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[quote user="edblysard"]<o:p> </o:p> I think what I am trying to get at is that a lot of the threads now follow the chat room format, instead of a question/answer/discussion format.   Ed  [/quote] Bingo!! Plus, the growing "this is MY forum, and I'm going to decide how others here must behave" mentality of a few of the core members seems to be dampening creativity here. Between Chad's "eating popcorn" smiley, JHHTrainsPlanes efforts to channel independant thought into pre approved master threads, and the handful of 'class tattletales' always threatening to "snitch to Bergie" whenever fun threads popped up that they disapproved of , I think that a lot of what used to make this forum fun has gone on to greener pastures.. Not that the members mentioned are not themselves great contributors, because they are. But if coming in here as a n00b I see that one member thinks that all "recently I saw" topics belong in one thread only, and that all generic questions belong in another,  you get the feeling that you are gonna get jumped on if you fail to ask your question, properly. So my suspicion is that such perceived rigidity, sends people looking for a forum with a less military mentality. By the same token, if member A and member B have a disagreement,  (people DO disagree, and if you've ever seen one of those quarreling married couples where they aren't happy unless they are at each others throats, you know that some people just like a good fight)  why not let them solve it them selves?  why must 3rd parties interject with their smart alec tauntings  of "hey, you're not getting along, lets sell popcorn" etc. ? There are a lot of people here who seem to assign themselves the role of surrogate parent, and as an answer to the question "where have some of the members gone?"I think it's fair to suspect that many have left because they tired of 17-25 year olds  pretending to play a parental role here. As much as I enjoy many of Bigboy 4884's contributions here, I can't even begin to count the number of times where he has claimed some form of personal imperilment over a debate going on between two other members,   and he takes  the initiative to try and play "forum cop",.. where I've wanted to say "Hey BB, if you really hate reading these types of posts, what's stopping you from using that mouse sitting in front of you to go find a thread you have less trouble with?" And I don't mean that to sound ugly, he sure isn't the only one to try and play forum cop, just one of the more blatant ones. But, I think that type of ersatz moderation has a dampening effect on forum creativity, because once the environment starts to feel "chaperonned", people start looking for a party where the people are allowed to have fun. People can say "hey your idea is really (bad/dumb/foolish/etc)"  for any number of reasons,  and that is just reality at work. Most people can take that.  But when you have a handful of people who start replying with "hey, you really shouldn't post topics like that here, I'm telling on you".....why is it such a surprise that those cast into the position of odd man out go find some other place, and leave the self appointed forum cops to enjoy their little private  world? FWIW, I think that Michael Sol is one of the brightest wicks to have ever visited this forum,and the band of jokers who have made it their business to gang attack him because of a difference of philosophies have done more to ruin this forum than any 10 "KMC" 's ever could. So long as the same band of rogue para-authorities continue to suffocate whatever they happen to personally disapprove of, why should it be any mystery at all why it feels "stuffy" in here? [2c]
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