boards have gone slow

teh boards strike me as quite healthy atm, to be honest.

A lot of people are posting, and while a lot of it isn’t interesting to me, I’m allowed to post things which are and I do get responses.

Cosy is right, it was me, him and a couple of others who kept the boards going for a long time, but it was wearing and I’m glad that there’s more of a flow now.

I don’t like people being banned,or driven out. While martin seems to operate a loose discipline compared with some of the chatguides, and is not cliquish like them, there’s still a distrust of the way he deletes some threads. I can’t complain too much, as some of them are very repetitively abusive, and it’s his right as the owner, but as an internet libertarian I object to these deletions in principle.

I was particularly alarmed by the deletion of the faith thread,where a lot of useful and well-thought-through posts were being published. He explained why he deleted it, and I accept that, but it does worry me.

So 8 out of 10 Martin in my marking book, and well done to all the new chatters.

I wonder if cosy could count up the number of times he’s left these boards for good? Is he the chief offender. Gerry seems a good challenger and if Gerry is SHR 9as many suspect) then he is a close runner-up, if not the victor of the contest over Flouncer-in-Chief.