This board seems to me to be about socializing. We come on here to hang out with our mates. As much as I like many of the older members, I need to have people that are younger as well.
To use your pub analogy, when you were 22, its unlikely youd have been a regular in a pub where all the punters were miles older than you. You might have liked a lot of them, and seen them as friends, but if it didnt have at least a decent amount of people your own age, its unlikely youd be a regular. At least, thats how I feel, and most people I know tend to hang out with people of roughly their own age, more than people of wildly different ages.
You've done this part a few times and much as I'd like to nod in agreement, I can't because it's as confusing as the rest and I'm beginning to think that you are actively avoiding my question. See, the above might work as an explanation if it was about physical age. I'd think "fine, she wants to hang out with other 20-yo's or whatever her age is". No biggie.
But then Adam chimes in and says that me and Les are being deliberately obtuse (my choice of words) because it's not about physical age. And so me the rationalist wants to know what it is about, then. How is "young" defined in this case? How is "old" explained? (Sort of beside the point but I never knew I was "old" until this thread.)
Some members are mentioned by name, of which a few are posting still and others have left for various reasons. These members are mostly physically younger than I am, but some are in their 40s and I'm struggling to understand what it is that they do that is "young", so I ask again.
I also ask if this young/old thing is more about grouping people in likes/dislikes, which also is fine but this is left without comment, too.
But no answers, no explanations. Just that deliberately dumb thing.
I don't know what to think. Except that it creates drama which creates posts.
TBH, some people fully get what I mean, and others dont. If you dont get it, then I doubt if you'll ever understand, no matter how many times I try to explain.
You have me, Adam, and Schleed. 3 of the few young people left on your site, all telling you more or less the same thing. That the site now holds no interest for us, to the extent that none of us really seem to be happy here.
Your main concern appears to be winning this "argument" with me. For me, that just totally sums up what this site has become.
You keep bringing up the failure of Zomg and s2. All Zomg and s2 really prove is that a decent chunk of the membership here are so dissatisfied with this place that they feel the need to try to create a new place to hang out.
