What's Wrong With Senior Forums?

Shalimar said:
QS! Who goosed the cat? Best one yet! Now we need to post pics of members with similar expressions. Any brave volunteers? Lol
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lol!! I have to admit... when I read some of these posts... that's how I look... But.. I'm not about to post and actual pic...
 

OMG I've just crawled out of bed and logged on and I've been cackin' myself reading all of the posts that happened while I was sleeping. Take a step back everyone and reread the melodrama again. It's hilariously funny in a bizarre kind of way.

Full moon in four days. Is that why we're all going a little bit mad?
 
Dame Warrigal said:
OMG I've just crawled out of bed and logged on and I've been cackin' myself reading all of the posts that happened while I was sleeping. Take a step back everyone and reread the melodrama again. It's hilariously funny in a bizarre kind of way.

Full moon in four days. Is that why we're all going a little bit mad?
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ain't it???
 
merlin said:
Thanks Lon for posting this thread, from what I can gather there are other members expressing your feelings. I have received several PMs and direct emails from members stating that the forum has variously become boring, full of crap, not much fun any more, and so on, there is also some alarm expressed about the increased number of toxic postings and personal attacks on other members.


My take on it is that having been here for only a short time myself, and not that familiar with forums in general, is that during the first couple of months I loved what seemed to be good family of friends here, it was both informative and fun.
Shortly after this period, the dynamics changed into a seeming split between the serious and the humorous styles of posting, an imbalance maybe? Unfortunately this led to several members leaving or ceasing to post, a banning, and afterwards a subsequent malaise.


I posted somewhere else a while back, that this forum was a microcosm of the real world, and just like real civilisations all eventually come to an end, so will this forum. We humans have simply not mastered the art of living together harmoniously.


However in the meantime I hope we can turn this forum around for another season, by becoming more tolerant of others opinions and views on life, and desisting from personally attacking other members for expressing them.
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Merlin, my friend, if you don't already know that you're one of my favorites, let me assure you, you are. But you are over-thinking this. You need to just chill out and go with the flow. Have a beer. Watch the parade. If it doesn't please you, go do something else for a while. It'll come back around. :)
 
Mike said:
The original question, "Whats Wrong With Senior Forums"?

In my experience threads go "Off Topic" in lots of cases, this
is upsetting to some. I think that longer serving members are
the most guilty of this practice.

Then there is the people who don't like each other who start
bad mouthing one another in a thread, another off-putting
thing, to some/most.

I see a mention of Politics, Politics should not be in a general
forum, they cause a lot of bad blood and arguments.

Politics should have a dedicated forum, it then is a matter of
choice if you want to go there, personally I don't see any point
in falling out with anybody over politics, voting in an election is
secret and your political views should be too.

I have been a member in lots of senior forums and I know of three
that closed in the UK, mainly through arguments in the open.

If you don't like somebody, or some posts, don't answer, especially
don't answer negatively.

Mike.
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There's nothing wrong with senior forums except for the occasional page freeze or font issues.

Senior forums isn't much different that most other internet forums as far a topics, posting and rules. Behavior and tendencies are quite similar including many biased opinions with the standard rhetoric and talking points, a choir, peanuts from the gallery, and actual different opinions. But more importantly it's an opportunity I'm grateful for.

My biggest complaint and that's all it is I wish more would put subject matter in the title a little more often and used the advanced subtitle to do the same thing. I don't have the time or endurance to read through everything I'd like to.

I think some want a personal pulpit or just don't understand why people don't think like them but that's life.

Thank You Senior Forums!
 

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