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?

[Cragspider]

Coomer, I don't know what to say. Maybe you could use a couple of more mods that can help out? But Lately I have been just checking on the site. I post when the new guy needs a question answered that I can help with. Now some of the other members could be a little more mature about things and be helpful or not post anything at all. But there are some members that probably need to be delt with severly, and we all know of a couple. I duno if you started this thread because of what Clayton posted in C.net. But I will say this about your site that you created. It is by far my fav place to come when I hop on the net. Maybe if the original guys who first came here that still post/lurk the site could help out the little guys when they need the questions answered instead of telling them to use the search opion, which is a great thing by the way, they could tell them what they are looking for and mention to them about using the search option also. I think at this point in time the amount of info that is coming into the site has slowed down a lot since a year ago. Yes this is a great place for info on our generation of car. However we realy haven't had a lot of new things/people coming into the site to add some new things.
Bryan