This place is completely off the hook. Great place to relax and kick back. By far, the best I’ve seen in my 7 years of online browsing for MGTOW sites.
Gosh, @mgtow_85, thanks for that. Means alot. You guys have all – ALL – made it possible to keep the place as we imagined, t~~~ and collar free. Thanks to everyone for self-moderating and creating a new standard MGTOW can be proud of. Most sincerely.
We do need a chat room.
That’s possible. The forums are MUCH busier than we anticipated. We thought it would be relatively quiet for a year until it started rolling. In fact, there was never intent to be a forum here at all – but the original requests for one was overwhelming so we created one. Turned out to be a great thing and better than expected. We are keeping an eye on volume, and although MGTOW Day (02.14) was busy as f~~~(!) and the absolute peak ….we are still ramping up on a daily average. We are preparing to handle more and if it starts to look like we have a flagship forum we will start to implement more of a “live” way of connecting. i.e a chat rooms.
BUT… MGTOW subject matter is DIFFERENT than , say, a forum about cars or stereo equipment.
The stories and contributions are VERY personal and close to the heart.
When someone drops an introduction (for example) what he has to say deserves a certain respect… because let’s not forget, many arrive here after YEARS or a half a lifetime of journey and experience. Putting it down for others in a long post takes a LONG time. It also takes a long time to read it… digest it… and formulate an appropriate & respectful reply. This is why it can take time to receive replies to intros that aren’t just “hey welcome to the forum!”. These guys are arriving with ALL their personal baggage and it’s been a heavy and long journey. Some of them are like beaten dogs! Literally.
So we are glad the forum is mostly a collection of short thoughts and essays that are WORTH READING and learning from… rather than short one-seentence bursts devoid of meaning like “hey how’s it going? “… “fine thanks you? “… and “ha ha I agree”. We don’t want that. A post should MATTER and DocFenderson, BrainPilot, Vile, Cap, Harpomason, and so many others really INVEST in bringing something of value – even when it’s just flippant fun. RoyDal has brought some excellent links , videos and topics to discuss that prompted some value inclusion into the archives. I have rarely read anything that’s “empty” throw-away stuff.
So a “chat room” is not really conducive to that, and encourages more of a “playground” atmosphere which is really not an ideal MGTOW environment.
It’s GREAT that we don’t get alot of empty one-sentence replies like “yeah I agree” which really don’t say anything a thumbs up can’t …. and the forums don’t fill up with empty s~~~. One guy posts a thread. Maybe only 5 reply in the next few hours or 1/2 days, but the s~~~ is good and worth checking out. That’s better than 50 guys posting short nods and “hell yeahs!”.
There has also been a request to know “who’s online” and how many and where, but it’s too soon for that, and just not busy enough. The forums are still very new and we’ve got into a level where it’s self-operating (almost). Now when the forums get 50 users at all times, then it’s worth that sort of thing. But really if we had a chat room now, it wouldn’t be very “live” because of the nature of MGTOW content. But we have it in the back of our minds to really amp up the “social” aspect of the site and perhaps it will grow to THE place and will become a true “MGTOW Facebook”. Where everyone can even have their own customizable content they can create themselves. But it has to grow organically.
ALL points and requests are taken very seriously. Thanks very much!
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