[Mark]

Ron,

Everyone has their own reason for coming and posting on TiBB. The majority of people are here because TiBB is one of the largest online Big Brother communities and people like to come here and keep up with the latest news/views/gossip. Others are here because we offer other forums for other TV shows which don't exist with the userbase TiBB has. Some people are here because they enjoy being part of a community, and some people are here to make friends and meet people with similar interests.

It's hard enforcing rules that discriminate against certain members just because their post content is low. It wouldn't work in practice by demanding people post at least X words per post either. We don't allow text speech on the forum, which in a knock on effect maybe makes people think about what they are writing more -- and we also made post counts only work in Big Brother and General Chat sections of the board. (so you don't get any post count for posting in chat and games.)

Also a lot of our members are viewing TiBB from school/college, often during break or lunch time and quickly log on to see what's going on. Often it's just no feasible for them to start digesting long posts and creating big, thoughtful answers. It's probably just a case of having a few minutes spare and writing a quick reply with their opinion.

As the forum grows, the more subjects and sub forums we cater for, and even though this is primarily a Big Brother forum, I like to think we expand out pretty well into areas our users like talking about.

I'm sorry you feel this way... if you had higher expectations of what the discussions were like on this forum - but we are trying to cater to the masses. I'd welcome any suggestions you might have, but unfortunately as I said above there isn't going to be any restriction on what people can post in terms of length.

- Mark