A plea...

[Tiger]

Twas the end of August 2009 when I found this place. I'd barely been swishing a club (I had started playing three weeks earlier) but the forum was a warm, friendly, funny, supportive and happy place. A long time has passed since then and the forum feels very different.

We had an away day at work recently and we talked about what kind of team we wanted to be. The traits were pretty much unanimously agreed and the key for me was the only thing stopping us being that team was us.

I wonder if we've been spoilt a little with the opportunities that the team find for us or whether we've grown tired of each other's digital company. What I know is that I used to come on here and read posts that made me smile, others that made me empathise, some that made me feel happy for someone else and a fair few that made me positively soil myself laughing. Nowadays there seems to be lots of needling at each other, moaning at GM about the location of opportunities or far more frequently individuals bemoaning that they hadn't been selected.

This isn't a holier than thou tirade, I'm as guilty as everyone else, but just a plea that we try and make things a little more jovial. I ask because, from a selfish point of view, finding good content for the mag during the glorious summer was really difficult. I'm worried that when the bleak weather arrives in force I'll be entering these hallowed pages with a great deal of trepidation ...

 

[Birchy]

So whats the plea?

FWIW I think people are being a bit more careful with what they say now as everything is getting jumped on. Go back a little while and it wasn't as serious as it seems now.

 

[virtuocity]

Shutting down the lounge and OOB section for a fortnight would do the trick.

 

[User20205]

I think you're viewing it through Rose coloured specs mate. It's always been a melting pot of the good, bad and indifferent. I would say that the main difference is the speed in which people take offence now. There's too much getting the hump and not enough cutting sarcasm imo:thup:

Carry on the good work tho fella, but I'm still not going in your meet the forum, what's your perfect four ball section even though I have updated it

Vladamir Putin, barrack Obama and homer:thup: world leaders and opinion formers all

 

[Tiger]

So what's the plea?

More threads of the ilk of tee fitting and optimum golfing biscuit

I hear what you are saying birchy but we create the atmosphere through what we post and how we react. At times doing the forum pages is well depressing when it used to be so much fun

 

[Tiger]

I think you're viewing it through Rose coloured specs mate

Actually I think you'll find they're Oakley G30 lenses, really help on an overcast day

I would say that the main difference is the speed in which people take offence now. There's too much getting the hump and not enough cutting sarcasm imo :thup:

This is very true and I guess I feel that people used to be much more self effacing in the past. All I can say is that over the past 18 months I've been smiling less and shaking my head more...

In terms of Meet the Forum I wonder if pokerjoke or richart could supply me with a snap and some info ...

 

[Imurg]

In terms of Meet the Forum I wonder if pokerjoke or richart could supply me with a snap and some info ...

Or......

could somone else provide the necessary.........:clap:

Hasn't PJ already been "done"..?

 

[Birchy]

More threads of the ilk of tee fitting and optimum golfing biscuit

I hear what you are saying birchy but we create the atmosphere through what we post and how we react. At times doing the forum pages is well depressing when it used to be so much fun

Totally agree with everything you have said. It does feel slightly awkward at times now.

What Rod says above touches on a good point too In that people do seemed to be getting offended very easily. A lot more people seem to be incurring the wrath of the mods now too which im not sure what that's down to as it didn't seem to happen as much before or if it did it never spilled onto here.

 

[Tiger]

Or......

could somone else provide the necessary.........:clap:

Hasn't PJ already been "done"..?

I meant for therod but Id love to do a brotherly love feature with Fragger and Imurg writing each other's copy

 

[la_lucha]

You want to try supporting coventry City at the moment. Everytime I visit skybluestalk I come away feeling like I want to slit my throat. Maybe all the sensible people that had no work to do in the midst of the recession are now busily working away leaving the drivel to ruin every thread on every forum nationwide?

 

[Yosser]

You want to try supporting coventry City at the moment. Everytime I visit skybluestalk I come away feeling like I want to slit my throat. Maybe all the sensible people that had no work to do in the midst of the recession are now busily working away leaving the drivel to ruin every thread on every forum nationwide?

