Post by sewhite2000 on Dec 7, 2022 3:46:37 GMT
Hey, all, I believe I joined these message boards on November 29, the day before the TCM Message Boards shut down. I've done some lurking, but it's taken about eight days for me to get around to posting on here. Turned out I've apparently previously been a member of some ofhter message boards hosted by the same provider, because this site recognized my identifying information. Not being able to remember what that board was, however, I also had no memory of the password I used then and had to get a new one.
There are two big reasons why I picked this forum:
1) I think it was only created after the news came down of the TCM Message Boards folding? And as such, I assume the vast majority of the membership are people like me who recemtly migrated here from there. Thus, I will be familiar with most of you and not have to be the newbie on another site where everybody's already been for years.
I'm not 100 per cent sure this is a good thing. The toxicity on the TCM Message Baords seemed to increase a thousandfold my last couple of years there. I was only occasionally the target of it, largely (but not entirely) having learned to not express my political opinions on ... anything. But nobody deserved to be subjected to the vitriol that was rampant on there for simply expressing an opinion. I hope this place will be different. I'm eager to make a fresh start. If that kind of behavior is also prevalent on here, I reserve the right to flee in terror to another forum.
2) I like the format on here. Thread titles are familar, and I imagine I"ll be using the I Just Watched ... and variious TCM pogramming threads, just like I did on the other place. I visited Silver Screen Oasis and didn't see many familiar thread titles. Also the heavy subdivision of topics into genres of film seemed an odd way to segment information to me.
Okay, that's all for now. Hopefully more soon.
There are two big reasons why I picked this forum:
1) I think it was only created after the news came down of the TCM Message Boards folding? And as such, I assume the vast majority of the membership are people like me who recemtly migrated here from there. Thus, I will be familiar with most of you and not have to be the newbie on another site where everybody's already been for years.
I'm not 100 per cent sure this is a good thing. The toxicity on the TCM Message Baords seemed to increase a thousandfold my last couple of years there. I was only occasionally the target of it, largely (but not entirely) having learned to not express my political opinions on ... anything. But nobody deserved to be subjected to the vitriol that was rampant on there for simply expressing an opinion. I hope this place will be different. I'm eager to make a fresh start. If that kind of behavior is also prevalent on here, I reserve the right to flee in terror to another forum.
2) I like the format on here. Thread titles are familar, and I imagine I"ll be using the I Just Watched ... and variious TCM pogramming threads, just like I did on the other place. I visited Silver Screen Oasis and didn't see many familiar thread titles. Also the heavy subdivision of topics into genres of film seemed an odd way to segment information to me.
Okay, that's all for now. Hopefully more soon.
