So I was reading the bits at the current end of the Claudia Speaks Out thread, talking about the other message boards. I only frequent this one, as most of you know. ('Cuz you'd prolly notice me if I were on other ones. ;)) And yet Matt says the GSN boards get more business. I'm wondering why.

So I guess what I'm asking for is a summary of the GSN boards. What kind of discussion / arguments / flame wars happen there that don't here, are there intelligent people posting there who don't here, is it worth my time to get set up there?

I go to both boards equally. The GSN boards have some very intelligent posters (TheKid) who always have good replies and topics. But there are large amounts of falmes and downright rude people on there as well. There is a clear line between classic fans and original fans. Some people (billcullenfan or some name close to that after he gets banned for the umpteenth time) are diehard if-its-not-an-original-its-Gods-gift-to-television people who are just annoying.

Case and point: Here has more intelligent and throught provoking conversation and topics... but GSN boards have many more people and, well, are usually funny when reading some of the weird stuff people post. Plus you're more likely to get a reply from them as opposed to here, I've noticed.

The GSN boards seem to have a lot more annoying people in them....Our good friend Darryl Heine still posts over there, and drives everyone there nuts too...

Not to mention the fact they're not very good at banning people and keeping them away....A user who does nothing but argue and complain about the "originals" and how much he hates them has been under a lot of screen names, but everyone knows it's him.

I also think the GSN boards get more business because of how accessible they are from the home page of GSN.....And people just find a community of other game show fans, and they start posting......

There are disagreements here, but it seems like there's a lot more of them over there, as compared to here. I don't know to explain it, but overall the IQ level seems to be higher on this board than the other one.

One last thing - that board lets you include pictures in your signature (I would assume this one doesn't, as I've never seen one), which can slow the loading time. For someone on dialup, this board is easier to access.

I mainly lurk over there, unless Darryl or someone else posts something really stupid and I can't hold myself back from replying.

Personally, Chris - I'd like to see you over there too. Would make my day to see you put people in their place there. :)

Without taking anything away from the GSN boards and our many good members that frequent both forums, I'm very pleased to see the general consensus being that the conversations here are generally of a higher caliber. (On the other hand, of course that's what WE'D say!) I've dismissively referred to the GSN posters as "children" and Guide Angel as their "babysitter" in the past, and that was probably unfair. Still, Chris and I take a great deal of pride in the fact that our membership in general seems to be older and more discerning. We also know that many industry insiders check us out with some regularity, and I would bet they take our comments a lot more seriously than those in other forums.

BTW, their discussion groups are probably not that much more active than we are anyway. For example, I just checked and found 18 threads in their "In General" section with today's date, and right now our "Big Board" has 14. Not a huge difference. A lot of their numbers are busy playing the interactive games, and a small handful of their members seem compelled to post something in every single thread, no matter how meaningless.

Still, there are good messages there too, and if you want to get a lot of different takes about hot-button topics (Claudia Jordan's TPIR exit, for example), there are usually a lot more opinions posted over there.

I haven't been to the GSN boards, but the way everyone talks makes it sound like the worst of ATGS went over there. I think I'll just do my occasional posting in here for now.

Well, i just recently found this board and it seems much more civilized. I figured maybe people hee had realized that fighting over TV is silly. I didn't find this board for a long time....and don't even remember how i stumbled upon it! To be fair, i did learn A LOT when i first got GSN from their boards. But they do seem to have degraded a bit =)
j

I tried. I lasted about ten minutes.

One guy ACTUALLY HAS AS HIS SIGNATURE that he doesn't spell correctly or put words in the right places and if I don't like it I shouldn't read his posts.

Then in another thread I saw three HUGE signatured gifs of some head-shaved idiot making the "hard core rock-n-roll" gestures who I can only assume is Iann Robinson based on the poster's undying love for same.

I did make one post, though, some idjit suggesting that the GameCube got short shrift on GSN's video game block and that they should remember "who started it all." We'll see if he bothers to look into who Ralph Baer is...

Nope. I was right. I'd go insane if I submitted myself to that for any length of time. Maybe I'll give Slashdot a shot instead.

The sad thing is, GSN could really help itself by having an announce-only board to let the viewers know about upcoming lineup changes and such.

Someone posted a comment just this afternoon that a GSN employee informed him that the Feast of Favorites lineup will NOT be preannounced... the phony lineup that escaped last week just being a slip-up by a programmer somewhere.

I find this simply inexcusable. Makes me appreciate what TVLand does on their site, all the more.

Chris, if you got got a penny for every time you corrected some sniveling brat at the GSN Boards, you'd be a multi-millionaire before Midnight !

Though I belong to some Message Boards that are even more inmature and caustic that GSN's (Though I won't mention them because they don't involve Game Shows)

Though I'm curious: Who is the youngest person here ? I'm 18, but I'll be 19 in less that two months (Mark your calendars !)

If it makes anyone feel better, the Video Game board has less than 35 posts.
-Joe R.

