The Direction In Which The Site Is Going, And what to do about it Options

[Coomer]

Recently,
I've became fairly discouraged with this site. I get on the site multiple times every day, and each time I get on, I find all kinds of new stuff that irritates me.

Mindless, completely-useless posts in off-topic; non-related, stupid, or mean posts that ruin what would be good threads; topic titles that don't follow the rules in buying/selling that have been there for well over a year; people who only come to the site to cause trouble or irritate people; It all irritates me, along with the rest of the site's management.

We, the management of the site, think that lately the forums as a whole have gone a bit downhill, but we're curious what all of you think.

We're also curious as to what you all think should be done. Pete's in Japan and couldn't get in on the discussion of this idea, but Tim and I are considering changing the off-topic forum to be an "other cars" forum. That most likely won't happen, but we're sick of the completely pointless posts in off-topic. We all also are considering what to do about the people who constantly question others such as in the Lori Ann thread, and what to do about the people who constantly post pointless, off-topic stuff in the Celica forums, and what to do about the people who always post mean stuff on the site, and what to do about people who are mean to girls and treat them as if they've never talked to a girl before. I've had at least four girls talk to me and say that they didn't want to join the site or post in the forums, simply because of the way girls are treated on the site.

Tim is sick of it. John is sick of it. Pete is sick of it. I'm sick of it. Tim put it well when he said, "i feel like i havent left highschool yet when i go on 6gc..."

We're just wondering, what do you all think about what's happened lately, and what do you think should be done?

[Akimbo]

The quality of posts has definately been knocked down a few pegs. A year ago nobody would recognize this 6GC. It was totally different. It was a gateway to information. Recently, it has reminded me of Celica.net. Lots of inappropriate posts in the wrong forums, lots of repeated questions. Yes, B&S forums do not have appropriate tags. Nobody takes time to read the rules.

There are people here who seem to have a large superiority complex and enjoy dragging down posts of others. However, there are many people that are extremely knowledgeable about the Celica. I would imagine these people hesitate to post because of the immaturity of some members of the board.

The useless posts in off-topic. Well, it's off-topic. It's a zoo in there. I'm not sure what you would really expect it to be. It's bad, I'll admit. There's a lot of bashing in there, and a lot of confrontations. However I am not sure where that is going to lead. Making rules for the off-topic forum? What rules are there? No porn, no cussing, keep posts ON-TOPIC? How? What are appropriate threads for off-topic. The members of 6gc.net are just a large group of people. Large groups of people tend to talk about whatever is on their minds. Think about it, when you shoot the shat with your friends, what do you talk about? Probably a lot of random things. That's how I see it here.

I feel particularly bad for the females of the site. Most people DO act like they are the first girls they have ever interacted with. It's just above being in an AOL chatroom. We've got photoshopped pics of girls saying things. We've got battles between males and females. I don't get it. It seems like when a female posts, and gets more attention, it ticks someone off, and a battle begins.

I love 6gc.net. But, it could use a few changes. I'll post more when I read what other people have to say.

The "State of the Union" thread is a good topic. It's constructive. I think we should all express ourselves now. Try and keep names out of it.