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Originally Posted by longsuffering
I think JohnnyFlame is on to something. Move the 'clique-y' insider posts to a new social networking forum, let the FOI regain its place at the top of all Hockey related forums and as a source for considered opinion - and as he noted, a place where hockey writers might come to look for ideas. There are too many 'panic-y' threads, too many "I like ...." threads, etc. Allow the OT forum to again become a place to talk about more serious current events and issues but provide a new forum for the kids play in their own little 'playroom'.
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If you're looking at ways at making CP like it was 5 years ago, that's not going to happen. It can't because the community has grown too much. When the community is small, you can set a standard of posting that shames users who don't meet it. But that standard gets lower and lower as more and more users join the community. There will inevitably be someone who will defend someone else's poorly thought out post. And then the fight is on. It's damn hard to moderate stupidity. And the lowered standards will drive away some of the better users which causes things to get worse.
But to be honest, this place is nowhere near as bad as HF, which is a complete gong show and is a reflection of the fools who run the place.
It's also damn hard to draw a line in the sand on what constitute "serious" and what doesn't. And who said that the OT forum has to be about serious threads? You can always avoid a thread you don't want to read. And if the titles are so confusing that you're reading threads you didn't want to, you can voice your concern to the mods.
You don't have to read the Random Thoughts Thread if you don't want to. It's not a prerequisite of the site.