That's the thing, not saying it's all of them, but the majority of problems come along with new members. The "veterans" if you will are the ones that try to keep the peace and do some policing of things, but we're becoming more and more outnumbered to the point where folks are looked at like ^^^^^^^s for trying to preserve what this forum ought to be about.
For example, it's like a once a week minimum occurrance that someone registers here and starts posting and giving off the vibe that they're posting to get in on selling things, often making first posts about selling. I've seen some that are just selling stuff also, but are coming here for chat, but they think everyone's an unaccepting ^^^^^^^ for giving them ^^^^ about their tactics when all most people coming down on them, some do it just to be dicks, are trying to do is keep this site a place to make friends and have a community of folks that enjoy the same stuff you do. However, things being as they are, policing things ourselves isn't going to change things, it'd take administrative efforts and I'm not sure it'll ever get to that point.
Sadly, I fear with escalation of some of the negatives around here, this forum will be left to run it's course until Dave's forced to close it down.
Perhaps a solution would be 2 SSF boards. One solely existing as a resource for new product release pictures and information, business solicitation and all that, and one for a community purposes. And I'm talking 2 different web addresses, heavy administration involvement to keep things separated and serving their purpose, the works. If things were separated like that, the community site would then just be filled with folks want to talk collectibles and pop culture and the folks with the gimme gimme attitudes would have their resource sit to get things.
For example, it's like a once a week minimum occurrance that someone registers here and starts posting and giving off the vibe that they're posting to get in on selling things, often making first posts about selling. I've seen some that are just selling stuff also, but are coming here for chat, but they think everyone's an unaccepting ^^^^^^^ for giving them ^^^^ about their tactics when all most people coming down on them, some do it just to be dicks, are trying to do is keep this site a place to make friends and have a community of folks that enjoy the same stuff you do. However, things being as they are, policing things ourselves isn't going to change things, it'd take administrative efforts and I'm not sure it'll ever get to that point.
Sadly, I fear with escalation of some of the negatives around here, this forum will be left to run it's course until Dave's forced to close it down.
Perhaps a solution would be 2 SSF boards. One solely existing as a resource for new product release pictures and information, business solicitation and all that, and one for a community purposes. And I'm talking 2 different web addresses, heavy administration involvement to keep things separated and serving their purpose, the works. If things were separated like that, the community site would then just be filled with folks want to talk collectibles and pop culture and the folks with the gimme gimme attitudes would have their resource sit to get things.
), but mostly chatting about new statues. Not everyone is going to agree about every statue. Some may like it, some may not. If sideshow reads some of whats being said and agrees with the comments and makes a change, great....if not, so what. If you don't like something about a statue you don't have to buy it. I would hate to see this site have to come down because some just can't seem to get along or for whatever other reason. I think that some of us newbs here would definately agree with the "veterans" of the freaks board. This is a great site...Lets keep it that way, preserve what it is, and enjoy what it!!
over rated and uninteresting members here, like the movie they love so much.
