Okay I'm going to put my 2 cents in as well.

I have views pretty much like the others who have discussed this subject all ready in the SB. I too have made at least 5 long life time friends here (I hope) And 3 of which I consider to be my best friends.

I have been here for three years now (first year was a lurker without a membership). I was thrilled at the forums, I saw fun in the SB, friendly people. So a year later I joined. and made great friends. And then at the beginning of this year....things started going down. And now finally it's to the point where I can't even say "Hello" in the SB without it getting deleted! How is someone supposed to know I'm there?

I feel like certain people are picked out of the members to be red gloved for just saying Hi to someone or LOLing at someone's shout. Why can others do it but we can't? It makes no sense.

I feel like anymore...what's the sense in even trying to make any new friends here? How CAN you make new friends we all you can basically say is:

"Hello? How's your peeps? How's the weather? Anything new on the previews page? Oh well bye now!"

How are you suppposed to get to know each other? I am in no means saying hand out your first name and address! I'm saying like What's your fav thing to do? What's your fav type of music? That is not identifying stuff.

Which speaking of, I and one of my closest friends received a PM stating (it was from an admin) that she had a lot of personal info on us and that we need to be careful. I tell MM everything I say in the SB (she is usually HERE in the ROOM when I'm chatting) and even she doesn't understand that. And I'd like to know why was the person even storing that? That scares me.

Also I have to agree with the way reprimands are handed out. Publicly calling a user a liar or stating that they did wrong and should stop isn't the right way to do it. It's embarrassing. I believe it should be handled by PMs.

On the subject of the rules....I don't even understand them. I mean understanding them by the literal terms by which they are written? Yeah of course I get it and thought I've followed them for the most part (we all make mistakes not saying I haven't broken one or two from time to time). But getting some of the things I've seen out of the rules...it's almost as though there's an invisible handbook that the admins/mods hold that we don't. So how are we supposed to know I ask?

I could go on and on about this but I think I've covered the most important points to me. And this is just my opinion. I'll leave the forum to decide their opinion on this.

Sincerly,

Havetia Silva