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?

[creis]

i really like this site, i have not seen anything that is disrespectful to girls, however if its there it need to be removed, and those people need to be delt with. I happen to really like the "off topic" section, I think that most of us have fun just talking abour random stuff and while i love my car sometimes it just get to be to much, and i get board with it. (rare but happens)

value of "off topic"
the off topic section is very valuable to alot of people here, its a great way to hear about things that are going on it peoples lives other then there car, and its cool to discover things that we have in common with other people, maybe make new friends. it has brought a good smile to my face when people post "useless" things there, and a great way to get things off your mind.

what to do.
I think that it would be a good idea to limit the threads down, when i enter a section it has like 1000+ topics, when people only use the first 100 if that. after some time they sould be droped, not only to save server space, but to clear up some junk.
as for the censor stuff, i think that people try to do there best, and i have noticed that many members are still in high school. but there should be a 3 striks your out think, if you offend someone, disrespect someone, or anything inapropriate, than you get a strike. that stuff is not cool. (as far as i know i have not done anything like that but if i have then i'm a good example) maybe people dont know what that they have said something rong, this site is very wide spread to many differant countries (very cool) and there are differant standards in every one, so something that may sound fine to one person may not be to another, its hard to draw that line. and i think that if there warned they can understand it better.

note: your doing a great job on this site, dont beat yourself up over the little things that are not workin out. the overall thing is better than most if not all the ones i have gone to. you and all the management should be very proud