Adapting the boards for a broader audience Options

[Psykopath]

This has been brought up a lot recently with the revived push for new members.

Too many random BS posts (be it crude, sexual, etc.) are flooding the boards in random places. Certain threads are understandable (like in LR&AR), but to post about "tit hats" in a "Letters of Recommendation" thread is getting annoying.

I understand that this is the internet, yadda yadda, and I don't necessarily mind random crude humor...but we will not attract new members by continuing such childish e-behavior.


BUT!!!... we mods have been chastised in the past for doing such things as controlling excessive language.

SO, what's it going to be? Free for all and no new members?
or
Mods keeping things as the rules say & have a more friendly messageboard to attract newer members?

This post has been edited by Psykopath: Sep 29 2007, 12:09 AM

[Erik B.]

let me borrow your girlfriend

No offense here, but I think it's partially things like this that people are complaining about - not what you said, per se, but the fact that it has absolutely nothing to do with this conversation and only serves to derail it.

Of course, now I'm guilty of it, too.

I'm just now starting to get back to the boards after a hiatus. I like all these proposed changes. I've tried to come back occasionally, but have generally been driven away again by the lack of much real content. Conversations that look good generally would stray so far off-topic that by the time I sorted through everything it would be pointless for me to chime in on the original topic because nobody could really remember what it was in the first place.

Honestly, I don't know what the squabbling is with the mods. I've been lucky enough to miss out on (or not care about) all the drama.

I do think that this site was great, even back in the days of the great schism (good times).

I'm starting to wonder, though, if we've dug ourselves into a rut that we can't get out of. Even if we attract new members, will they come rushing in in such large numbers that they can overwhelm the inside jokes, and overall clique that this board has set up and create a new atmosphere welcoming of new blood? The only way out of this, I think, would be, as was suggested, to wipe everything clean at the same time as a new member drive in order for there to be the chance of a creation of a new community that new folks don't have to try to find their niche in, but rather can help create from a ground level.

[FORSAKENR320]

No offense here, but I think it's partially things like this that people are complaining about - not what you said, per se, but the fact that it has absolutely nothing to do with this conversation and only serves to derail it.

it was a reference to the 3-some he had in another thread

[Erik B.]

it was a reference to the 3-some he had in another thread

Exactly... another thread that has absolutely nothing to do with this one.

[FORSAKENR320]

Exactly... another thread that has absolutely nothing to do with this one.

so, what is your solution to this? we only talk about whats in each thread and only whats in each thread.... who do you expect this to be a working practice for a forum this small? it won't work. if we didn't know each other, and had more people so that the threads actually remained active, sure. but we DON"T. all we'll end up with is a bunch of trolls who have nothing new to troll. and then what? they'll leave. we have to have content before we can organizse that content. and we need more people to have more content. catch 22