I think
Percy, Cockerill's Chin and
Augie have summed it up for me.
Cockerill's Chin:
"the ability to generate anger or humour is reduced because our club is stale".
Percy:
"I think we have simply run out of things to talk about. I am bored of reading about Wenger in/out, bored of hearing about the need for a goalkeeper/centre half/Lionel Messi and bored of polls asking is such and such a legend/wanker/on £7 million a week/could do a job for us in midfield."
Augie:
"The amount of venom between posters on this forum can get a bit tiresome tbh"
I think those 3 reasons are why it just isn't the same on here. Things have definitely gone stale at Arsenal, the amount of venom (whether it's USMartin, Baba or the countless WUM remarks by others) have definitely ruined it for me as I can't be arsed with internet warriors (what's the point??)...
but perhaps mainly...
after several years and 8000+ posts (
) I've just run out of anything new to say!
Still, that's life. There's still plenty of decent people on here (Quartz, Sammy, Flash, BG, IHH, DB10 and countless others) and if you try (I know it's hard) to ignore the WUMs and aggression and hope they get themselves banned, then I think this place can still be enjoyable!
(on a final note, I also think it's partly down to having rose tinted glasses of "the past".... all old people do it (
) - as even back when I joined, there was the odd WUM like Pancho and there was a large falling out or two as well (remember Wayno and Gus cancelling their accounts?
and Smoothie disappearing after a catalogue of arguments? - ah, but then again, I wasn't around in the "golden era of 2007" as TS called it, so I guess I'm something of a newcomer myself.!
)
Anyway, I guess the difference is now the arguments and WUM'ing is tenfold... or more
