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Originally Posted by Halx
If people worked their butt off to create original and interesting content for the board, we wouldn't need the sure-fire draw that porn provides.
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What do you define as interesting content? I'm pretty much done contributing original content to this site. I have an extremely varied taste in hobbies, and a habit of documenting them...I actually have the pictures for four or five more writeups on my memory card, but it just isn't worth the hassle for this site. Anything I put up here gets very little feedback--an average of about five or six replies on the writeups--(although I love the feedback it gets, don't take me wrong!), and because of the porn, I can't link anyone to it. I don't regret putting them here, as I've made one important connection (hi doodlebird!), and maybe inspired two or three people, but I'm going to pull all of them off and put them in a personal blog. I like this place for social interaction, but as a creative outlet, it is extremely lacking.
I'm not trying to be full of myself, but a comprehensive writeup on a topic of general interest, with clear pictures, is about as interesting as content can get.
Just for reference, here's content I've contributed in the last six months:
If I'm barking up the wrong tree here, somebody tell me. I guess these topics aren't really conducive to discussion, but then again, traffic-generating user created content like you are describing is never going to be anything more than a message board equivalent of a youtube vid with 'thanks that's great!' or 'can you clarify some details?' type comments. It's actually ironic that I mention youtube, because I posted a retarded 30 second clip on youtube showing how to shoot two nerf guns at once, never really linked anyone to it or did anything to promote it, and, in the same six months, have gotten more comments on it than all of my writeups here combined.
I've never seen a top 10 digg (or reddit, or del.icio.us) link that reads "A really thought provoking community discussion about whether it is ok to date two girls at once." or "Is fish meat, so I can know if I can eat it?"...not to imply anything about the quality of those particular topics. TFP is more like a group blog than anything else, and its normal content isn't of the type to generate any traffic. The couple articles that you, Halx, wrote are about the only things that saw significant traffic bumps, and those were only because you pushed us to digg the content. If all content doesn't get the same push, we'll never get traffic from it.
tl;dr version: I've tried generating content for this site. It doesn't draw views feedback, or traffic...I could have gotten more feedback on it by leaving it saved to my desktop and asking people to look at it when they were at my house. Without significant changes in attitude, keep the porn or the site dies.