I will comment.   in the not to distant Past this was one hell of a board with many great hobbiest and providers.  Then for some reason it was moderated so tightly and it seemed that many of the tight butt Yankees were bashing each other over the simpilist of things, an off the cuff look at humor or some general banter, or abusing the posting calander limits whatever,  people were bashing each other for the posts that it drove many away to include myself.  We simply said we don't need the pharocial BS and now prefer to simply view in fear of being bashed for sharing unique views.   Many of the alias users caused this board to deteriorate.  I feel flipping some of these A**holes when they attack unjustifiably others would be a way to weed out the bsd apples and a step to returning this board to what it used to be.

On one hand I can understand why boards need to be moderated, but since it takes so long for moderated members (like me) to have their posts appear, the flow of the conversation is impacted.  I found its not worth it to post in the first place.

I was kinda wondering the same things there's not to much going on over her besides ad's

Boring!!...lol
xoxo
Kyla

Do you need someone to create a discussion or do you have the capacity to initiate a discussion?

That's all I'm asking is that people should begin to post. No need to be the hidden reader. I'm asking you to come out of the closet and jump right in.

As I recall, there were some new rules put in place about the same time as new moderators were put in.

The "7 day rule" eliminated a lot of lady's posts.

The "no negative replies" to ladies ad posts also reduced the post count.

Both these rules and a few others I don't recall were put in place by Staff with good intentions.  One side-effect is less posts.  I'm sure Mod will remember all the deleting he had to do when these rules were first set up.  I'm sure all the new rules have benefits, but also some unanticipated drawbacks.

......... but a few months ago, changes were made to the accessibility of information for Basic members. Can't see ratings, etc.

Maybe basic members are visiting less, since they know that they can't see the info they want.  When I am in Basic status, ter is of less value to me, as a hobbyist.

I "earn" my vip status by making corrections to profiles. This takes time, but I do it for the status it gets me, and for the integrity of the board.

As an incentive, ter could award credit to people that contribute to the discussion boards, as well as the reviews database.  There would need to be qualifiers for this, so people wouldn't crowd the board with bs just to get credits.

Giving credit to people that start meaningful discussions would be one way to do it. It would serve ter and the posters equally