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Originally Posted by tasineah
I feel "part of" whether agreed with or not.
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As with most of my responses in these kinds of threads, someone landed exactly on my point but didn't pause to think about it before rushing off to complain about what I said.
There we have it. Either you feel like you're a part of the site or you don't. Most of the time folks go back and forth. That's why I wish someone would define, even roughly, who on the "in" crowd here. And what keeps someone "out". If you don't have the self-confidence to post your opinion on a fairly anonymous message board, clearly we're not your issue.
Here's the deal: the senior staff (admins) spend probably 40 hours a week working on the site, both up front like this and behind the scenes. Personally, I ban 15-20 spammers a week, most of them before they get the chance to post. That's all volunteer work, folks.
Could we be more welcoming of new folks? Absolutely, and we need to be. I wish I had time to personally welcome every single new member (that's not a spammer) but I've got a wife, 2 kids, a job that pays me more than I deserve and, you know, A LIFE. As I usually end up saying in every one of these kinds of threads, if your major complaint includes the staff doing/not doing something, it's entirely within your power to correct that. Unless you're flaming someone (ok, us [ok, me]) while you're "fixing" it (for lack of a better term), we're not going to care.
TFP is exactly what YOU, the member make it. It's not the staff. We put up the framework and make sure that it stays sturdy. It's YOUR job as the member to fill in everything within that framework. How often do we close threads? (Answer: less than 10 this year)
There are some very major changes on the horizon. We need to figure out how some of them are going to mechanically work first, but we're close. We're fixing one huge problem than I'd bet that there aren't more than 5 folks who aren't on staff know even existed. And it will make things so much easier on both the front and back end for us, that it's worth me posting 3 times in the kind of thread that I despise.