Adult forum

Well i'm glad you've thrown out so many ideas. Instead of bashing everything try suggesting something. We've already got sweaty nerds with boners that try and flirt with anything female on here, so how is this any different?

Well i'm glad you've thrown out so many ideas. Instead of bashing everything try suggesting something. We've already got sweaty nerds with boners that try and flirt with anything female on here, so how is this any different?

It's different because it'll do exactly as Vollstrecker said months ago: divide the forum. You'll have the original group of people who are longstanding Zel members, who are videogame nerds expressing an interest in porn, then you'll have the porn nerds looking for more porn. And talking about porn. And roleplaying porn.

You'll have an influx of porn-members, about 5% of which will actually contribute to the rest of the forum, much like the activity during the major D2 days. Lots and lots and lots of morons, only this time they're not even videogame nerds, with which the rest of us have a major connecting factor. This time they're PORN freaks, and furries and scat fetishists. Is PORN really the common ground you want to establish between yourself and hundreds of complete strangers? That's not a community I want.

Instead of listening to people like Raziel, we should try going in a different direction. When I get more time i'll post more NWS type of shit in the Off-Topic forums. I don't see anything wrong with it, any activity is good activity.

I agree that the forum needs drastic changes, but not that sort of change. Have you ever actually browsed the forums on sites like Consumption Junction? The activity on their message boards is just repugnant. The quality of activity is completely faceless, individual relationships and any sort of "community" element are non-existant, and the posts themselves are 99% stupidity and vulgarity. Good activity becomes totally lost in the sea of retardation.

If Zelaron plans on making huge changes, the thing that's going to do it is not forum layout, or new styles or types of discussion. In fact, the forum itself won't save the forum at all. Content brings activity, and "content" does not include forum posts. People post about content. By content, I mean articles. Reviews, opinion pieces, news, etc. And not just shitty AP cut-and-paste like Zel used to do on the old portal; real writing. That's what brings decent, intelligent activity to sites like Something Awful. The fact that the site content is the star of the show, while the forum itself is more of a backstage element.

You want huge activity? You want good, huge activity? It's gonna take more work than new sections to bring it. People don't just want a message board anymore, they want content, and they want a message board so they can discuss that content. Those are the kinds of changes that need to be made.

My suggestion = The truly "adult", respectable approach to evolving the forum.

Porn Forum = The easy way out. It'll only dig us a deeper, messier hole.

Once again, so this is clear, the Adult forum would not bring any activity, and is not INTENDED to bring any activity. It would be a private forum that nobody but approved members can even see, similar to the staff forum.

The only intentions of the adult forum were to have a place that people can post stuff that you normally can't post here, such as porn, or heavily adult discussions, etc. There are some things that are not appropriate for our younger members.

Once again, so this is clear, the Adult forum would not bring any activity, and is not INTENDED to bring any activity. It would be a private forum that nobody but approved members can even see, similar to the staff forum. The only intentions of the adult forum were to have a place that people can post stuff that you normally can't post here, such as porn, or heavily adult discussions, etc. There are some things that are not appropriate for our younger members.

I see. Some members were talking about it like it was going to be a solution for activity problems, which was my issue with it. If it were a hidden, selective invitation forum then it doesn't matter to me one bit as long as it isn't advertised, those of us not interested can simply avoid it.

Which is why I don't understand why anyone would be against it. It would be completely hidden and completely optional. If someone doesn't want to participate, they don't have to, they don't even have to know the forum exists.

Well, as I said, some of the members were using it as a "if this got implemented we'd bring in more activity" and stuff, rather than it being a place for existing members to post stuff.

I'd still be against the adult forum being advertised as being on the site, just because it really wouldn't bring the type of posters I think we're looking for, just to communicate my opinion clearly.

Once again, so this is clear, the Adult forum would not bring any activity, and is not INTENDED to bring any activity. It would be a private forum that nobody but approved members can even see, similar to the staff forum.

You see, I missed this key element because I don't really pay attention to you. Be less gay, King.

I figured it would have been more about how everyone else is misinformed as well.