Topic: Community Forum Changes
After much discussion with the staff, we've decided to close the community forum to the public. While the changes a year ago were helpful in cutting down on spam, posting in this one forum has nearly doubled from what it was a year ago, and it has literally outgrown the entire rest of the website. This website is supposed to be about filmmaking, and we as a staff feel that the focus has instead become a miscellaneous discussion forum that is mostly not related to filmmaking or LEGO.
We feel that by closing the "Community" forum to the public, we can prevent new people who are not interested in discussing brickfilming and filmmaking from joining the site. People who are here for the reason of discussing and sharing brickfilms and filmmaking should not stand to lose much, and we will allow access to the community forum to members who the staff agrees have consistently shown interest in the real purpose of the community. If you haven't made the cut just yet, please don't take it as our personal judgment on you, we will invite more people with time. It is, however, going to be invite-only, so please don't ask for an invitation.
I know there are people here who rarely show interest in filmmaking or brickfilming and enjoy the community forum. The fact is that I never wanted to run a website that was not focused on filmmaking. I don't enjoy running this site anymore because it has so completely lost its focus, and the staff is unanimous in this.
Thanks,
Sméagol