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
July Photo Comp if there is enough interest
It seems that there is enough interest to participate here, prize or no prize but people don't bother voting. Which is strange as its less of an effort than entering. I can see how this is frustrating for the moderators.
Andreas
Thats the only way I've seen it been done that works also. Tbh its up to the participants to keep it fun and I wouldn't worry about them voting for their own because if each participant voted for their own then realy theres nothing gained so realy thats just a silly rule imho.Never a problem we used a pole system you can't go wrong with that, click what picture you like job done
Thought seahorse might have donated a limb
Below tank is for sale
my plywood tank build.
www.irishfishkeepers.com/index.php/forum...k-build-diary#137768
"Thought seahorse might have donated a limb
Very topical...
The poll system for voting has been tried before but there was really no check on who had voted for what - plus how many times anyone voted.
Sadly, one of the ploys has been to have several memberships to the Forum which then resulted in multiple votes - from the same person, but not the same member, if I'm making sense (sadly not always the case).
Also, and this has been the concept of the Competition from long before I took it over, although it has been normal to give placings - generally the first five, anyway, actual votes cast have always remained 'in the dark' in order that no-one would know how many, if any at all, votes were cast for a member's entry picture.
The thinking behind this (and, again this goes back to 'the beginning of time') is that we do not want to dishearten anyone who was unfortunate to get low, or even no, votes. We want more, not less, entries in future comps.
So, those are the reasons for the secrecy behind the way the Competitions are run.
Please have your snapshots ready for the grand announcement later on.
John
Location:
N. Tipp
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.
ITFS member.
It's a long way to Tipperary.
anyway looking forward to this no matter what way it is set up, its all a bit of fun at the end of the day
as said comps like this are a bit of forum fun and some times having a prize as a bonus i dont know why people take it so seriously
p.s.
not having a go just my thoughts having run a good few of these in the past
that's enough from me on the topic i have my camera dusted off ready and waiting
