Now that it's all over... can someone explain what happened to Boris?

[Dan Druff]

At one point about 3-4 years ago, Boris was thriving and really put a dent into NWP's forum activity level.

I used to lurk there a lot when there was constant talk about Micon/me/NWP, but that eventually died down. Once that occurred, I found that the site was mostly inside jokes and levels, so I found it boring and stopped lurking for the most part.

One thing I found annoying about Boris was the fact that there were so many levels that it was impossible to tell who was actually arguing or feuding there. When the eventual dissatisfaction with neverstop occurred and people left the site, I didn't realize it until after it was all over. I had read a little about it during my occasioal lurks, but I assumed it was more leveling, so I disregarded it. Turned out it was real, and neverstop really did somehow alienate most of the active users there.

I took a look at boris tonight and it's embarrassing. The front page still has threads from September.

So what happened? Why did everyone get so mad at neverstop?

I realize that some of the more active posters went to Skatz (which seems to be even more centered around inside jokes), but I'm more interested in the "why" of the whole thing.

No reason for this, just curious.

[LLL]

Heavy hands and lots of hurt butts.

[Muck Ficon]

Boris, in it's prime, was untouchable. We didn't have faggots like Limitles, the_pha, and 408Mike posting.

[LLL]

Boris, in it's prime, was untouchable. We didn't have faggots like Limitles, the_pha, and 408Mike posting.

Les came over towards the end and Bob banned him in record time.

[4Dragons]

Somewhere, in some way, Dakota is rotting in hell.

[sonatine]

Ian had this very particular vision for the future of the site, in terms of culture and personality, and became increasingly overt in his pursuit of that vision (heavy hands, ctopus, so on). And that rubbed people wrong. And when people confronted him on it he seemed to never know when to back down, which was a hilarious and perfect force multiplier for trolling. Also he was making a huge effort to monetize the site and started to super-care about SEO and people were like seriously? Youre going to ban someone for 3 days for bumping an old thread because it might impact your SEO and youll make $17 this month instead of $17.10?

But ultimately what really sank the ship was when we found out he was trying to sell Boris on some porn site forum. Apparently that was why he wanted to smooth out the rough edges so to speak, so he could appeal to a larger number of new posters (his theory, not ours), which would translate into a better market price.

And aint nobody got time for that. Id say within a month of someone digging up the post he made, easily 90% of the daily posters walked away, and the remaining posters went from making 5 posts a day to like 3 posts a week.

[limitles]

Les came over towards the end and Bob banned him in record time.

And for the record, when I "came over" it was to tell a group of circle jerkers that you were a group of circle jerkers. The last intention I had was

relating to any or all of youse. It was suicide by mod if I remember correctly.

[limitles]

Boris, in it's prime, was untouchable. We didn't have faggots like Limitles, the_pha, and 408Mike posting.