drawscore wrote:
There are other reasons, as I'm sure will be pointed out by others.
Drawscore
bondagefreak wrote:It is true that feedback has a large roll to play in the apparent decline of the forum's writing community.
On the other hand, the situation is perhaps not as critical as we portay it to be.
Some stories get a lot of feedback while others get none or very little.
Let us not forget that some of the stories here will not agree with the vast majority of members sharing the community. In these cases, the fault lies with nobody.
There are a bunch of authors here who write wonderful stuff, but who's works I don't read because they simply don't appeal to me.
To add another facet to this discussion. There are authors who join up the site and publish wonderful stories, get loads of positive feedback, and end up disappearing a few weeks after their initial signing up. One such case I can think of that happened recently: He who wishes to no longer be named.
He wrote wonderful tales and had an important portion of the active membership on the edge of their seats.
Sadly, Karl is currently dealing with some real life issues that are keeping him away from the forum for the time being.
So the membership or the level of feedback is not always at fault.
Another thing that's been plaguing the forum over the past two years, is an atmosphere of hostility.
Let's be candid. There has been a LOT of headbutting on the forum this past year.
We've seen a handful of active members leave because of the "Mirea" incidents and I happen to know another handful of members who left because of last year's "Mikeybound vs Scottstud94" incidents.
I realise there's not need to bring back sour old times, but at the same time, we need to face the facts.
The bickering, headbutting, ego-driven struggles and misplaced critisisms (like we've just seen in the thread about the Ebay Account) have and still are, contributing to the slow decay of this place.
The more members leave, the less reviews we get and the less reviews we get, the less stories we have.
It's a vicious circle, but the fact that we are discussing it and trying to find remedies for the problem, means that we're on the right path.
This place might have lost some of it's old shine...but with a common effort to participate more actively, I'm convinced we'll have regained much of our lost strength and more!
chadmc90 wrote:I never said that low feedback was the only problem