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The Demise of Auto-Admit
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Date: November 28th, 2008 5:56 PM Author: nofapping native Subject: The Demise of Auto Admit Rocket science is not required here. There has been no “adult in the room” to monitor this space over the last year or so. I was drawn here when my son (class of ’12) was looking for a college. At the time (summer ‘07) there was interesting discourse, and posters, such as NYCFAN (not sure if I have his ID right) who brought useful information to the forum for rational discourse. OK, so many thought he was pumping a certain point of view. Maybe so. But he also posted more hard information and real links than anyone else on the forum.
Then, I don’t know, may 6-9 months ago, the board became overrun with posters who thought obscenities, one-word responses, TTT flaming, insults, etc., where actual discourse. Moronic behaviour, infinitely repetitive re-posting, and an astonishing lack of courtesy (the opposite of enlightened discourse) overwhelmed the board. The discussions about the top colleges and universities in the world became overrun by people who, based on their behaviour, could never have hoped to attend any of them.
And through this all, there was no adult in the room to delete these plainly idiotic posts. Hey, I support free speech. I am a card carrying ACLU contributor and member, so I am a free speech guy. But, when all of the bandwidth is occupied by those who don’t add - - only detract - - from the essence of the topics being discussed, why bother to tune in? If I want low-brow entertainment like this I can tune it to Jerry Springer.
In my view, the failure here is that of “rachmiel,” if that is the name of the person who owns or is responsible for this board. For rachmiel left us with all the jackals, and no power to purge them from the community. We have been dragged down to the lowest common denominator, and for a board that represents itself as “the most prestigious college discussion board,” that is very sad. Over the past few months, if you, as a reader, could not have deleted >50% of the posts as being patently idiotic, then you weren’t paying attention.
So, rachmiel, you have failed miserably in your oversight responsibility here and we have all paid the price. I would encourage you to make a statement on how you propose to manage this board in the future, so we can all determine whether we want to be part of that future or not.
For me, I’ll check back a few more time to see the responses to this post (I’m not optimistic), and after that I will probably delete this bookmark and sign off.
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Date: November 29th, 2008 3:28 AM Author: sexy chapel rigor I don't think I would put so much of the blame on rachmiel, but otherwise, this is what I would call stating the obvious; many on this Board hate *NYCFAN* because they resent his Harvard education (and the fact that he is proud of it), no reasonable person can disagree with the OP's assessment of the current state of the Board. The law Board is "active" but there is absolutely no serious discussion going on there, not even 5% of the posts. The problem is not that people are impolite or un-PC (which I don't care that much about) but that they do not use this forum as a place to exchange serious ideas. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=891925&forum_id=1#10435716) |
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Date: December 1st, 2008 11:19 AM Author: Diverse Territorial Locale Didn't he go to Harvard in the 70's? Much easier then IMO. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=891925&forum_id=1#10444238) |
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Date: December 1st, 2008 12:26 PM Author: adventurous voyeur no, he was class of -58 or '59--i forget which, but m aybe . rofl. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=891925&forum_id=1#10444387) |
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Date: December 4th, 2008 3:04 AM Author: pungent casino gunner There's a dynamic to these boards, which I've seen played out in another area I follow.
Initially the group starts up, all these people who are genuinely interested in the topic flock in, and there's a period of vigorous and dynamic discussion.
Then after some years, the posters who made it tick originally are no longer very interested in the topic; they've already got what they came for, and are by now basically sick of talking about it. But they still hang out here from force of habit; when they log on to their computers they click in here by autopilot. So they start disrupting things, talking trash, taking pot shots at people, simply because they're bored. And on a basically unmoderated forum nobody stops them.
What's needed to keep things going are: new blood, and some way of keeping the old-timers interested and productive. The problem becomes, new blood is actually truly better served in a moderated forum. Because then they don;'t have to wade through the jaded people's BS to get actual answers to their questions. So when moderated forums have risen up, and the old timers at the old places have basically made them disfunctional, the newbies flock away to the other place. For good reason. And then all you're left with is crotchety old timers who don't care about the topic, pissing on each other. The end.
