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Originally Posted by HarryT
I am informed that many new members find the "friendliness" of the Lounge to be less "intimidating" than the other, technically-oriented, forums, and that it would be perceived as undesirable to alter that - hence the suggestion to leave the Lounge as it currently is and provide a new location for more serious stuff.
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As a new member I have to say that I have exactly the opposite reaction to the lounge. I did find it intimidating even though I liked some of the threads. Why? Because I feel that there is a lot of clique forming going on in a lot of threads.
Since I'm new here I don't now all the inn jokes. I feel people would rather talk amongst themselves. The lounge often doesn't feel 'open'. Visiting there can feel for me like I'm listening in on people's private conversations. Now personally I don't get why conversations like that don't take place in the chat, msn ,or some other means.
Slow chatting is not allowed on other boards that I visit exactly for the reasons I stated above.
Also, just checking the lounge threads I don't see very many (or any?)
newcomers posting there.
For me the lounge could be a place to get to know the people that frequent this board, but as it stands, I don't feel that it is the place to do this.
This is why I had hoped that there could be an easy way to ignore especially the silliness threads or the lounge all together when searching for new posts.
As it is a part of the forum that isn't at all usefull to me.
I must say I'm glad this thread got opened again
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I felt really angry and hurt when it got closed without being able to give a response.
Just to add. I chose to speak up about this, because I also think mobileread is otherwise just a great place to be.
Where else am i going to find others that like reading and gadgetry just as much as i do
