Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)

Hi,

John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.

I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.

With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.

I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.

If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.

I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.

I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.

Thank you
Darragh Sherwin

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08 Jul 2010 23:12 #1 by igmillichip (ian millichip)

Re:Some ‘personal’ thoughts from me as a Forum Member was created by igmillichip (ian millichip)

I am quite a new member to the forum, but I am here....and will stick with this forum for as long as I can.

Why? because it is very good, and it is administered in a fair manner.

I must say that I am very impressed by JohnH's often rapid and always dignified response to questions from people who are clearly starting out in the fish world......that is an added touch from administration.

I'm happy to be involved with any style of thread.....from in-depth 'academic stuff' to trying to pass on experience to someone starting, and, of course, I do love social and nonsense discussions filled with quality wit (or whatever)

Upon that qualifying statement, I also see many members who I would rate as being really sound sources of great information also being involved with such varied threads.

There is no harm with a little bit of well placed humour (some topics can get rather dry).....but there are times and places where that humour or durge doesn't work.

And even in topics that have an opening for a bit of eloquent poetical expression of dry thoughts of nature being spewed onto a forum, then I believe that the short detour should still relate back to the main pathway of the thread. Often, in my opinion (and I did almost use the IMO there), professionalism can be emphasised by such lighthearted detour that are used to nail down the main focus.

Abbreviations.... my recent existence on forums has, unfortunately, brought me into the realms of using bad grammar, bad spellings and even abbreviations for phrases.
So, even a pernickety old cynic such as me has fallen into the pit of bad grammar.

On those members who seem to think that a forum is a tool to exploit in the verbal abuse of others, they alas often fall by the wayside only to leave behind them a total sum of written words that add to nil.

However, the only pity there is where there is the potential of losing good members because of such ‘null ness’ from those who have nothing to say.

Keep up the good work.

Ian.

Irish Tropical Fish Society (ITFS) Member.

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