Having been down this road I'll just recap briefly: Language filters are so easily circumvented they don't censor debate at all, but they DO restrict or even prevent access from businesses, schools and, in the case of teens, even home computers; their absence adds nothing to RAFO while denying a vast resource critical to longevity. If nothing else, more people usually means more donations, and I'd much rather have a few more Clovers and Sprites around than be deluged with ads.

Same goes for a regular listing of both what's been going on each board this month AND whatever fantasy, SF and literature related events are taking place around the world. Not only would the former help those of us who can't be here for hours every day, but the latter would help to build community within the site and to it from outside. Seemingly every new Con brings the awareness (or reminder) there are a lot more of us in any given area than we generally consider. Potentially many more if we had any kind of official presence at said Cons. I know for a fact a number of wotmaniacs met for the first time, not at a Gathering, but at DragonCon, beginning strong friendships that still endure after several of them stopped visiting wotmania and RAFO.

In MY perfect world we'd have a page based design instead of true THREADING but, y'know, oh, well. It's worth the price, IMHO.

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