I love pancakes and rotary phones, but @bob_ is correct: nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.
@Blueroses wrote a brilliant piece – I agree, as did @WasCy and @jonsblond
I agree with @hawaii_jake – the place has evolved and changed due to the Social section. I think @marinelife is thinking about the quality of questions before the Social section. I don’t argue – I just think that it saved Fluther as a whole. Don’t you all remember wis.dm?
Can you imagine this site without a Social section? Why would any youngsters come in (and yes, homework and relationship and computer questions are tiresome, but some of them stay on)?
How could Auggie and a handful of volunteers even mod and run this place?
I have some advice: heed Blueroses words. There were some Babby and Frizzer questions then, there will always be some of them; in “Social” – or not. It doesn’t matter – they are questions being asked by people, by jellies; family.
Finally, to quote from a song by Baz Luhrmann:
Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of
fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the
ugly parts and recycling it for more than
it’s worth.
That was my advice. Probably not worth very much.