This place has gone to poop since X

[Eleazar]

Numerous times I have seen an old timer say that Chiefsplanet has changed for the worse in the past several years. Old timers supposedly leave forever or rarely swing by, because of a bout of forum AIDS. Old timers, what is it exactly that changed about the place?

[Raiderhater]

Originally Posted by ComoLaz

There is no way that removing political posts from the lounge made things MORE antagonistic.

'There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people ... Religion, Politics, and The Great Pumpkin.'

There are now posters that pretty much live up there. They jump from heated discussion to the next because that is all there is there. It doesn't take long before you are basing your opinions of other posters solely on their political stances.

Now, mix the same heated discussions in with threads about sports, food, boobs, poop, what have you and you can easily be laughing with someone you were having a heated debate with moments before.

I do not believe it is the primary, let alone the sole cause, but to say that it has had no negative impact? Sorry, I don't buy it.

[TLO]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

I've been on this board since 2002, so that's 11 years. Don't know if that makes me an "old timer" or not. Probably not. But I'm definitely a vet.

I like this board because it's not full of rose colored glass kool aid drinkers. There's lots of realists. You get the non-sugar coated version of stuff here.

Plus there's enough gallows humor when times are bad that we can all enjoy each others misery.

The only nastiness I've ever had to put up with is in the DC section. It's gotten worse exponentially, soiled mostly by serial posters who troll there and never have anything at all to say about football. I can see them hunkered down in their mom's basement, sitting on a crate of MRE's with a AR-15 in one hand, and tapping on a keyboard with the other hand. But hey, as they say in the Sonic commercial "If you can't stand the heat, avoid Aruba." I think there's a lot of wisdom in that.

Also, It's seldom that a story that affects the Chiefs doesn't appear here either first, or very quickly. So for me, the CP is an invaluable source of Chiefs info, unfiltered and usually spot on.

Plus a lot of the crazy bastards on here make me laugh just about every day.

So I like it.

I agree you old fart.

(BTW Jan is over and she says hi.)