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I've had a few Pm's about the posting quality and style we have at the moment. Basically it amounts to members hijacking threads and having chit chat in threads. I think if you looked through a few you'd see what I mean.
I don't want to sound like a misery but it has to stop. It make threads hard to follow and useless. All of the useful info is mixed up with idle chat which is no use to man nor beast.
Another thing that seems to be happening is sarcastic comments to general questions, they aren't helpful. Some members are spreading this into other forums and again it has to stop.
I've locked more threads in our forum in the last few months than I did the whole of last year. We had a reputation for quality and behavior in this forum but its slipping, I'd like to stop it, as I'm sure would all of you.
Last year we had problems with another region, it got so bad at one point with 4 or 5 members just wasting bandwidth that we closed the forum. 4 or 5 spoil it for thousands......it's just not happening again. This is an extreme example but I can see the makings of it here.
Basically all I'm saying is no more chit chat and daft sarcastic comments guys. I don't want to spoil any fun but a dozen guys thinking the forum is a place to mess about spoil it for many thousands.
If you want to just blether about random things and muck about use the chatter forum folks.
Appreciate your help with this guys.
I don't want to sound like a misery but it has to stop. It make threads hard to follow and useless. All of the useful info is mixed up with idle chat which is no use to man nor beast.
Another thing that seems to be happening is sarcastic comments to general questions, they aren't helpful. Some members are spreading this into other forums and again it has to stop.
I've locked more threads in our forum in the last few months than I did the whole of last year. We had a reputation for quality and behavior in this forum but its slipping, I'd like to stop it, as I'm sure would all of you.
Last year we had problems with another region, it got so bad at one point with 4 or 5 members just wasting bandwidth that we closed the forum. 4 or 5 spoil it for thousands......it's just not happening again. This is an extreme example but I can see the makings of it here.
Basically all I'm saying is no more chit chat and daft sarcastic comments guys. I don't want to spoil any fun but a dozen guys thinking the forum is a place to mess about spoil it for many thousands.
If you want to just blether about random things and muck about use the chatter forum folks.
Appreciate your help with this guys.