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?

[BlackCelicaGT94]

As a girl its hard to go to any Car site cuz it feels like "hey forget waht your car looks like. Show a picture of yourself first"

ill admit ive staged selling my car cuz i didnt wanna be on the boards so that maybe a month later i could sign on as someone else most likely a guy from oregon and people wouldnt know. it feels like im the most mistreated girl on the site. How bad is that that i would think of doing that so then i could maybe get a lil respect??!!
Ive also thought about PMing coomer a few times int he past week to just erase my account cuz some guys get pretty rude with their comments. Im not the only one who feels that i get the most crap. I have people form this site I IM with who also recognize that i get the most trash talked to.



i also recognize that some of the downright OT topics stem from me. I.E. my day of 15 topics. I think a lil bit better moderating needs to be done. if its down right OUT THERE - please see DO YOU IRON YOUR MONEY! then erase it!!!

i know the moderators sometimes shouldnt have to go in and moderate. Most of us are over the age 16 if not over the age of 18 and should be a lil more mature even though it is off topic (me included)

also i think we need a delete your own topic button. I know a lot of my topics would be gone cuz they start to get out of control

This post has been edited by BlackCelicaGT94: Jun 10, 2004 - 10:12 AM