Giving The Forum A Break

[Roger W]

I haven't posted a lot recently, but I read a lot. I learn a lot of things I'll probably never get the chance to use. But it's a great place to spend time and I never come away thinking "Why did I spend so much time there?"

A big thank you to Badlad and Pegasus, the administrators, and all you good people who keep posting on here!

 

[Goydenman]

Black Sheep Diggers will continue to use both FB and this Forum, I agree with the comment about using multiple social media outlets. For us FB for dedicated followers of ongoing log of our slow progress that comes with digging. And here on this forum for significant progress/breakthroughs. I think Badlad and Pegasus do amazing job and I will continue to support this forum. One of my delights is seeing the photos OR so please don't stop

 

[tomferry]

Well @pwhole has taken the words right out of my mouth, he is in the same boat as me. if I ever posted any dig activity the places would get ruined instantly. This is why I choose to share my images, on the once a week photo thread . That’s all I can give back in return .

Remember how lucky people with permission are.

 

[moorebooks]

I read with interest lots of posts on here particularly as we have lost adit now and the mine explorer forums I'm one of many who lurk and only make contributions as and when we have something useful to say or offer. FB has its role but here you don't get innundated with irrelevant advertising.

 

[mrodoc]

I use the forum as a source of information and to provide information when I think can help. OR is used to posting masses of bottle pictures (he is a bottle collector) on other forums and cannot understand why there aren't more photos on these pages.. If I want to post pictures nearly all go onto the new media page where people can look at them or not.

 

[ttxela2]

As has been said before, many thanks are due for stepping in with a place for mine explorers. Sadly my circumstances have changed somewhat and I check in a lot less regularly (and also get underground a lot less ) but it's still nice to check in and see familiar folk still around.

 

[cap n chris]

Thinking about this today while driving home I reckon the best person to do a video/photo thingy of my dig would be TOR himself - it would be an honour to show him how the dig is going (10th anniversary in 2024); so TOR if you read this and are keen PM me and we'll fix a date and you can post the pics here so you can read them.

 

[cap n chris]

It's obviously not as squalid as it looks. This is something I've been working on last week. The general cave is much lovelier.

 

[mrodoc]

You will have to email him Chris. I think we did do a trip in there a while back-in fact having checked the date it was ten years ago! Hope you have made some progress since then.

 

[TheBitterEnd]

It's not your fault, forums generally are declining in popularity (partly youngsters don't want to be on the same platform as their parents, or often in the same clubs).

From onely.com last year:

6 Reasons Social Media Killed Online Forums

Remember when online forums were the big craze? Well, social media has led to them becoming less important. Here's why.

www.makeuseof.com

Absolute bollocks. Articles like that are written by people who don't understand that forums are not social media, try to find something useful that was posted 2 years ago on social media. And "youngsters" are not using Facebook, their grandparents are, Discord and Slack are entirely different beasts, as for Apps - fine for tracking and advertising purposes.

I run a fairly large forum and on there, like on here, we see discerning, thoughtful people coming to it after they have discovered what a great resource online forums are, we also see the occasional flounce which we sometimes welcome. There seems to be an obsession with attracting youth but honestly there is a lot to be said for people coming to things with a bit more maturity and experience.

To echo other posters, my thanks, appreciation and respect to @Pegasus and @Badlad

 

[Andy Walsh]

Exactly! Thank you

The answer is in maths!!--a warning of an unsafe rocks /flood risk or a new find TV show hits 1K people or so in UK Caving in a very short time, a write up in a club journal /newsletter has a hit of 1-2 hundred maybe much later ! Lots of times I have seen it happen for the best.

 

[mikem]

Forums aren't social media (they existed before the term was invented) but they do disappear on a regular basis (as do unpopular forms of social media)....

 

[pwhole]

I found this section of the article quoted above to be literally hilarious, and the writer's obvious stupidity reminded me why I'll stick with forums for the time being. It's possibly even AI-generated, it's such contradictory (and frankly depressing) tosh:

In any case, you probably agree that apps are more user-friendly than simply using a browser. Even though social media can negatively affect you, you're more likely to prioritize the convenience that apps and social media provide rather than the negative impacts that usage can cause.

 

[Cantclimbtom]

My personal views.

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I don't understand your logic, maybe this is a gross misrepresentation but it sounds like you're saying, to paraphrase: I don't like the fact the forums get less posts than before so I'll stop posting too.

I've greatly enjoyed your dig posts and short vids, It'd be a great shame if you stop posting. Please continue. Surely the site has other people posting stuff of interest to you?

 

[mrodoc]

The answer is in maths!!--a warning of an unsafe rocks /flood risk or a new find TV show hits 1K people or so in UK Caving in a very short time, a write up in a club journal /newsletter has a hit of 1-2 hundred maybe much later ! Lots of times I have seen it happen for the best.

But finding it again in a few years is a lot harder than going to a club library. Perhaps less waffle and more info on the unsafe rocks (or whatever) issue is what the forum is most useful for.

 

[Tim Pickering]

But finding it again in a few years is a lot harder than going to a club library. Perhaps less waffle and more info on the unsafe rocks (or whatever) issue is what the forum is most useful for.

Agreed.

Before a trip, I like to see if I can find video footage of the cave on You Tube, but I often lose patience having to trawl through all the sensationalist clap-trap that gets the most hits. For example, 'stuck in a cave!!!', 'warning: don't watch if you're claustrophobic!!!', 'I nearly died!!!' You get the idea. Often, the footage is there but it's buried under pages of crap like the aforementioned.

 

[Cantclimbtom]

Well..I've seen some cave videos that had some sensational titles like: not for the claustrophobic, more extreme caving, not particularly extreme caving (spelunking). Those were very good. Although the titles may be Caver Keith's tongue firmly in cheek

 

[cap n chris]

Here's some cosy footage for afficionados of the small...

 

[ttxela2]

Absolute bollocks. Articles like that are written by people who don't understand that forums are not social media, try to find something useful that was posted 2 years ago on social media.

Well... much as I hate to point it out - I lost quite a few of my old mine photos when an external hard drive died. They were all on Aditnow, fortunately I posted most of them on Facebook too where I can easily still find them!

 

[tomferry]

Well... much as I hate to point it out - I lost quite a few of my old mine photos when an external hard drive died. They were all on Aditnow, fortunately I posted most of them on Facebook too where I can easily still find them!

I don’t suppose you no if anyone else has Copies of these photos from aditnow ? I put some into albums that I would like back to put on my Flickr.