What is the "Old" powder toy?

  • boxmein
    31st Dec 2012 Former Staff 1 Permalink
    @Lockheedmartin (View Post)
    Or, as an user gets older, they won't be so blue eyed about said community, causing another one of those effects.
  • jacob1
    31st Dec 2012 Developer 0 Permalink
    One other thing, is that while people will remember the great users that left, they forget the bad users that also left. People only remember the great users that left and say it was better back then, but it's really almost the same. In fact, I do remember a lot if hating on the forums resulting in bans, that doesn't happen often anymore. So, while many great users left, we have great replacements, and the community is mostly the same way

    As for worse saves, most ideas have been done before so older people don't see new saves as as good, but there really are still many good new saves
  • nmd
    31st Dec 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    Here's an interesting way to look at it:

    The Beginning -The start of the new forums (there was an old one... maybe that's what you're talking about?)

    Growth -Things started getting added to the game, users came, it was good.

    The golden age -Rich community, Great game, intelligible people on forums ect.

    The decline of the golden age -Influx of people, a decline in save uniqueness, old users start leaving

        The Infamous user age - A subset of the golden age. A time where there always seemed to be succession of annoying users on the forums. It ended with the banning of PacBrad.

    The ++ era -The Time after the decline when TPT++ was created. I cant say much about it because we are in it*

     

    *or on the edge of it, or already passed it and going on a different era, you can't tell with these things until after its over

     

    **Different people will have different opinions about when these things happened.

     

    @jacob1 (View Post)

     Im pretty sure we all remember PacBrad and Tong-47

  • Hatter
    31st Dec 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    I do find this a lot, Lockheedmartin, in many communities. But the comment above me inspired me to ask another question: who was this person that was banned? Why was he banned? What damage did he do?

  • boxmein
    31st Dec 2012 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    @Hatter (View Post)
    PacBrad was a kind of troll. THE troll, to be precise.
  • grandmaster
    31st Dec 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    @boxmein (View Post)

    Also the most anoying troll we ever had on tpt

  • Lockheedmartin
    31st Dec 2012 Moderator 0 Permalink

    @Hatter (View Post)

     Not one person, but many.

  • nmd
    31st Dec 2012 Member 1 Permalink

    @Hatter (View Post)

    PacBrad?

    He was, simply put, a user packed in a troll, baked until crispy, and served on a plate of annoyance beside the butter of the banned.

  • Xorite
    31st Dec 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    @Hatter (View Post)
    You may also find him in the form of PackedBread (FF50)
  • jacob1
    31st Dec 2012 Developer 0 Permalink
    I actually don't remember Tong-47, that must have been before I was around.
    And I thought @PackedBread was boxmein?