Unpopular opinion: I thought the 'ask anything' rule meant people would actually ask interesting stuff

Last week, I saw a post here asking what color socks everyone was wearing. Seriously. Three years ago when I first joined, this place was wild. People asked about weird laws, how to fix a carburetor, or if anyone else remembered that old cartoon with the singing potato. Now, last month, it felt like half the posts were just 'what's your favorite pizza topping?' or 'is it raining where you are?'. I'm in Tacoma, and yeah, it's always raining, but who cares? I miss when this forum felt like a box of random questions you'd never think to ask. Remember when someone asked how to get candle wax out of a carpet and it turned into a 50 comment thread with seven different methods? What happened to that energy? Has the internet just run out of good questions, or is it just this place?

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beth_baker695d ago

That candle wax thread was peak forum energy, and I miss it too.

skylerg174d ago

Remember how every store used to have its own weird smell? Now they all just pump out the same vanilla scent. Feels like the internet got the same treatment, where those odd, specific threads got replaced by slick, samey content. That candle wax talk was a perfect little pocket of the old weird web. Makes me wonder what else we smoothed over in the name of looking professional.