Nobody comes here anymore

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^Not all of the threads are the same, but I prefer to stay in the game section myself.

What I meant originally was that when you click the, "View Posts Since Last Visit" link, it used to show about 30 pages of different responses to topics. Now it barely shows around 5.

I just think it's a shame that lots of members have disappeared. There's still a good few around.

I think the spamming and Cloudfare have had a lot to answer for, but that topic has become pretty worn.

Cloudflair was one of major reasons I left WP a few years ago (under a different user name). It used to frequently nag me when I lived in France. Must have been something about my IP address. Sometimes Cloudflair locked me out of the site for several days at a time. In the end with all the captcha challenges I thought f**k it and stopped coming to the site.. To be honest I'd also grown somewhat weary of the same old topics coming up time and again and grown weary of moderating and the way Alex was running (ignoring) the site. I joined again a couple of months ago under a new name (I now live in the UK again), but hardly ever visit the site. I tend to just visit the computers and science forum but it is almost dead nowadays. Can't say WP has been replaced by social media though. I have a facebook account but hardly visit that nowadays either, since they started forcing "sponsored posts" into my newsfeed bypassing Adblock to spam me with crap.

they probably killed themselves because they didn't get the help that isn't deserved, but needed

^No need to be overly morbid.

I have read all of your posts and I have concluded that you are depressed,

Probably need to get that checked out.

However, I can't say your wrong with what you have said, I for one agree. I think suicide rates are very high among autistic people with no support and I had no support and I was forced into the world when I was 18 with nothing but the clothes on my back when I was mentally about 13. The lack of support and the fact that the medical community had fought so hard to label anything but autistic hurt. The fact I had no childhood services and the fact that doctors told my mom I was the R word and to just give up also speaks to this social failure. I can honestly say there is no support for autism in America. Everything I have from the clothes I am wearing to the computer I am typing on has been the result of an all out war to try and better myself. I have received no free rides in life and honestly I have just been hurt with autism more then anything else so I see your point but the more you think negative thoughts the more negative your going to get.

true, every last bit.

I never realised that was you! Welcome back.

Thanks , though I'm not "back" as such, just popping in now and then to check out a couple of the forums.

My feeling is that it's those good members that disappear, while the annoying ones stick around forever, which may have something to do with more of the good ones leaving...

Seems to be no shortage of sock puppets lately, they still come here, determined to flout rules and rock the boat..

The one who single-handedly held the site together by the skin of his teeth and received no appreciation or thanks? I'd think he's earned the right to a name change and a lower profile, especially since we're apparently allowing combative and unhinged sockpuppets free reign these days.

Dox, you can report any you think we have missed and they will be checked.

Maybe because this site has far too many glitches and the motivation of some just died out gradually? Or possibly that others have other projects up or maybe their full time job/education is consuming most their time that they just forgot about it.

I think one of the main motivations for coming here is to learn, and for some, when they have reached the level of knowledge that meets that need, they move on and get on, knowing better and doing better. It doesn't have to be negative.

Sometimes I meet people here who turn out to be well...amazing. They teach you new things, you learn from them, you really like the way they talk to you. They're thoughtful and you see the effort they make when they write to you, and others. You see some of their intentions by they way they write, and it's like reading music. It's so in tune with you, and you like it, and you don't know what to do, because they're far away and just out of reach for you to ever be able to make things go forward.

And on a small site like WP, it's even harder.