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Date: March 18th, 2010 3:08 AM Author: lake site KIKE (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=891925&forum_id=1#14424491) |
Date: November 28th, 2008 8:20 PM Author: Mind-boggling stag film EVERYBODY DANCE NOW! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=891925&forum_id=1#10434665) |
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Date: November 28th, 2008 9:32 PM Author: swashbuckling range tcr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=891925&forum_id=1#10434807) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2008 4:14 AM Author: swashbuckling range (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=891925&forum_id=1#10448489) |
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Date: November 28th, 2008 8:29 PM Author: vibrant umber hall lolwut? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=891925&forum_id=1#10434673) |
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Date: November 28th, 2008 10:38 PM Author: Ocher stimulating wrinkle spot-on post. I was always an advocate of moderate moderation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=891925&forum_id=1#10435086) |
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Date: November 28th, 2008 11:05 PM Author: spruce property sup NYCFan.
BTW, you helped kill the college board. The law board, however, is thriving, and mostly because at least there they don't take your shit for a second.
HTH |
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Date: November 28th, 2008 11:29 PM Author: pearly arousing queen of the night dragon True. The Law board is largely t14 law school people who rocked the system at top colleges or top state schools and are headed for good/above avg legal careers. Then there are random grad school/med school/business school types. Also some law grads who are now practicing in biglaw (Rowan, earl, Renada, beta795, fulano, etc).
The "problem" is that they dont always make PG-rated posts. Oh noes! LOL. They don't want some toolbox, boring discussion forum like collegeconfidential or whatever.
NYCFan, grow the fuck up. You are 70, use your remaining days to do something other than make passive aggressive posts about rachmiel. Handle your outing with grace and move on with what remains of your life. |
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Date: November 29th, 2008 3:43 AM Author: sexy chapel rigor The "problem" is not that people don't make PG-rated posts; that has always been mostly the case on this Board. The problem is that no one on the law board is engaging in any serious discourse. If you had been around back in the PR days you would understand. There were quite a few interesting schticks back then as well, and the posters back then had, if anything, more impressive backgrounds than the posters today, but back then there was at least a significant minority of the posts that could pass for somewhat serious discourse.
If you think that there is any serious discourse on the law board you really should check out a forum where intelligent people post comments, like the Volokh Conspiracy. It's like another universe. |
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Date: November 29th, 2008 4:30 AM Author: spruce property Did you really feel the need to post under two different monikers, NYCFan? Same writing style, same point to be made, made at the same time by two different people who otherwise haven't posted in months? We're not all as stupid as you.
Though I have to admit your OP was funny. "This NYCFan fellow, if I'm getting the moniker correctly, offered valid support." I like how you pretended you didn't know much about the board but yet also cared enough and knew enough to comment on its problems across time. LOL, you're pretty transparent, and as pathetic as usual. |
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Date: November 29th, 2008 6:36 AM Author: Hairraiser Regret HLS_Grad is NOT NYCFan. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=891925&forum_id=1#10435865) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2008 8:35 PM Author: self-absorbed circlehead digit ratio if you write out "serious discourse" four times on the internet in a single message board post you get a knock from santa, and even maybe the pope. what's wrong with you, dude? you only had one more to go... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=891925&forum_id=1#10451117) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2008 10:10 PM Author: pearly arousing queen of the night dragon 180, subtle pwnage, well played. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=891925&forum_id=1#10451672) |
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Date: November 29th, 2008 12:58 AM Author: Walnut lodge ape Indeed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=891925&forum_id=1#10435409) |
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Date: November 29th, 2008 12:21 PM Author: impertinent juggernaut Wow. NYCFan is basically the only person who contributed to the college board in years. In fact, the board officially "died" only when NYCFan stopped posting a few months ago; up until then he singlehandedly posted enough information to make this worth reading (at least for high school students). Now I fully expect trolls to go ahead and claim that I am NYCFan notwithstanding the fact that 98%+ of my posts on the law board have nothing to do with the topics that NYCFan has traditionally been interested in.
And don't tell me the law board is any better there. All that you have on there are posters shilling for Obama, homosexuality or interracial dating (not that there is anything wrong with that one), ranting against religion or making one-line posts that are for the most part not even law related. |
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Date: November 29th, 2008 7:43 PM Author: henna hot roommate 1) NYCFan's "information" was fucking useless. All his school-related information was largely useless statistics that were shitty attempts to troll for Harvard. That's all. Just because his posts were school-related didn't mean they were particularly useful.
