Top Ten Reasons TheTopTens Has Declined

The Top Ten
1 List quality has declined

Hey I joined in some point in early December and I'm not like any of these things. Though I did write an episode of a new experimental post series I decided to do, though the episode is the first out of three intended parts of it but it's not copying any ideas only the post was way shorter than what I intended. Anyway that's my rant and all of you are awesome (well except maybe JBL, BarneytheDinosaurrocks, the Frozen caps girl, and some other person that is a user on here- but this last person isn't a troll I just don't like this person because our opinions are way too different- [I like different opinions than mine and opinions similar to mine, but I can't stand opinions that are too different from mine]).

Some people actually make lists on other categories, and seem to know nothing about it, so it counts as low-quality drivel instead of being a list with a lot of potential.

Seriously, what kind of list is "users with the stinkiest farts"? And don't get me started on those ridiculously edgy "ways to kill (insert person here)" lists.

That's the reason I don't make many lists anymore. I'm brutally honest and people just really don't like seeing new things.

2 Nowadays there are more quantitative lists over qualitative lists

Lucky for me I only have 11 lists so far and I guess they're very much relevant to the topic of the list, but yeah those ways to kill [insert person here] lists are annoying also I don't like lists on disgusting topics. (I know that list making is like a main thing on this website, but I don't want to make too many lists because then I'd run out of ideas of what to make them about and they'd end up like how Modern SpongeBob and 9th season-onward of the Fairly Odd Parents- completely stupid).

I hate how there is so much obsession over list stats.

Most votes are going to Greatest People of All Time

3 Too many special snowflakes

I don't think this site has too many special snowflakes, excuse me, sacred cows (I think that's a better term, since these kinds of people think they're immune to criticism), on this site. But lately, on other portions of the internet, I have noticed it more often. I hope TheTopTens doesn't get covered with these kinds of folks.

4 Much of the content is now cliched

Same formats again and again for blog series. Same desperate attempts to get attention and to make something interesting. Don't be afraid to try something new!

Dante's Inferno revival may be needed in some shape or form (half the users in it have retired now).

5 The user quality is declining

I joined in January 2014, back when we couldn't have custom profile pictures, and the website's colors were blue and green.

Now, I get an average of 3 votes a day, and the only way to get 20 is by getting a lucky list put on the newest lists.

It really annoys me when people do this:

Oh Yeah, That's Really Annoying, I Don't Like It When They Do That.

A bigger problem is that the older users don't have much time to devote for this site.

6 Many of the great users have retired

Can someone name off retirements? And by the way, my fake retirement WAS REAL when I got my phone fixed

I honestly don't think there are many users left that have been here longer than me.

Yeah I see more and more quality users either retiring or doing less stuff.

I'm going on a hiatus with a unknown return.

7 Many of the older users have become over shadowed

Boy do I miss the old users. This site used to be more enriching and funny - but that may be my biased nostalgia.

Still, you never know what the future entails.

8 The site's continued over sensitivity

Therandom has a point. After all, I should try to stop being overly sensitive as well. It just makes myself look immature when I become sensitive.

This is a site for use by special snowflakes, where strong criticism, i.e. calling out posters or giving them a taste of their own medicine is deleted--simply not allowed--no matter how ignorant, inaccurate, offensive or downright vile the poster may be.

To the visitor who posted that many users are "special snowflakes", which is most likely that I am also being referred to, the policy allows fair criticism, as long as they aren't ad hominem or personal attacks. I get criticized, too, by other users and visitors, and I can also criticize them through pointing out flaws on the action made, and not the flaws of the person. All it disallows are personal attacks. And no, I'm not attacking the visitor personally. He/she just refuses to give him/herself some actual recognition by the users, and also points out flaws on many users, which is considered as "criticism", and is also an evident example of being a "special snowflake".

I honestly feel that this site contains a lot of hypersensitive people and not many mature people.

9 The admins keep changing things for the worse

We can't even comment on a single list multiple times anymore until you can vote again. These admins are bad at their job.

I hate that we can only vote on a certain list and only comment once. This site just keeps getting worse and worse.

Yeah I guess. (What!? It's not my fault I don't exactly pay attention to what the admins are doing most of the time).

Okay, first visitors can't add lists anymore, now we can't add items to lists. Powerfulgirl10 is right, this site keeps on getting worse.

10 Some blog series are poorly made

And other blog post series take too much time to make just to improve quality. This is what's happening to me.

I think my blog posts, especially my old ones, are pretty bad. But I think I'm improving a bit.

There are still some good blog series such as Skullkid755's Mind Destruction series and Therandom's Heroes vs. Villains

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11 Too much trolling

Seriously, just ignore them.

But I hate the fact that one particular visitor on here receives so much hatred just for expressing an opinion or challenging a comment made by any eponymous user. This is an opinion site so why aren't opinions allowed to be aired? Many of this visitor's (valid) comments get deleted. It's wrong.

12 You can't dislike comments anymore

We cannot just go around praising everything. The site will be ruined. Admin seems to do want to do that, make it seem that we all love each other's company.

Why did they get rid of the dislike button?!

This one bums me out the most.

13 Running out of ideas for lists

I know it may seem weird, but it is possible to run out of ideas for lists. Almost everything has been done... And it's not just TheTopTens by the way... the whole internet is really scraping the bottom of the barrel nowadays. Just as watchmojo.com or buzzfeed.

True. that's one of the reasons why I kinda dislike 2016,considering that the things I like have gone downhill. Like Nintendo. And TheTopTens. Its really sad.

14 Bad grammar
15 Number of listings for each list page dropped from 100 to 20

This change isn't that bad. The 100 items was a pain to me and it didn't load all the items and the screen stayed stuck. This is one of the new changes I can tolerate.

I think it should be 50 items per page. Or a way to set the amount through profile settings.

This isn't a problem anymore, as there's a search list option and a skip to page option.

I'm okay with this change to be honest.

16 Visitors can't add items to lists anymore

This is beyond stupid. Visitors not being allowed to make lists I can understand but not being allowed to add items to lists? This is one of the reasons why this site is declining rapidly. People have the right to add whatever they want to certain lists. They just want to share their favorite things with the world. It would be boring if there were only like 102 items on a list and not more that people can add.

In fact, visitors can't even make lists anymore. Admin, give visitors their rights back.

What wars? We still should have the right to add something to a list!

17 Non-registered people can't add a list anymore

Now users can't find ideas to add lists. They're running out of list ideas. And non-registered people, lots of good old lists have been added by them.

18 Users older than 15 years are now a minority
19 The policy is still extremely flawed
20 The new users stink

Not all new users are bad...

21 Lists that make no sense

No offense, but there are lots of lists like "top 10 characters you'd like to kick/punch". Those lists don't make sense at all. I mean is there any point about these lists? One or two lists are okay, but random lists like these are annoying.

There's literally a list of cartoon characters who should start a specific kind of metal band. Why? What is even the point of these lists? They make absolutely no sense at all!

22 Inaccurate lists

Sooner or later some idiot is always gonna submit an adult movie to a kids movie list of submit a 2010s movie to a list full of 2000s movies. People never do their research!

23 Terrible admins
24 Valid comments get deleted because of people who can't take criticism
25 User suspensions
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