Colm Closing a Thread

[dahamsta]

Read post 11.

[size=1](Yes, I really did open and close it again. I am the king of anal retentiveness.)[/size]

adam

[BohDiddley]

I'm not really concerned with the value or otherwise of the thread, much of which I disagreed with. I agree that it had run its course, but there are plenty of other low-grade, ill-informed and quite nasty threads on foot.ie, as elsewhere, that aren't locked after they have long overstayed their welcome.
Anyone making threats should of course be removed by a responsible moderator. Instead, everyone has been punished, like some class of eight-year-olds with a grumpy teacher.
Cosmo is happy to let ownership settle it. If the mods want to run that kind of board, so be it, but IMO the real value in a place like this is not in software and servers, it's in the skill and honesty of those running it and, most of all, in the contributions of its members.
As things stand, a thread has been locked for no good reason. I'm quite surprised at the acquiescence shown towards this decision, from a group of normally vocal people.

[dahamsta]

Fight the Power!

[sligoman]

YEAH, ITS A CONSPIRACY. LOOK OVER YORE SHOULDER, THERES ALIENS AND STUFF!

Me fwightened!

Jaysus dahamsta! , you forgot to sign both of these posts with-Adam, that's not like you

[tiktok]

I remember when this place used to be worth visiting

[dahamsta]

Jaysus dahamsta! , you forgot to sign both of these posts with-Adam, that's not like you

That wasn't me sligoman, it was my evil tinfoil-hatted twin.

adam

[sligoman]

That wasn't me sligoman, it was my evil tinfoil-hatted twin.

adam

Oh, ok

[Éanna]

I remember when this place used to be worth visiting

tell me about it

[Colm]

I remember when this place used to be worth visiting

Far too many ole ole-ers these days!

[Troy.McClure]

Far too many ole ole-ers these days!

Quoi?

[Colm]

Quoi?

Imagine them as wearing Celtic jerseys, big green hats and in possesion of a giant plastic hammer sitting in a pub watching an Ireland match!

[De Town]

I remember when this place used to be worth visiting

to fúcking true

[Troy.McClure]

Imagine them as wearing Celtic jerseys, big green hats and in possesion of a giant plastic hammer sitting in a pub watching an Ireland match!

I know what they are, but havent noticed them here (I dont usually go into the non eL forums except off topic). Dont they just stay in thier boxes?

[fosterdollar]

Imagine them as wearing Celtic jerseys, big green hats and in possesion of a giant plastic hammer sitting in a pub watching an Ireland match!

One of the biggest problems with users these days is (especially among the ones registered earliest) is their apparent need to define every member/poster as they post messages. On the one hand there is often wahey over the top PCness which is then followed by blatant assumption making on things like where the poster is from, what their motives are, whether what they say is valid or not. I can see why some of the 'World Football' and 'Ireland' forum users feel aggrieved at times in here. I hardly ever use those forums and it seems most who do are relatively new members. They're not likely to stay for much longer given some of the treatment by members who are here a long time and frankly should be making more of an effort to make the site a success.

Btw, the increase in necessity for 'policing' from Adam was put down to the development of 'Junior Football' discussion on the site and the inevitable influx of 'kids' but i reckon it's becoming more and more due to agro which is fuelled in no small part by (again) members who are here a long time and should no better.