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Originally Posted by GreenTeaFrapp
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.
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I have never from birth understood the "it's not as bad as somewhere/something else fallacy. It may or may not be but who in the end cares. We have made Calgarypuck our choice and are talking about it. What other sites are like is really irrelevant.
The question on the serious part is that virtually no thread is serious. Heck there are serious topics put up which are instantly derailed by dumb pics, oft repeated jokes, or an attempt to squash the topic or hit on the original poster.
It isn't the choosing between threads. It's wading through the drivel in what was supposed to be a serious thread. Not just the one joke in 20 posts but 10 jokes, five pics and 5 posts with any content.
Poster after poster saying well yeah I have to wade through a lot of crap but CP is still better than ? Shouldn't be the point. Nor should being resigned to it. How about make improvements!!!!!!!!!!!!!