Hello. This is a rough debate about the JCF, so please don't feel offended about my comments. They are not meant as an attack towards anyone, but to point out facts and problems in the current stage of the JCF.

I stopped posting at the JCF and only return every once and in a while to check my contest topic. I feel the forum has grown boring because it's always the same and there's hardly anything new, but some uninteresting news in "General Jazz Talk". Although posters still browse the forum and post in it daily, this forum is dead and there is no doubt that the only thing that keeps posters here is because they hope the brightness that once shined here will return to the place.

I also feel that the reasoning for the downfall of the JCF is partly the moderation and administration's fault, not because of the way they moderate the forum but because some of the changes they do are not liked by any of the community members and thus pushes them away from the forums, mostly to more interesting things.

Let's get some things straight:

Fact 1) We delight stupid posters like were they exiles. Honestly.

They make a lot of annoying and disturbing posts. They continue being stupid after being warned and even banned. And no real action is taken against it.

Let's not bring up Michael for the sake of humanity, but a more touchy child, such as Bjarni or "The Pokemaan Masta!!!11one" (or whatever he calls himself these days). Lately 'TBM' has spent a lot of time telling people off in his request not to hate his silly hobby or just plain screw off. Let's be honest:

Do most of us care of his 'Pokémon'?
Do most of us care about those disliking it?
Do we want to see debates about any of the above questions?

For Christ's sake, please don't use the forum as a tool for some boring political war between (subject) and (people against it).

Okay, I realize that we could also just not care of these posts and not read it. Also realize that we could just stop caring of the actual JCF, like I did, because when nothing is set up to stop this kind of rooting, it spreads.

Fact 2) Lack of new blood to the veins kills the heart, aka the JCF.

Seriously, everything interesting today is categorized "Misc". The Miscellaneous Stuff is where it snows, it's where it happens. Because of this, the forum category itself has turned into a chaos of love and war. There is everything from forum games, to sex and to spam. I think I spend 7 hours cleaning my room yesterday, and jesus that mess was nothing in comparison to such a forum.

May I honestly suggest the ideal of sub-forums? Like:

A) Forum games
B) Polls
C) Discussions

Ect..

Another thing that plain bugs me is how 'Clan Talk' really is 'Clan Announcements'. You can anything but talk about your clan. As soon as discussion grow personal and intensive about your clan, they get locked because only announcements such as 'Clan STUPID is seeking clan war' or 'Clan STUPID lost (OMG!! 8[) and is now being DISBANDED'. I remember there being political discussions. I mean, that's the ideal about having a universal discussion forum for clans if they can't discuss their problems with others universally?

Fact 3) Nobody really cares about posting more because there is no REWARD in it.

Like rank or custom titles. Almost every forum I've seen has one or another sort of rank and reward for raising your post count, but here we don't even have a post count. It was cool to do a lot of reviews on J2Online because your reviewer rank grew, it was cool to post on JCF and actively join debates because you grew in post count and could thus take place in.. erh.. history books or something.

The fact is, it attracts people. I think we removed post count due to spam? At least the JCF was interesting and fun to post on at that time.

I beg you pardon, but PLEASE consider doing some drastic changes so that we can make these forums more worthwhile posting in. This ISN'T a "JJ2 IS GOING TO DIE IN SEVEN DAYS, HAHAHA!!! (the ring)" topic, but suggestion and summary topic.

/end ultimately rant