I have some suggestions to bring new blood in- I think that people want to post new topics- people come here with new ideas. It's probably very frustrating to have to post thirty times before being able to write them all down. I'm not saying that it needs to be eliminated- but I think that that is an excessively high number.

Do we have a facebook group? If not it wouldn't be a bad idea. Sure the guise of anonymity of who's a member is gone, but we don't have to share our screennames. It might get us some more visitors. Also, it would help to remind visitors to place this as their web address on other forms on their profiles.

I think that there are a great number of trolls here- this will always be the case with any site but they seem to be especially prolific here. What we get then is not debate but just flying insults and stereotypes (liberal bleeding heart subaru driver with a "war is not the answer sticker, shut the fuck up", someone posted earlier). I have heard a fair number of attacks the other way as well, but I don't think either side needs to insult the other- I think that if we tried listening more for ideas from each other rather than listening only to find fault and blast them that we could reach an actual consensus on some issues and maybe learn something from each other.

Thoughts? PM me if you're addressing them to this post, I'm not watching a sticky (a good way to end up with my inbox crammed full, no?)

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In West Philadelphia, born and raised
on the playground is where I spent most of my days
chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool and shootin' some b-ball outside of the school,
when a couple of guys who were up to no good
started makin' trouble in my neighborhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
"you're moving in with your auntie and your uncle in bel-air."