[Jo]

I think we have a great mix of fun and serious. Also, what is referred to by the wingers as "silly" often isn't silly, it's a serious opinion, albeit sometimes radical, expressed in a light-hearted manner.
I post in both sections. If I'm posting something serious and get witty replies I either:
a) ignore them
b) respond cos they tickle my fancy and then get on with the serious bit

I see a forum like a family - you can't exclude members, they are always part of the family. I have two brothers, with one I can talk seriously, but the other keeps butting in with witty, sarcastic comments. What can I do? Either I ignore him or I reply then get on with my conversation with the other. but I can't change my family. I have to accept it. Society is like that. If you want a forum with replies that completely suit your needs and desires at all time, then you have to allow only yourself to post, and not make it public.
If there is more wit than serious talk, then perhaps that's a representation of Accy folk - is that such a bad thing?

Re. keeping serious to serious and witty to witty, that's really impossible. You know wit has to be stimulated, and often it's stimulated by a topic under a serious thread.

I personally am less on the forum now because it has got a bit boring. Tend to send private messages more than anything. But then if I were to stop posting, would it be less important than Cazzer's 3 friends, because I wasn't always serious anyway?

We have no market research, we do not know why people have stopped. Fact is that a society and thus a forum is made up of different kinds of people and no-one is forced out. If you don't like it, lump it. If it gets too seriouos for me, I won't bother coming on, if it gets too silly for others, they won't bother. It's natural selection which forms the culture of a forum, and not a group of dictators.