I must now consider my position and may withdraw my 'membership'; haven't got time for politics-too busy living!
Good Lord man, it was just a suggestion. A short lived one at that.
Ya see.
Nowt as funny as folk.
I must now consider my position and may withdraw my 'membership'; haven't got time for politics-too busy living!
That's rather a case of You will not discuss politics or i'm out but I do believe that you don't have the right to pitch an idea to the other forum members.
I don't have any intention of imposing such things on members but I can't see the harm with people making suggestions, I'm surprised that anyone not interested would spend the time reading the thread and then even more effort commenting when there's so much else going on.....
Have to agree wtih you Martyn - Nowt as funny as folk.
You can't control people, you can only ask for co-operaton and boot them if they won't comply.
What we need is an anti-social looking smiley holding a placard with SEARCH FUNCTION? written on it!
In general, though, questions are always good. They help keep the conversation going. However, I do tire of individuals who treat a forum as if it's sole purpose is to serve them. Try giving back eh. Post in other people's threads, not just the ones you started.
Umm... Excuse me 'mate' but that is just what I am trying to do - by making a productive suggestion that can be debated. And in the four years that I have been registered on this site I have only started 5 threads - the other 150 posts or whatever have been contributions (sometimes helpful, sometimes I will admit not so helpful). The reason that I have made so few posts is that I choose to spend most of my time outside rather than sat inside at a computer talking about being outside
I have contibuted where I have been able, but unlike many others where I do not feel confident I leave my opinions to others who know more than I do rather than wade in or cut and paste off of other sites on the web. Anyone who knows me from meetups knows that I am more than prepared to help out or demonstrate a skill where I am able.
Equally I tire of the same people who seem to take offence at attempts to stimulate debate
or improve things. So do or dont adopt a probationary period, I would never want the idea of one person to be adopted over the wishes of others. Hence we find ourselves back to the initial reason for my post.
Something along the lines of...
You mean Spam?
...on the other hand, running a search on "hammock boots overnight" returns eight results....
Just a thought (and yes, a technically complicated one requiring some extra coding and maybe moderating) but might it not be better to have a system whereby useful threads can get votes attached to them - i.e when a member reads a thread and thinks its useful, they can flag it as such?