What happened to this place?!

mayonnaise

A_Medium_Size_Jock wrote: »

I too was a lurker for years but was persuaded to participate a year ago for reasons including those described below:

How does one become a lurker for years on a hidden forum when having signed up in February 2016?

A_Medium_Size_Jock

mayonnaise wrote: »

How does one become a lurker for years on a hidden forum when having signed up in February 2016?

Would you also like to know my toilet habits, oh inquisitive one?

Not that it is any of your business but ...............
As I think I stated (IIRC; could be wrong) when I began with this username, I somehow lost my old username during a move having been a user for a number of years (10 or so in fact).

Oh hang on, you'll tell as that you think the 1.6 million members listed for these forums are all current and in use?
That they don't include PPR'd or dormant members?
Even that PPR'd members don't use AE's.
Like youself, perchance?


This discussion has been had.
Often.

Filo25

I'm a relatively recent poster on the forums but have to admit its hard going on some of the threads, not much actual debate going on as that would require listening and responding, but a lot of evangelical fervour on all sides with cherry picking data/comments to suit the argument and ignoring everything else.

How come Generali left the forum anyway?

I always enjoyed Generali's posts

IveSeenTheLight

Mirtiz wrote: »

What happened to that Hamish chap? Also Graham Devon?

LOL, there was always a lively debate when those two posted.

IveSeenTheLight

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Ohhhh yes you could.



I have no idea how you two keep getting muddled up.

Ive been away for a couple of years, but seems like its a groundhog forum lol

mayonnaise

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

Ive been away for a couple of years, but seems like its a groundhog forum lol

Hey ISTL, good to see you back.

IveSeenTheLight

mayonnaise wrote: »

Hey ISTL, good to see you back.

Cheers, took me a moment to recall my password lol.

Not a lot of change from what I see in here.
Is it still hidden?

mayonnaise

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

Cheers, took me a moment to recall my password lol.

At least you didn't 'lose' your username of the past 10 years during a move, which is always a good thing.

A_Medium_Size_Jock wrote: »

As I think I stated (IIRC; could be wrong) when I began with this username, I somehow lost my old username during a move having been a user for a number of years (10 or so in fact).

westernpromise

A_Medium_Size_Jock wrote: »

On both sides of the spectrum, I should add.

I think part of the issue is this assumption that there is a spectrum with only two sides.

This view of the world is, I suggest, limited to crashtrolls, who think that everyone who's not also a crashtroll must be a "perma prop bull".

Crashtrolls who are short property come here to prophesy a price crash and, somewhat counting their chickens, to rejoice in the supposedly imminent comeuppance of property owners. Somebody here noted the other day that they assume, incorrectly, that those who do own property must want price rises, because having the opposite position to the shorts they must want the opposite of what the shorts want (or think they want).

This is of course not true, but once you start thinking that, every thread becomes one of those tedious "ner! prices are about to fall, ha ha!" ones that peters out after about 6 posts. A variant on this is the "it's an outrage" type of thread, where a crashtroll angrily insists that prices are too high and it's immoral / all the fault of people who have bought previously (rather than of those bidding the stupid prices today).

There is a whole forum for people like that. It has its own dynamic; shorts sign up, rage about how unfair it all is, agree that a crash is imminent, then when it doesn't happen they capitulate after a few years, buy, and disappear. They are then replaced by others, plus there are a few die hards who've been wrong for 20 years rather than 2 or 3 and can't bring themselves to admit it.

This sub-forum doesn't really have the same throughput of angry property owners furious at having bought 20 years ago, or of ecstatic property owners who think inflation is profit. So as far as the house prices element of the subforum is concerned, there are no two sides except in the sense that there are crashtrolls, and then there is everyone else.

wymondham

General Chat forum is now more fluid. This area gets stuck with old threads that go round in circles.... people don't know when to think about something else?

Not inclined to start threads as much as being a Brexiter am obviously a racist....