His goal wasn't to help students. It was to subtly reinforce his never-ending diatribe about how Harvard is supposedly better than Yale. Even the Harvard Crimson has recognized this fact. It's a shame you can't.
2) The board didn't die when NYCFan left, the board died when he was fucking with it as a terrible moderator. |
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Date: December 1st, 2008 1:50 AM Author: pearl elite psychic largely true post.
I don't think HLS_Grad is NYCFan, but it really doesn't matter. That 70 yr old dude almost single handedly killed this board with horrible and biased moderating. |
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Date: December 1st, 2008 4:16 PM Author: Ocher stimulating wrinkle deluded post^ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=891925&forum_id=1#10445223) |
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Date: November 29th, 2008 12:45 AM Author: pearl elite psychic First off, Alex, retire -- very few people shed tears when you quit your insecure trolling for H.
Second off, here is a much better comment from the (much) more active side of the board, the side with people working at top law firms, attending top grad schools and colleges, and keeping alive the ideals of free expression of AutoAdmit:
http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=891862&mc=11&forum_id=2 |
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Date: November 29th, 2008 12:58 AM Author: Walnut lodge ape titcr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=891925&forum_id=1#10435408) |
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Date: November 29th, 2008 6:38 AM Author: Hairraiser Regret wow, it's crazy how fucking paranoid this board has made you people... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=891925&forum_id=1#10435866) |
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Date: November 29th, 2008 6:58 AM Author: Glittery immigrant national It's even weirder how several monikers never seen before suddenly show up to defend the OP. lol, good to see you're still the same old weirdo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=891925&forum_id=1#10435870) |
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Date: November 29th, 2008 12:31 PM Author: impertinent juggernaut Bothered and HLS Grad have never been seen on this board before? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=891925&forum_id=1#10436205) |
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Date: November 29th, 2008 12:42 PM Author: Hairraiser Regret actually, i'm a lurker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=891925&forum_id=1#10436229) |
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Date: November 29th, 2008 12:55 AM Author: Razzmatazz Dilemma "Then, I don’t know, may 6-9 months ago, the board became overrun with posters who thought obscenities, one-word responses, TTT flaming, insults, etc., where actual discourse"
Leave bothered ALONE! |
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Date: November 29th, 2008 2:50 PM Author: citrine crawly whorehouse There are many reasons for the fall of the college board, but NYCFan is not one of them. That guy is obviously a Harvard troll, but he posted lots of relevant information and was helpful to college applicants. He made the board better.
As PR transitioned to xoxo, the earnest college applicants were scared off by non-moderation; spammers, folks posting racist stuff, and trolls made the board a bit inhospitable, and all the serious folks went to CC. We make fun of CC but they were visiting PR in the past. The Law board survived because GTO and the other folks committed to it. |
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Date: November 29th, 2008 6:32 PM Author: Carnelian startled striped hyena 1. It is what it is. 2. NYCFan was a pompous ass. Good riddance. 3. You are NOT for free speech. You can't pick and choose the speech you like and simultaneously advocate censorship. Hate speech is disgusting, but it's a constitutional right, you fascist. |
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Date: December 2nd, 2008 3:08 PM Author: mauve hyperventilating garrison http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/
HTH |
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Date: December 2nd, 2008 8:31 PM Author: self-absorbed circlehead digit ratio flame. I hope NYC and his daughter get raped in a bi-sexual (11 inch dildos), interracial (90% black cocks) gang bang and then finished off with an acid bath. NYC is a troubled lonely pathetic individual, and fuck him up his wrinckly shit-encrusted asshole. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=891925&forum_id=1#10451086) |
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Date: December 2nd, 2008 10:36 PM Author: Dashing brilliant idea he suggested church best post in the thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=891925&forum_id=1#10451867) |
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Date: February 10th, 2010 12:36 AM Author: lascivious box office pistol Subject: Let's not forget that Nycfan went back and erased history While Moderator he went into the archives and erased all negative comments about Harvard. Although he trolled for Harvard, his actions spoke poorly of his Harvard education. why does a 70 year old Harvard grad troll teen chat sites anyway? |
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*thinks about raping mama with a harpoon* |
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