So I decided to actually mute a few threads today in the Front Room forum that are garbage but keep getting bumped. Then I decided to mute any thread that didn't strike me as on topic (strip clubs, strippers, etc) or about TUSCL. It didn't take long since there are only 30 threads per page. About a minute later there were 9 threads remaining, including a thread that a dancer member made about a photo she posted. 21 threads were muted. No grand point to be made there, just reminded me of why I only start discussion threads in the VIP forum. I'm not planning to get "verified" with the new process since I was verified under the old process, so VIP forum posts will have to do for me.
If you were to pick out a number of posts on the first page of the Front Room that you think are on topic, how many do you see?
Dissatisfaction with off-topic and spam/troll posts has been a recurring event for many years now.
"So I'm leaving tuscl, or at least taking a break for a while. Like several others who have left, I'm just tired of all of the childish bickering and the argumentative, destructive attitude of so many. Plus I can't remember the last time I read something in the discussions that was of any actual help in any meaningful way. Many days it feels like it would be more productive to spend my time on tuscl banging my head against a wall instead. I don't think it used to be this way, or at least not this bad, but perhaps I've just forgotten." Posted December, 2015
And I remember several years ago farmerart complaining about the amount of drivel being posted [he used a more colorful term but I can't recall it now] within a year of his death.
Three to four years ago there were a series of posts by long-time members complaining that apparent 'newbies' were asking the same basic SC questions repeatedly and by implication TUSCLers were tired of responding to boring ?? instead of newbies searching for these already answered questions.
The annoyance with trolls intertwines with these complaints. Still, the 'we don't talk enough about clubbing and mongering' has been a recurring complaint over the last five to seven years even w/o placing the blame on trolling.
So, what is it about TUSCL Discussions that makes it so different from, say, local/regional boards like two-sheds / boned-in, or even area-specific TUSCL posts like Detroit, Atlanta, Arizona, Florida??? Why do off-topic/spam post flourish more on the TUSCL forums??