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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*]

Michael: Theoretically, maybe. Yearbook superlatives actually used to be fun, though.

I think the thread about whose posts you love/hate are pretty stupid, because if you're in that mindset,you're automatically going to write off whatever a particular person says as being stupid, or that someone else's input is predeterminitely superior. Not the threads themselves- I don't blame them- they just got me thinking. Every sisngle post a person makes is going to be different. Sometimes I'm going to sound like a condecending bitch, other times I'll just make a joke, give a thoughtful reply,say something absurd, etc etc. Between that and he cliquish member divisino, everything's becoming too black and white, and it doesn;t seem that we can reach a happy medium that way: one group overshadows the other, and then some just get lost in the shuffle.

I do feel like a bit of a dumbass promoting this bonding crap, but seriously, this is just miserable. I know it's just the internet (I hate it when people say that, by the way), but there's no harm in making something better when you have the chance.