We've breached the 1000 post mark, and have over 30 members!
Not bad for a board that I thought would die on its arse in the first week.
Big thanks to Reality Bytes for being the saviour of the board, and Hen for encourageing me to get it up.*.
I promise to try to learn to admin, as long as you twats promise to keep posting.
Love
Taff
* way ahead of you, don't even bother...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
It's my pleasure guys honestly and regardless of the fate of t'other place I hope that this board continues to flourish it has a great atmosphere & already feels like home - I love that!
If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you may have misjudged the situation.
Reality Bytes wrote:It's my pleasure guys honestly and regardless of the fate of t'other place I hope that this board continues to flourish it has a great atmosphere & already feels like home - I love that!
Agreed! I have continued to read over there, but not sure how much longer - too much nastiness and coming here instead has lowered my stress level and given me what I'd always hoped for from the other place, a nice distraction from work/life with fun, laughs, and some serious discussion about issues.
Thanks again to Gob & Hen for getting this up and running, and to those of you helping to make it work. You all rock!
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
So, how long before this place descends into a screaming bitchfest? Who'll be first to crack?
Me, I suppose...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
I plan to mind my p's and q's here better than I did at the old place.
That being said my hope here is that the administration will consider that perhaps we should never say never to banning people. Using the old place as a model one can see that saying never means there is no means to stop someone who is bent on destroying the board through nasty, obnoxious behavior. I don't believe, by any means that a banning should take place without due consideration but I do think we need the ability to vote someone "off the island" as it were.
We really don't want this place run in the ground like the previous place do we?
Should we have some sort of hint or memo in the sign up, to the effect of "leave any CSB based shit at that forum please"?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
No, people who are completely new don't need to be exposed to that shit, even peripherally.
Honestly, I don't think any of the usual subjects will care to be here where they don't control everything, and I think they would be perfectly happy if the CSB devolved into being just the 3 or 4 of them talking to each other.
I have also wondered about whether there should be some sort of provision to vote people off the island, but I am concerned about where that might lead, and it doesn't solve anything unless you're gonna start blocking IP addresses, etc. Let's all make a concerted effort to ignore the idiots, regardless of provenance, and for lack of an audience they will eventually get bored.
"If you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu."
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
