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  • When consensus becomes impossible to ignore?
  • dannyh
    Free Member

    Let’s just suppose that there is a specific issue that it is verboten to mention on a specific Internet forum. Now the people who run the forum are entirely honest about why you can’t mention it. They are in a difficult position. They probably don’t like it any more than the users, but they have to enforce the rules.

    Now, the users (for the most part) don’t mind too much about the issue itself, or the ban on mentioning it. But the issue itself becomes so intrusively irritating that loads of threads are started about it and ill feeling, thread closures and (no doubt) some ‘forum holidays’ are granted as a result.

    Personally if I were in charge of the forum, I would see numerous, previously well behaved, forum users mentioning the unmentionable as a sign that the ‘issue’ is becoming more problematic.

    Hypothetically. Of course.

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    cloudnine
    Free Member

    Is this about he who should not be named?

    Pook
    Full Member

    TJ is not coming back. Get over it.

    metalheart
    Free Member

    I have nothing useful to contribute.

    Drac
    Full Member

    Let’s imagine on this forum that there was one guy on his day off trying to get to the bottom of this issue, whilst also trying to promote their product at a show. Would it be reasonable to expect that it may take time to get to the bottom of this issue, even more so when the culprits of the said issue weren’t doing as they asked.

    Now, the users (for the most part) don’t mind too much about the issue itself

    Can’t be here then.

    bearnecessities
    Full Member

    We’re talking about what colour to paint my gazebo, aren’t we?

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    We’re talking about what colour to paint my gazebo, aren’t we?

    That HAS to be a euphemism, shirley!

    CountZero
    Full Member

    Drac – Moderator
    Let’s imagine on this forum that there was one guy on his day off trying to get to the bottom of this issue, whilst also trying to promote their product at a show. Would it be reasonable to expect that it may take time to get to the bottom of this issue, even more so when the culprits of the said issue weren’t doing as they asked.

    Now, the users (for the most part) don’t mind too much about the issue itself
    Can’t be here then.
    Good point, well made. 😀

    Suggsey
    Free Member

    Sorry but the bags really are good and yes your S types knackered… 😆

    maccruiskeen
    Full Member

    Would it be reasonable to expect that it may take time to get to the bottom of this issue

    would it be reasonable to have a sticky about an issue that is in hand rather than having multiple threads being opened and closed

    Suggsey
    Free Member

    Or is this a blue squared attachment thread 😆

    bearnecessities
    Full Member

    Quite. I’d be in favour of a sticky issue.

    Drac
    Full Member

    would it be reasonable to have a sticky about an issue that is in hand rather than having multiple threads being opened and closed

    Fair suggestion.

    piemonster
    Full Member

    I feel the need to post on this thread

    piemonster
    Full Member

    And bear

    Pink

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    Quite. I’d be in favour of a sticky issue.

    Now that HAS to be, etc….

    dannyh
    Free Member

    Drac – Moderator
    would it be reasonable to have a sticky about an issue that is in hand rather than having multiple threads being opened and closed
    Fair suggestion.

    POSTED 3 MINUTES AGO # REPORT-POST

    That’s a sensible suggestion. Can it please be made or happen so that everyone can appreciate the issues in hand?

    I didn’t want to be militant, but this hypothetical issue has been getting on my virtual tits a bit.

    Drac
    Full Member

    That’s a sensible suggestion. Can it please be made or happen so that everyone can appreciate the issues in hand?

    I can’t say it will but I can discuss it with the other mods, we don’t make a habit of stickies.

    maccruiskeen
    Full Member

    getting on my virtual tits a bit.

    Sticky pics of your virtual tits or they didn’t happen

    we don’t make a habit of stickies.

    You don’t make a habit of rogue intrusive ads either – but they seem more frequent that they are are because you don’t communicate known issues clearly to the whole forum user base rather than just the frequent thread-clickers

    Drac
    Full Member

    You don’t make a habit of rogue intrusive ads either – but they seem more frequent that they are are because you don’t communicate known issues clearly to the whole forum user base rather than just the frequent thread-clickers

    WOW!

    dannyh
    Free Member

    Sticky pics of your virtual tits

    Finbarr Saunders has just retired in high dudgeon. 😆

    dannyh
    Free Member

    Oh, and thanks to Drac.

    On serious note, I don’t think most sensible folk have a problem if they are engaged and reasoned with. They may not like it, but if they are given a fair hearing and an explanation then they can at least make up their minds to compromise or flounce.

    bullheart
    Free Member

    I’ll have the salmon.

    Drac
    Full Member

    On serious note, I don’t think most sensible folk have a problem if they are engaged and reasoned with. They may not like it, but if they are given a fair hearing and an explanation then they can at least make up their minds to compromise or flounce.

