Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
- Posts: 7,819
#1
I am being asked by a lot of people if they can join this Forum. While I do not want to disappoint people at all, sadly the answer has to be ..No.
This little Forum is NOT intended as a comeback of any kind. MY FORUM DAYS ARE OVER as Ive said all along. When the bigtime Forum days ended some months ago, it was a great relief to me that it was finally over....and that view hasnt changed. It was a lot of grief, a lot of aggravation, a lot of threatened legal actions and a lot worse, and none of us this end miss any of it.
As we said on another thread, my buspass is iminent, and I look forward to it...it's a young mans game managing Forums and Im not quite that anymore. The clock keeps ticking on and us oul geezers get different priorities.
So I am sorry to disappoint people but this is not a FORUM comeback. It was intended as an extension to the dodgy Open Letters Page so that the guys contributing there all along could carry on contributing here should the worst happen.
Hopefully in its small CLUB guise the members will make it a success but if not then we would just shut it down. Allowing all those who want to join, to actually join, will just re-create what we had before...so it doesnt make any sense to us. Nowadays the emphasis is on the magazine and it gets good viewing figures and we will keep that running either way. But the website is openly interactive for everyone everywhere. YOU DONT HAVE TO BE A MEMBER of this club section to contribute to the other Open Letter Sections or all the Comments pages.
Ive said most of this before but thought I better make another announcement for those who havent been with us all along but whose ears pricked up at the mention of the word 'Forum'.
So thats the state of play as is.
I will make this a sticky topic for a day or so.
#2
That's a shame, Paul.
I'm glad I made the cut just in time! It's a very entertaining forum and it's a pity it's not open to all the many concerned and intelligent people of the local community to make it a really varied and enlightening think-tank for the broadest possible spectrum of ideas. We all have Dover and the district's best interests at heart.
Oh well, here's hoping...
Regards all and speak soon,
Andy
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
- Posts: 1,039
#3
Glad I also got in recently as well - this is a much needed debating arena for the town.
Setting up a forum is as easy as falling off a log - as Paul says, running it is another matter altogether. What it really needs is a team of Moderators - the Dover Athletic FC forum, for example, has four people moderating it and has cleaned up its act enormously compared with a few years ago.