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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?

[pshaa.shauna]

[enters conversation]

This is actually why I don't spend a lot of my time on cb anymore. The spamming and arguements...it gets irritating. Very irritating. I know it does.


But honestly, there isn't anything we can do about it because the people who do spam, honestly don't care. If they get suspended, they make another account, adidng more spam for revenge. It's a vicious cycle.

Also, this place isn't very newbie friendly. Just...it isn't.

This sound ridiculous, but separate the Lounge into two different forums. One for the "Anonymous Shoutouts" and others like it, and then one for the topics with serious discussion. Yeah, it's a bad idea, but really there's nothing else you can do.

[Tribal J_Rome]

This sound ridiculous, but separate the Lounge into two different forums. One for the "Anonymous Shoutouts" and others like it, and then one for the topics with serious discussion. Yeah, it's a bad idea, but really there's nothing else you can do.

It's a bad idea becuase it won't work.