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Thats understandable. I have only just got back from maybe 5 years, work is a motherfucker. But fair play to ILL for getting a job, i hope my 7 days and 100 hr weeks are now done, but i know the life; Sleep, Work, Eat, Repeat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amen
And broke can you share the links for the social media with me please mate?
Strong plan bro
Befriend the blacks, LMAO.
There is much truth in this. S'why I wanted you to be an admin on RIA, until I found out you already were.Quote:
I asked to be smod and ILL denied it,
why would you do that? WHYYYYQuote:
Originally Posted by Amen
The site is oversaturated with text battling shit/leagues. And its advertised as such which is why itll never become active. No ones going to have a desire to be apart of something theres no demand for. Like danze was saying the texting needs to be a side section of the site rather then the main attraction. You could still do ao much other shit with this domain name.
Its no one's fault. Technology & facebook
Changed our reliance on forums
Give it a break. There has been much discussion about making improvements to the site and you have been approached numerous times and asked to contribute. @Dia respectably stepped up and made shit happen, you haven't done anything of value except manage a halfway house you were living at for two years because you're a convicted felon with no future.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike G.
LOL. I havent been approached at all to contribute, I OFFERED to make a banner which ill do when I get a minute. Im a father & work 10 hour shifts overnight.
If someone wants to sell the site ill gladly buy it.
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I guess I struck a nerve with the text battle promotion part
This fucking guy. They still do welfare?Quote:
Originally Posted by Amen
I wish we were more audio / video based, point blank period. Nobody is capable of giving it the focus it needs to make those the forefront
Lmfao
Mike G understood what I was trying to say.
I really think if you thought about making this a hub for all rap battles, including reviews of kotd or don't flop any thing that is different. We can either sit here and blame each other or the advance in social media and technology. But really and truthfully if you ever wanted an active site you'd be open to change and move with them advances.
Truthally.
if everyone in this thread messages there fb friends every once in awhile, we would be in good shape.
Lmao - not messaging family members about a text battle forum, bro.
Unlike you, people I legit know - like have encountered throughout my life are on there not strangers I've never met.
Cheers mate, I'm normally alright with my spelling, must of rushed that post whilst trying to work out how i can help.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amen
Yea I remember when opie and all them guys here we had more audio shit than text.Quote:
Originally Posted by ILLunatic
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Originally Posted by Amen
LMFAO. This.
speak for your self, most of us have a fb with people we know online.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amen
as well as a twitter or something else.
one of my accounts is just for people I know online, so I don't get no one on my personal shit.
everyone I have on there already knows about RB though.
I doubt there is anyone that does this, that doesn't know about RB
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Originally Posted by Dia
I don't think there was EVER a point there was more audio than text, but definitely a lot more livelier around those times, for sure. We will never get to that point because frankly forums are dead and unappealing. Most of us only come here because we've been here for so long and there's that nostalgic value towards it, but even the most reputable of hip hop forums have the dedicated members they had from the beginning, give or take a few that came later on.
No audio head will be coming back because there's just no incentive to. This site is a niche that only appeals to less and less people as the years go by. It's outdated, and a drastic overhaul of this site would be needed to even give it one half of a fighting chance against what's out there now. No amount of dress up is gonna change the fact that there's much more efficient ways to network with your peers than this. Even the admins don't want to advertise it - that says a lot.
Lounge is the only thing still alive because in essence it's a Facebook wall before there was a Facebook. Just random shit (incl. rap topics) all in one central location, without adhering to a unified conformity. It's everything you want in one place with minimal effort to access it. Not even switching around forum locations is gonna change that.
you use to many big words!:laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Celph Taut
I was just saying when forums where active as fuck, I was literally a teenager, ( 33 now ) nearly almost 2 decades of this shit "dying".
there is enough people on social media from those days, to bring that back, but they need a reason to come back to forums and stuff.
I was thinking like a little hof reunion thing and tagging said people on social media and linking them up back here.
make it like an event radio show, with someone wiling to host the shit.
I’ve offered money for an audio tourney...
^ Yeah, unfortunately all those ideas are as old as these forums are. Shit's just a mirror reflection of what social media USED to be. This shit's the fucking Geocities of social media.
I offered to buy this site in 2012.
Edit: I offered 3 times in '12.
I think social media has a big part to do with it.. but theres still plenty of extremely active forums. I mean look at reddit or 4 chan. Theyre interference is alot different but still very live forums.
Dia that idea sounds dope.. I definitely never added anyone from rb on fb though. I think I follow ric on instagram thats about it
yea rap related sub reddits are active, but it's hard to get those people to come from reddit back to traditional forums, that one site rmbva or otbva are pretty active only because they pirate kotd events and shit. I forgot the one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike G.
when Broke Lesnar made that thread trolling Dia about fixing up the site, i had laid out the only thing that would make this site relevant again...
that still stands...
no amount of attention is going to fix the place if its not going to be completely overhauled and integrated into a social media vibe....if it stays in a forum format, nothing will change...
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Originally Posted by Toobs
Yeah, they know having us talk about it over and over is the only thing giving this site activity, cause it sure as shit ain't coming from the other forums on this site. #StayWOKE
aye ima hit you up on FB soon about osmething...gonna hit your inbox...Quote:
Originally Posted by Celph Taut
Brokeback wasnt trolling.. that was genuine anger. upset he put his heart & soul into promoting leagues for the site which generated no activityQuote:
Originally Posted by Toobs
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Brokeback lesnar. Dont even reply. Just shut the fuck up.
No bro - speak for YOURSELF. I'm pretty sure people don't dedicate social medias just for "Online friends" faggot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dia
Don't have time for that shit nor do I care to ever add someone I do not know on a social media platform. That is some weirdo shit.
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The edit reason leaned me, can't front.Quote:
Originally Posted by #PrimeTime
niGGa don't fucking explain yourself EVER again lol.
*shrugs*Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike G.
i dunno...
turned into trolling...
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i have plenty of people on social media that i only know from the internet...Quote:
Originally Posted by Amen
but i AM a weirdo, so... maybe you're onto something...
well then you don't really care about bringing this shit back if you aren't willing to go the extra mile.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amen
you just want someone else to do it.
I'm not putting all that work into this site, and I can't just make a new platform, it has to bee agreed upon by all parties, and it has to be worth my while to, I was just asked to do one thing, I'm not remodeling the site to a new format, I have other work to do that I get paid for, and other work that id prefer to do over this haha.
if I do any of that, I will just create my own shit, or someones giving me the keys to this bitch tbh.
you don't ask the janitor of your store, to remodel the shit to, rofl.
lol. got it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amen
Your analogies are so off, it's retarded.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dia
Hows a Janitor equivalent to an admin?
Fucking idiot.
that's the perfect analogy, or babysitter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amen
yea toobs, alot of us have people on our fb we know online, my fb is for people specifically I know on forums, if I ever have a website I know those people would be interested in joining. ( maybe ) I have a hidden one that's solely for personal use, also if anyone has my twitter or instagram those are for people I know online.
I don't think I was admin on RIA, at least I don't remember it. Probably Smod at the very least.Quote:
Originally Posted by #PrimeTime
nah bruh, you were an admin. I told Chrit (ha! remember him?) to admin you and mod KnowP.Quote:
Originally Posted by Celph Taut
I was admin on RIA, that's before it was fake NC, and I banned everyone haha.
fun times.
this place is the MySpace of rapbattle sites bruhh, who even paying the bills and how are they able to do so lmao.Quote:
Originally Posted by Celph Taut