The Plan

[Magickian]

I dunno how interested Magick is in setting up more analytics and metrics and whatnot for this site but from what I had access to in previous versions of db.com ... certain ‘schticks’ for lack of a better term, when done right, can be very beneficial and healthy to encouraging participation and increasing views (which ultimately increases the size / scope of contributors overall and imo leads to higher quality, more diverse  discussion). 


Just my 2cents but as long as the ‘schticks’ er, i mean hyperbolic controversial opinions or devil’s advocate arguments, aren’t personally attacking anyone or being overly abusive, violent, inflammatory, etc I think they’re mostly a good thing =D

tbh Mak I like when folks are going back and forth. I find it fun. 


I have thick skin so I don't take things personally. I do enjoy when things get a little heated, so long as everyone is respectful for the most part I guess. 

I agree with you Mak that most message boards police themselves. Mods are good to have for the hours I am busy and just in case we get hacked or get spammed or just get someone being absolutely obnoxious and a real problem... outside of those extreme scenarios? I think we mostly will be fine without anyone actually needing to mod anything. 

I am a bit confused as to whether or not you do actually want to mod here. You are more than welcome to and have always been cool with me, so you can remain one, or I can remove you as one if you think you would just rather not. The decision is yours, Sir. 

So yeah I like "trolling" and joking about things. I think it is fun and funny and yeah I agree it often does spark up a genuine conversation. I think most of us know it is shtick and for fun, and then sometimes, we are left wondering, (is he for real?) and that is fun too haha

All I know is where Fish is concerned, I feel bad as this was truly originally intended just to help him... I figured they would want to work with this, and we could have even moved the boards to their servers so they get all the hits and I no longer run it at all, we just transfer the database and move the files over...

but it seems that wont be the case... I just hope he knows this was only with the intentions to help... but it seems silly to take this place down now... so idk what to do about that. He just called me, while I was in a class. I am about to hop back into another and will call him later to find out what is the new update