[Patrick]

I knew someone was missing!

Tom!
He'll be gone for weeks, seems weird without him.

[arsenalforever]

Originally Posted by Patrick

I knew someone was missing!

Tom!
He'll be gone for weeks, seems weird without him.

a few big names have gone over the months

[Ramsay]

yeaaah

[Sticks]

Although my join date does not say it, (The date is wrong!!!) I have been here since even before XMB, well I vaguely remember there was a re-XMB age, Mark and James will correct me if I mis-remembered this.

A number of the old guard who have gone were middle aged ladies, one of whom was Romantic Old Bird who died of cancer. They had a certain fixation with a certain couple from Big Brother 2, and it was sad when that romance ended after five years.

During that time the board was declared as the friendly board, but it has become nastier as some of the new crowd have come in. In the old days we hardly had any Ad Hominems, but in one thread, the one about the pilot in Texas who crashed into a federal building, I have seen a lot of insults flying around.

There is no call for that.

We have got a younger mix of people here, and that has lead to a decline in decorum I have noticed in recent times.

When we had the old guard some of the best times was off season, but now it seems as soon as a BB finishes, the newbies depart almost immediately, some never to return. And here I would like to mention something about the IDs people adopt. In recent years they seemed specific to particular series of Big Brother. That did not happen I recall in my day nearly a decade ago.

As for the forum software XMB to VBulletin, well there was not much choice after the hacking last year. It is not the forum software that makes the board but the contributors, and with the loss of the old guard and the quality of some of the newbies, TIBB has really changed in temprement in recent times, and not always for the better.