WOW -- did THAT bring back the memories! Suzanne (my first hobbyist experience -- and it was one that absolutely blew my mind!), AnnaGFE, Sedona, Ginger, Elise -- those WERE the days on our local TER board!
Thanks for the reminder, Mr.SD!
Posted By: MrSelfDestruct
I agree, I think that this is a good "community" (and I have been an active part of it for almost eight years now)...God knows I have met some wonderful people here.
However, in a way, he is right...there often is not much real interaction here compared to the way it used to be. Take a look at the current front page of the board, and then take a look at this page from late 2003...
http://classic.theeroticreview.com/discussion_boards/messageList.asp?BoardID=7&page=350you will notice almost every thread on the page from 2003 has multiple responses to it. This weeks' activity is actually not bad...there have been weeks around here lately where you will be lucky to find five threads out of the 20 on the page that have multiple replies to it. So, in reality, he is right when he says that this isn't the most active board.
However, the bottom line is that you are right in saying that it is up to all of us to be more involved, and I am not sure I see that happening without someone (or a group of people) being an "active" leader here...whether it is the moderator or whether it is someone else, as the environment has changed since 2003. Back then, this was a new thing, and many of the people on the board were active in the social aspects of it (whether on the local board or the general discussion...National... board). That started to change by about 2006-2007, and it is hard for me to see it returning to it's past activity level without there being an active effort to make it happen.
As I have said many times on here, this is our community, and it's up to us what we make of it. I myself would love to see more involvement by people, but Belle is right...it will only happen if many people contribute to that happening.
