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?

[orvillescelica]

inherently this site is perpetuating the import car culture. And one of the main aspects of that culture is socializing, interacting, and meeting new people you would normally never get to meet. This is what i believe the O/T is there for. Sure, some of the topics and posts may be stupid, but people are stupid as a whole, its bound to happen.

The problem as i see it is not the site, but rather the people in it. The site has stayed true to what it was founded to be, but the problem is that many of the members have been around for so long that the posts in most of the topics have been covered. theyve read the arguements of turbo vs swap a thousand times over, theyve read what people think of 'X' brand shocks and 'Y' brand pads. Some of the people have gotten bored, and thus they have unfortunatly turned to making immature comments and harrassing others without provocation just for, the only reason i can see, attention. I do not think the site needs more policing, i just think that people need to think before they post. Its as simple as that.

Although i also believe the behavior of some of the members here to be delporable, i am glad to see that the majority of the site remains true to the reason it was created. Look at all the information that this site has, the knowledge that it contains, the influnce it has had in bringing together people from all over the world and bringing light to the wonderful cars we all have and love.