Hey guys,
I see a nice discussion's going on here and felt like adding something of my own.

First and foremost I'd like to point out that both these boards operate on slightly different ideologies. Both have their own share of positive and negative factors. As it's been mentioned several times over - Astahost was established with a purely technical nature in mind - and that's how it's been raised from ground up. This has resulted in us being extremely picky about our members. More often that not you'll find people getting booted out within half-an-hour of joining. On the other hand, Trap17 welcomes almost everyone with open arms - unless you prove yourself to be a real nuisance. Advantage of this is that Trap has a bustling community and way more members that we ever hope to have.

When it comes to posting, while you're permitted to ask any kind of techie questions relating to your computer problems - if you want to take part in any ongoing discussions and put in your views - you've to be seriously technical minded. The kind of posts we seek have to be fact-filled and as informative as possible without bordering on SPAM. However, Trap is way more relaxed in that respect - you're free to discuss almost anything here - unless the content borders on obscenity. Quite naturally the general crowd finds this a much better place to be in - as the topics of discussion at Asta fall in a very narrow region.

The above two factors combined, results in a lot more posts at Trap. The board is always on the move and very fast paced - something that we sorely miss at times. There are days at Asta which pass by without a single new topic being created. For the existing members that can be kind of challenging - for how long do you think you can keep discussing old stuff ? We're all humans and are always attracted to varied points of interest. As I said, things can get quite a bit boring and droll at times. Naturally, we've got far less posts that Trap. Then again - the slow pace of Asta has its own distinct advantages. It helps us monitor the posts in a more efficient way and any kind of SPAM is immediately weeded out along with the SPAMMER. But still, at times I feel that the members would really like things to hasten up a bit. Also, this enables us to keep the threads as clean as possible and information retrieval a much easier job.

As for the number of moderators - it's NEVER a disadvantage. For big and fast moving boards like this - which puts severe stress on the monitoring aspect - you can never have TOO MANY mods. You need round the clock monitoring of the board to keep it as free of SPAM and other related problems as possible. And believe me, good moderators are quite a rarity. The less number of posts at Asta puts makes the job much easier and hence we have only a small but extremely dedicated group of moderators.

Trap - I believe offers a lot more in the way of fun. It's not that we don't pursue the lighter side of life at Asta, but the kind of fun we have too can be seriously "technical" or rather Geeky at times. This is fine with our regular members but might not be too appealing to any newcomers with a different idea of fun.

Last but not the least - one should realize that these two boards are not competing in any way. Both have their own way of running - with their own personal merits and appeal, but in the end both of them belong to the very same Xisto Corporation. Quite frequently you'll find mods and admins from both boards sharing/exchanging ideas on administration and helping each other grow.

That's about it I guess...

Best Regards,
m^e

 

 

 

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