Originally Posted by
Pancho1188
Point
taken...
...so now you raise a question regarding the new format...you can click on "new posts" to get the
latest posts by forum members. This displays the newest posts...regardless of which forum it's on...so
assuming that you only check out the posts and don't notice what forum it's on, how do you keep on topic and off
topic separate? In the old forum, the differences were distinct and people just disregarded it if they could make a
joke (I'm guilty).
However, now with the "new posts" option, I don't even know what forum I'm in half the
time...and the topics vary so much and there's some pheromone and some non-pheromone stuff that I can't tell the
difference. Descriptive titles help, as you could tell a pheromone post by something like "SOE Advice" and a non-one
by something like "Memoirs of the Incredibly Stupid", but I find that the lines blur when someone makes a pheromone
comment, which leads to a non-pheromone comment, which leads to a joke that may or may not be pheromone related,
which leads to a hijacking, which leads to a post that requires movement to a different forum, which wastes
moderators' time.
Since I am guilty of this more than anyone, I wanted to point this out for future
reference.
I honestly believe that having both the pheromone and non-pheromone stuff has kept a lot of people on
here longer than they would've normally...although it's also kept people from being on here as long as they
might've...but speaking from personal experience, Bruce has made a lot more money off of me because I might've
just bought the newbie pack and dismissed this stuff as "snake oil" had it not been that this forum existed and kept
me on it.
I don't know what that last thought was supposed to say since any intelligent person would say,
"That's why we have separate forums," but I thought I'd just throw it in there. I hope by pointing this "new post"
matter out, it can help moderators by realizing a potential problem that mixes pheromone and non-pheromone
discussions. In essence, it is just a chat room...a chat room with the occasional -mones questions. I think the
place would be a lot quieter with only -mone related topics (i.e. I've seen all I really need for what I
have...what else can someone tell me regarding AE, TE, SOE, and WAGG that will help me anymore than if I just
experimented by myself?), but if that's the way it's supposed to be, so be it. Someone should write a code of
conduct or something because the impression that I got when I first came here was that it was fun to joke around and
it kept people on the forum having a good time until people had more -mone related questions. Now my posts are being
deleted left and right...not that I've had many -mone related posts in a while (I wear TE and SOE every day, but I
haven't had any "OMGIWANTYOURIGHTNOW" moments to write about)...
That, of course, is when people started
getting nasty to others from what started as simple jokes or ideas, so I guess it has its potential problems.
I
don't know. That's just my $1.25 (Isn't that the same price your mother charges for a--------well, you know the
rest, Tollbooth Willy).
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