Having spent some time now on a couple of other sites using (I think) the same basic software or very similar as this one, I much better appreciate some of the decisions you have made early on.
No "community forum" for non mandolin threads.
Wow does this get abused. And if left in its own forum would not be a problem but it leaks out into every other forum in the way a culture of quick wit and satirical snarkiness gets applied to even the subject relevant threads.
I totally get it. No "community forum" and continued tight management of non-mandolin threads. It makes this world better for all of us, (and decreases irrelevant and wasteful use of bandwidth I would think.)
No moving avatars. Wow do they clutter up the screen Total distraction and tends to bring down the seriousness, in my recent experience.
Quick and effective management of inappropriate words or attempts to get through the filters to express inappropriate content. One or two benign exceptions get through and before you know it the whole forum is not something you want to share with your friends. I watched this happen and it was frighteningly fast.
Keep up all you do that we don't know about and kudos on the prior decisions we may not fully appreciate.
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