Do we really need so many forums on the board?

[spangles]

Vanadium it's not rocket science to be a member of this forum and as a member your opinion is as valid as any other. I'm sure it doesn't take much intelligence to spend a couple of hours before you get a feel for the site.

If what you can post or say depends on the length of time on here then what about the members who joined 2 years ago and have never posted but read every thread since day one? Are they not as credible when they post their tuppence worth as the ones who post every day?

There are a number of members on here who have amassed hundreds of posts but some not more that a few lines or much sense in any of it.

Not sure if I agree with your point but carry on posting and giving your opinion and welcome to the forum.

S

[ionnsaigh]

Your opinion is only as valid - as your last post. Opinions of readers - are less than those of the writer - why- because the writer is both reader and writer. The reader refuses or otherwise to share opinion - they by default choose their inferior status - when it comes to the vote. So no we do not have - that sense of equality that the rules wrongfully imply. Nobody is pulling rank - a first post should avoid imo controversy - at least until proper introductions - and the civilised obligation that discourse insists.

[Ship called Dignity]

I think the balance of the various forums works pretty well.

There are people who only read Local News etc and likewise those who probably only visit the MOKRUN forum for instance.

Valid point however, have had a couple of people saying this to me.

PS - Welcome to the forum and good FIRST post.

[Bobbie En Tejas]

Why do some people's posts always have to be backhanded slaps at others? Why? why why why?

Valadium, you had a good and valid point. If you see something in general chat that you feel is controversial or may be of a more emotionally charged content than general chit cha and you think belongs in Speaker's Corner, please mention it to Davie and Malky. I'm sure they will look into it. Maybe not on the spot immediate, but when they have some time. If they think it should be moved, they'll move it.

As for someone making a point of the number of posts someone posts before giving advice, I liken it to a guest walking into someone's home for the first time and immediately giving decorating advice. It doesn't mean the advice is bad or invalid. Just nice to at least sit down and have a cup of coffee first On the other hand, taking the point spangles made, you could have been a guest for 2 years, and a man of few words, decided it was important enought to speak an opinion. No less valid than anyone else's.

Valadium... I welcome and urge you to come to general chit chat and Speaker's Corner sections and have coffee with us! I would bet you have a few more opinions it would be interesting to hear

[vanadium]

Welcome to the forum and good FIRST post.

Thanks

As for someone making a point of the number of posts someone posts before giving advice, I liken it to a guest walking into someone's home for the first time and immediately giving decorating advice.

I see where you are coming from with that Bobbie but surely this is a public forum, not a private one therefore anyone can offer an opinion, or advice as you say. Anyway, the good thinh about advice is you dont need to listen to it

Being a newbie, I don't want to step on anyone's toes. I just thought that less forums would simplify things. ionsagh, i wasn't trying to be controversial.

[Bobbie En Tejas]

I see where you are coming from with that Bobbie but surely this is a public forum, not a private one therefore anyone can offer an opinion, or advice as you say.

errrr.. yup and this IS Speaker's Corner

[general jack o'niell]

threads. forums, i get them mixed up, when is a thread not a thread? when its a forum, tomaato, tomato, they're all the same to me, didn't mean to appear impolite, just thought you might have come around a bit before deciding there was too much of anything. its been said before about lumping them together and having to scroll thru things to find the topic of interest so i won't go over it. rule of thumb, the general area is for serious discussion on topics, the speakers corner is for whingers and moaners like myself, tho i'm seldom guilty of starting the moaning or the whinging, i just join in when i've heard a few bars.

the comment about some being members for years and never posting is true, but i've always thought a small proportion of them have posted under other names, not many of them as theres hundreds that have never posted at all, and even more that have never said anything other than hello. youropinion is a valid as the next members, i just thought the choice of name coupled with the topic of your first posts had an air of mischief about it, as if the intent of the first post had a hand in the choice of name? imperial, metric or whitworth?