I remember the days before the hall of fame, and I have to say that there seemed to be a pretty drastic and immediate fall off of long and insightful posting in favour of quick one word replies in the fun and games forum. It seemed like very few people could be bothered to spend 20 minutes writing out a reply when they could instead increase their post count by 50 during that time. It has gotten better as of late, but I actually wandered off for several months at one point just because there was very little activity relating to BDSM anymore.

I know that some people who are active in the F&G forums also post in the other areas as well, but there are a few people that have thousands and thousands of posts that I have never even heard of before.

I have to admit that there are times that I question the value of having a fun and games forum at all. I understand that people enjoy it, but is it to the detriment of having more activity revolving around BDSM, which is what this forum is here for to begin with? (I don't actually know the answer to this question, just throwing it out there.) There was a time where at least most of the games threads required wit, humour and creativity, instead of "let's all count consecutive numbers."

As Warbaby said, eliminating it would definitely reduce the size of the site. But is that a bad thing? If people are going to leave because there isn't a fun and games section, is that really a problem for a BDSM-specific site? I belong to other forums on different topics where there are thousands of new posts in a day, and they are all on the main topic of the forum.... with nobody missing a games section.

This isn't my site, so I know there are probably other issues to deal with, but personally I would prefer to see a much more active forum based on BDSM.... I am not sure exactly how to acheive that.

I don't really have an opinion one way or another about the "Thanks" button... however, there have been a few times I wished we had a "No Thanks" one. LOL.

So that is my two cents. I am sure it will probably anger a lot of people, but that has never really stopped me. Sometimes you have to take a step back and ask if something is really working, or if it is having some unintended consequences. There have been a lot of really excellent contributors who have gone away over the years... not with big dramatic "I'm leaving!" exits, but just fading away. I would be very interested in finding out why they left.