sissymaidlola
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However, i think there's a consensus that the vast majority of CM users never come here. How could participation be increased?
Hmm, not so sure that sissy would want to see participation on the boards just for participation's sake. That would NOT be a good thing at all.  IsHO, the quality of posters, and the posts they make, is what is paramount, NOT the quantity of posts! Even though only 5% of the CollarMe membership may currently post here (your statistic, but it sounds about right based on sissy's participatiion on other message boards), probably only 5% of that 5% that already post actually have something interesting to say and also know how to present it, and thus are worth the time and effort invested in the reading. More is NOT always better. Cue Bruce Springsteen: 57 channels and nothing on ...
Much of what is already posted on the CMMB is recycled discussion and absolute illiterate piffle and thus a waste of time and bandwidth, which makes stumbling across the actual good stuff all the more difficult. The ideal for sissy would be a message board where almost every post one read gave you an epiphany, an orgasm, or made you snort your coffee!  There are some posters on other boards than can even deliver all three experiences in a single post!  Unfortunately, on the CMMB, you have to plough through literarally hundreds of posts before you stumble on one that might only come close to delivering such a payload. So why do you advocate for even more dross on the CMMB? As cloudboy stated, "less is better"!
Personally, I would advocate for much less mediocrity on the CMMB, NOT more. sissy Would love to see a new forum here called "lola's Desert Island Dicks" where only sissy and his favorite dozen CMMB posters were allowed to post. That would then be the only forum sissy would need to visit here. And that forum would really, really sizzle ... so much so that sissy would have to change his moniker to "sizzle maid lola"! sissy Is quite sure that everyone reading this post also fantasizes about a forum with their own name on where only they and their favorite dozen or so posters were allowed to post. If so, then that completely vindicates sissy's point, doesn't it? That would mean that you, too, only want quality rather than quantity in your life. OMG, how un-American of you?! Don't you know that bigger is ALWAYS better and more is ALWAYS best ?!  Sheesh, shame on you ... get with the goddam program, won't ya! 
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New people sometimes run afoul of the mods, or other members, who are familiar with board protocol. Most people i have tried to "bring over" have given up in frustration.
Maybe, just maybe, the problem wasn't with the new people that "ran afoul of the mods" or other "sacred cow" members, but lies instead with the current standard of CollarMe moderation and/or the established CMMB clique? No, no ... that couldn't possibly be the problem! No way! Nix that. So the conclusion one must draw from your statement is that ALL of the folk you have "brought over" here, candystripper, are deadbeats!  They obviously didn't appreciate the nuances and subtleties of message board etiquette, and probably didn't realize that having 50% of their posts "mysteriously deleted" is par for the course on ANY message board. Whatever were they thinking?
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5. Increase Sections.
Whether this would really increase interest is unknown; what is known is that the boards would no longer fit on a single page, which might be a key programming goal. However, if it is worth considering, e.g., the major fetishes might get their own sections. It isn't something board members could affect.
There may already be too many forums on the CMMB ... adding further ones would not change anything. But adding more forums would not stop all of them being displayed on one page because the number of forums we already have causes that page to scroll in your window anyway. Currently, the mods spend much of their time moving posts from the busiest forum ("General BDSM Discussion") to the more appropriate forum that they should have been posted in in the first place. Why do posters make their original posts (OPs) in the wrong forum? Well, one reason is that some of them are lazy and/or dumb asses who cannot be bothered to determine where they should post their OPs.
However, the fact that the majority of mis-posted OPs that are moved originate in the "General BDSM Discussion" forum also gives a clue to the real reason for the mis-posting of new threads. The posters put them in the busiest forum because they perceive that they will be read by more eyeballs there. While that dynamic persists, creating more eclectic forums on the CMMB is only going to create more confusion for the users and much more work for the mods. That would all detract from the time the mods are able spend deleting posts. Oh, just a minute, candystripper, sissy thinks you might be on to something here ....
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i see a loss of something valuable in the fact that most CM members do not post.
You are looking at this issue completely ass-about-tit. The real loss to the CMMB is NOT the folks that have never posted, and would have nothing to say even if they did. You cannot miss what you never had! The real loss to the CMMB are the well-respected posters that did have something to say that used to post regularly and now no longer do so. The question you need to ask yourself is: "Why does the CMMB have one of the biggest attrition rates of any message board?" Only then will you start to properly comprehend the "real" problem.
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Of course, if someone is a CMMB "sacred cow" they can always have a moderator remove a post they don't like. Hell, there has to be some privileges associated with having all those paddles after your name. It's the CMMB equivalent of the frequent flier's trip to Hawaii. Of course, when a CMMB "sacred cow" is ALSO a moderator then it becomes even easier for them to remove a post that they disagree with. 
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