expresso66 wrote:
The snakes are crawling over from the Times forum, folks! SSSSssssssssss! Watch'em! Anymore of them, and I will leave!
We will hold you to this.
I agree with FFScott. The Times had a great discussion board, but in the past few months they flushed it down the toilet. They slowed the board to a crawl by installing a buggy phpBB3 (which is more bot and ad friendly than phpBB2) and flooding the board with bots and advertisements. They let sockpuppets take over the board. They are protecting certain members and silencing others, apparently to further their own political agenda. (FWIW, this discussion board seems to be guilty of this as well, though for reasons unknown. Why expresso has not been banned here remains one of life's mysteries.)
There are literally dozens of active posters on the Times board that are fed up and would make this their home if expresso were not here. But...maybe this is all the members the administrator wants. This board is pretty slow, I suspect due to server issues. Increasing the size of this board will probably require more money for more server bandwidth. If I were in the administrator's shoes, I would ask myself whether I want to spend more money to add members who will likely not help me promote my main website.
So I have a suggestion to those who would leave the Times discussion board permanently for here if expresso was gone. Change your signature on the Times board to:
For information about the Region, visit: http://www.northwestindiana.com
Show your support for this site. I'll bet the administrator listens.