The Ohio Sci-Fi and Horror Marathons

Over the past 4 or 5 years I have wondered why there is such a lack of activity on the Columbus Sci-fi message board. There are about 10 core people who post and that's about it. Boston has probably 30 core posters and there always seems to be activity 3 or 4 months before the event continuing until about 2 weeks after the event. They have 241 registered users compared to our 68.

C'mon Columbus!

Maybe the fans aren't as hardcore...maybe it is that the Boston event is older...maybe it's that Boston started their message board a couple of years before Columbus started theirs...Maybe it's because the attendees in Columbus just don't care enough to want to post. I'm not sure. Do people not know about the board? Is it not on the flyers or publicity.

Tell yer friends to post. Have your grandma chime in on what we should show. Maybe your aunt has some suggestions on how to stay awake for the whole 24 hours. I don't know....

This is ohio, we are a very apathitic state. John Carpenter's They Live should have been filmed here..

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I second the disappointment Carter. I do think that we don't have as many regulars and also our board is in it's infancy. Plus a good percentage of Boston's board seems to be populated by trolls.
I notice that our fearless leader has been posting a lot over there lately and not here. Hopefully, he's just tied up putting together a great lineup of films and doesn't want to tip his hand too much at this point. Plus it'll take a couple weeks for the excitement to die down over there I guess. If this board is the same on the third weekend in March I will be severely disappointed.

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We are only a little over a month away! The board should be going bannanas! I probably don't post as much as others. Maybe once a week or so. I do read it everyday when we get this close to the event.

Forget your troubles c'mon get happy,
you better chase all your sleep away.
Shout hallejulah c'mon get happy
get ready for the Marathon day!

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YOU SAID THE CERTIFICATE WAS SUITABLE FOR FRAMING, BRUCE! SUITABLE FOR FRAMING!!!

I can't speak to all the reasons for your "dissapointment" with the Ohio board, but to say that "a good percentage of Boston's boards seems to be populated by trolls" is highly innacurate. Yes, we had this "Kevin Walker" guy hanging around complaining about everything (funny, he has NOT posted since the Marathon, where most gave the event a big thumbs up!), and occasionally some of our regulars ACT like trolls, but they are isolated examples.

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I LOVE BOSTON!!!

In re-reading my post, i can say that yes I was being unfair when I said a "good percentage." I love reading the Boston boards and it makes me want to go there someday. I think the reason that the Boston boards are livelier is that they seem to veer off topic a lot which makes for interesting tangental discussions, and these are not necessarily negative for the sake of being negative. I meant no disrespect.

Plus, they do have a heck of a lot more registered users and frequent posters. I don't think the word of mouth for our annual gathering is nearly as big as we wish it were. Attendance seems to be okay for the last couple of years, so I hope that won't be a problem anytime soon. I don't know, does anyone else have any theories? Do not that many people know about us? Or do we just have a lot of lurkers?

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I LOVE COLUMBUS!!!

Do you mean the city, the guy, or the Marathon?

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Honestly, I think some people are scared to post here. Sometimes I don't blame them.

God knows I am scared

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Good to see you back here Wolf.

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