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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?

[*Libertie*]

Okay, this is gonna sound rude, and I'm honestly not trying to single anyone out. That's my disclaimer.

It's not about us trying to silence anyone with a bunch of rules or anything like that. Fact is, it's annoying. It's annoying having to scroll down past posts that I can't even attempt to relate to, and by the time I get to the bottom of the thread I realize that there's not a point in even trying to come up with a response.

I agree that the spam has gotten out of hand. I agree that cB on the whole is much too cliquey. It's rare for me to agree to something like this, because I tend to prefer taking a more laid-back approach, and the last thing I want to do is keep someone from speaking his or her mind. I think we can still have fun on the boards even if we have to restrain ourselves just a little bit in order to follow the rules.

[Hiphop d[-_-]b]

Okay, this is gonna sound rude, and I'm honestly not trying to single anyone out. That's my disclaimer.

It's not about us trying to silence anyone with a bunch of rules or anything like that. Fact is, it's annoying. It's annoying having to scroll down past posts that I can't even attempt to relate to, and by the time I get to the bottom of the thread I realize that there's not a point in even trying to come up with a response.

I agree that the spam has gotten out of hand. I agree that cB on the whole is much too cliquey. It's rare for me to agree to something like this, because I tend to prefer taking a more laid-back approach, and the last thing I want to do is keep someone from speaking his or her mind. I think we can still have fun on the boards even if we have to restrain ourselves just a little bit in order to follow the rules.

And I agree with you about the spam getting out of hand, because I have been partly resposible for that. But then again, it's only been around 2/3 days that spam has gone overboard ( with me at least ) and cB reacts like this.

Ah, when I said that particular bit, I just meant that no matter how fun it is, the spam has to stop at some point, because the rest of us will go mad otherwise. That was all, and I speak from experience. I know I've had awful spam bursts, but that was far from my entire participation on the boards.

I understand that and agree.

[*Libertie*]

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And I agree with you about the spam getting out of hand, because I have been partly resposible for that. But then again, it's only been around 2/3 days that spam has gone overboard ( with me at least ) and cB reacts like this.

Ah, I know you guys haven't been doing it for very long, it's mainly timing in this case. It's been going on for a while with other people, in more ways than just conversing back and forth between threads.. It's just that you happened to be doing it when this thread was made. I'd rather not point fingers anyway, I'd just like for there to be a general understanding with everyone that if we want cB to stay active, the spam needs to stop.

@Shauna - I've seen other forums (one other forum, but I won't say the name) that have one forum for General Discussion and another for Extended Discussion. It seems to work pretty well, but as a general rule the people who visit one forum don't mix well with the people who visit the other forum. It's already like that here to some extent. I don't think it's a bad idea, though, and it probably wouldn't hurt to send some of the threads in the Lounge to the Sandbox. =\