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?

[neoklis]

Well its time i post my views as well:
1. Cant see the reason for offtopic. IF there isnt one, people that psot there will be posting on another site.
2. some immature posts have been appearing, thats true. The only way to minimise this, is to just not reply to this post. If you dont pay attention to them they will just go away.
3. the FAQ for each section is an excellent idea. I usually learn most of the things from FAQ posts and then i go for more info.
4. On immaturity again, most of the U.S. members are teenagers and highschool kids that have the Celi as their first car. Just imagine how immature these highschool kids are in a HONDA forum. In general, i find them quite mature for their age and personally i can understand them sometimes as i am not very knowledgable about the Celi and sometimes i am even afraid to post in order to avoid people getting on me.

I really did not find this tread needed but i don't visit the off topic section so i dont know how bad things are in there. As for some people posting without following the rules in the B/S section, thats because nobody read the rules. I think if you have a pop up thingy to come up everytime a person starts a new topic in this section would solve this problem in a large degree.