Keyboard warriors mate, people have lost perspective about what really matters in life.

By the way, if you are genuinely a Coventry City fan, there are probably less painful ways to do yourself in.

 

[Robobum]

We all long for a return to a £1 pint and 50p for a litre of petrol too I expect!!

Why do we constantly dream of the way it was?? GM want new people on the forum all the time, some stay and contribute, others ask what clubs a 28 h'cap should buy and then do one.

Forums aren't for everybody and the feint hearted should be discouraged just in case they get a reply that offends them.

It goes in cycles good and bad - perhaps during the bad cycles, there is some mischievous posts trying to relieve boredom?

It all comes out in the wash eventually.

Don't take yourself too seriously
Don't take others too seriously
and.....seriously........cut out the dramatic flouncing exits!!!!

You can adopt those as the new forum rules if you like MikeH

 

[Rooter]

Well put robobum, £1 a pint.. blimey you must be quite old.. ! I did watch the original alan partridge last week on dvd and at the BP garage where Micheal works it was 78p per litre of diesel. #cashback

I agree on the cycle thing though, i was a member of another forum (non golf) before coming here, the atmosphere builds and builds, it end up being take too far and cliques start to happen, then the mods have to step in, some longer standing members get the hump about being over "policed" and toys get thrown. I think that's typical of any forum, just roll with the punches and enjoy the ride!

 

[JustOne]

I agree with Robobum (which is weird!) :whoo:


This thread only adds to any gloom/tension by highlighting it... a better thread would have been "Hey, hey, it's Wednesday!!!!" and then a post about something BRILLIANT!!!!

Now,... am I good enough to play blades?

 

[Pin-seeker]

Well put robobum, £1 a pint.. blimey you must be quite old.. ! I did watch the original alan partridge last week on dvd and at the BP garage where Micheal works it was 78p per litre of diesel. #cashback

I agree on the cycle thing though, i was a member of another forum (non golf) before coming here, the atmosphere builds and builds, it end up being take too far and cliques start to happen, then the mods have to step in, some longer standing members get the hump about being over "policed" and toys get thrown. I think that's typical of any forum, just roll with the punches and enjoy the ride!

Think I'm going to have to dig my Partridge DVD's out,TV Gold. A-Ha.

Think people need to appreciate that opinions are just that & don't take everything to heart.

 

[Andy808]

Actually I think you'll find they're Oakley G30 lenses, really help on an overcast day



This is very true and I guess I feel that people used to be much more self effacing in the past. All I can say is that over the past 18 months I've been smiling less and shaking my head more...

In terms of Meet the Forum I wonder if pokerjoke or richart could supply me with a snap and some info ...

Did you have a fitting for the Oakleys?

I do agree with you though there is way too much bad feeling on the forum at the moment, even compared to last summer when most of us were struggling to get on the course to play.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

On the other side of the coin, the forum has, and continues to grow and so more new members come on board. Many have no idea of what has gone before and just post as they see fit which is perfect and has helped give the forum a breath of fresh air. We've always had a few spats (as I well know) spammers, idiots and the plain weird and to be honest despite the brickbats and flame wars it has always remained the best golf forum to discuss all aspects of the game we love

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

More threads of the ilk of tee fitting and optimum golfing biscuit

I've started plenty of tongue in cheek threads for a laugh and received plenty of sarcastic comments suggesting people are getting fed up with them. Only last night I started the forum pinup thread thinking it would generate a few laughs but people don't seem interested anymore.

Ho hum....don't know why I bother sometimes........

 

[Pin-seeker]

I've started plenty of tongue in cheek threads for a laugh and received plenty of sarcastic comments suggesting people are getting fed up with them. Only last night I started the forum pinup thread thinking it would generate a few laughs but people don't seem interested anymore.

Ho hum....don't know why I bother sometimes........

I quite liked the pin up thread until I saw the options.

 

[User20205]

I quite liked the pin up thread until I saw the options.

definitely, I would have liked some more specialist tastes catered for