chatrooms are different. and hipforums is like a jungle. there is so much going on here. if someone got discouraged because of YH, and didn't bother to look ANYWHERE else, the people here probably would've ridiculed them to death for being dumb if they had stayed anyway. what is Young Hippies supposed to be about? being young and being a hippie? because that's what it was about. there's a place for everything here.
i dont like googling something and ending up finding a thing on here. and who comes here LOOKING for a lover? i didnt realize the point was the same as match.com. seriously...
I'm with Katie, if you think what we're doing in this forum is not being young hippies, than what do you expect? YOU, being much older than most of us, cannot tell US how to interact with our peers.
I think that encouraging using the forums in a more welcoming, inviting way is awesome. But if it has to happen with an associated cost of belittling people for how they post, and alienating/pissing off people who have been here for a long time (even if they aren't subscribers), then that's not worth it. There are better ways to suggest change than by insulting people as a whole, better ways than degrading everyone who posts here by calling us "whiners". Even the locking of threads with inappropriate titles was better. But honestly, how well policed can you expect this forum to be when I see no moderator linked to it in particular? (other than Skip himself, since he has a gazillionteen other things to worry about with this forum as a whole than monkeying about in one little subforum)
I found the chat room once then I realized that since I cant spell for shit I would have to type everything into Word, spell check it and then paste it in.
Well... in a way I agree with Skippy, isn't this his website after all?... There's already so much bollocks we can find on the Internet, and if the guy wants something like that, he can... but it seems to me as he just wants to decently keep His website running... the way he wants to. And if we have problems against that, it's worth talking over with Skip and all agreeing on a conclusion... but really, he can do what the fuck he wants to and we shouldn't whine... it's not like we're contributing money or belongings anyway (except a small minority), he's giving us all this opportunity to have decent conversations between different people and perceptions, and yes, there sometimes is an abundance of needless talk about personal life that shouldn't be here. You can close the computer and go somewhere to talk about that, but I think it's just respect not to talk about mindless shit on someone's <property>, in a way. I wouldn't like a bunch of whining strangers in my home thats fo sho although one of my many second-halves in my mind says : fuck man, titles are titles, you make what you want out of them, just like it has been asked to make a forum section what you want out of it... a single word can spread one particular emotion in an individual, but shout a word out in a flock of persons, and there is bound to be people reacting in a different way... all in all... its just a god damn title . no? what you would rather be weary of, is it's content... showing interest simply in a title, shows only your greed in more members, more contributions, better image, and better success of this website, your website... although that idea can be respected obviously, hek its your website, but you just have to say it as it is instead of prolonging this useless problem around in your forums
