ooooo thats a hard one -lol wont sin on forum EVER
will always be a sinner in life tho.................lol well cant be good all the time can we
or should i
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It would be such a boring world if we all agreed with each other wouldn't it?I have yet to comment on this yet, but as it is affecting how much I enjoy and use this wonderful forum, I had to say something today.
While I understand that some people write about subjects that some find inane, why do I find that most of the threads I read in this subforum end up being locked and sent to the blogs? Which, incidentally, I don't read. I have to admit being annoyed by this rule, and the locking of threads I'm interested in.
Isn't this what "Chit Chat" is?
Some people, like me, have never gotten the hang of blogs. While people have the opportunity to comment on a blog, it's the back and forth discussion, and the constant changes of direction, that fascinate me and keep my interest on a forum.
I've been a forum user for 15 years, and when one of my forums recently considered a change to having a blog section (like the one here) and ending the "General Discussion" subforum, I protested heartily. Thankfully they rescinded the idea.
The general discussion sub forum (aka ChitChat) isn't being changed, but we have for the past year asked that members making threads that are 'all about them' to keep it to blogs and not clogging up the main forums, this happened a year ago!
Today was another annoyance on top of several others recently - when Nailzoo's thread about meeting Geeg (posted on Nail Geek) was shut down and sent to the blogs. I don't care that this is a "personal" commentary - two of the best known members of the forum, who come from opposite ends of the planet, got to meet. How many of us would have killed to be a fly on the wall of those meetings?
Lots of us I'm sure, but at the end of the day it should have been a blog as the poster knew and the thread was subsequently closed by the site owner!
The ideas that must have been flowing would have been amazing. I am of the opinion that this topic was an interest to the group in general, and should not have been shut down in the general forum. Now, because of the players involved the Moderators may have made this decision to avoid being seen has having favourites and allowing some people to circumvent this rule, but I am still finding the rule too strict to begin with.
That's complete rubbish, the rules are there for everyone to follow, favouritism doesn't come into it.
Because I don't blog, I also find myself avoiding writing about some client issues and things verging on the personal because I loathe to have my threads locked. How many others are resistant to post things here because of this?
If you follow the guidelines set out by the site owner you'll see that there is a plain difference between what constitutes a blog and what constitutes a thread...
The Geek on page 1 of this thread said:If it is a discussion... It is a thread! If it is personal meanderings, stories, events, etc... In other words... if it is "all about you"... BLOG IT!
I realise by my saying this I may be pushing the boundary of the rules myself, but I find that the Chit Chat board is somewhat sparse and would perhaps have more to read if this Blog rule was relaxed somewhat. If people don't want to read a thread, then don't - it's not hard to avoid discussions you have no interest in.
ChitChat is anything but sparse of threads, there's a healthy mix of threads on all of the forums.
Again, this is just one opinion, but I find I've remained silent every other time this has occurred and I really had to say something. I'm prepared to "play by the rules" to be allowed to stay here, but I want to say that I don't agree with this one.
I'm also acknowledging that it's not difficult to write on blogs - in your words, yes, the process itself is very easy. But I find reading other people's blogs terrible tedious at times, and I imagine that many people would accuse me of the same should I write one. Again, I like the "back and forth" of forums - yes, that's a personal preference.
Surely this is a good reason for them to be in blogs and not on the main forum, even if it is in chit chat!
I love the blogs too, sometimes I wish I could make certain blog posts I did private to my list but leave the rest open.
You can. When you create an entry, there is an option to set just that entry to be available to those in your contact list.
I can only assume didn't care because 'more exposure' was more important to him.
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