The Direction In Which The Site Is Going, And what to do about it Options

[Coomer]

Recently,
I've became fairly discouraged with this site. I get on the site multiple times every day, and each time I get on, I find all kinds of new stuff that irritates me.

Mindless, completely-useless posts in off-topic; non-related, stupid, or mean posts that ruin what would be good threads; topic titles that don't follow the rules in buying/selling that have been there for well over a year; people who only come to the site to cause trouble or irritate people; It all irritates me, along with the rest of the site's management.

We, the management of the site, think that lately the forums as a whole have gone a bit downhill, but we're curious what all of you think.

We're also curious as to what you all think should be done. Pete's in Japan and couldn't get in on the discussion of this idea, but Tim and I are considering changing the off-topic forum to be an "other cars" forum. That most likely won't happen, but we're sick of the completely pointless posts in off-topic. We all also are considering what to do about the people who constantly question others such as in the Lori Ann thread, and what to do about the people who constantly post pointless, off-topic stuff in the Celica forums, and what to do about the people who always post mean stuff on the site, and what to do about people who are mean to girls and treat them as if they've never talked to a girl before. I've had at least four girls talk to me and say that they didn't want to join the site or post in the forums, simply because of the way girls are treated on the site.

Tim is sick of it. John is sick of it. Pete is sick of it. I'm sick of it. Tim put it well when he said, "i feel like i havent left highschool yet when i go on 6gc..."

We're just wondering, what do you all think about what's happened lately, and what do you think should be done?

[Defgeph]

I dont like how newbs are treated. Look at this thread zebt66 He's talking about his 7afe and what he has done to it. Everybody chimes in how 7a's suck get a 3s. It very discouraging for newbs to post after that. I know I would have been like well, screw you guys. I think that the people here should help keep this place above the rest. We should keep the regular forums clean and helpful not aggrivating to a new user thats wants to learn about his car.

OT - Was created for worthless threads let face it. But, I think you should limit the number of new topics started by a member in OT. We all can remember a certain someone posting at least 15 worthless threads in a row. Thats just not right, Alot of very interesting constructive threads were bumped down be cause of it. For the most part the threads are kept porn,cuss,ware free. Which is great ! but people are always gonna argue and disagree there is nothing you can do to stop it.

I think thus far, we have been very mature about dealing with conflicts. Well for the most part anyway.
If this doesnt make any sense sorry I was on the phone while I typed this

thanks for this great site
DEF