dazby wrote:This incarnation of the board is ten years old and this weekend we want you to help us celebrate. It's simple. We want as many as possible of our 7300 members to log in and have a chat.
If you know one of our absent members then give them a bit of pressure and encourage them to resurface. We'll dig up some old threads and reminisce. Beer reviews, bun fights and a dipper game thats sure to be controversial.
Spread the word and be a part of it this weekend!
It's a lovely initiative Dazby but this forum will always struggle along as an underused facility until some good strong moderation is introduced because there are perhaps 5 or 6 regular posters on here who are such deplorable aresholes that they scare off new posters and eventually disgust long serving posters so much that they wander off elsewhere.
When I first joined I put my hand in my pocket and sponsored the site and posted regularly. I'm a lifelong City fan and SC holder and I love my club and I wanted to make a positive contribution here but I, like many other posters, found that it wasn't worth the effort to deal with the abuse and attempted bullying from dickwipes like nigels tickle and foreverupjoesarse who are ruining this place.
The fact is that most folk are decent and decent folk don't like to share company with indecent arseholes - we all know of housing estates that are ruined by 1 or 2 shit families don't we? Well the same applies here where a total lack of strong moderation has allowed abuse to prosper and has seen many regular posers become rare visitors or leave altogether.
Apply proper moderation, ban the abusers and make this a decent site and the numbers will rise because most folk are decent folk, leave it as it is and it will remain a playground for a few abusive idiots. It's a shame but that's how it is.
If we had De Gea and the rags had Hart, we'd be top with a 9 point lead and they'd be in 12th place - that's the difference between a 'good' keeper and a 'top class' keeper - 12 places - think about it.
