[RO-Sheen]

Just read your post Jouk and Dave was out of order. If he is bored reading it he simply should  not read it. Thats what everyone else does. No need to put a stop to the thread just cos he doesnt like it.
Personally, I think it is just a 'power thing'

PS Dave: Dont take offense, My reply is not meant to be offensive. Its just my opinion. I have asperger syndrome and my wife has just read my reply and thinks you might take offense. Therefore I feel the need to let you know that this is how I read it.

Adie

[Dean Taberner]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome

[Moderator David@stives]

RO-Sheen

Sorry you feel that way.

The way i saw it, it was just a pointless thread, every time i came back to it , it never progressed, it just turned to chat.
 its not only me who has to read the chat posts, every other member has to read through it as well, only to discover its about nothing.

I treat every "chat"  thread the same.

There is a section for chat, that is why it was created.

[wfp master]

still waiting jouk

[Clive McDonald]

Been out so i presume  that joes thread complaining about his locked thread has been deleted.This had a poll where you had to vote what you thought of dave, the kindest option being that excitement had gotten the better of him.

I think it's quite funny that Joe should be so cross, and dave should take it all so seriously.

There is a place for chat, but this was a window related issue that turned into a bit of fun. The huckster in me loves threads like that, and i believe they add value, interest and diversity to the forum.

Joe has posted quite a few inventions and novel uses for various gizmos and machines.He must have one of the most active and fertile minds on the forum.To crush him in this way is a bit harsh.

[Oakley Windows]

Suggesting he is being crushed is a bit harsh 

[Moderator David@stives]

Sometimes i am on auto pilot and clean up the posts without thinking if i upset someone.

If we kept all the chatty posts we wouldnt see the wood for the trees so to speak.

I just saw it as the usual chatty stuff and just locked it without meaning to upset anyone.

This very thread is turning into the same, just chat.

I let a lot of stuff ride, but lately i have had a few complaints that I am letting things slide, as one or two of the members on here might testify, so i was making an extra effort to keep things under control.

[Ian_Giles]

I'm not aware of the particular thread but I am totally with Dave with regards "chatty" threads, especially those that de-rail a topic and go into wise crack mode.
This doesn't mean there cannot be humour in a reply but sometimes a thread can be full of dross, which is fine on the "Chat" section; however this section is supposed to be more of an informative area and it can often be a right pain having to go through 3 or 4 pages deleting post after post of pointless replies and it only takes one so called witty wisecrack to get the ball rolling and before you know it the thread has been spoilt.

Ian

[Oakley Windows]

Ian, the very same goes though for comments (and I speak of one person in particular recently............although his behaviour on here has been inexcusable for a long time) whos comments are obviously intended to be de-structive, insulting, antagonising, and with an aim of simply trying to cause ill-feeling, unrest and a general sense of bad taste.

Why is someone allowed (through lack of thread editing or more suitably banning)  to continue to behave in that way when I was of the opinion that behaviour of that nature is not condoned.

Its the easiest thing in the world to slip into idiot mode, but on here its the hardest thing not to slip into that when others lead the way (some fuses are shorter that others)

I see this forum descending into a sad state of affairs (which other forums already state it is) if people like the individual I am refering to are allowed to get away with their idiotic behaviour without having to answer for it in any way.


Matt

[Clive McDonald]

oh crumbs!

Not withstanding this, some people are more fragile than others,  and take things to heart.

[Jimmy1]

I was enjoying the banter, I like threads like this. After all, people don't have to read it if they don't want to. If people don't post on a thread it soon goes to the bottom of the list, but if people are posting they must be interested. The very fact people were interested should mean the moderators should not have locked it, if they were unhappy why not just move it?

[matt]

looks like i missed it all

damm having a life and going out and not taking my netbook 

[Clive McDonald]

I do take some blame. I did build the thing up with all the drum roll posts, and add to the  sence of anticipation.The thread would have dropped down and been left alone if i hadn't kept plugging it.The reason i plugged it was that i thought it was absolutley marvelous- the idea that a flyer could be so all conquering  that we could throw away everything else we'd ever done in it's favour. This was to be something that would utterly amaze us, and that we could leave anywhere with the absolute consequence that once someone had seen it they would show it to others;Phone calls and bookings were guaranteed.

