WB - we will miss you if you go - please don't. It will take a couple of days and then everything will return to normal happiness. Maybe have a weeks holiday and come back and see us then?
Ah don't go WB, must admit i was thinking along the same lines as you and am mulling over not coming on here but i'm going to stick with it and hope things settle down.
If all the pleasant people decide to leave because of one or two people who either forget their manners, or are habitually brusque or downright rude and offensive then there'd be no-one left to help the new people, discuss the many solutions usually available with more experienced gardeners and have a friendly chat when there's nothing much doing in the garden.
Please focus on the positives and ignore the negatives.
Also, please remember that we all read posts in our own tone of voice so we need to be careful about how our replies can be read and interpreted by more sensitive souls.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I've never joined a forum before. I don't do facebook or twitter. I like it here because I can just dip in and out when I want, and the format is easy to navigate.
I've had a look at some other forums, but I'm not part of the secret seven forum, probably not suitable for me either. A lot seem to be american , and with an agenda.
I've been gardening a long time, but I have learnt a lot this year, even if Verdun has encouraged me to spend a lot more than I usually do.
The troublemakers always seem to start at weekend, when no moderators are about. I think this weekend they had been on something wierd.
..I used to like it more than I do now... I've become convinced that a number of thread starters, where the member has some strange unknown name and is their first and only post, are started by 'bots' [computerised robots].... a question is put to invite comment and this attracts attention with many posts, but of course you never hear from the original poster again...you might as well be talking to a brick wall...
I've seen this on other commercial forums, one I know where the owner deliberately starts off controversial threads to get people talking... it exposes more people to the advertising...so I'm suspicious of that happening here much more nowadays...
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I have sent you a PM and echo the sentiments of those that have gone previously x
Ah don't go WB, must admit i was thinking along the same lines as you and am mulling over not coming on here but i'm going to stick with it and hope things settle down.
If all the pleasant people decide to leave because of one or two people who either forget their manners, or are habitually brusque or downright rude and offensive then there'd be no-one left to help the new people, discuss the many solutions usually available with more experienced gardeners and have a friendly chat when there's nothing much doing in the garden.
Please focus on the positives and ignore the negatives.
Also, please remember that we all read posts in our own tone of voice so we need to be careful about how our replies can be read and interpreted by more sensitive souls.
I LIKE IT HERE TO
I've never joined a forum before. I don't do facebook or twitter. I like it here because I can just dip in and out when I want, and the format is easy to navigate.
I've had a look at some other forums, but I'm not part of the secret seven forum, probably not suitable for me either. A lot seem to be american , and with an agenda.
I've been gardening a long time, but I have learnt a lot this year, even if Verdun has encouraged me to spend a lot more than I usually do.
The troublemakers always seem to start at weekend, when no moderators are about. I think this weekend they had been on something wierd.
..I used to like it more than I do now... I've become convinced that a number of thread starters, where the member has some strange unknown name and is their first and only post, are started by 'bots' [computerised robots].... a question is put to invite comment and this attracts attention with many posts, but of course you never hear from the original poster again...you might as well be talking to a brick wall...
I've seen this on other commercial forums, one I know where the owner deliberately starts off controversial threads to get people talking... it exposes more people to the advertising...so I'm suspicious of that happening here much more nowadays...