# OMG Has this forum died!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Kung Fu Forum\ **Created:** [May 29, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/omg-has-this-forum-died/48342 "2010-05-29T02:08:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RD\_S\_Alias\_1A](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/rd_s_alias_1a/32/49_2.png) [@RD\_S\_Alias\_1A](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/RD_S_Alias_1A)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/omg-has-this-forum-died/48342/1 "2010-05-29T02:08:58Z")
For as long as i can remember, this was the busiest martial arts forum I knew of. A post made one minute could be off the front page with in the hour or faster. Now I look and the front page has barely moved in 3 days? What happened here? ---
**Author:** ![Shaolin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/shaolin/32/160_2.png) [@Shaolin](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/Shaolin)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/omg-has-this-forum-died/48342/2 "2010-05-29T02:25:25Z")
Everyone’s on sherdog. ---
**Author:** ![Yao\_Sing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/yao_sing/32/739_2.png) [@Yao\_Sing](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/Yao_Sing)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 2:48am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/omg-has-this-forum-died/48342/3 "2010-05-29T02:48:17Z")
Got me, I’m recently returned from a long absence. ---
**Author:** ![iron\_leg\_dave](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/iron_leg_dave/32/862_2.png) [@iron\_leg\_dave](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/iron_leg_dave)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 3:58am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/omg-has-this-forum-died/48342/4 "2010-05-29T03:58:34Z")
[QUOTE=RD’S Alias - 1A;1016616]For as long as i can remember, this was the busiest martial arts forum I knew of. A post made one minute could be off the front page with in the hour or faster. Now I look and the front page has barely moved in 3 days? What happened here?[/QUOTE] Same. I switched from Cyberkwoon under a different name years… maybe nearly a decade ago? I opened this account more recently, but things have drastically dropped since then even. I mostly lurk. I remember a thread, where someone else brought this up, prob a year and a half ago, and a bunch of people replied that everything relevant had been discussed. BS obviously. I’d say the regs only come on to flame newbs, and the newbs subsequently flee, tailtucked. There is little discussion otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![YouKnowWho](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/youknowwho/32/583_2.png) [@YouKnowWho](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/YouKnowWho)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 5:03am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/omg-has-this-forum-died/48342/5 "2010-05-29T05:03:11Z")
[QUOTE=RD’S Alias - 1A;1016616]What happened here?[/QUOTE] 9 out of 20 threads are either WC or MMA threads. In WC thread, if you agree with WC principles, none WC guys will argue with you. If you don’t, WC guys will argue with you. In MMA thread, if you are a CMA guy and if you want to express your opinion, you will have to defend TCMA all by yourself as if you have nothing better to do. If you know that you will get into argument, why do you still want to say anything? ---
**Author:** ![David\_Jamieson](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/david_jamieson/32/19_2.png) [@David\_Jamieson](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/David_Jamieson)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 5:30am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/omg-has-this-forum-died/48342/6 "2010-05-29T05:30:06Z")
It’s not dead, it’s pretty active. The off topic is the hot new troll palace and this forum is slowly returning to normal with relevant threads at times and some good discussions here and there. We actually thought you had died, or at least forgotten your passwod again. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![monkeyfoot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/monkeyfoot/32/546_2.png) [@monkeyfoot](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/monkeyfoot)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 8:19am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/omg-has-this-forum-died/48342/7 "2010-05-29T08:19:57Z")
I agree its dying. There are far too many OT posts. Even members who I thought were genuine posters now start sidetracking threads with BS. ah well. ---
**Author:** ![uki](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/uki/32/826_2.png) [@uki](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/uki)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 10:47am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/omg-has-this-forum-died/48342/8 "2010-05-29T10:47:39Z")
it’s not dying, it is simply in metamorphic process… as in all things there is an ebb and flow to the tide of energy - everything is all energy of course… listening to and discerning the cycles and phases becomes the great game to keep our spirits active. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RD\_S\_Alias\_1A](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/rd_s_alias_1a/32/49_2.png) [@RD\_S\_Alias\_1A](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/RD_S_Alias_1A)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 12:57pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/omg-has-this-forum-died/48342/9 "2010-05-29T12:57:47Z")
[QUOTE=David Jamieson;1016641]It’s not dead, it’s pretty active. The off topic is the hot new troll palace and this forum is slowly returning to normal with relevant threads at times and some good discussions here and there. We actually thought you had died, or at least forgotten your passwod again. :)[/QUOTE] Reply] The off topic section is really slow too though. ---
**Author:** ![RD\_S\_Alias\_1A](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/rd_s_alias_1a/32/49_2.png) [@RD\_S\_Alias\_1A](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/RD_S_Alias_1A)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/omg-has-this-forum-died/48342/10 "2010-05-29T12:59:50Z")
[QUOTE=monkeyfoot;1016649]I agree its dying. There are far too many OT posts. Even members who I thought were genuine posters now start sidetracking threads with BS. ah well.[/QUOTE] Reply] This place has allways been full of off topic posts though. ---
