End of the Forum?

[kestrelx]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Kestrel, please explain that post.

How can there be unofficial moderators?
My understanding is that Moderators have a different dashboard with which to do their moderating.

Perhaps you mean that there were people who did not agree with your opinions, but these people had no moderator powers.
The forum depends on different opinions to survive.

The real problem is that people migrated to FB…and those who were football fans, the Stanley supporters took up the space that was left.
Nature abhors a vacuum.

There were some people who used to jump on everything I said, I assume they have passed on to the Facebook in the sky!? But I was also personally insulted. ��


Perhaps the novelty wears off as well, people are more enthusiastic when they first get on line and start looking at forums etc. That declines and younger people go on X- twitter, Instagram etc not slow forums like this one.

[Margaret Pilkington]

It is only a slow forum because there are no posters anymore.

Kestrel x you had some pretty contentious views.
They polarised people on the forum, but forums need posters who can have differences, otherwise it is sterile, there is no jousting.
There is a good amount of posting traffic on the Stanley side. Not all of those who no longer visit have gone to ‘Facebook in the sky’.

But if there is no discussion then there is no reason to visit, nothing to see

I have continued to visit and I have tried to stimulate discussion, with very little success.
Eventually you lose the heart to post.
I do not do X, Instagram, Facebook, or WhatsApp. They do not hold any interest for me.

And if you were offended by posters on here then I feel very sure you would be offended by what you find on these sites you consider ‘faster’.

You might ask me how I know this…well there is enough in the news about the nastiness on these sites.

[MoreJoe]

Like Monty Python's Brave Sir Robin
I feel like.....
Packing it in and packing it up
And sneaking away and buggering off
And chickening out and ****ing off home,
Yes, bravely he is throwing in the sponge...

-MoreJoe

[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes
More Joe, I feel like that myself but quitters never win.
I live in the hope that things will change…and they will, but right now it does not look like it will be in the favour of those who knew Accyweb when it was a thriving forum with discussions, debates…sometimes heated and the kind of banter that goes on in a family situation.
Those were the days.
Accyweb has been allowed to disintegrate and fall into disrepair.
That is SO sad for all of us.