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cloudboy -> RE: How Can We Increase Participation on the Boards? (3/4/2006 2:34:30 PM)
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>Hmm, not so sure that sissy would want to see participation on the boards just for participation's sake.<
It would be an unadulterated disaster.
>the quality of posters, and the posts they make, is what is paramount, NOT the quantity of posts!<
Exactly, less is more.
>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 ...<
We are doing the best we can while you’re on hiatus.
>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.<
I think we should recycle the comparative debate between BDSM love and vanilla love. Of course there’s another problem, BDSM is only so interesting --- at a point isn’t there a natural bottoming out of the subject matter, except of course for the ubiquitious posters who have something to say to everyone on every subject? (By NOT naming names, this post may survive.)
>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.<
Where is this MB utopia you’ve visited?
>So why do you advocate for even more dross on the CMMB? As cloudboy stated, "less is better"!<
Dropping my name will always help you win an argument because the “cloud” in my name is pure white --- people respond to it --- unlike those grey rainclouds.
>Personally, I would advocate for much less mediocrity on the CMMB, NOT more.<
As expected, you were castigated down the line for being "an elitist.”
>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?<
I had a post yanked wherein I seriously challenged another person to back up their words. There was nothing ab hominem there, but my “opponent” had put herself in play by making ludicrious claims. Well, thanks to the MODs, those claims still remain unchallenged. Because she got upset at what I had to say, bleep, my post was deleted. I suppose as a sub, this was an honorable role for me to play.
The lesson I have learned is, “you can’t go there.” Only by staying general and generic can you be sure pointed criticisms won’t be yanked. Sarcasm and satire are also fair game for deletion.
>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.<
BTW, you’ve been de-pinked. I asked about this in a separate thread and the CM faithful showed little interest except for you, MH, Sir Kenin and Utopianranger. History’s in the past, didn’t you know that? Why should we care about it?
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