I'm starting to feel like...

[shikitohno]

sagedil. Honestly, I used to check this site a bunch of times every day. Since the update to the site, I've just been coming in less and less, and every time I do, I look around and wonder where the Snuson I used to know went. Snus and Snus Accessories has lost primacy to People and World Around Us, where I usually just see the sort of crap news and political debates I can find in the comments section of any news blog. Protracted political rants that devolve within a page into "You're a liberal, ergo you're a communist trying to ruin our land, and Obama is secretly a gay, Muslim, transgender, terrorist Terminator sent from the future to ruin America!" on the one side, and the other screaming "Oh yeah, well you're a Fascist who wants our children to die in senseless wars while the 90% of the people who aren't rich starve, and Dick Cheney is actually Hitler's zombie, and also happens to be a mentally incompetent paedophile, possessed by the angry spirit of Ed Gein!"

Maybe I've just burnt myself out on SnusOn, but it just seems to me like the forum has gone too far in trying to provide everything, and it's kind of lost touch with how it started, and what it's really about. I'm a little bummed that I'm finding myself mostly sticking to SnuffHouse, with the rare venture (and even more rare post) over here, and was wondering if it was just me. Anyway, just giving a little heads to the friends I do have on here, so that they know what happened if in the coming months my visits and posts taper off even further. There's a good chance I'll still check in occasionally, but I don't expect to really be posting much any more, simply because almost everything on here either bores or aggravates me to no end now. Maybe I'll just go hang out in the Newbies section, where people still regularly talk about that snus thing I hear we used to discuss on here.

Edit: By the way, not really trying to knock Ice or anyone. For many others, it seems like this is still a great forum to them. Just saying, it's not doing it for me like it used to, is all.

[GoVegan]

Sorry to hear that and I hope you change your mind.

Hey, if you start telling all of the newcomers to not worry about the PACT Act and advising them to use 2 extra sterk portions whenever they crave a smoke I will think that you actually beginning to feel more like Sage. I do wish he would come back. He always said how he felt and it was kind of romantic that he met his wife on here. I also wonder whatever happened to snusmon.

[Frosted]

I was thinking the total opposite - I think that it's gone quiet.

I love all the verbal wranglings that go on, and the banter but there has been less of that recently - and the chat box is as dead as a rotting corpse. Bring back Tex!!!!

[lxskllr]

Interest comes and goes for me, as well as the desire to participate in the political stuff. I've felt more in the mood for politics lately, but it only holds my interest for so long. As far as snus goes, the PACT and FDA stuff took some of the fun out of that, and I kind of settled into a snus groove. New flavors and stuff doesn't really interest me, but I'm looking forward to the SnusX lös kit being available to Americans, and hopefully Gotland will come out with an interesting lös sometime in the near future, but I'm just coasting. No news has been good news after the disastrous spring we had. Anyway, I hope to see ya around, even if it isn't as much as it was in the past :^)

[Premium Parrots]

no one leaves here without a fight. put'em up dude

[Owens187]

it's definately not the same as it used to be, I agree. I find I haven't been around all that much lately either, due to the forum being mostly politics and religion, and conspiracy theories, and not much about snus. I think pact just put a damper on the whole thing for some people.....

[Frosted]

Yeah but Owens - I find it really hard to talk about Thunder Frosted every day.

[shikitohno]

Interest comes and goes for me, as well as the desire to participate in the political stuff. I've felt more in the mood for politics lately, but it only holds my interest for so long. As far as snus goes, the PACT and FDA stuff took some of the fun out of that, and I kind of settled into a snus groove. New flavors and stuff doesn't really interest me, but I'm looking forward to the SnusX lös kit being available to Americans, and hopefully Gotland will come out with an interesting lös sometime in the near future, but I'm just coasting. No news has been good news after the disastrous spring we had. Anyway, I hope to see ya around, even if it isn't as much as it was in the past :^)

I think that's part of it too. I've found the brands I really like, settled in, and I've already tried the ones in interested in at present, so the novelty has sort of worn off. I'm not really planning on leaving, I'm probably just going to be going back to lurking.

