Some ‘personal’ thoughts from me as a Forum Member

Wow,
This post has certainly stirred up a lot of emotion – I had truthfully hoped it would have “dropped off the page” by now, indeed I am totally surprised how much attention it actually engendered!

I thank everybody who offered ‘votes of confidence’ (either publicly or by PM) – even though that wasn’t the purpose of the original post it’s nice to see how many people agree, some even only in part, with what I was trying to get across.

I have great affection for this Forum and, like Stretnik, I do not want to see it slowly descend out of existence. It’s far too important to Irish Fishkeeping for that to happen.

Here’s a suggestion (even though I know nothing about Facebook) could there not be a section set up in it, or the like, where all the non-serious subjects could be aired (as are now in our ‘Social and Rubbish’ section) and great craic and merriment could be had by all participants, leaving them then to return to the Forum afterwards to make more serious Fishkeeping posts here – because, believe me, many have very valid points to make and help to offer.

I just re-checked the Forum and see more comments - some of which have been ably answered by Daragh Owens.

I don’t know what form the proposed upgrade will take and whether or not it will be able to ‘take on’ some of the proposals made today so these will have to wait for the future.

Lastly to Dioza, I have been sending a PM to all new members welcoming them to the Forum and inviting them to contribute to the ‘Introductions/About Me’ category in order for the proverbial ‘Ice’ to be broken and to allow the rest of us to get to know the new member…I don’t see why this ‘welcome’ cannot add a pointer to the ‘Beginner’s Section’ as well. Good suggestion, thanks. I’ll get onto that presently.

Even more lastly to Darren Curry – the job of Administrator entails, among many other things, checking every officially presented complaint and acting upon it if deemed necessary. I’ve held my hands up and said that I might have handled this one better and have sorted it out personally with the member concerned – even though it was intended as a general statement for everyone, not merely him – so no, there was no favouritism there at all.

One very very last thing – people with spelling difficulties are welcome here – text abbreviations less so.

(Once again, these are observations from JohnH the Forum member, not the Administrator).

John

Ps to Seamus – message understood and point taken…you’re off my Christmas Card list (at least you would be – if I actually sent any!).