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?

[shid]

(I should be at a car meet right now, but instead I'm bogged down at work doing NOTHING)


I agree, and I think the only way to fix a lot of these problems is simply more modding. The current number of mods can't be everywhere at once; so thats why a lot of the incorrect B/S threads etc are staying- the mods only have time to police the major infractions (like Mustang Man) This is my 7th forum since I started on the net (like, regular, checking every single day) and I'd have to say that it's the 2nd best. Sure, a lot of the bad stuff goes on that coomer is pointing out, but it's still very clean, and hasn't degraded yet.


But thats not the point, the point is, something should be done to keep the side from degrading! Sexist activity-

ok I can go to the meet now! I hope jiri and joe are still there.. I'll post more thoughts later! bye