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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*]

I don't think we need more active members, so much as different active members. New blood. Or old blood. Just some change to shift the balance a bit. When Kathleen and Ariel came back for a bit, I enjoyed that, because we made silly topics that served to entertain us, yet weren't exclusive or spam.

A while back in forum games we had "forum dare or dare" which was really fun till we got shut down for making too many stupid topics, but still some interesting stuff came out of it, like the topic I had Sammi make on how to choose a sexual harrassment victim. However, when I tried to bring back the topic, it didn't work, and I am 99.9% that or that sort of thing wouldn't work now, either, knowing people's enthusiasm and what sort of crap they find funny

Which reminds me, the owls in member photos have got to stop. That stopped being funny...well, it wasn't ever funny, but now it's just reallu played out.