Eliza makes some excellent points. Her suggestions re increasing the focus on stories are great.

I also concur with Eliza that we need to make a real effort to respond to threads initiated by those who are new or seldom start threads…that will reduce the likelihood of the thread falling on its face (which can make an infrequent thread-generator less likely to try in the future) and encourages the member to post more new threads.

Can the Pixies’ CHAT link be fixed so that it takes us to the correct CHAT site rather than to a non-functioning site? Also, how about promoting online chat more in the threads (so that more members get involved and that there are people in chat more hours of the day)? Chat gives us a way to better know members. When CHAT is fun and lively, people will tend to come back more often to both it and the Pixies boards.

The political, social, religious threads are OK as long as posters don’t become malicious in their responses (remember, these are our OPINIONS we are posting, not the word of God)…plus those of us who read these types of threads need to have thick skins because we must realize that there will be some who say things that we totally disagree with or that we find offensive…such is life with these type of subjects. Remember, being challenged by different opinions is good for us.

We might get more new members if people doing web searches for something like “erotic stories”, have PIXIES come up when they do the search. Can the Pixies host use some tags that will move Pixies up on the search engines?