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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"why not just post the prices for all to see??????????????/"
If you look above the thread, the second from last 'box' says "RULES"...and here it tells you (first paragraph):
Rules for Retailers
* Sponsors must only post listing in their own sections without prices included.
Serratus is merely keeping to Forum rules.
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This Forum, although free to us members still costs the Owner money to keep it up and running. He makes the rules (which are there for all to see, but sadly few actually look at).
In the main they are common sense and deserve to be read and followed by us all.
John
(who also left School a long time ago...almost another lifetime, in fact!!!)
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None of the sponsors have complained to me about it, they can send prices by PM to anybody interest.
Most forums run this way, and I see no reason to change this rule any time soon
Darragh
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