OMF is down... again...again

[wingman32x]

Part of what makes OMF different is that the members are held to a higher standard than some of the other forums. I haven't been to the big 3 forums much, but from my experience I've been impressed with the quality of the discussions. The mods simply don't tolerate much of the chaos causing stuff. I sometimes think that they can get a little too hardline, but they do a great job of maintaining the quality of the board.

Quick interjection- it's funny, because one of our concerns has been the decreasing quality of discussions on OMF. In the past we had a lot more really intelligent in-depth discussions and theories. We still have that sometimes, but a lot of amazing posters have left over the years.

The reality is that we'll never make everyone happy, and that's okay. Our goal is to have quality members interacting in quality ways to produce interesting discussions.

What many people don't quite realize is how much we want to give you guys leeway. I mean, look at this place. It started with one rule- be respectful. If everyone made thoughtful posts in good faith, we'd be much more flexible about going a little off topic because we would know you guys would steer the topic in the right direction again. Unfortunately, too many people are not mature about this and as a result we have an entire forum dedicated to different rules (at the normal forum).

Remember, the members make OMF.

It's interesting that you brought up people leaving. I've always wanted to ask you guys about how different you guys thought the forums were after the reader went dark. I know at the time there were a lot of people planning to leave.

About the quality of discussions going down, I've started seeing that too. One of my earliest experiences at OMF was discussing Ichigo 100%. The discussions that took place there were so engaging and interesting. People put tons of effort into these posts. I haven't really seen much of that at all lately.

About the rules, I know they were formed based on precedence. I never meant to imply that you guys were placing restrictions just to place them. In fact I think some of the rules do a great job in creating an environment that can house mature discussions. I see no problems with most of the rules.