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
To Fry or not to Fry.....
It's says 'Fry' against some of us on here.
I'm confused...
...does that mean that we are an unspecified fish fry? a baccalaureate in want of absorbing our egg sacs and eventually turning into a Mola mola?
or
does it mean that something in our profiles makes us look good enough
to have fried in a pan and then dashed with a hint of lemon?On my sole will you; I'm sure people's haddock enough of that in this plaice?
Come-on forum.......be less ambiguous, and leave our sole alone.
Discuss...
ian
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Should we not have had a few “Frog Fish”, “Trout”, “Pike”, or “Kippers” (who knows who is smoked-out here).
On post numbers, is there a ranking status of “Cod” ? for those who speak a load of cod.
I’m also sure ‘Flounder’ would be a good status to have.
I wouldn’t have floundered about giving that as a ranking.
The ranking is maybe rather unfair on the species of fish…..almost prejudicial against some fine species.
What fish are in the rankings?
Maybe we could analyse them species here (as a bit of fun of course). A little bit like a horoscope based upon the fish.
Still, I’m not sure what species of fry I am yet.
On a more serious side, I am not actually a fan of 'rankings' on forums.....but I'm not complaining.
ian
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LMAO @ stat padding on a forum. This is true (Sad) though I will say bad and good advice comes from all coners no matter how many posts.
If you all ask yourself "how many posts have I got now?" often? If yes then you may be one of those individuals.
Then there are some who like the sound of their own text :0
Mark
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Rating, I think the more you post the more of a "social fish" you become?
LMAO @ stat padding on a forum. This is true (Sad) though I will say bad and good advice comes from all coners no matter how many posts.
If you all ask yourself "how many posts have I got now?" often? If yes then you may be one of those individuals.
Then there are some who like the sound of their own text :0
Mark
What's the highest fish species? is that one a nice "social type".....like, say, a snakehead?
Don't knock snakehead's sociability......they love to have visitors to their humble home.! Ask any snakehead.
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