I was thinking the total opposite - I think that it's gone quiet.

I love all the verbal wranglings that go on, and the banter but there has been less of that recently - and the chat box is as dead as a rotting corpse. Bring back Tex!!!!

I'm talking in a longer scale than you, perhaps. Right now, there's hardly anything going on. But I'm more complaining about how I remember a time *wavy lines all the way back to...well, about 8 months ago, actually* where new threads in the Snus & Snus Accessories outnumbered People & World threads by far, and I'm sort of waxing nostalgic for those halcyon days. Also, which tex are you talking of? If it's texasmade, he's got some things to work out at the moment, but last I spoke to him he doesn't have a steady internet connection and getting one isn't his biggest priority at the moment. I can't really say much more, it not being my place to do so for him, but it's pretty safe to say, it may be a while before he swings in again.

Also, I like the debates, I just don't like the shouting matches. A lot of people throw around terms that they intend to shut down discussion now, as I see it. I'm willing to have political debates, but I've seen too many of them here just devolve into "Oh yeah, well you're an X!" with the implication being since someone believes something they don't, or supports different political ideas that it somehow invalidates all their opinions. I've also long since grown tired of people who have an argument successfully refuted, and refuse to acknowledge that, instead posting the same tired old argument for eight pages with no variations or attempts to render it more sound based on pass defeats. And a lot of people simply don't seem to get that faith, gut feeling, or random sources aren't credible evidence. I can't have a debate with half the people on here, because guys like tom (tom, you're awesome, I just couldn't have an argument with you without wanting to slap you) or that fellow in my evolution thread don't get the idea that if you're trying to prove something, like say you're trying to disprove global warming, they don't get why Ann Coulter is not a credible source of information. Arguing with them just makes me angry and accomplishes nothing.

[desirexe]

I think snuson has changed, it has grown and this pact issue seems to have slowed or halted deliveries for people to discuss. I know I haven't discussed snus lately because I have no new stuff to talk about and all the crap in my freezer, I've already written about here. I think the OT threads keeps people like me coming back to snuson. I went from getting 2 orders per month to 0 orders in the past 4 months combined!

[CoderGuy]

I think snuson has changed, it has grown and this pact issue seems to have slowed or halted deliveries for people to discuss. I know I haven't discussed snus lately because I have no new stuff to talk about and all the crap in my freezer, I've already written about here. I think the OT threads keeps people like me coming back to snuson. I went from getting 2 orders per month to 0 orders in the past 4 months combined!

It's funny cause I was thinking along these same lines just today. I check several times a day but there just isn't the excited snus talk there used to be, primarily due to PACT. No more bling, no more experimental orders or grabbing a few cans of every new product that comes out. My snusing experience now has dwindled down to monitoring my stach and wondering if I will continue once it eventually runs out.

[Premium Parrots]

so........no one appreciates my sparkling personality anymore. bummer

[shikitohno]

I've also been contemplating eventually moving on from snus, but I think I'm going to stick with it for a while longer, at the very least. I can't use snuff at work as much as I would need, and I can get away with snusing, so the snus stays for now.

[Owens187]

it's funny cause i was thinking along these same lines just today. I check several times a day but there just isn't the excited snus talk there used to be, primarily due to pact. No more bling, no more experimental orders or grabbing a few cans of every new product that comes out. My snusing experience now has dwindled down to monitoring my stach and wondering if i will continue once it eventually runs out.

^^this

[EricHill78]

I've only been part of the site for a couple of months so I don't really have any idea how it used to be. This site is great though, all my questions as a newbie were answered promptly and were a great help. Now being a snus user for a few months it's become a regular part of my life that's second nature and lost some of its excitement. So I'm finding myself checking the board less and less often.

[Premium Parrots]

I don't care what you all say. I'm gona have fun here even if I have to play with myself.