Originally Posted by sopsych

People here hardly know me or my motives, but like someone else said, there's a forum tendency to be negative toward outsiders and expect the worst.

I thought about the Journal section again and now wonder whether it gets people to join via writings that show up in search engines. I then keyword searched the New Members section about that, without finding relevant recent results. I wish moderators would seriously investigate why the rate of new member contributions has been dropping - making things friendlier is worthwhile in itself and could only help, but what if that plus more music threads don't help enough?