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When old regs start complaining about the good old days they are really just sublimating their fears that they are no good anymore. That's what it comes down to, you guys enjoyed this place more when you thought your own personal comics were funny, now that you are grasping for teh funny it's only natural that you place the blame elsewhere. Here, by saying that the goodness on this forum is now no longer at the level that is conducive to you for making good comics is a childish (but common) defence mechanism.
This place is really funny and there is also competion to be funny. Perhaps when the old 'Gods' were here you consoled yourself by placing them on a pedestal as some sort of super human gag machines and that should they ever go you will become funniest by default, then you crash to reality by realising that this is not so. Soon you will have to place the new guys on a pedestal. Or take a fucking holiday, forget about this place for a while and come back making the super funny comics that you know you can. New experience is the facial sauna to the greasy pore of writers block.
That entire theory falls apart when you take into consideration an old reg like me who says that the comics are as funny now as they ever were, but, to me, the forums aren't as much fun. If I, or other regs, were doing what you said and trying to put ourselves on a pedestal, surely we'd be saying the comics are going to hell. The fact that we're not shoots the entire theory in the arse.
I do agree, though, that it has more to do with the old regs themselves than the site. Here's something I emailed to someone earlier, and I'll copy and paste it here, since it states rather concisely my take on it:
"I think it's more that the people are changing than the site is changing. Not just changing with the type of peeps arriving (which boorite nailed when he was talking about how at first, when the site was smaller, those arriving were more likely to be "like us"), but also changes in the people themselves. That is, the longer peeps stay, the more comics they make, the less new ideas they have, the more likely they are not to enjoy the site as much. That really has nothing to do with how the site is run, and completely to do with the nature of people and creativity. What I'm saying is, maybe on a site like stripcreator, it's a natural process to have a turnover, to every so many years have a changing of the guard."
