Forums can get a bit that way periodically and that's why I personally was trying to brighten things up with humor and some relatively innocent thread jacking...(ok quite allot)

I was told by one member in no uncertain terms to tame the joking around down because he thought it too much ?? ... This I have done and yer it take the gloss off it for me I think..

I think some strong debating does help , but as I found out , even debating can and is frowned on by many in here and taken as an aggressive attitude or approach.....

Although the bike boards may be the most important here......the off topic board is probably the life of the Forum in reality...

Lets face it , we are people first then CBR riders, so life issues , humor , general chat and perhaps the not so nice is the News posts with a constant flow of violent threads being generated seem to get the most attension allot of the time....

All in all I think that no matter what you want or expect from forums , they are what you make of them yourself...
If things seem quite or a bit boring sometimes a break from them can help to a degree...

 

You have 2 great plans there ..

Both sound very nice .....although the fish just laugh at me when I go out..



have fun mate ..