I must admit I spend more time on the GSN forum. The reason for that is because there is a lot more IGaS discussion over there (or there was, when IGaS was still on). The reason for *that* is because of the B&WON review thread. I'm not as much into game shows in general as I am into IGaS, which is why I don't post too much here. I ONLY read the Classics forum over there, and it's pretty light-hearted most of the time.

A couple things about the GSN forum:

Regarding the large images in signatures -- you can turn those off in your options I believe. Just uncheck the "show signatures" box (or something like that).

About the poor spelling/grammar -- There are some people with learning disorders, who "cannot" spell correctly. There is no reason to make fun of them. Also, I would imagine there are a lot of kids there as well, and making fun of them every time they post would just cause lots of flames or it would make them not want to post, because they simply can't spell. I can't stand bad grammar and spelling either, but I think that's why you're not supposed to yell at people for it. I actually stopped talking to a lot of people online because I felt like I was getting stupider just talking to them (not kidding).

The GSN boards weren't always this way...
They used to be a board like these boards: Intelligent discussions, which meant intelligent members. Now the GSN boards just remind me of a toned down version of ATGS. I post at the GSN forums still, but not as much as I used to. If your just beginning it's not worth it.

These boards have a better discussion, and that comes from a member who doesn't post that much.

Well, I think that the credibility of GSN Boards have severely decreased in the last 19 months (the first post that I made). I used to post on a frequent basis, but it severly dropped off; primarily the same topics are made over and over and over again, or drove me insane with "Trolls", or the same debacle with Classics v. Originals (I've been a frequent supporter of Classics, but I do enjoy a little classic show here and there).

Nowadays, I work over the fan fiction and the off-topic areas, and make limited posting everywhere else. It makes no sense for me to actually post a question thats been answered before. Primarily, I like these boards because of the flexibility of freedom, and some genuine information. I'm glad I've been a part of these boards over the last couple of months, and I hope I'll have a prolonged tenure here. I do like posting here, and I look forward to making some kick-*** (am I allowed to use that word) intelligent conversation.

-Always looking for intelligent conversation, 24/7


Dave

I too occasionally post on both boards, with this board usually being the first one I read, simply because the conversation over here is MUCH more enlighting, informative, and (damn it I'll say it), humorous. GSN's boards use to be pretty well spoken for, but I believe most of the remaining intelligent posters have migrated over here. If you want GSN news quickly though, it's your better bet, just watch out for the rest of the sludge.

Tyshaun
(who misses those mini-flame wars he used to get into with PPatters)

I originally left the GSN boards way back in May of this year due to an overwhelming number of "crybabies" that feel I'm breaking the game show moral code for supporting GSN's other shows besides their classics.

And Whampyl03 is correct. Censorship has grown to outrageous numbers over there. I was posting a rather rabid comment on why I felt the GSN Video Games block was a decent idea (at the time it was announced), only to have it deleted the next day.

I have come back to those forums, but right now, I'm getting little results. It just feels like people aren't glad at all to see me back. And there aren't very many "good" threads to post in without saying something stupid, no matter what section you go in.

To be honest with you, I may just end up posting here more often now that I've seen this kind of thread.

(P.S.: Yes, I'm also thankful they moved GSN Video Games out of Thursdays. That block was going nowhere from what I had seen.)

As a veteran of the GSN boards, I can honestly say that, even though today is my first day over here, these boards are more civilized. But, despite what others are saying, the GSN boards are still a fairly good place to visit.

I've been there for almost 2 years now and I still visit it quite frequently and after all that time, I can say that yes, there are a number of people over there that shouldn't be there for one reason or another, but there are still a bunch of intelligent people that post a number of great topics and insights. (brettio73, sshuffield70, blanketyblank, TheKid, Tom3, matchgame1977, and Wren2710 immediately come to mind, although I'm probably leaving several other people that should be on this list out)

If we are still looking for the youngest board member.. I'm 14.

EDIT: I checked it out and totally had forgotten about the long signatures around there. Every other person has at least one picture in their signature and if they have posted a lot in a certain thread then it really gets tiring to have to go through a picture of Peter Tomarken or whoever to read what they have to say. And then, usually, it is disappointing.

The day Rod passed away, one of the posters over there said that he'd seen it on the news, but HAD TO COME TO THE GSN BOARDS TO SEE IF IT WAS REALLY TRUE.

I literally have stopped and shaken my head every day since then.

My reason for turning to the GSF rather than the GSN boards is pretty much why I stopped posting on ATGS. Inevitably, most of it became complaining about the channel (in the case of ATGS, we WERE in the Fleming regime, so I guess it was to be expected. And now...you know) Which gets to be a downer, despite how true it may be.

And I just looked at the FOF results...yes I marked out when I saw the "interesting" entry. So long as it doesn't come from its last year (if you know what I mean), it should be interesting...

I know how most of you that have come across him feel. And I've certainly had my fair share of censorship compared to him.

It almost gives me the impression that the GSN Forums are starting to be like what some people accuse NASCAR racing of... perhaps they favor certain users over others.

That's probably stretching it, but I'm almost tempted to believe that, if you ask me.