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Post by Lavender on Mar 18, 2010 21:20:59 GMT
Just a wee reminder to all members, that we have a PM system for 'private chat'  An increasing amount of threads have turned into 'conversation' type threads, between two or three parties. Normally, we are quite relaxed when things go off topic as we are all a wee bit guilty of doing so! But it is happening more and more, when these sort of things could be done via the PM system! Not everyone wants to trawl through pages of chit chat, to get to the gist of a thread Plus it can clog up the recent 25 posts, meaning those of us who use it can miss something which might just be of interest Many thanks!!!! |
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Post by gilliancaldwell on Mar 18, 2010 21:38:05 GMT
oh was that me answering susan.was i supose to pm her.
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Post by Kath the Magic Dragon on Mar 18, 2010 21:49:21 GMT
oh was that me answering susan.was i supose to pm her. Its happening on a lot of threads actually |
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Post by gilliancaldwell on Mar 18, 2010 22:17:09 GMT
what i'm doing it on a lot of threads?
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Post by Lavender on Mar 18, 2010 22:19:49 GMT
what i'm doing it on a lot of threads? Don't take it personal!! But the example you gave, is one of the times when a PM could have been done |
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Post by gilliancaldwell on Mar 18, 2010 22:21:07 GMT
sorry but i have taken it persoal.
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Post by Lavender on Mar 18, 2010 22:23:47 GMT
sorry but i have taken it persoal. But it isn't aimed at you! It's just a general observation the mods have made of late |
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Post by Kath the Magic Dragon on Mar 19, 2010 7:13:52 GMT
sorry but i have taken it persoal. What i said was "its happening on a lot of threads" Not - YOU are doing it a lot. The same happened on the GS thread, re horses casting - and that was me guilty that time No need to take it personally! |
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Post by SusanK on Mar 19, 2010 7:36:01 GMT
Gillian at no point do we go off topic on the cowboy magic thread, yes you asked questions and I replied as others have done.(ETA and yes in hindsight maybe we could have used the PM system but didnt know that it was a problem, and maybe if I had worded it as Market Research and put it in a different bit of the board it would have been ok, but we will in future us the PM system and other ways as I have edited my post)
Dont take it personaly and I dont think Kath was meaning you, you just mis read the way it was typed.
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Post by gilliancaldwell on Mar 19, 2010 8:06:32 GMT
thanks susan.couldn't understand why...getting to the stage where i don't want to reply to threads.if it had been going off topic then yes.even when people do have a bit of banter it puts a smile on MOST peoples faces i for one.a couple of threads i noticed people shredding members for something minor.
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Post by rhummy on Mar 19, 2010 9:30:35 GMT
Gillian - your reply just now is an overreaction  At no time did Lavender aim her post at you, otherwise she would have PM'd you about it. The forum isn't an IM or a chatroom - it's a forum. This means that although people are chatting on the threads about the subject, when people begin to go offtopic - it has no relevence to anyone else - and clogs up the thread and almost makes it unreadable. |
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Post by Vicky on Mar 19, 2010 10:02:23 GMT
What about a sub-section in General or suchlike so that we have an area we can use as the 'pub' to have general chats amoungst several members ?
PM's are brilliant, but they aren't like having a chat on the board where anyone/everyone can join in. Just wonder whether it might be worthwhile giving it a whirl for a wee while ?
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Post by Bedrockshetlands on Mar 19, 2010 10:06:49 GMT
The forum isn't an IM or a chatroom - it's a forum. This means that although people are chatting on the threads about the subject, when people begin to go offtopic - it has no relevence to anyone else - and clogs up the thread and almost makes it unreadable. I totally agree with this. I apologise in advance if I speak out of line and certainly don't aim my comments at any individual in particular. I don't spend very much time on forums these days when I come on here I click the last 25 posts and quite often don't even scroll to the end because much of the content has no relevance to me, to showing/equestrian in general or indeed the rest of the forum. I'm not saying we shouldn't have light hearted chat just that it seems to be mostly about that now and we have deviated somewhat from being a SHOWING forum.  |
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Post by Janekiln on Mar 19, 2010 10:10:42 GMT
I agree, its a bit annoying sometimes to read through random chat that you have no idea what it is about, to try to get the jist of something. Not aiming it at anyone at all, im probabl guilty on a few occasions.
I think Vicky's idea is good, what about a chat room instead though?
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Post by Kath the Magic Dragon on Mar 19, 2010 10:18:45 GMT
I think Vicky's idea is good, what about a chat room instead though? Off topic chat was designed for that purpose, i think? |
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An increasing amount of threads have turned into 'conversation' type threads, between two or three parties. Normally, we are quite relaxed when things go off topic as we are all a wee bit guilty of doing so! But it is happening more and more, when these sort of things could be done via the PM system! Not everyone wants to trawl through pages of chit chat, to get to the gist of a thread 
At no time did Lavender aim her post at you, otherwise she would have PM'd you about it.
