I have a humble suggestion for Mark that I would like to run past the rest of you as well first. Should we have a new section to the Forum? It's purpose being for the more long-winded and thoughtful threads that discuss topics relevant to the swinging scene.
I have noticed that the Cafe moves a lot faster now than it did 3 or 4 months ago, which I think is a good thing as it shows a lot of people are coming on here and getting involved. However there have been quite a few interesting threads on various aspects of swinging. (Bi-sexualality, Polyamory, Married men, Condoms etc.) These threads slip down the page very quickly and anyone who doesn't come in every day or who wnats to think carefully before they post their opinions on them is likely to miss them or feel that there is no interest so why bother posting.
If these threads where in a seperate Forum they would stay current for much longer and act as a resource of information and opinion for new people joining the site.
So having stuck my neck out and rambled on as usual what do the rest of you think?
Roger.
That is a good point Roger but I personnally think splitting the message boards would be a bad thing.
What happens if you get the usual, why doesn't swinging work from the less informed newbies over and over again in the new swinging board? People will still want to post their adverts in there because it is another board and it looks like it would be more work for the overworked and undersexed (due to work load) mods on here.
I think we tried to have a sticky at the top of the page that pointed to the various threads that have already been done and pretty much exhausted. These would be a point of reference. But how often does somebody read through such long threads and jsut come to the conclusion that their opinion deserves their own answer.
To me it looks like swings and round-a-bouts. Change = Bad as any technician would tell you.
yeah matt i think so!
roger i like the idea in principle, and completely take your point! but it's only useful if you actually take time to look about and read stuff.
threads are tumbling off the page at a rapid rate of knots lately, true, cos it is soooooooooooo busy, which as you say is damn good, cos we have more opinions, if you're interested at all in what those opinions are. but many a piece of good advice won't get read regardless! there is already good advice all over the place, that still doesn't get read!
having the odd serious thread in among all the bollox, is probably for the best! and i wouldn't really like to see more forums here ((( fora??? ))) cos it's easy to find the deep stuff right here while you do the bollox thing, and i always know exactly where to come to find it! if it's that good, it may become stickied or moved to the advice sections anyway. very much IMHO.
neil x x x ;-)
IIRC Mark has already thought of this idea when he developed the site and dismissed it because he felt that sectioning it would just detract from the diversity of it.
He'd been on other sites where there were stringent rules about what you could and couldn't post in certain sections and didn't want to restrict this site anywhere near as much.
I know in the past I have been the one arguing for change, but in this case I think if it ain't broke then don't try to fix it.
Early poll results, ask the audience or what? Pretty decisive.
Roger (the dragon),
I'd like to send you a message of support here!
One of the reasons the threads move off the page quicker is because people are using the cafe as a place to turn up and say things like "Hey look! I've got ten toes!" or "My hamster ate Freddie Starr this morning" - and while it's funny, and interesting discussions can come out of that sort of thread, it does make some of the more serious threads or, in fact, threads actually about swinging (which I like to follow) drop off to other pages, and as a person who is trying not to lose his job by looking at the 'net too much, it'd be nice if there was a way of going straight to them without running around (yes, I know I could bookmark them, but if I get caught with these sort of bookmarks, I know what's going to happen to me!)
My opinion is that if it's not actually related to swinging, maybe it could stay in the cafe, and if it's related to swinging, it could go to another forum called something like 'Swinging topics' or something like that...
Just my couple of p-worth!
The majority has spoken,and i agree with them
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Even my wife voted for leaving things as they are. 
