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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: [QB] Ironically, while I have been the first to point out the somewhat less-than-hospitable treatment of new posters in the past, I must argue along a somewhat different track in this context. I too was once a persecuted newbie, but in retrospect this "persecution" was not entirely undeserved. Some of the stuff I posted was quite inane. However, I stuck around anyway and gradually found my niche, and today I feel as at home here as any place on the 'net. The point being that those who genuinely want to be here will choose to grow thick skins and wise up and [i]do so[/i]--we don't need to change to make ourselves more attractive to anybody. I have no desire to see Flare become the TrekBBS. Don't get me wrong; I like the TrekBBS just fine. Going there is like taking a trip into a big city to see the sights and get a taste of the crowded atmosphere. It can be very rewarding, but it can just as easily become overwhelming and disorienting. It's crazy there. Compare that to the relaxed atmosphere and local color of Flare's small but close community. I enjoy myself much more here. It's comfortable and familiar, and we all know each other pretty well (as forum posters, that is). Yeah, its pretty quiet here these days, but on most days that's not troublesome to me. Actually, it allows me to maintain a presence and involvement here without compromising my "real" (off-the-Internet) life. I could never do that if this place were a jungle of fora with a flurry of posts being made every hour. Besides, it's been my experience that, in instances of heavy posting traffic/volume, a great many posts are simply fluff. (Witness all the "shipper" and "slash" threads on the TrekBBS.) Also, while it is indeed elitist and perhaps arrogant, there's definitely some substance to the idea that with increasing group size comes steadily decreasing collective intelligence. Everything comes down to the lowest common denominator. Furthermore, I have noticed that, as far as Trek is concerned, the splitting up of dicussion into fora dedicated to specific series only serves to fragment and polarize the community into factions as the fans of one series begin to concentrate and bash those of the other series. (Again, look at the TrekBBS.) Better to take a global view. If I want to go to the TrekBBS, I'll go to the TrekBBS. Let Flare be Flare. -[b]MMoM[/b] :D [/QB][/QUOTE]
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