This is a tongue-in-cheek question, for discussion only; actually it's a little bit more than just tongue-in-cheek, but since franksolich is not part of management of conservativecave, franksolich doesn't make the rules.
This is
not a suggestion; it's just something to think about.
But I'm wondering if the DUmpster should be made into a non-public forum, available to registered members only (despite their post-count).
There's various reasons for that, but for now, this should do:
"the DUmpster as a small-town grocery store"
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,71466.0And I'll stress those points later.
On the downside, if the DUmpster were a non-public forum, it wouldn't be picked up by search-engines, and a great deal to traffic to conservativecave is sent here by search-engines.
Only the non-DUmpster forums of conservativecave would be picked up--and that's not exactly a bad thing, given that other forums of conservativecave have a great deal to offer, but alas are underutilized. The other forums on conservativecave are a Mother Lode of illumination, enlightenment, and information, and I suggest the lurking primitive guests check them out too.
So that
might be a good reason to make the DUmpster a non-public forum; to lure people to conservativecave who aren't necessarily enthralled by the primitives (usually because they work with such people in real life, and have had enough).
One has to think of conservativecave overall, not just one of the forums on conservativecave.
I'm at odds-and-ends about that, though.
The
real reason perhaps the DUmpster should be a non-public forum is outlined in "the DUmpster as a small-town grocery store," above.
There's a problem with getting tip-top, top-notch inventory for the DUmpster, because the lurking primitive guests can see what we say about them, and adjust their own antics on Skins's island accordingly.
To be blunt, the primitives were funnier when they didn't know they were being watched; when they had no idea they had a large, laughing, guffawing audience.
But now the primitives are more inhibited in what they
really want to say, for fear the DUmpster might pick those up.
At the time the sparkling old dude admitted he used the bathroom in the basement because his trophy wife didn't like the good bathrooms upstairs fouled by the stench, he had no idea he had an audience outside of Skins's island.
The sparkling old dude has not been so open and honest since, for fear of what the DUmpster might say.
When Mrs. Alfred Packer, the hippywife primitive, was running the cooking and baking forum, she provided the DUmpster with pages and pages of warm sentimental good-natured humor.....that is, until hippyhubby Wild Bill found out she had a rather larger audience than he thought she had, and forced her to give up hanging around the primitives.
There's been considerable diminishment in the appearance of primitives on Skins's island, who've been featured in the DUmpster; one need think only of the Top DUmmies of any given year, who after their rise to prominence in that annual contest, either abruptly left Skins's island or became much more muted presences there.
And lately, while they still
might be around, one notices the frequent absences of the sparkling old dude, the pie-and-jam grasswire primitive, the big guy, nadin, &c., &c., &c. These are primitives who used to hang around Skins's island all the time, but now they seem to just make brief cameo appearances, and evaporate.
They're probably still around, but not like they used to be, when they were giving the DUmpster some really good stuff. I recall that no one ever thought the greenbriar primitive would go away--she did, but then came back under another screen-name; however, she's not nearly as prolific in punching out good inventory for the DUmpster as she was before.
The primitives were better when they didn't know they had an audience.
Well, they know now they have an audience, but because the DUmpster's an open forum, they can freely come and look, without taking on any responsibilities of registering and posting on conservativecave.
Just food for thought; this is not anything that should be done without long and thoughtful contemplation.
