Bring back the old days...... ??

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The board seems a little slow.What suggestions and changes would you suggest????This is a random question. I don't know of any changes coming down the pike but I just thought I would just ask. They do this kind of brainstorming at work when they are looking for cutting edge idea's with clients campaigns...

No ones going to like it but me and a few others but.. I wish Helmsy was still here:(

I don't know that there is much we can do. The internet has changed quite a bit since this forum started. Now there are so many forums and websites, that we are just another "pea in the pod". Maybe this forum was more unique back in the day.I did get a kick out of reading some of the old threads before there was any moderation.. it was a free for all.. Hilarious..Check this out... Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Or this.. Love my dog

LoL. how ridiculous

ah, the good old days of fucking brothers, dogs, dog's brothers, etc.

It would be nice to see Helmsy again. That is as long as his medication was properly adjusted and he was off the steroids!

well i just added random i love the feeling in your I just love the feeling... thread. I’d say maybe a new look but i doubt that will happen. i told inliguble a few times over they last few years that i was one day going to make a post on information on male rape - people have fucked ideas of it. But i haven't and i'm not now so... i dk if i will ever anytime soon. I have had thoughts of stopping by and letting all that gives a shit know how things are going now. Since reading a post Roc made it’s been more on my mind. I actually came by today to do it but… I’ve been sidetracked and I’m doing what I always do - talking myself out of it. lol When shannon and i get into some stupid little fusses she brings up how i've changed. I have. Don't know if it;s for the better tho but my life is happier. shit i just took off rambling again.

I enjoy hearing whats new with u. As well as everyone else in the forum.

Me too. Hmm, this gives me an idea...

Haven't a lot of the steady members just disapeared like Angelwitch and Sexpert?

Angelwitch reappeared briefly just the other day, but Sexpert hasn't posted for ages.

ya know what else I miss is all the games.

Things like name the movie poster (wouldn't work as well with img tags disabled)

google fight was a laugh

and there was a drawing application that I posted once that was quite a hit for a while

I loved that drawing app, it was great fun! We all used to post our wonderful works.

Wow, was browsing through my first posts here and I found THIS thread that I started about 5 years ago.  Originally Posted By: bobaliciousI don't understand why people would do this more than once.What happened to me?? I can now go through 2 packs on a good night out! I really must stop this...

omg.. AsianPlayBoyI remember her. Hmmm, I think I still have a picture of her somewhere RAWR

You are so bad Mr. "U"I'm glad you haven't changed

Haha, so do I! What a tease...

Originally Posted By: bobaliciousWhat a tease... yes I am

a sexy one!!!

It's all about entertainment. While SDP or whoever said it is correct, we are just another pea in the pod, there are successful and active sites that operate under the same member information sharing format as this one. The difference between the successful sites and ones like our beloved little site is, from what I've witnessed, the successful sites have a much more narrow focus. Their usually directed at adolescent males. And, most importantly, they are far more salacious. While the last of those differences does ramp up the entertainment factor, and thus the success of the site as measured in activity, it also imparts less relevant useful information. Most importantly those sites seem to be rife with perverts and predator types. They aren't the kind of place that I would what to spend any time or feel comfortable spending any time.

Originally Posted By: sdp

I don't know that there is much we can do. The internet has changed quite a bit since this forum started. Now there are so many forums and websites, that we are just another "pea in the pod". Maybe this forum was more unique back in the day.
After thinking about how successful sites function I do have a suggestion. If you want to increase traffic in the forum, and that's a big if - I'm not sure how much people really want that, then make AfraidtoAsks home page the Community Forum and make the information pages supportive, rather than the way it is now. Bring people straight here (the Community Forum) and make the information pages clickable banners across the top or something, I don't think there's that much easily accessible information in the information pages anyway, at least not given the way people today expect information to be immediately at hand.

I will use myself as an example, when I have car problems I always check out possibilities on the net. I do that by finding a forum and typing in a searchable term and getting my answer and if I don't find one, I ask the question. I don't find my answer by reading through stale articles about wheel bearings and what their function is and how they work. I don't care about that stuff and it would probably put me to sleep anyway. All I want to know is how loud does the roar from the wheel have to get before I need to really worry. So, that being the case if an article comes up I usually just move on without giving much if any review and certainly not looking for forum link somewhere on the page.

The way this site is set up is for the 90's and before when the only way to access information was read an article or a reference book and try to find an answer to your question their-in. In this modern age people don't do that. They are use to social networking to solve problems and find answers. So when people clilck on A2A from the Google or Yahoo search engine they're greeted with a dry information page, probably never see the community forum button and immediately leave going on to look for a more modern, quicker conveyance of information.

Ya gotta evolve with the times.

Make A2As home page the forum and the information pages supportive links and I would be willing to bet in short order you would see traffic here pick-up dramatically.