainly seen.
 
I'd also like to point out the shocking increase in cost for Video Cards and other enthusiast tech.
 
There is a third reason:  There are hardly any five star games like there used to be.  I remember almost every week there was some thing and then it became every month and now everything is an Indie mobile phone game.  Why bother?  Even the games included with the high dollar Video Cards are pretty mediocre.  Games used to released on the PC and go to the different console platforms.  Not anymore.

why not just come to the forums. Type forums.evga.com instead of www.evga.com. Notice that anytime you are in the forums, the web address starts with forums.evga

kaninja
Well I have 4 kids ages 7 thru 12 and each of those kids have actvities almost daily. We have a dog that needs lots of exercise. I'm trying to get my Landcruiser ready for our Moab trip as well as Mud Lakes trip. Gym for an hour every day. Oh, and I try to work 35-40 hours per week as well. I have Zero time for gaming right now.....maybe 2-3 hours per month. I spend most of my time on ih8mud.com as my Landcuiser is my main hobby.

Long story short, although I still post, life happens and interests evolve. PC's and PC related hobbies have come and gone in waves since the early 80's. This forum is cool and will also see it's popularity come and go.

 
So really it's kaninja's fault?  I see.

knock
New member here lol.

welcome to forums

Life happens, for sure. Never thought at 42 Id be starting over in my job dicrection "Looking at going back to school next year" and never thought Id be dating at 42 either. Girl Im dating wants children & talking about getting married, so yeah, most of the old timers got kids nowz and just bizy'er.
 
I dont cook like I use too, just takes alot of free time to cook whole foods, just have to find a balance. One of my sisters just had their 5th child last fall. And i get outdoors alot now too, too much screen time can lead to depression, good ol sunshine does wonders. 
 
Gaming hardware has gotten abit stail last few years, and where most games are console ports, really not alot of need to high powered desktops like it use to be...
 
 

Nice to see parents spending time with their kids is a good thing!

brcromer
So really it's the children's fault?  I see.

Morale of the story - don't get any kids or u can't play PC games anymore 

fearpoint
Tech section reads like bots posting all the threads.
EVGA's abandonment of evgagaming.com without any acknowledgement was bad.
The latest gaming event where AFK bots win and EVGA refusing to take action against cheaters.
Have to walk on eggshells regarding anything posted to not offend the perpetual offended.
 
As for "forums dying" that is hilarious. Maybe just certain forums. The gun forum I regularly use is yuge!

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