Surprised there's no activity in the Lycra forum

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The new swimsuit boards have taken off, with interesting threads and debates by an active group of members.

However this area remains stagnant. I wonder why? My attraction to Speedos extends to other Lycra wear. Both make me body conscious, providing a positive feedback loop to workout to keep a shape that looks good in skintight clothes.

I feel like writing about my Lycra adventures, but not unless there is an audience willing to also contribute. Comments?

[Byron]

Great minds think alike - I was noticing just that when scanning through the forums a few days ago.

There are four Mens Swim Suit Forums and two Mens Lycra Forums on the new Board.

The General Mens Swim Suit Guy Talk is clearly the popular one and you say
"interesting threads " and "an active group of members" are moving it along.
That's true - but there should be a larger active group of participants as the few faithful contributors largely exist on their own to keep the damned thing alive.
The viewing figures can on occasions go over 1000 , so we have a not insignificat readership out there - but still very few posts appear in print to follow up that interest.


Taking the second of the Lycra Forums first the buy and sell section remains empty after five months - a waste of space which I predicted to Mike long ago and on which he was supposed to undertake a review.

The discussion forum is one where you "feel like writing" but there has to be "an audience willing to contribute".
Quite so - and I can only suggest that you proceed with a post on Lycra and then do another to the Swim Suit General Talk as a reminder that something is here to read (some speedos are made of Lycra so you won't be entirely off-topic for that forum).
It is worth remembering that Speedo and Lycra used to run as parallel but separate Fantasy Boards whereas the latter is reduced now to a Forum on the Mens Swim Suit Board . Whether that constitutes a demotion which has caused earlier contributors to give up their interest I would not like to say - but it will be interesting to see whether the points you have just made spur a few readers into action

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Byron, thanks for your support. You are of course correct - lots of readers compared to the few writers.

But as you wax ecstatic over the old format boards, remember that the Lycra Forum eventually turned into some sort of spam fest with an occasional real message. Glad Mike's new effort is spam-free.

[Byron]

I see - didn't know that the fewer postings might relate to the disappearance of unwanted spammers from the earlier Board.

(LOL - I didn't know also that I might be playing Heidi to a guy called Seal in this UD illustration: http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...rm=wax+lyrical)

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(LOL - I didn't know also that I might be playing Heidi to a guy called Seal in this UD illustration: http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...rm=wax+lyrical)[/quote]

Has that happened yet, or have you moved on to the other example's new set of bolt-ons?

[Byron]

If bolt-ons mean breasts, no.

I may have caused some confusion here and I was simply trying to work out how/why I might have been waxing ecstatically.
Having checked the words separately I find slang for sex applies to the first and brief elation for the second - so I've been having quick enjoyable shags with the old fantasy board it seems.

I have no prejudice against the lycra forums in principle but remain of the opinion that as little and nothing appear in them they can be dispensed with as separate entities and members interested in raising lycra topics can simply send a post to the general swimsuit talk forum (where at least someone might read it I have to say).
Btw, it is rather amusing to see that is where the great majority of activity has come to be centred (of no great surprise as that forum in itself is in effect the old board reincarnated).