    I agree. I’ve asked about the sticky suggestion and communicated on here why it may not happen, appears for some that wasn’t good enough.

    bearnecessities
    Full Member

    I sent an email to ask to stop my mag-subscription auto renewal a few days ago, because I originally subscribed to support the forum as someone that has used it plenty for information, yet now it’s just too much of a PITA with being logged out every few minutes from mobile and the fact work computer can’t even load the page.

    A sticky would give me some faith that something is being done to provide a balance, rather than threads just being closed, or nuked.

    jekkyl
    Full Member

    Where are these pics of sticky tits then?

    Drac
    Full Member

    A sticky would give me some faith that something is being done to provide a balance, rather than threads just being closed, or nuked.

    They’re is usually a link to the thread that has the answers in, we close the threads to try and narrow them down to the on as a point of communication. But yes I do agree as clear answer as a sticky may help. However, half of the issue is that Mark is also being told that something is being done, hence his replies, but this isn’t always happening as he planned.

    Mark is at the bike show this weekend so he is only checking here and his emails occasionally so that is slowing the soloution too.

    LadyGresley
    Free Member

    I think it’s a shame that we are not allowed to mention an alternative solution to the unmentionable problem. After all, surely lots of people have discovered and indeed use it?

    Drac
    Full Member

    Where are these pics of sticky tits then?

    A compromise.

    think it’s a shame that we are not allowed to mention an alternative solution to the unmentionable problem. After all, surely lots of people have discovered and indeed use it?

    We don’t deny that but we don’t want them promoted on the forum as it’ll reduce the income from ads even more which would result in them looking at alternatives way to pay for the forum. The most likely would be subscription only which is not what they want.

    dannyh
    Free Member

    They’re is usually a link to the thread that has the answers in, we close the threads to try and narrow them down to the on as a point of communication. But yes I do agree as clear answer as a sticky may help. However, half of the issue is that Mark is also being told that something is being done, hence his replies, but this isn’t always happening as he planned.

    Mark is at the bike show this weekend so he is only checking here and his emails occasionally so that is slowing the soloution too.

    Fair enough. You lot probably have lives to lead outside of playing dinner lady to the kids playground that is often STW.

    If someone was to put it in stark terms, then I’d feel I could make an informed choice. Something along the lines of “if we totally removed the <ahem> from the site your subs would have to go up to £x per year, or if we removed the more intrusive <ahem>, it would be £y.

    I may be too much of a simpleton for this, but I don’t think I’m unreasonable. Except when it comes to classic English bitter marketing itself as pale ale. Or wheel size. Or access rights…………..

    slowoldman
    Full Member

    Sticky Tits? I’m guessing this is to do with that Valentine’s Day thread then. Am I right?

    Drac
    Full Member

    If someone was to put it in stark terms, then I’d feel I could make an informed choice. Something along the lines of “if we totally removed the <ahem> from the site your subs would have to go up to £x per year, or if we removed the more intrusive <ahem>, it would be £y.

    I may be too much of a simpleton for this, but I don’t think I’m unreasonable. Except when it comes to classic English bitter marketing itself as pale ale. Or wheel size. Or access rights…………..

    Mark has done it previously so if I get the chance I’ll see if I can find a post.

    Nah! You have a rubbish taste in beer. 😆

    metalheart
    Free Member

    We don’t deny that but we don’t want them promoted on the forum as it’ll reduce the income from ads even more which would result in them looking at alternatives way to pay for the forum.

    Having fallen foul of this recently I’d have to say that it’s not a rule I’d quibble with as if the boot was on the other foot I’d do the same. It’s a fair cop (but society’s to blame….)

    darrell
    Free Member

    did someone mention gazebos

    dannyh
    Free Member

    Mark has done it previously so if I get the chance I’ll see if I can find a post.

    That would be great.

    Nah! You have a rubbish taste in beer.

    Oh dear. I won’t be able to read it now. I have awarded you a two day holiday from having your replies read by me. The reason being “overstepping the mark and hurting a man in a gratuitous way”.

    Touché.

    bearnecessities
    Full Member

    Mark is at the bike show this weekend so he is only checking here and his emails occasionally so that is slowing the soloution too.

    Come on, the site has been a joke for a while now.

    I’m not trying to bash anyone, this is a great place with a lot of flack taken by people (Mods) that shouldn’t have to etc, but with the level of discontent that is being conveyed over the last few months, the angle of ‘we’re sorting this’ seems to be taken with the advertisers being the customer, rather than ‘us’.

    It’s not my area of expertise, so that might be the case and from a profit POV possibly most sensible, just saying how it seems to me 😀

    Drac
    Full Member

    Come on, the site has been a joke for a while now.

    Sigh! I’m explaining why there’s an added issue this weekend. He’s been trying to resolve it over the last week.

    bearnecessities
    Full Member

    Sigh, I’m talking 4 months or thereabouts, IME. 😀

    Cougar
    Full Member

    it’s just too much of a PITA with being logged out every few minutes

    With respect, I get logged out maybe once a month, a little more if I change devices, so if you’re getting logged out “every few minutes” I’d hazard it’s a problem at your end.

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