What was your first forum?

TheTLDR.com Enter Now! in 2012

Gamespot

2006 :D (this is not my first account here, but it's now the only one I still have access to)

@Shadow-on-the: How come you only have two posts?

Lol I was wondering that as well, he's had an account made here for years, and it took him until just now to finally post something? :P And it was a thread creation post, he must be wicked curious about first forums. :P

Also, I am quite curious as to what his one other post is. :P

Yeah, back then (though I think even now TV.com might still have the same rules) TV.com's rules definitely felt rather too restrictive and too enforced. I definitely think there is such a thing as having too many rules, and its not really that great for a site to have wicked enforced rules, because that can easily open ways to commonly getting posts modded for petty and unnecessary reasons. (like having a post be on-topic, but still gets deleted anyway, just because one minor sentence sort of strays from the topic.)

To be honest, when you think about it, it sounds like TV.com is a lot like Gamefaqs where I hear that site too stuff gets moderated for stupid reasons.

1) Gamespot (back when it was ZDNet). To be clear, this is my first "internet" forum but not the first computer forum I've ever used. I was big into BBSes back in the day.

2) Whatever it says there on the left.

-Byshop

Honestly though, it's unnecessary to have so many rules. One time I got modded for just stating I wasn't interested a particular show and no, I didn't insult anyone nor did I feel like I was being disruptive in the slightest. I couldn't take it anymore and decided to post here instead, at least this place seems a little more lenient.

I never posted on GameFaqs but I did hear about that too and I'm glad I was never apart of their community.

It's kind of crazy how strict TV.com became. For a while the Off-Topic board was filled with nothing, but "game threads" such and "bored threads" which were the equivalent of GameSpot's Roll Call threads. Once they started cracking down on those posts, it seemed like there was a drop in activity (even though the site was not that active to begin with). I would have stuck around to make contributions to the show/episode guides, but the layout became increasingly worse.

I never got modded at tv.com and I was there for years!!!

So I logged into my account to see what has changed. I couldn't even find the traditional forums. I had to go to my profile and go through my post history to access them. Post counts are still messed up from the last time I logged in a couple of years ago. My post count keeps jumping from 12k posts to 20k posts. I don't even remember what my post count was so I don't know if 12k even accurate. Did find an old thread where you happened to post, does your post count look right?

Weird, I had 20k posts on that site, odd it's only showing 2k.

Maybe inaccurate post counts are the reason why TV.com moved away from traditional forums. It looks like PMs from before 2013 are being removed to relieve stress on the servers...it might be a matter of time before they decide to delete the old forums.

They should delete the site while they're at it, lol. But really though, it needs that revival like Toph said.

Unfortunately, I don't think it can be revived. It needs some groundbreaking new feature to get people's attention. I normally just use Google to find information that I am looking for on a show. When I search for an episode list for a show and TV.com doesn't appear on the first page, there is a problem. Having a place to talk about TV just isn't enough anymore. Reddit has become my go-to place for discussing shows.

Gamespot and IGN

GameSpot 2015

I recently joined forums and my first forum is GameSpot.

IGN's community is, um...interesting to say the least...

Yeah, I think what seems like maybe 12 - 18 months ago now, TV.com actually did another redesign (and at that point, I'm surprised company workers are even still bothering to throw new designs on that site now.) And the current redesign is the worst yet, now you can't even see what emblems users have anymore, no blogs, and other stats are missing like site contributions.

While TV show forums still appear to be around, last I checked, the community forums actually became non-existent.

And does TV.com even have moderators and administrators patrolling the site anymore? Sure doesn't look like it. I know there's no more moderators, but there still might be a few unknown administrators still checking in.

Totse - Late 90's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOTSE

The website was ahead of it's time. We discussed all the controversial topics everything from sex, drugs, racism etc. We were allowed to say ANY thing and the mods were cool. It was extremely fun until it was shut down. I miss that place so much. It's hard to find a forum without stern mods who ban for the smallest things.

Well when you put it like that, it sounds like its a good thing that I don't really have an interest in posting at IGN. :P Also, besides, didn't that site throw a horrid crappy new redesign on itself a couple years back?

Community there is awful with many being hostile towards other's opinions and even personally attacking them, heck, I have yet to visit a gaming/movie article that didn't have people being mean to each other. It's like System Wars 24/7 there, there's a lot of fanboys starting s*** up. Mods rarely do their jobs there. Yes, the redesign is annoying because of all the scrolling you have to do just to get to a certain page or comment and such.

Gamespot 2009

bloodhoundgang.com in 2002.

A Russian girl sent me a pic of her boobies and I realised that forums can be pretty great.

LOL I didn't even bother to look at Shadow-on the post numbers and I'm really surprise he/she only has 2 post and not only that, from looking at it now, shadow hasn't been posting here since this thread was created.

I'm on IGN [same name] but I hardly go there cause the comments are not as fluid as it is here on GS.

TV Tome in 2001. Sadly, that site no longer exists. It was basically a precursor to TV.com. I liked it more than TV.com though.

I think there's sadly a lot of good sites out there that no longer exist.

Oddly enough, if you scroll down the bottom of the front page, you can still access the old traditional forums. You can see a list of all the community forums along with the post counts of each board, but you can't access them. Very odd.

I'm sure that the site still has moderators, but there doesn't appear to be anything that distinguishes them from an ordinary user. As long as the site allows users to edit show guides, then there is at the very least one person checking everything.

I use IGN quite a lot I'm on the forums on a daily basis

Yeah I don't like the new design but other than that I like posting on there forum

GameSpot, 2009. I believe the first union I joined was either WOTU or the PS2 Gaming Union.

Every show still has its own board though, but it's pretty much dead there.