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[NoSex]

Alright. I have noticed recently that these boards have been suffering from an obscene amount of spam and one on one conversation based posting. The entire vibe and feel of the boards have, in my opinion, reached a kind of low. The debate threads are more stagnant than ever. The lounge is a waste of time. The entertainment threads suffer any kind of in-depth or worthwhile posts. It just seems like the community boards are really beginning to suck.

The problem is, how would we solve this problem?
Do we need to punish those spammers? If so, will traffic decrease to a useless degree?
Maybe we can try to attract some older parties?
The debate thread could become exclusive. But, then it might actually become entirely stagnant.
The idea for an art subforum seems to be a push in the right direction.
Or maybe I should just find a more suitable community board?

What do you guys think?

[yummy_delight]

Mods definitely need to be stricter with punishing the spammers. A lot more warnings are definitely in order.But, the ironic thing is that a couple of the mods are actually participating in the spamming. So, I'm not sure how people would react to hypocrisy.

If we attracted older parties, I doubt they'd want to stay because the CB population is generally middle/high school kids. Worth a shot? Maybe. As long as they're not pervy ones who hang out in the booty/chest topics.

I hate to say it, but I already have been looking at other community boards because I'm frustrated with CB.