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Why have numerous relevant threads been moved to discussion time?
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where have all these 2000plus posters all come from supporting a crass decision...bloody fools have wrecked the board
like who are you quasar and where did you pop up ???....i have never seen you post before.
....amazing....
Can't speak for anyone else, but I'm replying to a post on a thread on the 'Site Feedback' board. How that has 'wrecked' this board, I have no idea. How it might have 'wrecked' another board is even more of a mystery to me
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Hmmm, see this is what I was sort of getting at before.
I post in an off the wall style, something which the people on the house price section have got used to (well most anyway).
I wasn't being completely serious about it! Although it is true that it is incredibly unsettling to have to muck about like that.
The repetitive strain line was joking, bringing a little humour into what was turning into a very serious and sometimes abusive thread.
I post in a more direct style than many others (not necessarily on this thread :rotfl: Strong competiton on here in the directness stakes
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When I've been posting somewhere for a while, 'regulars' get used to it.
'Newbies' can be startled by my style When I start posting on new fora, 'regulars' there can be startled by my style.
It happens if you have a different style from the usual.
If you know you have a different style, then you half expect it to happen, so you roll with it.
And if you're unsettled by change, and people who don't 'get' your style, the internet is rarely going to be a comfortable place for you.0 -
Some of you need to tone down your obsessive compulsive attention to house prices, or if you can't at least behave a bit less manically on here
Um. Surely the criticism directed at the moved threads was that they weren't OCD enough regarding house prices?...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
southernscouser wrote: »I have no idea. I'm talking about the pr!cks on page 3.
I thought they had b00bs on page 3 0 -
I post in a more direct style than many others (not necessarily on this thread :rotfl: Strong competiton on here in the directness stakes ).
When I've been posting somewhere for a while, 'regulars' get used to it.
'Newbies' can be startled by my style When I start posting on new fora, 'regulars' there can be startled by my style.
It happens if you have a different style from the usual.
If you know you have a different style, then you half expect it to happen, so you roll with it.
And if you're unsettled by change, and people who don't 'get' your style, the internet is rarely going to be a comfortable place for you.
The internet is a completely comfortable place for me to be actually, my gripe is that over many months, my posting style has been developed on the house price board and understood by most people and then all of a sudden I am having to explain myself to complete strangers in completely new areas...maybe I should go back to posting in a boring style again and building it up into my normal off the wall to allow other posters to get it, now we have been forced into all areas of the site.
Unfortunately, I forgot I was not with the old familiars who understood my posting style and humour.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »Respect cannot be demanded; it must be earned.
Indeed.
On the basis of this thread, a number of FMs have failed to earn my respect.
divadee is not in that number.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »I've never been ungentlemanly in my entire life.
Nor gentlemanly either, come to that.
Ah, the joys of playing the gender card.
If 'gentlemanly' were to be replaced with 'fair'...
How would you fare?
And, if asked to be serious about it, what are your views on the posts which state that divadee does not have the knowledge to be a BG on the House Prices board, that she is a jobsworth etc? 0 -
If you didn't like what your line managers at work said, you wouldnt dare talk to them in such a manner, so why is here any different.
I'd give the cow a vicious talking-to if she behaved badly. Then I'd apologise to myself, and get on with being self-employed!...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
designed to pressurise him/her into putting the threads back without any kind of consultation with line managers.
What does "line managers" actually mean?
Boss?...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Thank you, poppy, for taking the time to provide that link. :beer:
That thread was one of the ones I've already mentioned - in most detail.
Yes, the OP could be argued as being tangentially linked to house prices. However, the content of other posts on the thread, I'm afraid, stripped away that veneer, IMO.
Having read that thread, and some of the others which were moved, I do wonder how today's discussions would have panned out if the debate had started off as:
'People, please keep your discussions on topic The House Prices board has had the heart of the first page ripped out and posted on DT, because some people weren't discussing anything which even vaguely related to HousePrices - even if you use the argument that 'the economy in general' is relevant.
Lots of good posts, and useful information, are now on another board, because the discussion wasn't on topic for the House Prices board. Please keep on topic. If you want to discuss general political issues, please take it to DT'
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