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[ramAnag]

All? there's only five of us who post regularly...

I'm repeating myself from a few recent posts, but I think there's no point trying to argue anything through here because everyone who contributes has closed minds/entrenched views (I'll exclude Sith and the mysterious Ramshank of current active posters) and to varying degrees cherry pick / exaggerate / invent / carelessly misinterpret info to support their POV (there was a sackful last week). I might be guilty of the same, you'll never know for sure but you are welcome to your opinion on it.

Yes, you are and perhaps if you sorted the site out and stopped using excuse after excuse to evade a genuine question or make a sensible point there might be more. As it stands I imagine there’ll be less than the five you suggest soon as I for one feel that it’s a complete waste of time at present, but you’ll probably blame that, in your totally unreasoned way, on Swale or myself.

[Andy_Faber]

Yes, you are and perhaps if you sorted the site out and stopped using excuse after excuse to evade a genuine question or make a sensible point there might be more. As it stands I imagine there?ll be less than the five you suggest soon as I for one feel that it?s a complete waste of time at present, but you?ll probably blame that, in your totally unreasoned way, on Swale or myself.

So why do YOU feel its a waste of time

[ramAnag]

Two essential reasons, imo.
1) The forum has become technically dreadful i.e unreliable and horribly time consuming if one is trying to post in anything approaching legible and literate English.
2) You have become the antithesis of a moderator eg you have improved nothing, are incapable of accepting you may be wrong or have made a mistake, and all too regularly incite unpleasantness while blaming others.

All in all, I have enjoyed the contributions and ‘company’ of MA, Swale (most of the time ) Sith, mac and RS, along with others in days gone by - even RR, but in all other ways it is no longer a pleasant or constructive place to ‘be’.

[Andy_Faber]

Two essential reasons, imo.
1) The forum has become technically dreadful i.e unreliable and horribly time consuming if one is trying to post in anything approaching legible and literate English.
2) You have become the antithesis of a moderator eg you have improved nothing, are incapable of accepting you may be wrong or have made a mistake, and all too regularly incite unpleasantness while blaming others.

All in all, I have enjoyed the contributions and ?company? of MA, Swale (most of the time ) Sith, mac and RS, along with others in days gone by - even RR, but in all other ways it is no longer a pleasant or constructive place to ?be?.

1) OK I'll say this for the last time, I'm not responsible for the technical issues with the forum, everyone but you seems to accept that. I've messaged (no longer available), emailed (no response), phoned (no answer), even snailmailed (no response), I've tried to find the perps on facebook and linkedin (no luck) and I don't feel inclined to drive to the head office, if you feel that's part of my remit we'll have to agree to differ. Its a nuisance to us all, you make more of a fuss about it than everyone else combined, thats an observation not a criticism

2) I've made a start by paying more attention to the accuracy of facts being posted, see my two earlier posts regarding a a post yesterday by MA, strangely 'nodded through' by everyone but me. The next time there's doubt about anything I post myself we'll refer to an AI for adjudication, I found that useful with the MA case and usually refer to Deepseek before I post anything factual

3) your list of posters you 'like' appears to correspond with those who openly share your overall POV or don't express a strong POV at all, and by deduction you dislike those who don't share your POV. I'll leave that one for other posters to reflect on, remembering that this is a footy forum where we should all have a common love

Right I'm off to cut the grass before Mac tells me to

[ramAnag]

1) OK I'll say this for the last time, I'm not responsible for the technical issues with the forum, everyone but you seems to accept that. I've messaged (no longer available), emailed (no response), phoned (no answer), even snailmailed (no response), I've tried to find the perps on facebook and linkedin (no luck) and I don't feel inclined to drive to the head office, if you feel that's part of my remit we'll have to agree to differ. Its a nuisance to us all, you make more of a fuss about it than everyone else combined, thats an observation not a criticism

2) I've made a start by paying more attention to the accuracy of facts being posted, see my two earlier posts regarding a a post yesterday by MA, strangely 'nodded through' by everyone but me. The next time there's doubt about anything I post myself we'll refer to an AI for adjudication, I found that useful with the MA case and usually refer to Deepseek before I post anything factual

3) your list of posters you 'like' appears to correspond with those who openly share your overall POV or don't express a strong POV at all, and by deduction you dislike those who don't share your POV. I'll leave that one for other posters to reflect on, remembering that this is a footy forum where we should all have a common love

Right I'm off to cut the grass before Mac tells me to

1) I didn’t say you were. You asked why I thought it was a waste of time. The technical issues often mean it now takes ten minutes to post what used to take two…and that’s when you can get on. That is a waste of my - and everyone else’s - time and if you can no longer even communicate with the ‘owners’ then what, honestly, is the point of us having a moderator? You’re just another poster really aren’t you?

2) Nobody ‘nods through’ posts. MA may or may not be correct. At this stage I don’t know and neither, despite your somewhat patronising put down, do you. As for accuracy. Have a think back to some of your own claims.

3) It really isn’t about liking people. I don’t KNOW anyone on here to like or dislike them. A couple have provided a friendly invitation to meet but the opportunity hasn’t really conveniently arisen and I’d actively choose not to meet a couple of others, but I doubt that either RR (pre GP transition) or RS share my views and although it is true that I invariably see eye to eye with Swale where politics/world views are concerned I think I’d probably differ slightly from Sith, MA and mac, but we never fall out. Maybe you should ponder on that one. Possibly has something to do with mutual respect.

P.S. This post was a classic example of (1) above. Took three minutes to type and ten more to correct (twice) thanks to all the technically produced errors.