Slims

I think you have too many forums.

TFP is becoming too...compartmented. I am sure it is not the only issue, but I think you are giving people too many choices, and too many opportunities to miss out on a good discussion.

Personally, I notice that I tend to spend a lot of time in my favorite forums and neglect others. I tend to do this even when nothing is happening in my main forums.

The only reason I found this thread was because I noticed it on the main page. I almost never go into general discussions anymore (though I should) because I just click on members playground.

Your forums are so specialized that many of them move very, very slowly.

It is hard to just drift into a discussion about something. In order for me to end up in a debate about politics I have to go to the politics forum...which will probably only happen if I am looking more for an argument than for a spontaneous debate.

I think Shakran is onto something about the porn, though I remember some nonsense a while back with some adult sites that prompted the change.


Rather than two seperate forums, you could perhaps let members choose what content they want to be exposed to when they sign up...Maybe a question in their personal settings: "Do you want access to adult content on this forum?" Something you have to opt into rather than get automatically after a particular post count.

That way the site would by default be SFW while pornhounds would be able to get what they came for also.



Of course, part of the problem is that the topics never change. Sexuality is always going to have some 19 year old guy wondering if he should ask some girl out or how to give oral sex. I think the older members of this board become less likely to take the time they used to to answer such questions.

I used to live on the TFP, but nowadays I am just not as captivated as I once was. Of course, I am now out of college and have drastically altered my lifestyle, but I think I have (mostly) exhausted the few sub-forums I frequent (sexuality, tilted weaponry, etc.).

I would condense the entire tilted creativity into 2 forums: Exhibition and Art. Condense the academy back to Sexuality and Living (for everything else). Condense Tilted Chatter back to two or three forums. I like the idea of a nonsense forum for all the 'what do you think of the previous poster' threads but drop everything else except members and general discussion. Recombine all of Tilted Interests. Definately ditch any forum that has a thread count under a thousand (or isn't new). To mix things up maybe periodically add a forum for a few months, but then before it gets stagnant replace it with something else. Sort of a topic of the week deal.


I know this is an extreme suggestion and I don't expect you to take my extreme stance, but I sincerely think overspecialization is killing this forum since people will get stuck in their one little subgroup and won't contribute to the broader Tilted Forum Project (and I am as guilty as anybody).

Edited to add: I also found this forum off of a FARK link years ago (2000 or 2001). FARK was, I believe, a major membership source for this site but TFP is no longer on FARK.

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