New Old Cherry
UTC Legend
Seems not....
New Old Cherry
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Vlad_The_Impaler
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Ok my bad- in your post above you said you were a Cherry of 62 years vintage so I presumed that was your age but I clearly should've known that you were in fact 73 and a man of much more vast experience than that of a 62 year old.
Did you ever have a soft spot for another club when you were younger?
Derek mentioned Wolves.
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Moving this from the Fulham matchday thread is OTT. Get a bloody grip of yourself.
DJ
Moderator
Just trying to find the balance between those who want to actually discuss football on the match day thread and those who want to discuss a personality on a football forum.
The vast majority want to do the former rather than the latter and thus I spend far too much time trying to tidy threads up than I hoped when we experimented with this thread.
It’s a shame someone believes them having their repetitive say and trying to “disrupt” the forum is more important than anyone else.
DJ
Moderator
Your one individual post, easily could have stayed and in isolation it would have done. It’s just everything else around it with the complaints why that post was moved as well. Ultimately though it’s not like the posts have been deleted, they’ve just been moved so the match thread can discuss… the match.
New Old Cherry
UTC Legend
Yeah that's ok Vlad..no sweat ..
..soft spots for Ipswich and Burnley...because they had both won the old First Division title as small clubs....when I was first interested in Football...and I hated the Elitism even then !
Wolves ?..no never...I'm indifferent regarding them...I prefer West Brom their hated neighbours ..but yes a soft spot for O'Neil their manager.... because he kept us from relegation after the Parker debacle !
New Old Cherry
UTC Legend
Yeah...but I didn't move it though..someone else did..bloody annoying eh ?
Other posters go far further off topic than me and into boring attritional long bitchy argument sagas and get away with it ..
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Vlad_The_Impaler
First Team
I think starting a thread about yourself with your username as the subject title and getting 41 pages of responses deserves respect.
DJ
Moderator
In the main what you consider as “boring attritional long bitchy argument sagas” are actually on topic or a related topic where the conversation has naturally evolved involving multiple users.
You, by your own admission, want to disrupt a thread, rant about whatever you want to rant about because you don’t like this “flawed medium”. It’s selfish, that’s why your posts get moved to this thread, because the alternative is to just remove them… like I see you’ve now done yourself to many posts on this thread.
Why don't you just let things be as they are DJ?
You complain it takes all your time and energy and poor me.....DJ, the forum guy just trying to make everyone happy.
Why don't you stop trying to be GOD, let things flow as they naturally do, and keep your fingers off of threads without merging them.
Narcissists control things.
Forums are organic, and each post will live and die a natural life, it'll be responded to if it needs to, and if nobody responds, it'll fade away.
Your control mechanisms have elevated Brian to a thread that would have died a natural death, had you not made a new thread for him.
What exactly are you trying to achieve here?
Narcissism is the only thing shining through here, and it ain't Brians.
DJ
Moderator
Ultimately I’ve tried to avoid having to suspend NOC’s account due to multiple breaking of the T&C and guidelines and avoid the breakdown of the forum.
People want to use the forum as it’s designed, having threads on topics so people know what they are going to read etc.
This isn’t a woe is me angle. It’s a complaint because I do want to leave the forum alone in the main, it is the best way and what I’ve always tended to do. The odd tidy up here or there is good and keeps a happy medium.
I don’t expect you to agree because I don’t expect everyone to agree, because that’s impossible. It’s just trying to find a balance, which isn’t always achievable.
I disagree.
By merging threads, I've often found that 'people know what they are going to read' is the polar opposite of what you are trying to achieve.
Merging threads that YOU think should be merged, leaves the poster having no idea where what they posted is.
Surely the common sense approach, would be to leave things as they are?
We don't need a school teacher here, we are all adults.
DJ
Moderator
Fully appreciate that, as I say, I know everyone won’t agree and I do now merge a “historical thread” a bit slower than before to try and find a way of things working better.
The aim is to not have multiple threads on the same topic, at the same time, splitting posts across two threads.
An example of this could be the Joe Rothwell threads, obviously there was a Joe Rothwell thread. Then a new one pops up with his move to Southampton. So I left it.
Then Rothwell scores for Southampton yesterday and the original Rothwell thread is posted on. So I merged the two threads at that point, making sure the conversation flows as the threads didn’t overlap at the time.
It’s not perfect, but many prefer that to having multiple threads on the same topic.
New Old Cherry
UTC Legend
Some threads on the same topic are not necessarily discussing the same thing.
For example a Ryan Fraser thread in 2017, would be completely different to a Ryan Fraser thread in 2023.
Same topic, but different emotions.
They would however be merged by yourself, without understanding the differing emotions behind the same topic.
New Old Cherry
UTC Legend
But 'I' didn't start the damn thing....how many more times do I need to stress that.
Only a true bona fide narcissist would do that !
New Old Cherry
UTC Legend
I am generally more interested in making people laugh tbh as opposed to causing mayhem.
Maybe that's gone off the tracks a bit !
Maybe that's gone off the tracks a bit !
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DJ
Moderator
There would be more entertainment on a watching paint dry thread.
