With all due respect, what right have you got to tell Asa and we moderators - either directly or indirectly - how to run TV Forum? We've survived nearly 7 years now and we're still as busy now as we have always been. We're never going to get everything absolutely right. If we relax moderation we offend people like you; if we tighten it up we risk offending other members. We just deal with things ad hoc in what we like to think of as a fair and just way.
TV Forum reflects life. You never get along with absolutely everybody in life and you'd be a fool to think otherwise. I don't even want to imagine a TV Forum where everybody gets along all the time. Disagreements are a part of discussion and it is what keeps me reading TV Forum. If everyone agreed on everything, I think we'd have shut down long ago. It's the passion with which our members discuss TV presentation that keeps me interested, and I'm sure a lot of other members, too.
Yeah, I'll agree with that keeping me interested. Still reckon the better days are gone but that's what happens when the stock members aren't as... let's say of the same calibre of what went before.
Feh to the GH forum, your winkie-waving means little.
Personal member bitching aside, I'm not too sure the splitting off this forum is the best way forward Simon. If its becoming too much of a burden as understandably happens with these things sometimes, then actually close it on a high, rather than spinning it off as a separate forum and letting it die a painful death instead as a separate forum linked from the main website. It runs the risk at present of being a direct repeat of the whole TV Ark Forum/The TV Lounge arrangement, and I'm surprised you'd want to run that chance after spending so many years building it up.
The success of a new venture is never guaranteed - one of my moderators has already approached me with the same concerns you have tes. However, the new "boss" is an expert in forums and the existing forum may well have ended abruptly last month if it wasn't for his intervention. He can give the new venture his all and I can get back to content writing for GH Online and TV Ark.
Yes, the TV Lounge venture sadly failed but on the other hand the seperate/partnership arrangement with TV Forum and Metropol hasn't. With the same community there is no reason at all why the new forum shouldn't fill the void left by ours. Better I think to do this now when the existing forum IS on a high.
Well at least on this occasion I am unable to object to an illustrative display of the very thing I was complaining about...
Pardon? People disagree with his royal Simon-ness and therefore are indicative of the supposedly unfriendly atmosphere we generate? No, your opinion is not an absolute and because you're not agreed with as on the other forums you frequent doesn't make this place either too big or unfriendly.
Not making the forums 'Free To View', so you can look at the topics to see if you want to register to post or not(Pregnant Presenters.co.uk - Take note)
Smart arse moderators who insist that you use your proper name & not your nickname & when you politely complain about it, do something to your IP address so you can't post anymore. (Steve Roberts & the Dr Who Restoration Team web site - Take note!)
The GH Online forum is now dead, long live the GH Online forum! And without wishing to sound melodramatic it really was an emotional time with everyone having a last look these last few hours. It was genuinely difficult for me to drop down the portcullis at 9pm - but it's done now and we must all move forward!
I've never seen the point of users making their forums private. Okay, when I was younger my forums were always closed to guests, but as I grew up I realised this was a waste of time. Since them they have always open to view. I don't force people to read the posts or register. If you had pay-material on the forum however (adult material and the like), then it makes sense to close them to the public.
The only forum I've come across with members-only viewing is the one at www.holby.tv. And seriously, what is the point? How can anyone decide whether or not to join if they can't see the sort of topics being discussed or the members discussing them? It does not sell the forum and as a result I didn't bother signing up.
There's a big difference between closing a forum to guests
posting
, (mine always were) and guests
viewing
. The only possible issue with the latter are the spambots it might attract.
