Always a first Mocky :laugh:

That's the whole point though, isn't it Cherie? We used to have other active sections. I used to engage plenty in tv/movurs/games/etc and even general and dare I say it chat & games was good fun from time to time. But as I said, the forum is trashed. It's been allowed to morph into something that, I can only imagine to a lay person stumbling across it in search of Big Brother chat, is utterly horrifying. Who would join this forum today?? I know I'm only here mostly out of habit/nostalgia and because I genuinely once loved it here. I can only imagine that's the same for most of the old members still holding on.

I'm irked at myself for not seeing it sooner, I'm irked at the Moderators for giving up (although I do 100% understand), but really I'm mainly annoyed at those-in-charge for, ultimately, prioritising and appeasing old-guard membership over having a balanced and functional forum.

I include myself in that - Parmy ain't wrong, I should have been infracted a hundred times over and had multiple bans in the past year. Frankly there are a handful of members who have said things that warrant lengthy bans and would have resulted in them a few years back. Something has changed, policy wise, no one can realistically deny that. Also doesn't go unnoticed that posts like this that mention these things get closed/locked/deleted much quicker than the fighting and insults ;).

Ahh heck maybe I'm too hard on LT - maybe his posts and threads really were always like this. There just used to be a better balance to drown him out a bit more.

I think this might be key :joker:

Way way back in those ‘good ole days’ as Soldier Boy you were more or less just the same. There were always people in your sights to belittle and in general to show off how superior you are to the average dumbo.
Give over with the ‘LT and the state of this forum makes me do it’ victim cry.
It’s in your nature. Own it!

Too true.:laugh:

You seem to be under the mistaken impression that I'm trying to defend or justify my posts Jet. I'm pondering my reasoning and giving an explanation to someone who asked. I have little to zero interest in the chip on your shoulder.

It's you who has a chip in your shoulder.

It's that big, you are trying your damdest to get this forum shut down.

Why don't you just **** off somewhere else if you dont like it or its users.

I love when two sides of the same coin fight

The forum is dead Parmy, I'm not trying to kill it I'm just poking the corpse with a stick, in the sad hope that it might gasp back to life.

You'd need to elaborate on that a bit Liam. (Experience dictates that you will not).

Well at least you don't deny that you were always a dick. That's progress.

You arguing that LT and his pals have been allowed to create an atmosphere of hostility to old members who have left and new ones who might think of joining, which they most definitely have been, but you yourself have contributed to that exercise heartily and with increasing frequency.

You have all been allowed to make this forum unwelcoming to minorities of all kinds.

It’s like a thief telling another thief not to steal so much

Great to see the Reform UK thread so active - when will Labour?
 

Oh so it's about having non-automatically-affirming opinions on issues relating to trans rights (specifically). That's a whole separate debate really. I'd accept the criticism if you can point to me being deliberately mocking, not really interested if it's just for having strong opinions about the need for safeguarding.

I'd prefer to frame it as - despite some of LT's bizarre recent accusations - I don't care about, and have never made any attempt to be popular :hee:. Accolades from fellow forum members seem to tickle some people's pickles for a reason I can't quite grasp but, put bluntly, no I'm not going to let someone elses' "safe space" stop me from speaking my mind openly on a debates forum. That unfortunately often means "being a dick" :shrug:.

There’s a couple of people on here desperate to be loved and adored to the point they will go out of their way to use it as an insult towards you. It’s sad.

I’m no more interested in your popularity or the lack of it as I am of my own.

It must be said that your straightforward posts are often interesting and worth a read, but “speaking your mind” (over the years) has often included snide, smart - assy, insulting comments aimed at certain people and an unfortunate sense of your own superiority. Most posters here don't feel the need to regularly 'speak their mind' in that way. It's not really a welcome sight for newcomers to a debate forum, (or a skilled debate technique). Did you ever consider that you might have (even a little) contributed to what you call this ‘dead’ forum?

Maybe it's really myself I'm mad at :worry:.

In all seriousness though, yes, but I think it was because of being frustrated/blinkered about a specific issue :hee:.

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Still waiting.

Outside where?

I think cherie got it slightly wrong..

I think what you've been saying is nobody can say they cant.:shrug:

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

As if I am going to trawl through Glenns past posts :laugh:

Maybe in future, don’t make **** up. You’ve made a fool of yourself.