**Author:** ![RD\_S\_Alias\_1A](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/rd_s_alias_1a/32/49_2.png) [@RD\_S\_Alias\_1A](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/RD_S_Alias_1A)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/omg-has-this-forum-died/48342/11 "2010-05-29T13:03:54Z")
[QUOTE=David Jamieson;1016641]It’s not dead, it’s pretty active. The off topic is the hot new troll palace and this forum is slowly returning to normal with relevant threads at times and some good discussions here and there. We actually thought you had died, or at least forgotten your passwod again. :)[/QUOTE] Reply] I just checked, the off topic forum is Soooo busy, that it still has posts from 5/13/10 on the front page!!! In the old days, we would be lucky if a forum had a topic from 13 minutes ago on the first page. Conversations from the same hour could be 3 pages deep back then. Now we go weeks and weeks? Yup, this place died. My Guess is Ross killed it. ---
**Author:** ![RD\_S\_Alias\_1A](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/rd_s_alias_1a/32/49_2.png) [@RD\_S\_Alias\_1A](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/RD_S_Alias_1A)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/omg-has-this-forum-died/48342/12 "2010-05-29T13:10:02Z")
[QUOTE=YouKnowWho;1016635]9 out of 20 threads are either WC or MMA threads. In WC thread, if you agree with WC principles, none WC guys will argue with you. If you don’t, WC guys will argue with you. In MMA thread, if you are a CMA guy and if you want to express your opinion, you will have to defend TCMA all by yourself as if you have nothing better to do. If you know that you will get into argument, why do you still want to say anything?[/QUOTE] Reply] Actually, this, and personal attacks by certain people are why i stopped following for a long time. I actually stumbled into a forum for paranoid, paramilitary survivalist wack’os that I actually can enjoy civil conversations on. THAT forum replaced this one for me due to the more grown up atmosphere…and they are all stock piling guns, ammo MRE’s and building remote fortresses in the wilderness to survive the Arrmmogedean and fight the final battles of the apocolypse. ---
**Author:** ![SPJ](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/spj/32/496_2.png) [@SPJ](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/SPJ)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 1:58pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/omg-has-this-forum-died/48342/13 "2010-05-29T13:58:27Z")
I think that there are more and more social networks on the net. a lot of people are chatting on facebook and such. and networking, too. but specialty forums or forums of all kinds are still here to stay. * * * ---
**Author:** ![Kansuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@Kansuke](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/Kansuke)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/omg-has-this-forum-died/48342/14 "2010-05-29T14:42:27Z")
[QUOTE=RD’S Alias - 1A;1016673]Reply] This place has allways been full of off topic posts though.[/QUOTE] And YOU still can’t reply without typing in “Reply]” you ridiculous shit? ---
**Author:** ![mickey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@mickey](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/mickey)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/omg-has-this-forum-died/48342/15 "2010-05-29T19:09:18Z")
Greetings, I have noticed that this forum dies during the times of college midterms and finals; counting summer/winter sessions, that is 4 to 10 times a year. Every word that I type, during those times, has an echo to it. What is amazing is that these guys do manage to come back. mickey ---
**Author:** ![RD\_S\_Alias\_1A](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/rd_s_alias_1a/32/49_2.png) [@RD\_S\_Alias\_1A](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/RD_S_Alias_1A)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/omg-has-this-forum-died/48342/16 "2010-05-29T19:40:25Z")
[QUOTE=Kansuke;1016685]And YOU still can’t reply without typing in “Reply]” you ridiculous shit?[/QUOTE] Reply] Actually, I can.post without it. I don’t use it on any other forum I visit except here because you guys make such a huge deal about it. ---
**Author:** ![Kansuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@Kansuke](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/Kansuke)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/omg-has-this-forum-died/48342/17 "2010-05-29T19:59:12Z")
[QUOTE=RD’S Alias - 1A;1016711]Reply] Actually, I can.post without it. I don’t use it on any other forum I visit except here because you guys make such a huge deal about it.[/QUOTE] = you are a D-bag Way to go, D-bag. ---
**Author:** ![YouKnowWho](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/youknowwho/32/583_2.png) [@YouKnowWho](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/YouKnowWho)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/omg-has-this-forum-died/48342/18 "2010-05-29T20:16:23Z")
[QUOTE=RD’S Alias - 1A;1016677]civil conversations.[/QUOTE] Some people believe that IMA is superior than EMA. Some people believe that MMA is superior than CMA. If you are a TCMA guy who does not believe in Qi, people will criticize your stuff is “low level” or they can choke you out. Your opinion will have little value in the “internal world” and the “ground game”. Sometime to the “internal” guys, you feel that you are not conservative enough. But at the same time to the MMA guys, you feel that you are not liberal enough. When “internal” guys attack you from the right, and MMA guys attack you from the left, you find out that you have no place to go but put your tail between your legs and run like hell. ---
**Author:** ![lkfmdc](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/lkfmdc/32/14_2.png) [@lkfmdc](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/lkfmdc)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/omg-has-this-forum-died/48342/19 "2010-05-29T20:35:46Z")
[QUOTE=RD’S Alias - 1A;1016676] Ross killed it.[/QUOTE] Are you afraid I have the power to kill things over the internet without actually touching them? A cyber dim mak maybe? If so, you should be very afraid, very very very afraid ---
**Author:** ![SoCo\_KungFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@SoCo\_KungFu](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/SoCo_KungFu)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 9:14pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/omg-has-this-forum-died/48342/20 "2010-05-29T21:14:01Z")
People are becoming fed up with the BS being fed by TCMA. It’s losing popularity. New prospects are looking elsewhere. Those lost threads you mention where in most times the same few topics being asked by those now missing new prospects. It’s only natural that in the drag that is afflicting the TCMA’s that a forum dedicated to TCMA would also suffer. [Next page](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/omg-has-this-forum-died/48342.md?page=2)