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(GRADED) Deep Dive #2 - Thunderdome or thunderdomed?
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(This post was last modified: 10-01-2022, 01:07 PM by Scrufdaddy. Edited 1 time in total.)

When you ask someone on this god forsaken hell scape of a website what their favourite part of the site is, you could get a variety of options. Player progression, the history tabs, discussion platforms? The options are almost endless. A year ago however the main answer you would receive from the vast majority of respondents would be the Thunderdome. To those uninitiated the Thunderdome has always been the go to place for beef, problems, dick measuring contests, and practical jokes since the formation of the site. A season would not go by without some sort of major issue popping up, usually in the offseason as people would get bored. The Thunderdome has seen it all, calls for the abolition and or replacement of the site owners, public lynchings (both deserved and undeserved) the calls for the full on ban of entire teams, and racist and sexist tirades based on seemingly nothing. The Thunderdome was the spot to go if you had beef with someone, but it was also the place to go for a quick laugh either looking at whatever bullshit was going on at the time, seeing serious issues devolve into thread teams, and who didnt make them, and recipes being suggested and discussed until Head Office inevitably shut the thread down after one party gets too heated and uses a slur, or going back and rereading the issues of the past to reassure yourself that everyone has in fact always been this stupid. But lo! The days of yore have seemingly passed us by as the Thunderdome has devolved into nothingness. The last decent post in that section of the site was a post going after a GM of an SHL team from last year, the majority of posts since being either inside jokes, or decent takes on the state of hockey culture. Almost every post since the Izzy post that can be considered an actual post has been more of a discussion than anything. So why has the Thunderdome died out? Well one reason may be the purported existence of a Thunderdome discord. While this writer can neither confirm not deny the existence of this discord, as he has not joined it. This would make sense as people would not feel the need to double up on these issues. Another possibility, though slim, is the maturing of the userbase… yea I didnt think so either. This leads us into the idea that people are just cussing eachother out in discord direct messages, though personally i feel like that would eventually carry over onto the site as a whole. The last possibility I will leave you with is simply the annexation or ban of everyone that has at any point been deserving of a true thunderdome. While im not saying thats a bad thing, making the site more welcoming by removing those with deep set and troubling biases and prejudices will always be the right move, it does leave a void of people deserving of being called out for shit takes and slur usage. At the end of the day, by making the site more progressive, we are losing parts of the site. While personally I think thats the right thing to do, it does make one miss the team building brought on by piling on someone whos been an awful human to the point they quit.

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