Quote - "Not deleting posts and threads is not an option. It's a rare forum..."

A forum that the poser forum management would do well to examine is CGSociety. Their moderators are far more restrict and delete at most one post a month or something like that. Neither do they have any problem with "spambots and trolls". IMO the current policy of this forum is wrong and to the detriment of us all.

Agree agree agree agree agree.

I have been and will continue to be completely mystified by the business approach to this.  For simplicities sake I will use simple numbers.

You once had 50 users.  Now you have 10.  The ten people left keep telling you that they love the way you are doing things.  Occassionally one of the 40 comes back and tells you that they don't.  But at that point, it's 1 against ten.  So instead of listening to those who left, continue to listen to the few that stayed.  

I guess a reason it's so baffling to me is that I have ALWAYS been a person able to reevaluate my positions and actions.  I look at what the likely long term results are as well as short term.  I take other positions into consideration.  I feel this approach is the most beneficial to me.  

Here this forum, and the handling of it seems to me to be the frog in the pot.  We're at a slow simmer now.  And the frog stays in the pot.  Not even willing to say "hey my skin feels a little warm".

 

I am:  aka Velocity3d