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?

[Crzybakerdog]

Coomer i would not worry in which way the site is going. I just love how the site is setup especially how the fourms are. its hard to explain but whenever i goto another form other than this one i feel like im in a cage and cant really navigate easily either. plus the colors are traditonal and easy for everyone to see and read no matter what computer they log in from. as far as how the off topic goes just be a little more aware of whats going on in there like pics and videos that could be taking up large amounts of space and just delete them or lock them up so they dont get out of control. As far as people bashing others for not searching, i personally am not a huge fan of searching for old fourms and would rather just have someone with the knowledge just politly tell me the answers then say crap such as go search and what not. What you could do is for a time where a guestion has been asked a million times, make a faq page that would answer it for every new person that comes to the site as they can be directed twords that or have the thread be answered and delete the old one where it was answered earlier that way you dont have 18 threads on how to find the fuse boxes or what not. Other than that i would say keep it like it is now and remember that everyone is entitled to his or her own opinions.