Originally Posted by Volcker

Sput, Puffman, Rev, and a few others I'm sure have said all there really is to be said on this issue. I joined Yahooka back in 04 because I was banned from another forum that was debating these very issues. They locked down the General Disussion part of the forum, banned everyone who wasnt on board, and the site got gay. Back in 03/04 and even more before that I'm sure, Yahooka really was the Wild West of the internet. This place was fucking nuts and it ruled.

Things have changed though over the years and while a lot of people have been banned/left and the riff raff has been cut down a bit by the administrators, Yahooka still has that wild west attitude that makes it a unique place on the ineternet. I've said it before, getting rid of FFA will send this site in the toilet. There are hundreds of bigger and better forums out there and dozens of other weed forums. The competitive advantage of this place is that hard nose attitiude and ability for the most part, to get awat with posting things that would get you banned in 2 seconds flat anywhere else.

The big conflict here is that the people who run this site dont want Yahooka to be a place that caters to the pariahs of the internet. They dont want this to be a place where people come to post becuse they can get away with more here than anywehere else. Thats their perogative and the rest of us might all be shit out of luck. Personally, I dont think this place could ever have over 1000 active posters. Message boards get that big because they either offer something that is hard to replicate or they are associated with a product that gets a lot of attention. Trying to make this place a big biscussion board with no competitve advantage is not going to happen.

I just hope that this thread is given the consideration it deserves when the decision to shut down FFA is made. Either way, I'll likly be staying if for nothing other than the A&P disucssion (and for front row seats to the likly demise of the whole site if FFA is disbanded as I suspect it will be).