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Re: Let's bring CD back to the way it used to be
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Originally Posted by DonRotolo View Post
Really? He's been at a few events where I know you were, too. My advice: Find him. Good "kid"*

Yes, it does.

OK, seriously: Ryan, CD has always had some bickering; what we are seeing today is just more of it. In the past, the 'trustees'** of CD would either PM, or negative rep, or outright ban someone who was practicing "Obnoxious Amateurism"***, or just a troublemaker.

Whats' changed is that we are seeing reduced involvement of the trustees. I am not trying to criticize Brandon Martus, but many in the CD community would be tickled pink to help him maintain decorum.

CD is not like other fora on the Interweb: We have a younger crowd here, and "Gracious" is a key word in our vocabulary. We can change it, but we need moderators who will do it and admins who believe it is the right way to run a forum.

Good post Ryan, thank you.

Don


*Kid to me, since I'm such an old fart. It's all relative.
**Mostly the forum moderators, but fewer and fewer are active these days. Possibly because the atmosphere is different.
***The opposite of Gracious Professionalism.

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Don, I agree wholeheartedly. It's not something that could be fixed in a day, but over time I think it could be brought back at least to the same level of politeness.

I know that one of the major complaints I've seen from long-time members is simply the drastic drop off in signal-to-noise. It used to be (a decade ago) that a large majority of the posts had worthwhile content. Now you get just as many "me too", meme, or fluff posts that don't have any useful or original content. I don't know any solution short of taking a far more strict standpoint on what type of posts are allowed in forums outside the social ones.
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