08-14-2025, 04:33 PM
And yeah, of course I said what I said about the era of message boards being over, the goose is cooked, they're all fucked because of AI etc...
I still totally agree with that.
But I think some of the tragedy in that can be mitigated if you just lock your forum down as much as you can stand to, make sure anyone who is obviously posting AI generated crap is banned and so on.
That's not an issue for this site, but for other discussion forums out there, I would imagine it is a serious issue these days.
Like AI generated posts are EVERYWHERE on the major public "message board" style websites...
It's genuinely terrible.
People can't even THINK anymore, they can't even put in the effort of using their own fingers to type a few paragraphs, they feed some lame idea into ChatGPT and let it generate an entire post for them that they don't even bother to edit.
It's GNARLY yo.
Forums...
They ARE dead if there are nothing but those kind of low effort people using them.
You have to vet, hard. You have to basically give no incentive for anyone to even join your message board community.
You pretty much have to just be totally elitist and locked down from the get-go these days, and that is why I say forums are dead.
It's not because they ARE dead, it's because the people who use them are just gonna degrade further and further until they're using speech-to-text to generate a post with ChatGPT and they don't even use their FINGERS AT ALL anymore.
I still totally agree with that.
But I think some of the tragedy in that can be mitigated if you just lock your forum down as much as you can stand to, make sure anyone who is obviously posting AI generated crap is banned and so on.
That's not an issue for this site, but for other discussion forums out there, I would imagine it is a serious issue these days.
Like AI generated posts are EVERYWHERE on the major public "message board" style websites...
It's genuinely terrible.
People can't even THINK anymore, they can't even put in the effort of using their own fingers to type a few paragraphs, they feed some lame idea into ChatGPT and let it generate an entire post for them that they don't even bother to edit.
It's GNARLY yo.
Forums...
They ARE dead if there are nothing but those kind of low effort people using them.
You have to vet, hard. You have to basically give no incentive for anyone to even join your message board community.
You pretty much have to just be totally elitist and locked down from the get-go these days, and that is why I say forums are dead.
It's not because they ARE dead, it's because the people who use them are just gonna degrade further and further until they're using speech-to-text to generate a post with ChatGPT and they don't even use their FINGERS AT ALL anymore.
