Changes are afoot

[Mortblanc]

I read the notice of changes and have also read the comments and the entire thread here.

I belong to several "prepper" forums and have found that the best of them do limit the input of the members to related topics and monitor the thread integrity closely. The most successful and informative forum I belong too has a strict NO RELIGION/NO POLITICS rule and after a warning they do not hesitate to sanction violators. When it comes to either topic there are some that do not know when to shut up and walk away.

If one wants topics to remain valid and stay on course then personal attacks are never allowable. They instantly change the focus of the thread from valid to invalid.

As for gaining membership and the "core group" running the threads, that will always be the case. I am a pensioner and during these cold wet snaps I spend a great deal of time on the computer. I do not speak much here but I do on other boards and I find that I have developed friendships that span oceans and continents. In many cases it is with a core group on a forum site that would otherwise be dead were it not for a half dozen pensioners with experience and practical knowledge of everything from canning food to skinning road kill.

Membership numbers is not all one would think it shoud be. "Members" often register to ask a single question and never return to check the thread for answers. On many foprums the list of people with only a dozen posts outnumber all other groups. Some forums even delete membershiop after no posts have been made for a year. Membership numbers mean nothing in reguard to quality of the information on the site.