Mushtaq
Founding Member
Has TLF run it's course and should be put to sleep?
For a while now I am getting the feeling that maybe time has come to close this forum down.
There seem to be mainly argument between very few members about the same things, often there is much mud slinging and complaints to mods.
My main reasons for starting this forum was to exchange information about Turkey amongst people who had the same interests but mainly about Turkey.
Times have changed and many of the original members have left or passed away.
Due to fewer active members and thus less usage of the forum, the advertisement revenues I used to receive have declined over the years, gradually it's getting to the stage where it will cost me to run the forum, much like the early years when I paid all the bills and spent many hours running the forum.
Now I don't have a lot of time or funds to invest in something where I get constant alerts and complaints about members being childish or abusive.
So I'm asking myself is there a need for TLF still?
There seem to be mainly argument between very few members about the same things, often there is much mud slinging and complaints to mods.
My main reasons for starting this forum was to exchange information about Turkey amongst people who had the same interests but mainly about Turkey.
Times have changed and many of the original members have left or passed away.
Due to fewer active members and thus less usage of the forum, the advertisement revenues I used to receive have declined over the years, gradually it's getting to the stage where it will cost me to run the forum, much like the early years when I paid all the bills and spent many hours running the forum.
Now I don't have a lot of time or funds to invest in something where I get constant alerts and complaints about members being childish or abusive.
So I'm asking myself is there a need for TLF still?