Having been involved and sponsored forums for well over 10 years now, I feel I can make a couple observations...all positive of what the mods and admin here are doing.
Many golf forums had the same consideration, respect that we show eachother here...but we are also a small population compared to other forums....what I saw killed every forum that degenerated was due to the same thing...
They went out and attracted so many new members in such a quick time, that all of a sudden they were bombarded with all these new people, many with attitudes who wanted to mark their territory and be looked upon as the top dog.
That resulted in harsh words, bad attitudes, fighting...and the admin was not PREPARED for such a huge influx so their systems could not adjust in time....and before ya knew it, the lunatics took over the asylum.
I cannot tell you how impressed I am with Dog Fish's approach...he is taking in all info, digesting it and making (what I feel) are very level headed decisions on the direction...not jumping the gun and making rash decisions...but thinking things out...plus the software improvements made have been phenomenal!
Many golf forums had the same consideration, respect that we show eachother here...but we are also a small population compared to other forums....what I saw killed every forum that degenerated was due to the same thing...
They went out and attracted so many new members in such a quick time, that all of a sudden they were bombarded with all these new people, many with attitudes who wanted to mark their territory and be looked upon as the top dog.
That resulted in harsh words, bad attitudes, fighting...and the admin was not PREPARED for such a huge influx so their systems could not adjust in time....and before ya knew it, the lunatics took over the asylum.
I cannot tell you how impressed I am with Dog Fish's approach...he is taking in all info, digesting it and making (what I feel) are very level headed decisions on the direction...not jumping the gun and making rash decisions...but thinking things out...plus the software improvements made have been phenomenal!