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Postby stooz » August 15th, 2018, 8:52 pm
An interesting post everyone.
The very nature of this site is one to emulate (and bow down to in some cases) the fantastic community feel of the original TMF.
I often felt more a friend of strangers than a random keyboard warrior there.
The lessons from TMF were - good moderation and fair rules as the purpose and use of each (very) varied topic/room
We have only aimed to emulate. This very Biscuit Bar is here purely to invite, receive and give an open forum to discuss this sites very purpose and methods of use. This thread is one such welcome thread. You are welcome to not venture into the bar. You are welcome to avoid the open discussion of how the site is run, and stay in the highly entertaining and useful other sections of course.
We could remove all option of feedback, or hide it behind closed PM's - but is that really any better?
It's meant to be clear that other areas are for the discussion of the topic in hand and and deviation should be avoided. I have suffered myself in forums where anything goes and rules are more a suggestion. In short, it doesn't work and useful information, discussion and debate are hidden in trashy one liners.
But at the heart of it all is me.
I pay to keep this place (with the support of ads and donations) open and happy and rely heavily on the moderator team for which I cannot praise and thank enough. There is no way possible I could manage alone (nods cap to clariman as well)
If however there is concern about moderating styles, consistency or general complaints you are all more than welcome to PM me.
Which is another interesting fact - no one ever does. Maybe 2 a year.
So are you all just enjoying the openness of the site that tolerates feedback, negative or constructive? If not surely you would have brought it up directly if not?
And my final thought (ooh I feel all Jerry Springer)
The stats (as queried ) are that we have a constant and regular amount of new and repeat visitors, guest or silent users in the most case.
To put it into context, well over a million visits a month and since you can read 20ish posts on one "visit" thats a lot of individual messages being read.
Now I need to go and have a good talk with myself for excessive use of brackets.
Stooz ( not my real name - a pseudonym to hide my real identity that I have done for over 20 years - because i'm shy like that)
Damn - more brackets....