RT - I have to agree. Keep the focus narrow. Your audience should be deep but not necessarily wide. There are other sites that cater to walleye and bass anglers. My view is that the content should mirror what you might read in STS. The majority of stuff on Pacific Northwest/BC/Alaska salmon and trout angling including tips, techniques, locations, etc. It should also have stuff from the Great Lakes, and occasionally something different like sturgeon, as in the latest issue of STS.

Editing/censoring is a necessary evil, so use your best judgement. However, like all readers, I consider myself the ultimate editor. If I don't like the direction or tone of a particular post, I simply stop reading it and go to a different post. Nobody is forcing me to read anything. But nobody likes to be slammed by an uninformed knuckle-head, so some accountability may be necessary. Like shutting down a post or giving a flamer a "time-out" by locking him/her out for a week or two. Sorta like I give my two-year-old after a tantrum.....

I like the idea of having a post-it board for members to display photos of the big ones that were released or the hatchery brats that were bonked or the moose that stepped out of the brush and sat on my Lamiglass 1311....

Perhaps an automatic spell checker wouldn't hurt either. All replies/messages could be filtered through the checker before posting. Otherwise, the literacy of some members will continue to be questioned.

Best of luck and continued success with this BB.