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Re: Why is The Nest so dead?

  • SBminiSBmini member
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    I post to the home decor board every so often. But I can't be on there for more than 15 minutes before I run out of new posts. It's sad. I would like a place to talk about that stuff.
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  • falsarafalsara member
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    edited July 2014
    I have never actually looked on the boards on TN.  I mean I clicked the link at the top of my TK page just to see what the site was about, but after I realized it was all just home stuff I figured I'd look at it if I had any specific questions I needed answered.   Guess that's not going to happen since you ladies have said its pretty dead.... That's ok! I'll keep coming here. You ladies are awesome and you make my days better. ETA: Typo

                                               

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  • zitiqueen said:



    It was pre Thunderdome.  Maybe the summer before??  There's a couple of regs still left, mostly on Married Life and TIP I believe.  But actually, a couple and that's it.  

    TarponMonoxide is in her fucking glory over there now that there's nobody sane to rein her in.

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    That's exactly who I was thinking of when I wrote this!!  :)



    Who is this woman and why is she so infamous?


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  • daria24 said:
    Are you familiar with GBCN? There used to be a decent sized community over on TN, then when all the shit went down across the XO forums-huge technical problems, censorship issues, etc, the regs decided to take the party to Proboards and formed GBCN (Goodbye Cruel Nest). The Nest's page views plummeted by something like 80%. It's never recovered.
    This. Everyone who would be TN is on GBCN.

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  • I don't wanna talk to new people. I like you guys. :)

    I wasn't invited to the Treehouse sooooo I guess you're stuck with me here. :-p
    Excuse me lolo, I gave you the link. Boom, invited. 

  • WinstonsGirlWinstonsGirl member
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    zitiqueen said:
    It was pre Thunderdome.  Maybe the summer before??  There's a couple of regs still left, mostly on Married Life and TIP I believe.  But actually, a couple and that's it.  
    TarponMonoxide is in her fucking glory over there now that there's nobody sane to rein her in.

    SIB


    That's exactly who I was thinking of when I wrote this!!  :)
    Who is this woman and why is she so infamous?
    Tarpon comments on every post.  She's very direct and blunt.  She will write paragraphs for each post, sometimes on several different posts in the same thread.  And she has no problem telling you what an idiot you are for staying with your SO.  Lots of times she's right, and she's often the absolute beat down some people need to get out of bad situations.  No kick in the pants here.  Go check out TIP or Sex and Romance.  She's all over those ones.  Just click on any post and she'll be there.  

    ETA - Any special snowflakes who think we're rude and to the point here haven't met her yet.  :)

  • MagicInk said:
    I don't wanna talk to new people. I like you guys. :)

    I wasn't invited to the Treehouse sooooo I guess you're stuck with me here. :-p
    Excuse me lolo, I gave you the link. Boom, invited. 

    I was just about to do that.  @lolo883 - you cool, you cool.

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  • MagicInk said:
    I don't wanna talk to new people. I like you guys. :)

    I wasn't invited to the Treehouse sooooo I guess you're stuck with me here. :-p
    Excuse me lolo, I gave you the link. Boom, invited. 

    I do love me some TH and encourage non-crazies to come check it out. I find I spend more time lurking than posting, mostly because it's so EDT zone heavy that I can't keep up, but there are solid/sane/witty/clever women on there who make it worth the investment.
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  • I post on TN occasionally, but it's rare. The boards aren't very active and the ones that are more active usually have threads delving into two or three regs arguing back and forth, from what I remember.

    I lurked at the treehouse for awhile, but never made an account. I followed the whole thread when jashley found her way over there.
  • zitiqueen said:
    It was pre Thunderdome.  Maybe the summer before??  There's a couple of regs still left, mostly on Married Life and TIP I believe.  But actually, a couple and that's it.  
    TarponMonoxide is in her fucking glory over there now that there's nobody sane to rein her in.

    SIB


    That's exactly who I was thinking of when I wrote this!!  :)
    Who is this woman and why is she so infamous?
    Tarpon comments on every post.  She's very direct and blunt.  She will write paragraphs for each post, sometimes on several different posts in the same thread.  And she has no problem telling you what an idiot you are for staying with your SO.  Lots of times she's right, and she's often the absolute beat down some people need to get out of bad situations.  No kick in the pants here.  Go check out TIP or Sex and Romance.  She's all over those ones.  Just click on any post and she'll be there.  

