Change of ownership for ukCaving

[TheBitterEnd]

Kay, starting a new thread is the approach used on some other forums, however on here it wouldn't be starting a new thread, it would just be rehashing an old one...

Just musing, perhaps we need a more Facebook/Blog like approach, i.e. a personal page or pages plus comments. So instead of having threads, each person can only start topics in their own page or on their own blog and then others can comment. The owner gets to moderate the comments on their own page...

 

[bograt]

Also how about some new emoticons e.g. grinding an axe, flogging a dead horse and chip on the shoulder?

These might be more use on here than a "like" button 

How about a 'tongue in cheek' emoticon, it might prevent some of the more flippant comments from being taken too seriously?

 

[droid]

The forum might be much improved if various factions didn't confuse their opinion with fact, and didn't take themselves so seriously.

Now as an argumentative little bugger, I find the forum quite amusing: the above is part of it, as is the repetition ad nauseum of the same opinion in order to give it more credence, the accusations of 'bullying' to anyone that doesn't uncritically accept the accuser's view, and the bringing in of the cavalry when backed into a corner.

Pretty much the same as a pub discussion when rather too much beer has been supped.

 

[TheBitterEnd]

Personally I treat the whole WWW thing as a 3am discussion after substance abuse

 

[kay]

Kay, starting a new thread is the approach used on some other forums, however on here it wouldn't be starting a new thread, it would just be rehashing an old one...

Is there any problem with that? If an old subject is started up again, it means at least one person wants to talk about it. And if there are responses, then there's other people who want to talk about it too. If there's a clear subject title, then anyone who's bored by all the old arguments can simply ignore the thread.

 

[Peter Burgess]

It is a rather odd thing that people get annoyed by arguments which they have the option to walk away from and ignore. Not that arguments are a good thing, but logically, the only people they ought to annoy are those who get involved with them!

 

[cavermark]

A round of applause/groan button alongside the jokes thread would be cool. As someone mentionned earlier having lots of individual posts with just    or makes it a hassle to scroll through.

 

[TheBitterEnd]

Kay - not that it's a real problem but I get a sense that some people feel it's a real turn off to see the same things over and over.

Peter - I would perhaps go for embarrassment rather than annoyance. I suspect a lot of people realise that this is a public face of caving and are embarrassed to be part of it. In which case it is not to do with ignoring the arguments; the mere fact that people with whom you share an activity could carry on as they do is in itself off-putting.

 

[Peter Burgess]

Good point TBE.

 

[droid]

TBE makes a valid point, but maybe only within the context of caving. This forum is pretty docile compared with 'biker' or ferret/hunting forums.....

 

[Peter Burgess]

Comparison with awful behaviour elsewhere should not provide any excuse to do nothing to make things better here.

 

[droid]

Maybe not. I am not convinced that a few rather opinionated souls getting worked up is 'awful behaviour' though.

It's a pasttime, affects few people other than those who persue it, and is simply not that important in the wider world.

 

[Peter Burgess]

I meant the bikers' awful behaviour (according to you that is).

 

[droid]

Oooops. Didn't read your words carefully enough. Sorry.  :-[

What I'm saying is that it isn't that bad here. Sure, some people occasionally get a bit 'enthusiastic', but they probabaly do that face-to-face, Peter. There's no real nastiness involved, just a bit of wind-up. Usually directed at the 'Forum Heroes' thast seem to want to be Big Cheeses in the caving world.

It's a forum, not a University Debating Society.

 

[RobinGriffiths]

A funny thing happened...

 

[nearlywhite]

Copy aditnow! It's brilliant

 

[Andy Walsh]

congratulations

 

[bograt]

Copy aditnow! It's brilliant

Apart from the fact that it doesn't have a 'go down' facility to read the latest post, you have to scroll down through old posts every time, a lack that I find very irritating, it is available here, thanks

 

[Joe90]

I just thought of something actually really good that could be added. I know i shocked myself...

On the tapatalk app if you select a thread you have already posted in or read before it takes you to the last post you read, not the start or end of the thread as we have on here.
For people who spend all day on here its probably not such an issue, however if you spend anytime away as i do its a bit easier to find where you left off, which makes it easier to catch up on a topic and contribute more.

Just a thought...

 

[martinm]

Copy aditnow! It's brilliant

Apart from the fact that it doesn't have a 'go down' facility to read the latest post, you have to scroll down through old posts every time, a lack that I find very irritating, it is available here, thanks

Just press your END key to go straight to the bottom and the HOME key to go straight to the top. At least that's what I do in Firefox...