[abe is now!]

That thread took me back to a happier time in OWF's history. Oddworld had been effectively dead for a few months and people were starting to become snappy, negative, trollish and cliquey. I hadn't even become a super moderator yet, but I'd been around longer than anyone, long enough that even 7 years later the idea of calling 2006 'the really early era' is a massive joke, and I was distraught at the way the community was turning.

But looking back I can see it was small fries compared to today. Look, people having fun with a harmless game on a gaming forum! Don't see that now. The pain the community's evolution caused me then, in retrospect, is so much better than the numbness I have towards this place now. There are a lot of you I like and respect, but the only interesting conversation here now is back in Oddworld Discussion, and even that's so painful and acidic that I don't want to go there.

I miss when we used to talk about every Oddworld's details in the Q&A thread... I think we discussed everything, can you remember Wil?

What's your point?

They all have great minds! They were all our friends here and they all contributed in making excellent discussions. That is only a thread, you can't use it to judge how OWF was back in 2006. Newbies always used to start threads like that because they are often young people who want to talk about Oddworld!