Put those you don’t like on ignore or just put your ear plugs in There are worse forums out there You can also put threads on ignore if they annoy you As a girl I find it one of the best forums to be on and one of the most suppportive
It’s lounge threads. For sale threads. Technical threads. Gallery threads. Rideout threads. There is no respite
Happy you like it, you being one of the worst perpetrators of pointless threads, bloody grumpy too, cute though but seriously, without the main contributors, people visiting irregularly would find an unused forum where no one answered technical questions - here they get help from many and often instantly. What's wrong with a bit of fun in these dim dark times ffs
I like a bit of fun. I also know how to avoid threads I do not like and which posters to ignore, I’m an adult not a child. I could contribute more, for instance I went to the Macau GP with a team last month and could have posted insider titbits and photos like I did on another forum, but I just visit here now and again to see if it has changed. Up to now I have been disappointed but if the majority of you are happy then clearly I am the oddball.
Have to say, every time I see a thread asking for help (on anything it seems, but especially Ducati) the response is very good.
I'm happy. But reminded of something my Father taught me: You can please all of the people some of the time. Or some of the people all of the time. But never all of the people all of the time. I’m inundated this time of year by requests from suppliers to complete their annual customer satisfaction surveys so they can con an auditor that they care about their customers and can keep their AS9100 or ISO9001 accreditation. They don't make me happy, so don't lower yourselves by asking. Nasher
I avoid the politics threads, but I do find that more and more threads turn into 'in jokes' between familiar members which makes me loose interest in them if I'm honest. I'm using the forum a lot less than I did because there is less technical threads, less build threads etc. This tbf is a general theme with forums
I always think of a forum as if it were a pub. There are people you want to hang around with and talk about everything with and there are people that you wouldn’t want to piss on if they were on fire, let alone spend time with. I think the forum has a good spread of people, that discuss a wide range of topics. Sometimes they talk sense and sometimes they talk shite. If you don’t like a person or a topic then you don’t have to interact. You can put people and/or subjects in ignore. In the main I think the balance is good.
Forums/chat rooms are like pubs, you either like them and go or stay at home. Peoples choice, we are what we are and do what we like, that's all there is to know here.
it's just like life I guess, when you go looking for the good bits*, the bad bits* are always close at hand, the trick is to find a way of separating the two and then devising a system where you avoid one or the other. *this is down to interpretation - for some these two are reversed!
Except for that one time I asked for suggestions for shopping a decent set of leathers and that @Exige ruined it for me. Ruined, I tell you! I'm not bitter, mind. It's practically forgotten.
I think you do a good job Terry and it's not your fault/there's nothing you could have done differently to alter "the balance" but it has obviously changed since this Forum started. It won't help to go into anymore detail than that as it's always going to be a personal interpretation anyway.
If I can comment on these but as text loses context, please be assured it's in a positive and hopeful way Lazy....People love others experiences on the whole and pics are a great way to back that up, had you put that in then it might have encouraged more to do so and so it then becomes a bigger presence Phil...be honest, most forums turn into cliques of the regular posters because they are, regular posters. I've yet to find any forum where this doesn't happen. Also on the technical threads, even ducati, no honest, are having more reliable bikes so when you talk about technical, the regular faults appear but also the different issues are far less but certianly in here, people jump in quick to help others on the technical parts/problems. But it also highlights a way forums work. Given most faults seem to be the same, those looking for a technical help could probably find it just by looking and never joining in, but where would the fun be in that and pretty soon you'd have everyone looking at no one posting Think of the forum like a supermarket, there is pretty much something in them for everyone, just don't eat the haggis
My 2c. I have been on a few bike forums now and this forum is as good as it gets. People are reluctant to use the ignore function as they feel they may miss out on something. Even if that means they get offended, and go on to react badly. I have had help on here from a few and been mocked at least once, overall a bit like life... Seems the moderation has been timely and fair as far as I would know...nothing OTT. Well done team!
Not saying it right. Not saying it’s wrong. Simply fact. I treat it exactly like the pub. Only problem is when you try to escape and have a piss, one of the jabbering knobheads follow you in....
I was just chucking my feedback into the mix as that’s what the op asked for if anyone can remember that far back. I am not saying you are all wrong and that I am right, just that this pub is not one that would ever be my regular. It’s ok for the occasional pint though.
It's s forum on the internet and you're surprised that you sometimes read "shite". That's the real surprise.
As some members are grumpier than others, especially blokes looking for other blokes to follow them into the toilets