    ETA - Any special snowflakes who think we're rude and to the point here haven't met her yet.  :)
    Right, it's not that she gives bad advice, it's just... I don't know, there's blunt and honest and then there's Tarpon. She parses every sentence of every post and leaves a comment. Just imagine everything being screamed at you, and that's Tarpon. You just have to see it to believe it.
  • zitiqueen said:
    zitiqueen said:
    It was pre Thunderdome.  Maybe the summer before??  There's a couple of regs still left, mostly on Married Life and TIP I believe.  But actually, a couple and that's it.  
    TarponMonoxide is in her fucking glory over there now that there's nobody sane to rein her in.

    SIB


    That's exactly who I was thinking of when I wrote this!!  :)
    Who is this woman and why is she so infamous?
    Tarpon comments on every post.  She's very direct and blunt.  She will write paragraphs for each post, sometimes on several different posts in the same thread.  And she has no problem telling you what an idiot you are for staying with your SO.  Lots of times she's right, and she's often the absolute beat down some people need to get out of bad situations.  No kick in the pants here.  Go check out TIP or Sex and Romance.  She's all over those ones.  Just click on any post and she'll be there.  

    ETA - Any special snowflakes who think we're rude and to the point here haven't met her yet.  :)
    Right, it's not that she gives bad advice, it's just... I don't know, there's blunt and honest and then there's Tarpon. She parses every sentence of every post and leaves a comment. Just imagine everything being screamed at you, and that's Tarpon. You just have to see it to believe it.
    That sounds exhausting.

    It's nice to know we're welcome over there but I think I want to stick around here for a while. I like this crowd!
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  • zitiqueen said:
    zitiqueen said:
    It was pre Thunderdome.  Maybe the summer before??  There's a couple of regs still left, mostly on Married Life and TIP I believe.  But actually, a couple and that's it.  
    TarponMonoxide is in her fucking glory over there now that there's nobody sane to rein her in.

    SIB


    That's exactly who I was thinking of when I wrote this!!  :)
    Who is this woman and why is she so infamous?
    Tarpon comments on every post.  She's very direct and blunt.  She will write paragraphs for each post, sometimes on several different posts in the same thread.  And she has no problem telling you what an idiot you are for staying with your SO.  Lots of times she's right, and she's often the absolute beat down some people need to get out of bad situations.  No kick in the pants here.  Go check out TIP or Sex and Romance.  She's all over those ones.  Just click on any post and she'll be there.  

    ETA - Any special snowflakes who think we're rude and to the point here haven't met her yet.  :)
    Right, it's not that she gives bad advice, it's just... I don't know, there's blunt and honest and then there's Tarpon. She parses every sentence of every post and leaves a comment. Just imagine everything being screamed at you, and that's Tarpon. You just have to see it to believe it.
    Gotcha, thanks!  How many of you gals are active over there or lurk over there?

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  • I lurk when it gets pretty dead over here.  I'm always hoping for something more and I always leave disappointed.  I also lurk Book Club when I need ideas for new books, but I don't often find much

  • I'm active on Money Matters and Buying a House, I lurk in Getting Pregnant/GP Moms (not TTC quite yet though).
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  •  I lurk a lot on Money Matters (will probably get more active once FI and I are married and want to get us on track with a budget). I lurked on the Buying a House board but it's SO dead that I mainly just looked at old threads to get ideas/answers.
  • zitiqueen said:
    zitiqueen said:
    It was pre Thunderdome.  Maybe the summer before??  There's a couple of regs still left, mostly on Married Life and TIP I believe.  But actually, a couple and that's it.  
    TarponMonoxide is in her fucking glory over there now that there's nobody sane to rein her in.

    SIB


    That's exactly who I was thinking of when I wrote this!!  :)
    Who is this woman and why is she so infamous?
    Tarpon comments on every post.  She's very direct and blunt.  She will write paragraphs for each post, sometimes on several different posts in the same thread.  And she has no problem telling you what an idiot you are for staying with your SO.  Lots of times she's right, and she's often the absolute beat down some people need to get out of bad situations.  No kick in the pants here.  Go check out TIP or Sex and Romance.  She's all over those ones.  Just click on any post and she'll be there.  

