[tone3jaguar]

This is my perception of the evolution of these forums

Well, I was not here at the very beginning of it like some. I came in after there where the initial 4000 sudden new members. It was like the gold rush of information gathering for those that where here back then. It was just like the wild west where the gold rushes took place. I was mostly only participating in the spirituality forums on the Avalon side back then. It was pretty safe in that forum for a while. The outlaws pretty much stayed out of there because there where some heavy hitters participating in it. I ended up taking a break from it for about a month or so. When I came back, just before the place went subscription, the spirituality forums had actually been taken over by a group of people trying to sell the idea of worshiping Lucifer and they where hijacking every thread to spread their religion. If you disagreed with them, they would try to intimidate you.

Then the forum went subscription. Everyone that was a member either had to pay a small fee to help fund the Camelot Interviews or stop posting. This cleaned most of the rif raf out of here. There was a temporary lul in post volume because people where in the process of signing up. Then slowly but surely it picked back up again. Not to the level it had been at before where it got totally out of control, but to a more manageable level of participation.

Then here recently, people started posting up large quantities of fear based propaganda as thread topics again. This lowered the energy down lower and lower every time it happened. Many started leaving again because they did not wish to be exposed to negative alternative media. Probably for the same reasons that they stopped watching the television media and started intaking the alternative media which brought them here.

I read a quote from a leadership book one time. I was reading the book because I was managing over 30 manual laborers. The quote was "If you are not pissing people off then you are not changing things fast enough".