h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I always feel sad when I see groups and posts that haven't had any discussion for years. If the last posting was in 2009, I feel okay. 2008, and I'm feeling worried. 2007 is bad. There is something wrong with the fact that nobody had done anything in a group or said anything about a post since 2007. Anything before that is horrible. I feel terribly depressed if the last date is 2004, for an example. Sometimes, in dark hours, I will see something on which the last date is 1999. Then I start crying. (Not really, but it's close. Trust me.)

I am going to change that! From now on, if I see something with no discussion since before 2009, I will post something intelligent! Or something!

However, I'm not sure why this gets to me. Maybe it's because websites are like living organisms. Parts of them are unposted on and they seem to be dead. I suppose that the idea that part of a website dies as new parts come into existence worries me.
I've come across a few entirely dead websites in my time, and that really worries me.

Lots of bits are dead on h2g2. It's one of those things; people create them, post, have a really good time, but in the end there is only so much you can do in a particualr subject with a particular group of people. Olympus used to be full of gods battling it out for supremacy, now it's just me and the occasional person who pops back.

The sad thing is, even if you do post, there will likely be only one or two people who are still here.

But sites change and evolve, and without change we become stagnant. I couldn't imagine having another religious discussion on h2g2 - we've become to old, to set in our ways. But a discussion on something new, oh! That would become fantastic.

Good insight.

Hi zaney - I hope you are so busy in real life that you are having fun out there, but we miss you here. Especially in Peer Review where you have some really useful entries. Do pop back!