What Don't You Like About The Forums?

[CharlesdeGaulle]

The good things about the threads are pretty obvious: the amazing sources of help from knowledgeable posters; the posts that make you laugh; the posts that make you cry; the camaraderie (sometimes); the opportunity to learn and so on. But what don't you like?

I'll start with two.

- The posters who read the OP and nothing else, and then pile in with their opinion which has - almost certainly - already been offered. I know some of the long threads won't necessarily be read completely, but at least try and get a gist of what's been going on. If you repeated other previous comments in a pub conversation everyone would think you're a dick, so why do it here?

- The posters who post simply to say that the thread is distasteful or boring or whatever. If it doesn't appeal, just ignore it. To stick with the pub example, if you broke in to a group and told them that you thought the conversation was st, everyone would think you're a dick, so why do it here?

What have I missed?

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Website Feedback! Sodding Website Feedback. Seriously?

Mods - this is so clearly a daft Lounge thread and absolutely not Website Feedbacdk.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

I've reported my own thread to try and get it moved back again.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

There are some themes emerging, and many of you have raised things that bug me too.

Someone has mentioned the bizarre abbreviations and code many posters use, and I'd add the 'sausages in the lawn' kind of comment too. It wasn't funny then, it certainly isn't funny now. Just stop.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

northwest monkey said:

People that add a signature at the end of their threads - even more so if it doesn't make any sense.

This irritates me much more than it should. Why do they do it?

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Doofus said:

What I hate most of all is knowning that nobody, apart from each respective poster, will take any notice of any of these, entirely reasonable gripes, and life here will cary on as it always has.

Perhaps you should be forced to read this list when you join so that you know what irritates other members. It might, just might, make them think twice before pressing submit.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

227bhp said:

How are you going to achieve that? Invite them in and sit them at a desk whilst watching them read it?

How many people read the 'I agree to obey by the rules' bit when they sign up to a forum?

It may not have been an entirely serious post!

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Pommygranite said:

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This thread has struck a chord with you, hasn't it? All very good points.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

I find the relentlessly anti-Police posters utterly tedious.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

valiant said:

What car threads.

You make a fair point, but they sometimes seem to throw-up some choices that the OP might have missed, and the lived-experience from well-informed owners is really useful.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

At the heart of much of the concern here matches the concerns from real life, largely based around the lack of manners. I'm not sure when courtesy seemed to become optional?

Mutual respect, and then ignoring those you don't agree with rather than going full-on Jeremy Kyle seems to have become something other people do, not us. Pity.