Originally Posted by Sage

Wow.

Hal, you're doing a great job. I really like TFP, and I understand that it's going to evolve, and that the evolution is driven by the people who are on the board. Right now, everyone knows everyone, and honestly you can only talk about so many things with a group of people before it starts to get boring. If porn is going to bring new faces to TFP, then let it. We'll deal with the assholes as they come, and seperate the wheat from the chaff.

That being said, if we DO actually get new people on the TFP, then there's going to have to be some wrist slapping among the people who've been on here forever. It IS a henhouse sometimes, and there when I felt I had to step away for a while it was because I honestly felt like since I wasn't a member of the clique of cool people that my posts didn't count. This is TFP, it's supposed to be a DISCUSSION board (kinda like a seminar in college, I feel). If you want to go somewhere to feel important and loved and in a clique, go play Second Life- it's free too.

Part of what makes the internet fun and humorous is, well, humor. Being silly and stupid. Having people express their opnions and letting them say stuff they wanna say. We can totally make sure that threads don't deteriorate into a flame war, but for fuck's sake y'all, we're all adults. I don't want to feel like someone is going to start whining if I express an opnion that differs from theirs- and that's happened to me. I've totally posted trying to give someone advice and pointing out what I didn't like about previously posted advice, only to have my post be dissected because "ZOMG! YOU DIDN'T AGREE WITH ME!!"

There's reasons why threads like this would have been met with "QQ" or "TLDR" or "L2P" in other forums- because this is the internet, not real life. I deal with snot nosed tattletale kids all day, cause it's my job. The last thing I want to have on a message board is snot nosed tattletale adults. I don't think TFP needs a "goverment" or a "court" to moderate posts- just four or five really good, level headed, dedicated mods and Halx to make sure things are going as HE wants them too. Because what it boils down to is that this is HIS board, HE created it, and honestly he can do whatever he damn well pleases with it IMO.