To be fair you have just said there are a lot of tools on tbe forum...thats you being welcoming is it?

The forum is a bit like bumper cars sometimes but don't be put off Sue, we aren't all 20 and I'm sure lots of people would love to hear your views regardless of their age.

It's a TV show

Welcoming to who? The people who act like tools?

Why are you posting then hon.

This made me cackle :joker:

Loooooool :joker:

I think it's natural both in real life and on a forum that there are certain people who will get on better with some people than others. Despite that, (mostly) everyone on here are lovely welcoming friendly gals!

Charming...I don't dislike many members, and the ones I do dislike are not part of the 'chat thread'

I still think its a bit cliquey though, and you even said yourself that you were ignored to start with, which kind of proves my point :shrug:

As I said earlier, cliquey is not such a bad thing, and I use that word because theres no other words to describe what I mean tbh...but even in real life, friendship groups tend to stick together and its a bit of a task to integrate yourself into them if you want to. Its perfectly natural that people with similar interests and that would gravitate towards each other...why pointing out this is a bad and horrible thing, I don't bloody know :laugh:

Just seen this before I replied, not to me it doesn;t :S

Clique just means a friendship group that quite hard to...dare I say...penetrate :hehe:

I meant the Mean Girls analogy too - because the people who USUALLY use the 'clique' term, normally mean it as an insult.

I feel quite confident in saying that there are none of those on Tibb.

:joker:

But the definition of the word is a group of friends who do not allow newbies in easily.

That's a deliberate action.

Friendship groups in general will not be easy to penetrate. Purposely making it difficult or showing disregard for people outside of that group is more of a deliberate action and therefore a clique. :shrug:

Hmm maybe. I don't really view 'clique' as being a really bad thing. Maybe how I use the word is very wrong

I used to just laugh at people who accused me of being part of a clique. I never got all worked up about it :laugh:

Laughed about it with all of your cliquey friends :suspect:

Indeed. There was even an entire thread set up where those who were not in the clique and hated cliques could be all together (in a clique) :D

I think movies like mean girls have altered it perhaps? It's definitely a negative and used as an insult nowadays. [emoji23]

Welcoming to newbies really.

Reading some of your posts in this thread, wouldnt enspire me to want to continue visiting the place.

He didn't call newbies tools.

I wasn't referring to newbies, as was quite obvious to anybody else, so we'll just place you in the tool drawer shall we?

How do you know? He wasnt very specific!

Unpunished posts like this and the original one just proves there is a clique involving certain users and certain mods.

The same reason I know day from night.

If you think Rob is in a clique that is somehow above the mods and the rules they enforce then I think the entire forum would collectively become a clique and together they laugh at the suggestion.

Alll tools minus one tool.

That's naughty. You just wait until Josy logs on.