CAMELOT FANTASIES

I wish though herc you had kept the admin stuff only to yourself and had only a couple of mods. This is still such a small forum and when we'd first started this, it was even smaller. So I am not sure why you felt that generous or ... what. That didn't make much sense either but I do know that had you kept things to the minimum then perhaps we wouldn't have had all these issues with Siddy, Slasher, Freaky etc. to being with. Just saying, yea? Even now we don't need all that many. Perhaps when we get bigger. But then you will always have new people, reliable people, good posters etc. to change things around. And you know you love that.

We do now have a steady set of admins and mods though but our forum cannot be too generic. It should be at least 70% tennis since the title itself implies that.

well I had plenty of reasons and you have already nailed a few of them. I am a generous warrior and I wanted to be kind. that was my of showing my kindness.

I knew these fools would struggle to get mods posts, let alone admin posts.


but I learned later that admin post is quite powerful. one can kill the forum in a mere seconds with admin powers for example.

one can also do a lot of other things. and that was the other reason: I did not know much about the workings of these forums so I thought other admin members could tinker around with the forum and learn and explore things.



it was like pulling teeth to get javi and masterclass  mod posts at tennis4you. and even harder for freaky.

scott is stingy that way. he is the lone admin and he has a few mods. and he has only global mods.


I see the mod position as something different. I see a mod as a facilitator rather than someone who is out to police the place.


anyway we will just leave it all alone for now. everything is working and we are moving in the right direction.

these things take time and we know that.

vast majority of the tennis forums that I have come across are dead or dormant. there are many reasons for that. there are newer technologies out there now for the social avenues.

people have developed strong addictions to facebook and twitter. it is more real time and it is instant gratification. the responses are far more immediate than at a forum.


mtf and tennis warehouse are run by companies and they have been around a long time so they are active.


so we needed a fresh, new approach. we are trying to offer a unique proposition. I think it is going to work in time.

time will take care of it all. we have to be positive and we have to continue being cool, calm, and relaxed like we are.

I get a very calm and a peaceful feeling here. and of course there are zero impediments.

no rules and no guidelines. people can just be themselves here and do anything they please.