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Message: <blockquote data-quote="windpantsguy" data-source="post: 28010" data-attributes="member: 8978">I'll add my $0.02. Back in the day when I used to frequent this place (mind you I didn't think of registering for whatever reason), it was a hopping place. I believe a lot of the decline is in major favor of other social media platforms. Forums are an old school (heck, I'm old enough to remember using dial up Bulletin Board Servers (BBS)) way of socializing and sharing content. Folks have moved on from forums to other media outlets with instant gratification and downloaded apps. Something that a mere forum doesn't really accomplish.I'm old school and prefer forums over social media. I don't have social media and I will never use it. Mainly because a majority of forums, a user can talk to the owner of the forum. Good luck with talking to the CEO of a social media platform. With that being said, now that we are in the mid-2020's, a lot of the rift-raft has went away making forums a niche place for much cleaner activity. I see this in a bunch of forums I belong to, in fact, I now moderate some of those forums I've been on for a very long time. As a moderator of those forums, since people have flocked to social media, my job has been much easier. Only thing we as moderators need to worry about are the same problems listed above.Another issue with this place is the lack of traditional wind pants manufacturers are (not) offering. I remember the days of going to JC Penny, Macy's, and brand name outlet stores (Adidas/Nike) and being able to buy wind pants. Including the more off brand stores like Walmart, K-Mart, etc. Lots of colors, both lined and unlined variations. Yet it is quite fascinating when I wear my wind pants out in public people ask me where I get them or if there is something like them new. I always have to tell them, "good luck" or only used on Depop, eBay, etc. I was in Dicks Sporting Goods last week getting something, and I got preoccupied looking for wind pants. They didn't have any wind pants, and they are a sporting goods store. Where I'm getting at with this, is how are we supposed to have a forum, when the products aren't even being made main stream any more. Sad, but true. And yes . . . . I've been considering making my own line of simple unlined nylon wind pants in two colors, black and navy blue since no one seems to want to make them. I already have the templates for XS all the way to XL sizes and I've made a pair copying a pair of vintage 90's Nike's for fit. It's just getting the business going with time as I work two full time jobs, amongst living a life.The only portion of what I really don't like what I see mentioned, is the verbiage: The report system is meant for rules and guideline violations and using reports for bogus reasons repeatedly will lead to a ban. Many of the other forums encourage the use of the report system, even if it gets abused, we hash it out in a PM with the user. Any of the forums I moderate we've had discussions on this very topic, and we have a standing rule that we'd never outright ban someone from using (or abusing) the feature. Yes, it is annoying as a moderator to get the notification of a "Report" in queue, but we'd always hash it out. Granted most of the time we are dealing with our "Approval" queue with duplicate or akismet flagged accounts. Outside of that, it is your forum, you can moderate it how you like and you asked for our thoughts, and I solicited my thoughts on that topic.Otherwise, thanks for keeping this place going, and I would hate to see it go as many forums have. I get it. It is not cheap having a web server along with keeping up on security updates, SSL certs, and renewing the forum software for updates. If anything, I might suggest offering a way to give donations. Do a Paypal link to get a few bucks. I'm sure folks on here would be very inclined to donate to keep the lights on, I certainly would.</blockquote>

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