The Kintyre Forum

Why doesn't the courier come up with decent questions for their online polls? The new website is a vast improvement on the old one, and they should be comended for it. BUT get rid of the stupid polls and perhaps ask proper questions. They may as well as "should the Sun rise tommorrow?"

From my point of view, it looks like you may be the one responsible for the courier polls, as this one is just as stupid..

I can't believe I actually read that, I sincerely hope you are not being serious. Look up, there's a point going way above your head

Sweltered wrote:Why doesn't the courier come up with decent questions for their online polls? The new website is a vast improvement on the old one, and they should be comended for it. BUT get rid of the stupid polls and perhaps ask proper questions. They may as well as "should the Sun rise tommorrow?"

POLL wrote:Do you think the Courier should stop having pointless polls on it's website?
Yes: The polls are a waste of time because they are so loaded that the outcome is obvious
No: I'm just selecting this because you have a thing about the the courier and I am trying to irritate you.
I Don't Care: And neither should you, for F^*ks sake give it a rest

I think your poll is just as silly... as you gave stupid options to choose from.. all you needed was the same question with sensible answer options and your point would be more valid.

Do you think the Courier should stop having pointless polls on it's website?

Yes: The polls are a waste of time because they are so loaded that the outcome is obvious.

No: I find the polls relevant and enjoy giving my opinion

Neither: I don't do them so can't give an opinion

Why isn't there an emoticon for banging your head on your desk

THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT OF THE POLL, GOOD GRIEF!!!!

Sweltered wrote:Why isn't there an emoticon for banging your head on your desk

THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT OF THE POLL, GOOD GRIEF!!!!

Maybe you should stop banging your head on your desk, as it resulted in this very silly poll in the first place...

and as you say, it was the whole point of the poll, i PERSONALLY think it was silly.. or does my opinion not count on this forum???

You can let me know what kind of post you wish me to post that agrees with your opinion..

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, of course they are. And the poll is silly, it's supposed to be..that is it's function, and purpose. and if you can't understand that, perhaps you should go back to reading cornflakes packets, and cooking instructions for pot noodle they are much easier to work out.

Hope you recover soon from the sense of humour bypass, was it a triple or a quadruple

Ok.. i've made an appointment at the doctors to get a prescription for "Sweltered Opinion" once i have completed the course i should have no more trouble seeing your view in all things Sweltered, but until then, i will see things in my own stupid way..

Why do people post on here and then take offence to others opinion on what they have posted... Is that not what a forum is for...open discussion..

I actually enjoy watching the polls.... They often deal with important local issues....

i sincerely hope that daftdog is taking the proverbial, otherwise i fear for his sanity and the educational standards of his gene pool. no, i'm not agreeing with sweltered(i'm going to start numbering my three brothers, i find it stupid calling them by their screen names on here) for the obvious reason, dsmn my fag burnt itself out writing this, i knew instantly that his poll was silly and deliberately so, just to emphesis his thread point.

personally i haven't looked at the new site and pay little attention to the polls in the paper, tho this weeks was a good read and very informative, the obit page was very touching to read and i'll even excuse the typo in one of them. i found out that my old friend who recently died in canada is related to my brother in law on my wife's side's family, even sharing a name with him, it really is a small world.

if your looking for a way to improve the courier? make me editor, i'd soon liven it up, rather than asking readers opinions i think the paper should have a non political opinion of it's own, and the standard of journilism would skyrocket from it's current twee and somewhat "white heather club" viewpoint

This is a pointless post, and in truth not local news nor a local issue.

how right you are, we all know the "campbeltown" on the front page is just stuck over the copy for the argyllshire advertiser banner with a few pics stuck in just to keep the locals quiet, at least 40% of the courier has no relation to campbeltown news or issues, why should this thread be any different?

Of course this is Local news, it is regarding the content of the website of the LOCAL paper. And there was a point. And Daftdog, I don't expect everyone to agree with my opinion, I wasn't suggesting that they should, in fact if you bothered to read and digest what was written, you would have seen that I said so. You made no effort to "discuss" the topic at all.

Gizmo, I agree the polls deal with pertinent issues, but the manner in which they are written makes them useless. If a question is asked in a manner to attract an answer which is beyond question, then what have you learned by asking the question?

I tried to make this point in a lighthearted way, but as usual, the "Fun" police are out in force. Don't bother asking for ways to improve the forum and then shoot down those who make an effort.

Funny how the Courier Website is not "Local News", but ways to improve this forum is!

And it appears that a suggestion to have a "readers wives" section on the forum has more validity than this thread....guess it must be down to who does the posting......

exactly!!!!! like moving this thread for a start, what happened? did i step on your toes with my last post? or did No.3 (this is my new method of referring to my brothers, get used to it!!)

i for one will only refrain from posting inane and pointless posts when the powers that be, and i'm getting the feeling that this power is going to a few heads of late, stick to the task of using their powers to make sure that the posts meet the criteria set out in the rules, not just moving threads out of sheer bloodymindedness.

how can a thread about the website of the local paper and the polls it runs not be a local issue? this smacks of similarities to an incident i had with the local radio although in that case i suspected that funny handshakes and rolled up troosers were involved, not saying thats the case here but i detect a trend when criticism of the courier is involved, even in a light hearted manner.

as No.3 said to me in a PM just a few moments ago(sorry for reprinting it here No.3)

"bite me"