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Originally Posted by Lasereth
BTW: in a nutshell, the reason TFP isn't doing as well as it used to is due to new members being bitch slapped anytime they create a new thread that's not 1,000 characters long or when their thread is closed when they didn't use the search feature to find the other similar thread from 2003 that is dead.
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I really don't think this is the cause of the lack of traffic on the TFP. I've been here for a while now, I haven't left or taken a break of any kind and I've hardly seen any of these closed "newbie" threads of which you speak.
I understand your attitude with old threads. What I don't understand is people's fear of bumping up old threads. The official policy here is that if a thread topic has alredy been discuss, you add to that pre-existing thread rather than make a new one. Yet, whenever I do that, people get all weird on me, saying "why'd you bring this up after all these years?" It's forum policy that I do! Where's this confusion come from?
Finally, here is my personal opinion on the current state of the TFP.
It's really the same old site it has always been except with a lot less traffic. I appreciate that the site isn't filled with fuck-wits but it would be nice if it were a little more lively. I don't know what we can do about this. I'm sure it's advertised as much as it can be and that we recommend it to all who would be even remotely interested. Two colleagues of mine,
Yakk and
PsychoMan are on this site from my recommendation (it was all I could talk about for a while). Yakk is still here (and might even post more often than I do) but PsychoMan hasn't posted since 2004. Why didn't he stick around? No reason in particular. Too busy with life and not enough interest in this forum. No big deal except that more and more people are feeling this way about the TFP, it seems. Who can say why?
I noticed that
Tilted Knowledge was merged with some other forum 'cause it was so dead. Considering how this forum has some of my very best posts, you can see why my presence isn't nearly as known as it once was.
I don't see anything wrong with
Concept: Anarchy. The idea is worth an experiment. I think Supple Cow is insane and her attitude is inscrutable.
I'd like to hear more opinions on the state of the TFP. The last time I brought up the lack of traffic here all I got was an unhealthy amount of "it's summer, they'll be back in the fall" denial. Honestly, you don't solve problems by denying they exist and being defensive will never help you...