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Or Queen Elizabeth saying, "Cracker, no wayz I'm reading all that ****"?
Perhaps you could offer some sort of incentive (extra privileges in the B&S forum or something along those lines?) to members who could contribute articles of sufficient quality. AAAC has a number of such articles (although the content in most of them is of poor quality) posted on their main page and I suspect that drives a lot of google traffic to their site. If you were to have some solid articles that answered a lot of questions about either men's tailored clothing or SW&D, I bet you'd see your site traffic increase. Those kind of front page articles might also be a good place for ads (if the revenue is of any interest) since they wouldn't necessarily be part of the forum.
IMO. DT and CE should be visible to 18 plus aged people for obvious reasons. Noob thread starts should be moderated for X time or until X posts are made. That steers them to at least add some content in existing threads. Ban the socks and out them in a locked pinned thread. I bet most of the dickheadedness will end. I'm an affiliate and I say what I say under no cover of a sock. Is it always in my best interests? Some say no but I disagree but that's a topic for another day.
It's one thing to have a post or two about it, but it's another when there are entire (very popular, I might add) threads talking about "fat anglo housewives." What do you think that would do to any even reasonably-minded woman browsing here?
I'm probably in the minority on this, but one of the main problems is posters treating SF like a blog rather than a forum. It's one thing to post about your trip to Naples or your cooking class that's going to lead to some fruitful discussions of interest to the community. It's quite another to start a vanity thread whose only purpose is to call attention to yourself. It doesn't help that many of these threads are the most puerile as well. I don't think anything can be done about this trend other than ask members to be more judicious about starting threads.
i'm a noob here and probably atypical (i came looking khakis of all things, and stayed for the community). but i have been on fora for a long time ... as have most of you, i know. but take a look at the front page right now and you'll see that there are 1,800+ people "currently active", which i take to mean browsing the site. there are more than 500 in MC alone ... and, of course 6 (six) in CE ... i guess what it adds up to for me is that as much as i find some of the behavior in each of the forums unpleasant, there seem to be plenty of people enjoying the site just as it is. I'm all in favor of trimming around the edges, but let's not go overboard trying to solve problems that we don't really have and as a result, driving more people away.
^^^ Do you put no stock at all in the "talked out" thesis?