have we reached a saturation point?
 

I think we have pretty much collected most cougarboarders that would be interested in this site.

Are we better off as we are or would it be good to grow a little more?

we have good numbers but, chat is ignored and we don't have activity at the samelevel; I guess that's okay.

Cougarboard has more posts in one week than we have had total on this site since inception.

But I would venture that the quality factor/post is higher here...

Exactly. Your local Mcdonald's serves more folks in one week that that fine little French bistro downtown has since inception. Which is a cooler place?

i think the site could use 10 more quality posters....

i think if, thesizzle, sticks around he will be a nice addition, and i think there are a few more that would be welcome here....

a little more traffic would be prime. naturally you run into the problem, with more people you get more pricks...

We've also lost a few quality posters in past couple of months. Even though we often diagreed, I enjoyed some of the religion contributions of Adam and Iluvatar when they were around. Chapel Hill Coug also had the potential to make for some interesting religious discussions.

I think you're right, it seems like we are hitting steady state conditions with regard to volume of quality posters who stick around for long.

What ever happened to Fuegote? Haven't seen him in a while.

Thumbs up on Chapel Hill.

Nah, I think we could handle more if it came along. A few more "regulars" couldn't hurt.

Mike are you thinking of locking the site?

Yes, Fuegote was a quality contributor for about a week or 2. I really enjoyed some of the stuff that he had to say.

That was at a time when the religion topics were pretty popular and somewhat volatile. I wonder if that had something to do with his disappearance.

I'll cop to scaring off Adam. He says I "terrify" him. As far as I'm concerned using "Adam" as your Internet handle is pretty self-deluded and strange, almost like using Jesus or God. His posts read like that's what he thinks he is. Probably comes from being a Duke fan.

Adam is his first name, and you don't get his very, very, dry wit. (You're intelligent enough to, but in writing, it doesn't come across).

Adam is probably not scared but has started a new practice in a new state. He has studied many issues well, is conversant in Arabic and Russian and is a Democrat.

I like Adam very much.

I didn't like how he got on his high horse with Fusnik over here and mpfunk on CB. He really needlessly and baselessly belittled them over silly disagreements. It seemed downright mean to me.

He said he's terrified of me. His words. He's also blocked my mail on CB, and, as you know, I'm not a stalker or anything. He did it after what I thought was a good dialogue.

I confess that I have not read too many of his posts all that closely. I'm surprised at some of the things you say including that Adam is his first name because he seems very pious to me.

No, not at all.

And here I thought it was because he was a lawyer. Boy was I wrong. :P

And btw, for the short time that Adam was here, I had no problem with him. His general conference rant/blog was somewhat humerous.

All right, now I'm curious. What could you have possibly done to "terrify" Adam? Was it your love of classical music and the arts, because if so, then frankly he was justified.

Nothing earth shattering. The Book of Mormon as literature, vs. King Lear, the Aeneid, that sort of thing.

I imagine, knowing him, that his comment was completely sarcastic. Later, he may have blocked feeling ashamed for having been so sarcastic. He is strong-willed, but so are most of us from time to time.

Seattle even called me cruel. Sometimes in my house, that's the mildest epithet thrown my way.

Growing up with diversity, being knocked around, called on the carpet is the least of my worries. It's when I am complimented that I begin to worry. :)

I'd like to see Sleeping in EQ post more. I also enjoyed Iluvatar's presence and wish he hadn't left. I think we'll add a quality poster every now and again but I certainly don't wish for any kind of an onslaught of posters. One has only to look at cougarboard to see what high volume can do. I enjoy brief visits to cougarboard but that site just can't compete with the quality on this site. There are far too many people there and too few of them are interested in good discussion.

I agree about Sleeping in EQ. He is provocative in an intelligent, reasonable way.

Did you see these posts today? Good stuff!

On speaking in church:
http://www.cougarboard.com/noframes/...tml?id=1821923

On wearing a white shirt:
http://www.cougarboard.com/noframes/...tml?id=1822079

would it be considered disrespectful to wear a white suit in the summer? If I ever have enough money to buy a nice white suit, I might try it.

after all DOM did.

Old people have been doing it for years.

I have always wanted to do that, too, except I would look like a land-locked beluga whale, which is sort of off-putting to the spouse, if you know what I mean.

Maybe if it was seer-sucker or linen it owuld be ok (it would also be off-white, but pretty close).

I think we could probably do better at being more friendly to new people.

I'm as guilty as anyone about this.

I clicked the link and it appears that the thread has been deleted. Any reason why?

Both still work for me.

are you logged in? you can't see religion posts unless you are logged in.

Hmmmm...perhaps Spirit of Contention irked Jefe more than I first thought? :twisted:

That's why. I'm not logged in and don't remember my password.

No worries. I'd rather believe that I'm really on Jefe's bad list anyway. I want my own Mike Waters.

LOL. Excellent!

Thanks. I missed those.

I'll leave that to the rest of you. I can be nice when I want to, but I'm not exactly the ward greeter. For a work party, we had a handwriting analyst come. She told me I find most people boring. I realized she's correct.