I'm curious, as a long time member of this forum, what the other members think about the video board being a members-only section?  Just curious!

Personally, I'd like to see it go back to being a publicly accessible board.  If the goal of making it a members-only section was to encourage more people to sign up as members, then I am wondering if that experiment has really worked out.  My gut says it hasn't and that, at worst, it might even be doing the opposite.  I have no access to the stats, of course, so what do I know -- but I know our membership hasn't exactly increased by leaps and bounds since it became private or I'm sure I would have noticed something.  When visiting the forum without a member ID, you can't even see that a video board exists because it is physically blocked from sight (a setting that apparently can't be changed once you set the board to private).  People specifically wanting to see crying videos (isn't that the reason they were originally blocked? because they were considered the "best stuff"?) might browse quickly and then, not seeing the type of resources they want, just head on over to YouTube.  Whereas if they kept hanging around the board, maybe they'd eventually want to join? 

It's just a thought.  Like I said, what do I know, and I don't have the authority to do anything about it (not that I'm looking for authority).  But I was curious what other people thought.   Mostly because I have been following two threads of mine for the past several days which were posted at roughly the same time.  My post in the fic section has a whopping 82 views.  My post in the video section has a mere 17 (and no responses).  I know that I have gone in several times to fiddle around with the fic one and read it over again, and that there are other posts in the thread as well, but I still don't think that fully accounts for such a wide gap.  I would love to be able to share that Jon Stewart "Night of Too Many Stars" video clip with ALL the crying fetishists out there (I hope there are more Stewart fans than just me!)  Yes, I know I could just go somewhere else if I wanted to post it publicly.  I just would have thought it would be nice to keep it here, at "home", and encourage as many genuine fetishists as possible to keep meeting here.  This is still the only forum that I know about that is for non-BDSM-related crying as a turn-on, and that's where I felt most comfortable sharing my find.

Anyway, I just wanted to express my views on the video section being blocked from non-members.  If anyone has any opinions on the subject (whether in agreement or disagreement), I'd love to hear them!

Last edited by woundedpuppy (November 20, 2012 3:31 pm)