I see this happen at every forum of which I've
chosen to become a part. "Oh, the good old
days... Oh, no one posts anything interesting
anymore... Whinge, whinge, whinge... waah,
waah, waah... Entertain me!"

When I last frequented this forum, Sam had a
pretty good handle on monitering and deleting
the really unintelligible posts. Everything else
I've read here so far is legible. "Interesting", on
the other hand, is subjective. A lot of people
post here regularly, and are clearly interested
with and entertained by what's going up on the
board. To devalue their posts is personally
insulting and offensive. You're telling them that
what they enjoy is WRONG. Why wouldn't they
feel defensive? Indeed, why shouldn't they?
This is really your problem, not theirs.

Think about this: since I clearly get bored here
more often than you do (hence my long,
drawn-out absences), does that make me a
more interesting person than you? No, it just
makes my interests different.

You could easily, more effectively, and less
offensively, take your own advice, "get off your
butt", and write some posts in the manner you
enjoy reading. You can e-mail the folks whose
posts you particularly enjoy, tell them so, and
ask them to post more often. If you feel the
need to change the content of the forum, you
might recieve a healthier response if you
teach by example, rather than humiliation. So,
let's see some action!

Regards,
Dagmar Noll