Drama Llama

Shawn here 🙂

Thought I’d join up.

42, male, married, from Southern Illinois

A lot of you might already know me. I’m a forum and blog fanatic!

Have you ever had to go to a dermatologist?

It’s been 30 years since I last went to one, and yesterday I had a full exam that lasted like 10 minutes. I had a list of things specifically for her to look at and she examined the entire body. No signs of cancer, so I was relieved! I go back in a year for another full body exam.

When I say foreign language movies, I mean the movies in languages that is not your common tongue. How often do you watch movies in languages other than you speak?

Frankly speaking, I watch foreign languages movies more than the movies made in local language. I watch English movies, and English is a foreign language. I also watch French, Korean, Spanish, as well as Japanese movies.

I am a good cook. I say this based on the reviews I get from my family and friends when I invite them for lunch and dinner. I can cook various kind of chicken dish and rice dish. I am also pretty good at making salads and pickles. What about you, are you a good cook? What is your signature dish?

I think a lot of us know someone in our families that cause drama whenever there's a family get together or on Facebook. Some people like to stir the pot and won't reason with you because they view life in a different way. Who is that person in your family? I feel like a few of my cousins are like this, so I parted ways with them on Facebook. Life is too short to deal with drama, so I just cut people out of my life when they stir the pot too much.

Tell us how the weather is currently in your neck of the woods! Right now we're getting some thunderstorms, but it has cooled off since yesterday thankfully. I think the storms cooled things off. We're supposed to get more storms tomorrow too. I had to go out in the rain and grab my trash can, but thankfully it was just sprinkling then.

What hobby would you love to try if time and money weren’t an issue?

Chat Addicts is back!

As some of you may remember, Chat Addicts was originally launched in 2009. Unfortunately, it was later closed due to rising hosting costs and the loss of the database following a hard drive failure.

Since then, I have made a few attempts to relaunch the platform. The most recent relaunch ultimately led to its closure, both due to dissatisfaction with how certain features were implemented and, more personally, following the sudden and unexpected passing of my mother less than six months after my father.

Over time, I have continued to reflect on Chat Addicts and on how much I miss the classic, old-school general chat forums. With that in mind, I have decided to revive Chat Addicts once more, this time with a focus on allowing it to grow slowly and organically, while preserving the traditional forum experience that many of us value.

I sincerely hope you will choose to support Chat Addicts again, and I look forward to seeing what we can achieve together this time.

Find us at https://www.chat-addicts.net

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Lately I've been hearing and reading threads over on the Xenforo support forums that are full of drama. Between people complaining about the fact that Xenforo relies on third party devs for lots of their plugins to people feeling like they're being ganged up on by staff I've seen it all. I haven't seen too much drama on other support forums, I'm sure it was more of a problem back when forums were still super popular. Xenforo is one of the most popular forum software and the support forums are active so it's no wonder why there's some drama over there.

I'm curious to know if anyone here has ever dealt with drama while they were on vacation before. Whether it's from a rowdy stranger in a hotel, or possibly drama with another person in an amusement park I'd like to hear if you were ever caught in the middle of drama on vacation! I've thankfully never dealt with this, I typically keep to myself so I avoid any situation that could cause drama.

Spring is finally here for many of us, and I for sure am glad we are in Spring now. This past winter felt like a really long one and it was also a cold and wet one, which did not help at all.

As much as we are still going through some wet and cold weather at the moment, even though spring has sprung, I know that warmer and drier weather is on the way.

So far, my daughter and I have a day out planned, heading out of town to go to another city, heading to the cinema to see the BTS concert live in Goyang on April 11th, and we are hoping the weather is nice for that.

What do you have planned for spring so far?

These days it is very common for people to join multiple social media sites, however, they aren't equally active on each one of them. What social media platform you mostly use?

As far as I am concerned, I tend to use Facebook, Youtube, X, and Reddit most.

Do you like to use public communities where your opinion can be seen by anyone or do you like to use private communities where your opinion can be seen only by the members and it is protected from general view?

Well, I like to use public communities because I can reach a lot of people. Since I do not share opinions that might offend people, I do not have any privacy concerns while sharing my opinions.

I'm curious to see how many jobs everyone here has had in their lifetime so far. I've worked at four different places in my life and I'm hoping I can stay at my current job for years to come. I worked at a local grocery store, that was my first job and I did that for two years. I was only part time and making minimum wage, so I wasn't making much from that job. I needed to get something that paid better so I went to Walmart and stayed there for six years. Then I worked in a local factory that made coolers and freezers for grocery stores and was there for five years. Now I'm working at US Bank in operations and have been there for over a year, it'll be two years in October.

I'm currently using two browsers at the moment, I know I could just import my passwords and bookmarks from one to the other but eh. I'm using both Firefox and Brave, I use Firefox on my phone and Brave primarily on my computer but I also use Firefox on my computer too.

You know back in the early days of Youtube there didn't seem to be much drama, that all seemed to change in the 10's though once Youtube was getting close to it's 10th anniversary. Drama channels tend to draw in lots of content these days, and they don't seem to ever really stop. Then you got Youtuber drama, when some Youtubers will call others out and then all heck breaks loose. The drama I see was within the Hobo/Train hopping community on youtube. I watch a channel called Yard Buzzards and another channel called Techno Hobo. Yard Buzzards didn't like that Techno Hobo was talking a lot about catch out spots, which are spots that train hoppers typically chill and wait for a train to come rolling in then they hop on the train. Techno Hobo got wind of them being upset with him, so he called them out. It went on for a little bit but the drama has seemed to die down now.

I am on multiple social media platforms, I use social media platforms for communicating with friends and family, clients, as well as to market my products and services. I also use multiple forums, I run my own forums, I manage forums for clients, I am a staff on few forums, and I am active on multiple communities.

I haven't calculated how much time I spend on social media or forums but I believe I am spending more time on forums compared to social media.

There are people who run a forum for a long time, they stick to one or two forums and run these forums with a lot of dedications. Then there are people who frequently create a new forums, sometimes even closing the previous forums they were running. What kind of forum owner are you, do you frequently create a new forum?

One place that tends to stir up lots of drama is Reddit. You get power hungry moderators banning members from visiting their subreddits simply because they either post on a sub the mod doesn't like or they just don't like the way the user posts. In fact did you know there's a subreddit dedicated to Reddit drama? That's how crazy the drama is over on the platform! It's called r/subredditdrama if you want to check it out!

Some forum owners have a Discord server that goes along with their forums. Other people simply have a Discord server to talk with friends, and guild members. Do you have a Discord server and if so what is it about? I have a server but I don't really use it, I was going to use it to share my projects but I just prefer forums.

Bored Zone is a fun, chill community where you can chat, share ideas, play games, and find something to do when you’re bored. Join discussions, make friends, post your interests, and never feel bored alone again.

Come visit lots of games, activity and prizes!

URL

https://iambored.boards.net/

Hey there, I am Shortie and I am a mother of 4 from England, UK. I enjoy posting on forums, playing video games and listening to music, huge BTS fan (BTS ARMY)

Looking forward to chatting with you all here :)

A lot of communities have a marketplace section where users can buy and sell services, engage on trade, etc. Sometimes when a party refuses to go by the commitment or a offers less than what was promised, drama might arise. Do you see marketplace dispute dramas in your community? How do you handle such dramas?

I haven't done this myself but I hear that some forum owners create a fake account just for trolling users. They frequently create dramas. They are said to be doing this to get more engagements in the community. What do you think about this practice, have you ever done this or seen anyone doing this in a community?