In the previous post you might have noticed that I mentioned "the OLD Rollingstone.com message board community" that I used to be a part of. The distinction of "OLD" is required now to differentiate it from RS.com's NEW message board community. You see, after shutting down the original message boards well over a year ago, tossing thousands of interesting comments into oblivion and promising to come back soon with a new and improved version, they finally got around to it a couple of months ago.
"New" it may be, but there is certainly nothing "improved" about them. On the contrary, the format is ugly, the loading time is turtle-slow and the complete absence of any sort of moderation has insured that they are possibly the most troll-friendly boards on the internet. In short, they are a JOKE and a huge disappointment.
RollingStone.com really dropped the ball on this one, but I'm sure noone over there really cares. It doesn't bother me at all, though, because the Castaways community that sprang up shortly after it's original demise has not only filled the gap left when the old boards disappeared, it has vastly improved upon the original formula. Jeff Nelson (aka "Strat-0") is to be commended for the excellent job he has done in keeping the "old gang" together and providing for them such a cool forum with which to vent issues trivial and lofty.
The only thing I have to say to RollingStone.com is a simple one word question: WHY???
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