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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?

[*disco infiltrator*]

Yeah, I remember a time, maybe a year to a year and a half ago, where everyone on the boards knew eachother and talked to eachother. The community was very tight-knit. And, people still followed rules. It was so much better then...

I think that the amount of active members we have now has made things difficult. When there is a large volume of people, there will inevitably be small "groups" because there's just no possible way that everyone can be friends with everyone.
graphics and html and so on and so forth. The focus is no longer on that. However, CB can still be fun.

Things I feel need to stop, very quickly:
- praising so called "bluntness"; it's not blunt, it's mean.
- spambombing; it's not funny, never has been.
- posting inside jokes from your own CB clique
- stop fighting for the sake of fighting, or entertainment

Things I feel need to happen:
- mods need to crack down on things that are happening so often and are against the rules; username sharing to avoid suspension and spamming are two of those. without cracking down, they'll just continue to happen because people can get away with it.
- more connection between mods & members; mods are sometimes alienated from members and members seem to have an extreme dislike for the mods they don't know and really like the ones they've talked to. i think we all just need to talk more, off the forums. i've been making an effort myself to go into chat more, but since i seem to be one of the most disliked mods for whatever reason, that hasn't changed much...

Yeah, that's all I can come up with right now...