[Redway]

To those of you who were active at that time, how was this site? I imagine much busier but I can only go by what other people have said.

I’m using BB7 as a yardstick of reference for this thread because that was the last properly good season besides this one just-gone (I do believe that last year’s B.B. was the best since then). So it’ll be interesting to know.

[Crimson Dynamo]

It was all fields

as far as the eye could see

Cherie and Neem had a teashop

"The Bogs Dollox" as I recall

Famed for its cream teas and Whelks

They had a big sign above the door "NO Welsh"

[Benjamin]

Not sure about 2006 but 2008 when I joined was really busy on here. There was a lot more discussions/chat threads/games etc (we were still on the old server and PM’s were called U2U’s iirc).

There was also a lot more drama though, some of it funny but some of it spiteful. But it was also a lot more fun on here. Everyone was younger so I guess also had more free time. I do miss old TiBB sometimes and all the members from 2008 who no longer frequent here.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Benjamin

Not sure about 2006 but 2008 when I joined was really busy on here. There was a lot more discussions/chat threads/games etc (we were still on the old server and PM’s were called U2U’s iirc).

There was also a lot more drama though, some of it funny but some of it spiteful. But it was also a lot more fun on here. Everyone was younger so I guess also had more free time. I do miss old TiBB sometimes and all the members from 2008 who no longer frequent here.

God I remember when I joined back in 2010, some of the stuff that would be said on this Forum would be crazy.

[Ammi]

…some of TiBB member TV picks in 2006…

https://www.thisisbigbrother.com/for...ight=tibb+2006

[Ammi]

…as we’re heading toward THAT season…the member Secret Santa gifts of 2006…

https://www.thisisbigbrother.com/for...ight=tibb+2006

[Ammi]

…the link isn’t working anymore to which site it was but banner-theft-gate…TiBB member made banners were being stolen and displayed on other sites, the cheek of it…


https://www.thisisbigbrother.com/for...ight=tibb+2006

[Ammi]

…and 2006 members chatting about their first ever posts on the forum…/…we just had something similar which Kate posted asking who were the first members we spoke to…

https://www.thisisbigbrother.com/for...ight=tibb+2006

[Ammi]

…@James was here in 2006 and @arista was here also …and maybe BigSister…?..but I’m not sure who else would have been…

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…@James was here in 2006 and @arista was here also …and maybe BigSister…?..but I’m not sure who else would have been…

Lily still randomly comes on every so often. I miss her. She was funny.

Sticks too.

[MTVN]

I feel like we have a lot of members from 2008-2012 who stuck around but hardly anyone from pre-2008 stuck around. Even when I was new in 2010 it seemed most active members were from 2008/9

Z was one of the members from that era who stuck around a long time

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Benjamin

Not sure about 2006 but 2008 when I joined was really busy on here. There was a lot more discussions/chat threads/games etc (we were still on the old server and PM’s were called U2U’s iirc).

There was also a lot more drama though, some of it funny but some of it spiteful. But it was also a lot more fun on here. Everyone was younger so I guess also had more free time. I do miss old TiBB sometimes and all the members from 2008 who no longer frequent here.

Interesting.

I imagine a lot of this forum’s popularity is hinging on Big Brother itself being a hit, something it hasn’t really managed to consistently be this side of BB7. Obviously, we talk about everything on here, but we only know that from being enclaved to this site and seeing how different discussions pan out. The main pull for someone not that familiar with this forum would be Big Brother itself. And it just hasn’t been as popular since the mid.-noughties.

[Maru]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

God I remember when I joined back in 2010, some of the stuff that would be said on this Forum would be crazy.

Forums back then were a simpler time when a decent troll was rated generally based on their ability to entertain others and offend the right people at the same time. This helped a lot of frequent posters to get over the hump of self-censorship and risk becoming the next troll to have a good conversation about something people are actually curious about...

Now it's more like people's profile have an unspoken Social Credit score attached to it. If you go too far off the beaten path, you might end up with a hate mob or worse, made to disappear and your body buried out somewhere far away probably in the desert.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Maru

Forums back then were a simpler time when a decent troll was rated generally based on their ability to entertain others and offend the right people at the same time. This helped a lot of frequent posters to get over the hump of self-censorship and risk becoming the next troll to have a good conversation about something people are actually curious about...

Now it's more like people's profile have an unspoken Social Credit score attached to it. If you go too far off the beaten path, you might end up with a hate mob or worse, made to disappear and your body buried out somewhere far away probably in the desert.

Too true.