shakran

Hehe. Halx. The TFP has a rep People know what's here. Plus as NG pointed out you kinda mention it in the guidelines.

I don't think you can pull the mention of it either and only reveal the porn once the user gets "promoted" - - then you'll get people coming here for a pure discussion board, and being shocked/pissed when the porn is revealed. I think you have two choices here - -either open the porn up to the newbies again, or kick it over to the new forum.

I'd vote for kicking it. One reason is because of the workload on you and the other mods. You'll have to go back to the old system of badgering all the porn leechers to post again. The other is because I think that, especially now that you have a core userbase of people who like what you've built here and want to see that continue, you can attract more people if the stigma of porn isn't here. As diverse as the forum is, we're much narrower than we could be without the porn - that porn is gonna keep away anyone who doesn't like it, or who believes their religion forbids them to be near it.

While the initial reaction to that from some will no doubt be "fuck 'em, we don't need that close mindedness around here anyway" we have to realize that that's a very good way to form an exclusive and obscure club. One of the underlying themes of this board that, despite indications to the contrary from others in this thread, still exists is it's overall philosophy of acceptance. Gay? So what, doesn't bother us. Transsexual? That's OK too. Hell we even let Republicans on here But if we keep the "acceptance club" open to only those who already accept everything, it's very hard to show the closed minded ones the right path. Appeal to a broader base and not only will you increase your user count, but I think you'll have the opportunity to do some real educating.

Just my thoughts.