Sorry - being repetitious here!
Sorry guys - I wrote the following on the revised ranges for karma and acceptance thread which very much pertains to this board as why I AM giving out K's here.
I am, as such, taking the liberty of C+P it here
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OK - on my giving out K's - I am doing this NOT strictly to build up critical mass, although that is of course the end result I'd like to have. More importantly, what I want to do is to sort of bring the newbies out of their shell. I see that rate of attrition on this board is a full 98%, where a ridiculous majority of those who signed up here do NOT go any further than doing this.
YES, we only have 2% retention of members who go on to contribute anything more than just sign on and perhaps go to the introduce yourselves thread. I pointed this out in post #142 on page 8 of the Senior discussion forum part 2
http://forum.sex141.com/eforum/v ... page%3D1&page=8
That is the reason why I have trolled the introduce yoursef thread and doled out approx 80 A's to welcome newbies, give them leads to useful threads and also direct them to the idle chat thread to START participating.
All you and TD says I take note of - but lets face it, a newbie has got to first feel and know that he is indeed welcome on our board AND can feel some sense of belonging before he will even consider contributing by writing actual reports. CL reminds me to not dwell on how this board can be intimidating - but the fact of the matter IS that to the newbie, it CAN be so - and is precisely how I felt when I first started here. A thick faced guy like I can feel this - how do you think other more sensitive newbies would feel?
Positive re-inforcement - that's what I would suggest I'm doing. Let them write anything on the idle chat, HEY - for THAT somebody gave me a K!! Write another and hey same thing!! Wow, this board really ain't bad at all and the guys on it ARE welcoming... and so forth until he does feel "at home" here and really contribute and become part of our community.
This being so - howzabout more seniors also contributing your K's - for after all, like Angst stated, most of us don't use up our quota anyway - why not make GOOD use of them instead of just blindly rating reports. BREAK THAT HABIT!! Rating reports ONLY is NOT that useful in nurturing newbies - first they got to want to stay around here!
SEAJ
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EDIT - Guys - I'm getting grief on what I wrote above on the Revised range of karmas and Acceptance thread - and although I KNOW that they also monitor this thread - I would HOPE that you guys would step up to the plate and make YOUR own feelings and opinion known. It's been stated that I'm on a warning status about supposedly "abusing" the K's system - and thus it's very important that you do go ahead and make your POV known.
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