While intentions here may be noble, you have to ask yourself: what's really going to be achieved by this thread? Everyone rallies, replies, counts themselves in, drops a few happyface emoticons, group hugs, plants a tree, sings "We Are The World" and what ends up changing? SFA.
The regular cast here is becoming a little weary and predictable. It's Carry On Rocket!, 30 movies in. With scant hope of new band material, fresh points of view should be the lifeblood of the forums. Seems to me that often they're just drowned in the detritus or worse still, discouraged because they dare ask questions deemed unworthy.
To me, the biggest problem in BCD is quality control but I guess that's the nature of the beast. It's impossible to regulate. Some of the liveliest, wittiest and most compelling exchanges have come from the hijacking of threads. Others from tensions where posters have taken stances against the majority. But too often, the thread gems are overwhelmed by uninspired dross. And sadly, too many of NOOL's unique voices have been driven away by officious moderation and/or the mob mentality.
One constructive thing that could be done here is to remove post counts from profiles. What positive purpose do they actually serve? I see only one: they can assist n00bs to identify who's been around for a while so may be better equipped to assist with queries. So remove the post counts and just leave the "Member Since ..." data in the profiles. It's worked wonders for other forums.
Although no one openly admits to giving a rat's about post counts, it still creates a sort of moral hierarchy in what's meant to be a digital republic. Some sort of tragic "I'm a bigger NO fan than you" badge. But how many of these posts were in any way related to NO? Who cares how many mindless one-liners you've posted in BCD? Why is it even relevant? Perhaps in removing what's seen by some as a reward for posting tosh, we'll get less of it.
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