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The forum reached a stage where, despite it being a forum to discuss The Beatles, the vast majority of discussion was about anything but The Beatles, @Neely. Often the forum could go weeks without there being any real discussion of them, and Joe felt it discouraged those who wanted to talk about them to look at a list of the most recent posts here and seeing The Beatles were not being talked about. He had created a forum for Beatles discussion and found it had morphed into a more generic social forum that can be found all over the interweb.

Efforts were made to refocus the forum onto its intended primary subject, such as making all forum games Beatles focused, but eventually felt he had no choice but to lock the All Together Now section of the forum to new threads, while also locking many threads in it, if it was to be a Beatles forum. There are still many threads there which allow for varied discussion, from the In My Life thread which allows people to talk about what’s going on with them, to the Incredibly Impossible to Derail thread where anything can be discussed, to threads for current affairs (I Read the News Today) and music (What Are You Listening to…).

There are always threads to say whatever you want, even if sometimes you need to find a fit for what you want to say rather than creating a specific thread for it.

And never worry about posting too much. Posting is never discouraged, and new voices are always welcome. They help reinvigorate and drive the conversation. I’m always happy to see new people join us, and sad that so many of those who join the forum never make a post (though some, of course, are bots or spammers who are screened out by the mods before they can start filling the forum with unwanted garbage).