User blog comment:Nehpets700/The old Message Boards/@comment-4824135-20131201084041/@comment-4257955-20131201164825

You guy are looking at this wrong.

The reason y'all hate the new MBs is because they're comparatively worse than the old ones. If the old MBs never existed and the new format was the original one and was always intact, some of you might've never gotten hooked on the MBs to begin with, but I'm sure the majority would've instead viewed these MBs (that always had the new format) with the highest regard. But since the new ones replaced the old ones, and since the new format IS worse than the old, it skyrockets the amount of toxicity that many have for it.

So instead of pummeling the old MBs (which, BTW, isn't "cool" anymore), can't we let the new members of it view them as the greatest thing ever because they had little or no experience using the old MBs and never became irreversibly attached to them?

This is a all a thing of perspective, as the new MBs honestly are not that bad. They fulfill the role of "children's social message board" brilliantly. I would love them loads more if I had never been on the old MBs for four years. But alas, that is not so. Same goes for many of us. But these "little kids" as Obi likes to brand them are merely having a great time enjoying a safe, friendly social environment, like we did years ago. So please, you can critique the MBs, but pinning the new MBs into a corner and attacking it with things like "they're horrible" and making the reason a lack of common sense is pointless.

If that made sense. :P