I... I think i follow everyone

Yeah, right? It was always here - the adult games had the same chatbox system, so you could accidentally get into the general chat from there, even, but moderation was a lot stricter about it. Then after the adult stuff came the spambots, and then the forum basically got wiped, like, twice...not many people came back. I see a few names I remember from then around, but not that many.

 

Yeah. I was just looking at the members list, and the most active members are *almost* all old friends of mine from when I was first on here, and they mostly left around 2011/2012. A couple visited once or twice since then, but...

 

Yeah, it's been a real feelstrip down memory lane, looking at that xD To be fair, the original owner all but vanished at one point, which didn't help; any change of ownership is going to change things, and there were a lot of things - like the Spambot Wars - that didn't help with it, and weren't anyone's fault.

 

Pretty much. I think once the spambots were being dealt with, a lot of the mod team and staff didn't like the way it was now, there were some real fallings out back then, and they left. And that led the way for the second wave of spambots and an even greater change in the community...that was when I switched accounts to this one; I realised that it was a different community so I came back as a different account instead of keeping my original one.

 

I'm still just impressed that people who haven't been online in 8 years are still higher on the "post count" table than current users. Although it kinda shows how active it was then.

 

Sleep well, hun <3

 

I'm 100% on board with moderation. I'm actually more in favour of scrapping the adult stuff completely if it gives a better community.

The key issues you have that way are that you *will* get predators who can be even harder to spot up front and moderate away, exactly because kids are on here.

So yeah. I don't know that there is a solution that fixes everything; there'll be pros and cons either way.


Also, r.e. my previous comment - "back in the day" (just so I feel old), there weren't any direct links that were too easy to find to any adult content, and at one point, no adult content on the forums outside a single sub. I get that there's a market for it that'll bring people in (hell, if I'm being honest, I found that side on google and moved back into the community from there), and maybe it's too late now to move back to what it was completely. It's a complex question; honestly, I figure a lot could change if the whole groups thing gets scrapped (maybe reset, but that depends on a hell of a lot of mod work to keep under control).

 

kind of missionary lol but keep it up dude..

 

It does seem a little weird to me how random people follow someone without even talking to them first.
Not that I mind it, just here it seems like a ton of people randomly message you or follow you, other forums haven't been like that for sure. I kinda like it though, its comfy

 

Well.... not anyone on here XD

 

I don't follow anyone LOL.
Does that mean that you're friendly?