Or the tools in a toolbox missing one tool.

Imagine someone doing what they wanted to do

The "Independents" :hehe:

I just don't like people and enjoy being a recluse x

I never seem to become heavily involved with a clique on forums or in everyday life, I tend to just post what I want and get along with everybody.

Life's too short to care about fitting in - fitting in is overrated. (I adore Jensen/Dean btw :love:)

Just float around and post in /reply to the things that you want to, I just wander round the place posting in threads that interest me tbh

No sorry and no offence but this is complete bollocks, which you would see if you take your chat thread tinted specs off.

The most active chat thread atm is awful for newer members which I have witnessed on many many occasions infact its even awful for some of the regular members that I have also witnessed trying to take part in there and they get ignored or sarcastic comments aimed at them.

I've had the sarcastic comments in that thread Josy, I just ignore it now tbh and carry on

:think:

Yeah because the likes of Nicky Lilbro and Rileyhollyoaks have been chat thread regulars for years.

Ashley wasn't new to the chat threads a couple of years ago. Rob before that. Me before that.

Etc etc.

And yeah, there are sarcastic comments thrown.... at everyone.

Rob tells poor Ross to shut up everytime he posts.

And I don't get the "ignored" thing either. Are people ever ignored?

Or are we talking about posting once and not getting relies to said post? Because everyone posts things that don't get replied to or lost in the running of the thread everyday.

It used to happen when I would make the odd post in the chat thread when I first joined when the regulars were a fairly different group of members. And you'd kind of feel like the odd one out because everyone was familiar with one another. I didn't cry clique, it just takes time to get to know other members. :shrug: Don't see why people should be shamed for it.

Yeah its weird how the chat thread evolves. When I used to post regularly in the chat thread it was a laugh but there was always the other chat thread that I never felt as comfortable in. The current thread will evolve again as people stop posting as much and newbies get involved, at some ppint the main posters now will find they become the minority as members ger busy in real life and so are not as active.

It isn’t complete bollocks at all though. The only reason the word clique gets thrown around so much is because you’re the one who complains about it the most and some of the trolls jumped on the opportunity to be able to be annoying without any repercussions because they know that if anyone reports them or bites back for baiting, you’re likely to agree with them. There are at least three members who do exactly that that I can think of on the spot.

New members post in there all the time - RileyHollyoaks and OliverW are an example of two people who are fairly new and have come in, been friendly and chatty and enjoy posting in there. As for regular members, I don’t see how any of the comments and banter are any different from you going around and telling people to ‘piss off’ or any of the other sarcastic comments you come out with. If people have a problem with something somebody says, then they should be able to say it, but the problem is confronting someone about something on here tends to result in infractions and banning anyway. There is a LOT of banter amongst the large number of people who post in there regularly, and apart from when Scott has had a red stripe, that’s normally exactly what it is, BANTER.

It can't be "banter" because this is 2017.

I think it can still be "lulz"? It can always be high-jinx. High-jinx is timeless.

Tbh, the number of people who post in there is quite large too and there aren't many active frequent members. So not so much a clique as a lot of the few regulars posting in there. :shrug:

I have to be honest I feel uncomfortable posting in there and also worried :worry:

Lulz? Stop spending time with LT, you're picking up on his colloquialisms. :worry:

From what I've seen the new members post in there more frequently than the "regulars" you speak of (and you've made it quite clear who you're referring to).

Plus, all I've seen in this thread are awfully rude comments aimed at the regulars so it's not exactly helping the situation, is it?

Well don't be so stupid. :nono:




Disclaimer: That's me being my banter lulz self, no clique involvement as our conference room only opens at 2pm.

Honestly if you don't want people to group together against others then the last thing you should be doing is enforcing threads that only serve to insult them.

I don't even need a chat thread! I don't even know where the chat thread is! :fist: This whole forum is my chat thread, who needs some poxy single thread chat thread where everyone has to post in a

It happens all the time, it's not nearly as cliquey now as it was a couple of years back though, I think the problem now really is the topics of conversations in there might make some people feel left out or unable to join in but there isn't much you can do about that except try and find common ground I think

Rileyhollyoaks is a recent new member and is one of the most posted member on the recent chat threads i guess he talks to himself since he gets ignored.

Oliver too

And then use the fact they all come into the thread to defend themselves as evidence of a clique.

It's like ducking stool they used for witches.