My thoughts on this are the over friendliness of people, who actually don't know or ever will know each other, the love in's between certain member's are very extreme on here, and may well alienate outsiders having a look at the forum. I had chips for tea mate- Well done mate they looked scrummy, yeah they was mate, i added some salt made them even better. Well done mate etc etc. This is the kind of stuff visitors see on the front page. I often see it when i log on, and i just log off again. I have many many many times told negan-locke-vulcan-st andrew-shelby, or whatever the latest fantasy name is, i am not his mate, yet it persists.
How about all the shitty food dinner and other type crap are in a forum, as per the old days, where only registered users can access, and more significantly it doesn't go on your post count.