[Guppy]

A friendly observation
I liken SB to a forum I joined back in the late 90's. It was run by the people that produce the design software I use. The posts became censured by the software people so only the good side of the program was available to read about. We started another forum on Yahoo some time after that and became larger than the company owned. It's all but dead now but we had close to a 10 yr. run. Met and communicated with some great folks from all over the planet.
I like to think I was a strong contributor,,,, I and other full time users of the software must have answered some of the same questions a million times. Answering a question with "do a search" was a no no. The cool part of it was that over the years a lot of the people who where asking a ton of questions began to take over answering the greenies questions or adding to an answer that may have been too short. The site grew!
The software people finally followed suite with their competitors with a well run open forum, that, along with one of the down turns in the economy did us in.

Another observation (going to catch hell for this one)
It's my opinion the threads that read like a private conversation about something that went down last night or happened recently and only the people participating in the thread have the slightest idea what happened probably turns people away. Seem to me if someone is going to spend the time to participate on line and become involved (contribute?) with SB activities, they'll be less apt to given the above.

With that said,,,, At my age I don't understand a f*&%^&%n thing anybody is talking about here, especially all the f)&*(*%n letters,,,,, it took me a month last winter to figure out (find out?) tfctfn ..... LOL