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- * PHILE 2: THE CHANGING PIRATE WORLD *
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- There've been some complaints this summer about the changes in
- pirate boards. The following was snatched and sent to us from one
- of the best boards in the country. We've been complaining about
- lamerz for a long while, and it seems they are taking over.
- We've shared this with some other sysops, and they pretty much
- agree that kids, which is a state of mind, not an age, have
- pretty much moved in to tie up lines. Seems there's not a lot of
- ideas on what to do about upgrading the quality of losers, so we
- thought we'd toss this out for some discussion.
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- S1: I'm almost ready to quit. Things have not been that
- great with us and the competition is doing pretty good.
- Lost a lot of good users. Now all I ever get are losers or
- leeches. Getting kinda fed up I guess. . . . Well I and a
- few of the other sysops I know have, it's all going to the
- kiddies now, we have seen at least 30-35 new local pirate
- boards and about 100 or so new pirate boards nationally
- spring up within the last few months, and they are all
- pretty much 15 and 16 year olds who run things pretty shabby
- in our minds. They have hurt many boards including us for
- competition of callers. You will start to see many old
- timers like us go by the wayside for awhile while they clean
- up, then maybe later on, we might all come back like we did
- a few years ago when the smoke clears.
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- S2: Yeh, the number of "kiddie Klubs" grows as the ease of
- getting modem/pc gets more popular, but those I've hit have
- been so fuckin' lame!!! Mostly the games, which is fine, but
- the way that other stuff, what little there is, is
- uploaded--like, just collapsing a hugh file into a single
- data set and uploading. God!
-
- S1: Get used to it, thats what you will find on most of
- them from now on, as we old guys start to fold our tents up.
- Many of my friends have been saying that when mine and 1 or
- 2 other boards they call go, that might be the end of their
- calling days for business stuff.
-
- S2: Yeh, it gets depressing to call some board, struggle
- for the access and find there's nothing there. Damn. From
- the guys I've talked to, they also bitch about the time, the
- new stuff coming out and how hard it is to keep on top of it
- all....but these guys are the "neurotic collectors, " and
- not much into using it.
-
- S1: Thats right, and they usually don't support you after
- they get what they are looking for. Thats what has hurt us.
- We had some great guys for awhile that kept supporting us
- until they got all the stuff they wanted, then they said
- adios. Plus the pcp cap has hurt...
-
- S2: Isn't there a law against lamerz, or has that been
- protected by the constitution? I haven't pulled down
- anything good since school let out in the spring and my
- original disk sources moved home for the summer.
-
- S1: Yep, most of these new pirate boards are guys back from
- Illinois U that ran campus boards, so they all started up
- for the summer and have been murdering the good boards with
- their instant access and easy files deals. They have been
- having giant leech parties and all. If I go down, it would
- be for quite awhile I guess, maybe a year or so, depends on
- how things are I guess. I really hate to, but things are so
- slow, I just can't see wasting the electricity when it goes
- unused all day.
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- S1: Well, maybe come the fall, it'll pick up, 'because it does
- seem to be slow all over on nat'l boards....but you're right
- about the kids going home and opening up boards---at least a
- half-dozen from our school did, but these were guys who
- leeched from boards here, and my guess is will try to leech
- some more when they get home...take the money and run type
- thing... interests me, they usally just tell me how great
- they are and that whoever they mention can vouch for them
- even though they mention they aren't into files or calling
- BBS's that much. So you can see why I'm a bit hesitant in
- granting them access, besides they never read what I put up
- for new user access either, so they waste both of our time.
- Now I just usually give access to users here I have talked
- to about a guy who applies first before I go any farther.
- Thats how I can tell that they are either kids or losers
- since they don't know the ropes, it always glares out of
- what they type when I read these things, comes from years of
- experience sifting thru all this BS. When I find one that
- looks like a winner, it's like a needle in a haystack,
- happens only once in a long while or wait.
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- Yes and it pisses me off very much. As soon as I reopened
- membership about 6 months ago after 2 great years of none of
- that BS, all of a sudden I'm getting losers constantly tying
- up my line each day recalling for access and it has been
- irritating me a lot. Thats why the number has to be changed
- at my expense.
- Would go would it be, they'd just tie up the line from guys
- who were willing to upload instead of download, everyone
- who is willing to pay, is new and has nothing, or isn't on
- any good boards.
-
- No this is like CB's. You can get away with anything as
- long as your parents don't know about it and you are
- anonymous from the law. I'm afraid it's a plague that will
- haunt BBS's for awhile unless enough of them start setting
- up guidelines like I tried to do, and not give them access,
- but as you can see, it doesn't work, when most of the boards
- are kids anyways.
-
- Yeh. Well, maybe they'll grow up, except there always seems
- to be more where they came from (grin)....well, it's maybe
- time to get all the sysops of good boards together in a
- union or something.
-
- We have tried many times. It's a lost because.
-
- Bummer. Can't think of any cheery words of wisdom....just
- hang in there and hope they all get run over by drunken
- white sox fans, or something.
-
- They are drunken white sox fans. Yeh well we will hang
- around at least a couple more weeks, then who knows.
-
- OK---but if you go down, you'll be missed. You just don't
- know it.
-
- S1: Well maybe and maybe not, I know there are better boards
- around, but if they are getting half of what we aren't then
- maybe they will fade also. I hope not.
- Like the Joni Mitchell song..."ya don't know what ya have
- til it's gone." Well , Tell it to the losers. right?
-
- S2: God, how far we've come in tek in just a few years. That's
- impressive. Well, one thing the kids don't have going for
- them is high tech and perseverance.
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- Old timers have seen a lot of changes in the pirate
- world in the last two years. Let us know your gripes
- and opinion.
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