MY own experiences tell me that too many people don't WANT to make friends in a normal way. Take the Alcohol thread in the General Chat forum for instance.
I read the previous posts and thought "well this is nice, maybe a thread like this will attract some people (who would never visit the Intellectual Discussion forum or who are afraid to post in there) to join in and discuss about this topic.
I posted a, in my opinion, rather personal and sophisticated post.
Later that day, I went to check out how the thread had evolved and I was genuinely DISSAPOINTED that some members had posted 2 line posts saying either "alcohol rocks" or "alcohol is bad, BAAAD!".
I know I can't expect the threads to turn out the same way as they do in the Intellectual Discussion forum, but to me it seems that there is some lack of interest towards building up some credibility with your posts in order to gain some respect from the older members.
Is it because we have so many members and every new member feels insignificant?
Is it because most of the (new) members (though I admit to being guilty of this too) only (dare to ???) hang around at the FUNFUNFUN Word Games forum?
*sigh*
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