    ETA - Any special snowflakes who think we're rude and to the point here haven't met her yet.  :)
    Right, it's not that she gives bad advice, it's just... I don't know, there's blunt and honest and then there's Tarpon. She parses every sentence of every post and leaves a comment. Just imagine everything being screamed at you, and that's Tarpon. You just have to see it to believe it.
    Gotcha, thanks!  How many of you gals are active over there or lurk over there?
    I am fairly active on my local board there, but I lurk on ML and such when my local board and TK get dead. 
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  • I go over there maybe once or twice a month. I'm mainly at GBCN and here.
  • zitiqueen said:
    zitiqueen said:
    It was pre Thunderdome.  Maybe the summer before??  There's a couple of regs still left, mostly on Married Life and TIP I believe.  But actually, a couple and that's it.  
    TarponMonoxide is in her fucking glory over there now that there's nobody sane to rein her in.

    SIB


    That's exactly who I was thinking of when I wrote this!!  :)
    Who is this woman and why is she so infamous?
    Tarpon comments on every post.  She's very direct and blunt.  She will write paragraphs for each post, sometimes on several different posts in the same thread.  And she has no problem telling you what an idiot you are for staying with your SO.  Lots of times she's right, and she's often the absolute beat down some people need to get out of bad situations.  No kick in the pants here.  Go check out TIP or Sex and Romance.  She's all over those ones.  Just click on any post and she'll be there.  

    ETA - Any special snowflakes who think we're rude and to the point here haven't met her yet.  :)
    Right, it's not that she gives bad advice, it's just... I don't know, there's blunt and honest and then there's Tarpon. She parses every sentence of every post and leaves a comment. Just imagine everything being screamed at you, and that's Tarpon. You just have to see it to believe it.
    Tarpon tells you to leave your husband and go get therapy a lot...  Sometimes I love her, sometimes, not so much.
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  • Though, she's often right about that.  

  • Though, she's often right about that.  
    Oh, for sure!  I play a little game.  I read the dilemma, see that Tarpy posted and guess if she tells the poster to dump their SO.  I win every time!  I think TN is a testing ground for 'am I crazy for feeling this way?'


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  • That's so funny that TarponMonoxide came up in this conversation. I'm a total lurker on the trouble in paradise board and she's ALWAYS firmly in the leave him camp. I usually skim over her responses because I hate reading shit that's been parsed out and dissected.  
  • This whole thread makes my lurking experience over at TN make so much more sense.  It was like, "Why is this dead?  Who is this Tarpon Monoxide?  Why is she so upset all the time?  Is everyone here involved in a relationship where the husband has a Tinder/OkCupid/active porn addiction /overly 'friendly' female coworker?"


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  • I lurked on TN for a bit because my cousin told me about it and showed me screenshots of her conversations (arguing with women). I had no idea it was related to TK at the time. I'm on Treehouse but haven't posted regularly. I just feel that people post frequently and I like to catch up in stuff. To me, it's hard to read though a lot of pages of stuff. I do like it though, it's blunt. I think TK will always be my main spot :-)
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  • I would lurk in Home Decor and some of the married life blogs.  I wanted to get involved in What's Cooking, but it was awful!  I wanted to chat with other ladies about cooking, but 75 or 80 percent of the threads would be the same one or two ladies making a new thread EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. they wrote a new blog post and then posting the link to their blog in the thread!  Seriously, make ONE THREAD, and then post your link to your new blog post in that same thread.  Then you're not spamming every one, and yes, that is spam, because you think you're God's gift to cooking (that's how it came across).

    I just looked at it a few minutes ago, and it looks like it's not that bad anymore, thank goodness.

    Re: Tarpon.  Yea, Tarpon was one of the regs I remember. But there was one other one, and she had a sig that had her two little girls dressed up as Thing 1 and Thing 2 from Dr. Seuss, if I remember correctly.  And those two would end up just arguing threads.

    I also remember a young married woman giving her opinion, and a reg (I think it was the Thing 1, Thing 2 reg) asking her how long she'd been married (it was advice the reg didn't agree with), and when she said 2 or 3 years, the reg basically said her opinion/advice wasn't valid because she hadn't been married long enough.

    Also, if anyone posted an opinion about being a Christian or a Biblical view of marriage, it seemed like they just got read the riot act and flamed for it, which I did not like.
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