I the words of our illustrious next President Trump, I'm a good counter puncher.
This is my thread, if you have something to add to the conversation other than popcorn, I will listen to you.
Is that fair?
See before I thought well maybe the poor fella has a short term memory issue. But Donald Trump as president? Early onset dementia is looking a little warmer...
Let's forget about the memory loss...the illusion of grandeur... the hypocrisy... the genuine belief that authorship gives you ownership of a thread...
Okay. I hear you.

but you still understand what I'm saying.
I don't think we can call the new guys friends. Lets let them stick around and maybe they may become friends, then fire away brother. Its between friends.
Maybe we can have some noobs to dazzle with bullshit, but we are just talking to ourselves now.
Let's cut to it. Although you may not believe it or opted out of reading, maybe even forgot, I noted i read the stats of two fairly popular forums. And that drama drives traffic. Aas info is steady we don't get earth shattering news everyday. What brings people to repeatedly view a forum several time a day is the locker room behavior. Ass, humor, shock, awe and arguements move post which causes views and subsequently flashing of sponsor/advertisers banners. The forum need to rotate. It will not rotate on aas info profiles and training methods alone. You will come by and hit new posts... nothing new. Come by tomorrow nothing new.... and your interest is gone.
You want a place with out the high school behaviors ... there are plenty, they take a reference from one of THEIR own. You have an open forum where the only requirement is an email address. You can't control what you get... other Then to moderate and boot the people that do not fit your protocol. There HAS been lots of those forums too. I can assure you that these forums dont have the advertisers interest. And if you don't have a advertisers interest you don't succeed as a forum owner.
So Paul as your thread title inquires...why is meso so slow... in my words why is it not growing? because your going to loose members everyday.
You need new members everyday...ones that feel somewhat invited. Ones that just came from the world's slowest boring private board. Creating a board with traffic will not be... a place with a three page rules list... a place that is over moderate... A place that's dominated by one source... will not be a place where new members are kept at arms length because they are new.
It will be a place that's fun, free of restrictions, a solid place for info and sources and a place of comrodery. A place where growth (new members) are fostered. Not talked down too.
I can handle it.... I'm a big fella. Many can't.