Joe certainly had me hooked, and i didn't really care if the eventual punch line was a let down. I was just dying to know what on earth this crazy off the wall flyer concept was.

I don't see anything so very wrong in that- even on a window cleaning forum- and i don't see having some fun as wrong either.

[Oakley Windows]

Ian, the very same goes though for comments (and I speak of one person in particular recently............although his behaviour on here has been inexcusable for a long time) whos comments are obviously intended to be de-structive, insulting, antagonising, and with an aim of simply trying to cause ill-feeling, unrest and a general sense of bad taste.

Why is someone allowed (through lack of thread editing or more suitably banning)  to continue to behave in that way when I was of the opinion that behaviour of that nature is not condoned.

Its the easiest thing in the world to slip into idiot mode, but on here its the hardest thing not to slip into that when others lead the way (some fuses are shorter that others)

I see this forum descending into a sad state of affairs (which other forums already state it is) if people like the individual I am refering to are allowed to get away with their idiotic behaviour without having to answer for it in any way.


Matt

 :

If you havent anything constructive to offer Ewan may I suggest you opt out of offering anything at all.

[ftp]

looks like i missed it all

damm having a life and going out and not taking my netbook 

You've not missed anything Matt - usual drivel from the same suspects!
Been anywhere nice? I had a long break too - took friday and sunday off! Worked Saturday

[Oakley Windows]

Well, if you respect others in the same way Ewan as you expect to be respected, stop calling people like Cozy a numpty (as you obviously think insults are unacceptable from your last post), stop deleting the posts where you leave the evidence of your unacceptable behaviour (although its stored in the servers cache) stop trying to run people down when they try to help others constructively, then Im sure those people will come back to CIU.

If I have offended anyone then they are free to e-mail me at matt@oakleywindowcleaning.co.uk and Im sure I will be more than happy to apologise.

Why dont you make the same offer Ewan?

[Pittmonkey]

So what happens now!!!

I specifically came on tonight to follow up on a topic I was very interested in. The poster is/was, probably the most inventive and  innovative members on the forum and had something interesting and possibly valuable to offer other members.

If there were some meaningless post on there why not delete them, not the whole topic. So now I will need to log on to Jo's own forum http://www.w.com/ to follow the thread.

Who knows I, and a few others may just stay there.

Unbelievable!!!!! :
 

[cozy]

Joek' thread was interesting enough to get alot of guys to post in it. If Dave and Ian started to delete all threads that contained more than, say, 30 posts, then I would have to think twice before I post in that thread. Surely, a thread stands on it's own merrit.

I wouldn't say that CIU is at a low level under other forums. I am the main culprit as far as having a go at Ewan. I admit that. I'm not pleading my case in any way.

I have a short fuse with people i consider to be disruptive for the sake of it.

I'm sorry (really) if I have upset anyone at all. E-Mail is on my profile. However, I don't see what's wrong with a thread that goes a bit "chat"? Have so many complained? That's one of the good things about this forum. Let me please just put this quote in before I get shot down in flames.

I know that Mike is a mod, but I think he led people like me to believe there is a point to what I am bashing out on my keyboard here.

I'm a mod, what I delete is swearing, and any posts which are trying to sell something (we are here to help and entertain each other not make a profit) 
 
apart from that these 2 I let  most things go, we are grown-ups we should be able to handle a robust discussion on any topic if we don't agree with some thing we can argue our point of view.
 
I think this forum is brilliant it has a very diverse collection of individuals, some are intelligent some are thick. its a nice mix
 
 
 
 

Added later: I'm not telling you how to run your forum, but I'm confused.
   
 

[Clive McDonald]

Just nipped over and they are wetting themselves. We are a laughing stock. Joe is definitely miffed, mostly because he didn't do anything wrong.He hasn't singled me out for any blame, even though i was geeing things up.For those who didn't see the locked thread, it went a bit zany when we started trying to guess what his idea was.

[Pittmonkey]

I followed the thread Clive and even though it did go a little zany as you put it, I was still interested while being entertained (I know Sad Life I must lead)

Did anyone report the thread to a Mod? I very much doubt it. A mistake has been made and like Tom Gower did in a recent post he apologised.

I dont envy the job of being a mod but keeping control in this manner may result in us all waving a little red book in the air.