Posted by ClearSkies on February 21, 2008, at 16:27:25
In reply to Re: Psycho-Babble is not dying, posted by SLS on February 21, 2008, at 16:13:10
> > I don't see this as a dying place, either. Gone through some tough times, for sure. Maybe more like growing pains?
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> Which rough times?
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> When did these growing pains begin?
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> You know, I really don't have to be right about this. In fact, I hope my postulations are wrong. I just thought it important to help save PB if PB indeed needed saving. It seems that PB is always going through rough times. I am not convinced that three years of "growing pains" should be allowed to continue ad infinitum.
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> - Scott
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>My thoughts were that with a community where members were joining and leaving - not a static environment - that growth and change would be a constant, and not a period through which we'd go through, and then we'd be Done. Maybe I was projecting my own "rough times" at Babble - becoming and then unbecoming a Deputy, and then the period last summer when the site was hacked. Perhaps any individual here can point to their own Rough Times at Babble...
My point was that a place such as this should be always changing, sometimes growing, maybe sometimes drawing itself smaller, as needs be - for instance, I think when the smaller boards were created, overall traffic might have gone down because people tended to get lost. Or when threads were redirected, they died as people didn't follow them to the redirected board.
Too early to call the time of death, IMO. Did you know this is Babble's 10th birthday year?
CS
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