How Did You First Come Across This Particular Forum?

shortchanged_2

andybenw wrote: »

I came here last week after being banned from HPC for the third time. As it was recent I am still a bit bitter which is why you'll occasionally find me having a moan.

What i have found is that the balance of opinions tends to be better here, and as the site is not overmoderated like HPC you can state your opinion without finding yourself banned due to the fact someone disagrees with you.

I think I'll stick around on here now.

Can I just point out the obvious to you.

HPC is not a debating forum, it is a little club where like minded people want to discuss what they see and want as the impending crash in the housing market.

Why do people like yourselves feel the need to post on it if you have an opposite view to theirs.

As I've said numerous times before if you feel that strongly about it, start your own likeminded website clique called something like housepricerampers.co.uk.
There you can talk to your hearts content with the likes of Sibley, McTavish, Backlight, ISTL etc.

John_Pierpoint

No that is not a good idea.

That is like Guardian readers talking to Guardian readers and Telegraph readers talking to Telegraph readers.

One lot would bankrupt the country, then the other lot would string them for for doing it.

SingleSue

michaels wrote: »

Right, as I have no short or medium term memory a search reveals I first posted on this board in April 2008 - anyone remember then it was set up?

However I also found a post from March 2005 on the general housing board which was all about economics and house prices.

I am thinking I should set up an on-line business offering counselling for those who wish to break on-line addictions, once I learn to spend less time on here that is...

My first post on here was also April 2008, so looks like I found it pretty quickly after joining up.

Jennifer_Jane

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

No that is not a good idea.

That is like Guardian readers talking to Guardian readers and Telegraph readers talking to Telegraph readers.

One lot would bankrupt the country, then the other lot would string them for for doing it.

If I become a Telegraph reader, does that mean I'm allowed to string up our Labour front benchers, whose hypocrisy is, in one of their favourite words, 'Breathtaking'.

Have just been watching Parliament Live with the Immigration Minister vs Yvette Cooper etc. Firstly, there is a 'benign'-twinkly-eyed but incredibly left-wing Admiral on 'Daily Politics' sneering about the Immigration farce and asking in a sarcastic and rhetorical way 'Where is the Immigration Minister, who no-one has heard anything from'. Well, Mr Admiral, he was in Parliament taking questions from Yvette Cooper.

In Parliament, Yvette Cooper was taking the same stand about where was Theresa May. Well, apparently she was in an urgent Defence Meeting. Can they be everywhere at once? Well, it seems they have to be.

Then there is the fact that Labour encouraged unchecked immigration and had no policies to restrict it, but now they are up in arms (no pun intended), that the Tories have a pilot trial (is that tautology?) to check riskier people before they travel, rather than have queues of people waiting for their photographs to be checked at the airports.

And indeed, on the Daily Politics show, Andrew O'Neill did a grand job of destroying Ed Balls - without much difficult, in my view, about his wanting to spend more and more money when all the European leaders are being changed to economic hawks.

What a bunch!

noodle_doodle

shortchanged wrote: »

Can I just point out the obvious to you.

HPC is not a debating forum,

the HPC forum area states quite clearly it is a forum, hence err... the word forum - an area for open discussion or voicing of ideas, in this case house prices and whether they'll crash. If the moderators and their mates want to keep it to themselves they should scoot it off to a "friends-only" facebook page and stop misleading the rest of us with its description.

andybenw

shortchanged wrote: »

Can I just point out the obvious to you.

HPC is not a debating forum, it is a little club where like minded people want to discuss what they see and want as the impending crash in the housing market.

Why do people like yourselves feel the need to post on it if you have an opposite view to theirs.

As I've said numerous times before if you feel that strongly about it, start your own likeminded website clique called something like housepricerampers.co.uk.
There you can talk to your hearts content with the likes of Sibley, McTavish, Backlight, ISTL etc.

This site has not sprung up overnight. You may not know, but it was once a reasonably lively debating forum. Only completely irrational bulls were banned. However over the last three or four years things have taken a turn for the worse and the site is now what you describe. The site is well laid out and has a large membership. It has the ability to be the best debating forum for houseprices on the internet, unfortunately it is overmoderated to the extreme.

reweird

noodle_doodle wrote: »

the HPC forum area states quite clearly it is a forum, hence err... the word forum - an area for open discussion or voicing of ideas, in this case house prices and whether they'll crash. If the moderators and their mates want to keep it to themselves they should scoot it off to a "friends-only" facebook page and stop misleading the rest of us with its description.

Stop talking sense to the tool. As shown earlier he's not the sharpest.

the_flying_pig

Only 6 sockies, really? That's borderline implausible.

shortchanged_2

andybenw wrote: »

It has the ability to be the best debating forum for houseprices on the internet, unfortunately it is overmoderated to the extreme.

Don't you think the clue is in it's name that it's not going to be an impartial forum?

Percy1983

I usually think of forums as a place for like minded people to get together unless it is labelled specifically for debate.

IE, if I go on a Ford enthusiast forum and keep going on about how great French hatchbacks are I would expect a ban, if I went on a housepricecrash forum and tried ramping prices I would expect a ban... oh wait... that is what happens (I have heard).