Ways to Improve the site
1. Organization of Members: Starts with more detailed profiles linked to a journal that is automatically created when you reach X amount of posts. Have a page where users can see who has been posting most often recently and on which threads and be able to access their profile from there.
2. Tread Lightly: What the newer posters are saying is true; a lot of people get intimidated around here early on. Being a bit older it's easy to look past it, but there is no doubt it hurts the site's user retention.
The more people and the more diverse representation of opinions we have here the better the site.
3. Search old threads from time to time: Bump the ones you find interesting. Sometimes good threads get lost in the shuffle and new members have never even seen them. Don't rush to create a thread until you exhaust the topics of intrest already created.
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