This thread is to observe and ask about in the opinions of everybody here one thing .
I have observed that over the last few months the amount of threads being put up , the number of posts and especially the number of members online and the number of guests have all declined remarkably.
Often now I find only one or two threads that are very active, while in the past it seemed like many more where busy . Is this in part due to the absence of polarizing figures who were banned or departed ? I know I have posted threads that easily got a few thousand views rapidly , but Commander Birdsong would be arguing back and forth with people ( including myself ) and it was a double edged sword for a blogger. I got lots of views but threads would be hopelessly derailed. So, a good sized audience that often included intelligent and well educated ( regarding Scientology ) and considerate members would add insightful comments and questions and disagreements and opinions.
Too many to try and re-list again as I have in the past have contributed tremendously to many threads . Over the last year at least three dozen people were great in my experience at looking at the threads here .
Now , the amount of threads seems to have dropped to almost none . It seems like many of the in depth discussions on Scientology related issues are dried up or gone . I should acknowledge Arnie Lerma Lermnet.com was banned and he was highly supported by some ( including myself ) , disliked or even hated by others and an object of interest by many . But , I think the bans on Arnie and CB do not account for the entire decline.
I feel this way because there have been many threads that neither of them posted on that were very active and popular , both in terms of posts and views . So , I feel there is a larger trend than the two bans could possibly entirely account for .
Do you guys agree with my observations ? Do you think anything constructive can be done to help ESMB ? Now to be clear I am not asking about revoking bans or trying to bring up the individuals banned to rehash why or who has extensive criticisms of them . Those horses are very dead now . And I am not interested in arguing about the character of those people or the merit of their bans .
I have made my opinions known before and now only even acknowledge this as it could be seen as a relevant issue relative to traffic on ESMB .
So, if there are any answers that do not turn into unneeded personal attacks I would like to see them .
"speak of the devil and he shall appear"
my humble sincere and heartfelt apology to emma, the moderators and all the people of this board for violating the sockpuppet rule to circumvent my ban. this is no renegade raid to gather scalps, indeed this outlaw incursion should be easily forgiven as it will soon be made clear it is tendered on behalf of this board
why yessirooskie MB!
well trained scientologist that you are you have presented a statistical analysis and nailed the why in your OP. please report to the Dir. Dev-T for reassignment to a post where your comprehension of tech and policy can be invalidated and unmocked
I posted on this board for five years and only now in retrospect realize there was an astonishing consistency to the amount of daily traffic here. nearly every time I ever logged on today's posts filled page one and either nearly filled page two or spilled slightly (never more than 4-5 posts) onto page three
immediately when Arnie, Gordon and I were banned the daily traffic plummeted 40-45%. within five days I for the first time saw a unfilled page one and every time I've since stuck in my perky proboscis I've usually found a very short page two or an unfilled page one
WITHOUT COMMANDER BIRDSONG'S VOICE ESMB IS ABOUT AS ONE-SIDED AS A MOBIOUS STRIP!!!
fine...
esmb doesn't need me
the recent superb and inspired writing of jim faust clearly demonstrates the center, the heart and soul of esmb is just as it was when the board emerged in 2007
esmb doesn't need me
and I don't need esmb. I got a harsh intense creative and productive bittersweet poet/philosopher's life which I continue to live. I don't need esmb
however if this board would like to be invigorated by That Bastard's return That Bastard would happily return...
"here's looking at you kid..."
and as long as I'm passing by some might like to get an update...
after sleeping on the sidewalks of the Haight through the winter I flew back to boston in april and taking up residence in a wrecked jalopy behind the garage started pushing hack some fifty hours a week. by may I was doing seventy-five hours a week and by late june I had $4000 to purchase, insure, register and repair the latest incarnation of The War Wagon and gas money to get me to Chicago for the fiftieth anniversary/farewell concert of The Dreadful Grate. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE MUTHUHFUKKAH!!! and after that, I dunno, probably westward but one never knows in what direction one will leave a gathering of the tribe do one?
see ya latuh... alleygatuh...
p.s.
if y'all decide to pull out the nails, PLEASE! pull out the foot nails before the hand nails...
