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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?

[*Statues/Shadows*]

Steven, I actually agree with pretty much everything you said.

On that note, I really loathe myspace. Let's not debate that; I just do.

I especially like your point about the growing division, though. On another board, people have sublety mentioned that they avoid certain forums because they;re overly cliquey, and generally unwelcoming. Obviously we're not going to get along perfectly all the time, but I think in general, we need to work on being civil to one another, rather than making more threads about homw much we hate each other. Thry're fun, sure, but they aren't constructive, and that's what we need: something to reuninte the community, somehow. If this mean letting go of old grudges, our biting our tounges instead of correcting someone's grammar, or improving one's own grammar for the sake of not pissing everyone else off, we should. One way or another, spam (or retaliation or aversion to the spam) needs to stop being our way of life here.


Anf those of you who are talking about this being fun: it's great once in a while, but you're driving the rest of us away. James and I got past that phase, now it's your turn.