References to 'our mates'

I'll let this thread run for a bit longer, and then I think it's time for us to collectively try and agree what we think we've got from it. I think that a general consensus is emerging, and hope to summarise it in due course, with view to securing an agreement, but we'll see.

For the time being allow me thank contributors for having not allowed it to deteriorate into another slanging match
 
Warbler said:
I'll let this thread run for a bit longer, and then I think it's time for us to collectively try and agree what we think we've got from it. I think that a general consensus is emerging, and hope to summarise it in due course, with view to securing an agreement, but we'll see.

For the time being allow me thank contributors for having not allowed it to deteriorate into another slanging match
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Warbler, shouldn't you also be expressing Reg's right to have a baby, despite the fact that he hasn't got a womb? ;):D

Does this thread really need a summary? If so, allow me.

You can hate some of the fuckers all of the time, and all of the fuckers some of the time, but it would be rude to hate all of the fuckers, all of the time.

Job done, warm glasses of Blossom Hill all round, and onto the Tipperary Hurdle.

Ta-da!
 
What Redhead said is exactly how I feel "The banter is great, as are the heated discussions. However, when differences of opinions become more agressive and/or personal and a debate turns into a slanging match, that's a big turn-off."

Please look at the thread for new members and ask yourself why it hasn't been updated by any new users for the last 2 weeks. Every forum that wants to survive in the long run needs new members. I will now let you all rejoin your garden party in piece.
 
I've already outlined what I think about it on the thread where the subject was first raised - I am utterly confounded over the bizarre notion that we should keep it a secret that we are either friends with other posters on here in the real world (as opposed to cyberspace), or have met them, as if that in itself constitutes some clandestine relationship that should never be spoken about.
 
martin said:
What Redhead said is exactly how I feel "The banter is great, as are the heated discussions. However, when differences of opinions become more agressive and/or personal and a debate turns into a slanging match, that's a big turn-off."

Please look at the thread for new members and ask yourself why it hasn't been updated by any new users for the last 2 weeks. Every forum that wants to survive in the long run needs new members. I will now let you all rejoin your garden party in piece.
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Probably because 99% of new members are Chinese spammers :p
 
Does this thread really need a summary?



In order to agree a possible consensus, I'd venture to say yes. I will howevr desist from calling you by your first name, Denis.... Alright that would make you Denis Hopper.

I think it's becoming apparent that there's no great will on the part of members for us to try and frame a set of rules regarding oblique references? any more than I think we'd be capable of doing so? There seems to be a tacit acknowledgement however that there can be a little bit of over familiarisation. I'm personally not convinced its a problem, but that is for you as board members to decide.

What I wouldn't want to see however, is the same allegations being made a few months later, and a case of here we go round the mulberry bush again.

(FWIW) and I'm not judge and jury, but I find Rory's synopsis the more compelling by way of argument.

The existing T&C's should suffice, and the creation of a new set of protocols is likely to be counter-productive. There is however, as he says, a danger that people might inadvertantly wander into cliquey familiarity. I'm still yet to be convinced by the latter part of the argument, but will gladly accept it's been raised.
 
Gareth Flynn said:
Probably because 99% of new members are Chinese spammers :p
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Aye, but we're winning!!!

Most people will be unaware that more people/ user names have been banned in the last 2 or 3 weeks than TH seems to have managed in its entire history. And the fact that they've rarely got their spam up....;)
 
Shadow Leader said:
that we should keep it a secret that we are either friends with other posters on here in the real world (as opposed to cyberspace), or have met them, as if that in itself constitutes some clandestine relationship that should never be spoken about.
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What about if we fancy the pants off a fourmite we have never met or seen in the flesh?
 
redhead said:
Good point. Breaking into a new group is always difficult, both for the newcomer and the established members of that group, as the dynamics always change.

I'm feeling more comfortable with the forumites now. You will know when I feel completely at home because I will start teasing - mischief, no malice.
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Almost at Defcom 3 lads ;)
 
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