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Post by Curly Wurly on Jan 19, 2016 13:14:37 GMT
OK a provocative title and in no way a criticism of anyone, but doing a quick check there only looks to have been just over 30 posts in the last 24 hours on the main board.
As a user of both gasheads.org and gaschat, both have always appealed for different reasons, this site generally hosting the alternative and sometimes unorthodox view. However, a number of the posters from the old Independent Forum have moved along and, possibly, continued performance on the field is quelling the dissenting view off it.
I'd imagine the appeal proceedings will rekindle debate on here next week, but what is happening to this forum?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2016 13:26:10 GMT
its the lull before the storm
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Post by a more piratey game on Jan 19, 2016 13:27:57 GMT
quality over quantity please
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Post by gashead1979 on Jan 19, 2016 13:29:40 GMT
Nuffin to moan at is there?
Bloody typical Rovers, sack em all!..
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Thatslife
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Post by Thatslife on Jan 19, 2016 13:37:16 GMT
Higgs's fault, he should have loaned out the current moderators and got some new ones in on loan. I have heard it said that the current moderators can only perform in one position. We need more utility moderators who can play in any position and for longer. Sack the board I say
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Post by a more piratey game on Jan 19, 2016 13:41:11 GMT
Higgs's fault, he should have loaned out the current moderators and got some new ones in on loan. I have heard it said that the current moderators can only perform in one position. We need more utility moderators who can play in any position and for longer. Sack the board I say ah, the good old days.....
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Post by stargas on Jan 19, 2016 13:47:19 GMT
Everything is fine and has been for some time. UTG
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Post by dido on Jan 19, 2016 13:56:21 GMT
Too much chemistry, not enough luck.
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Post by DudeLebowski on Jan 19, 2016 14:33:23 GMT
It is always packed to the rafters in here when we are doing crap though, that much is definitely true.
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Post by tbonegas on Jan 19, 2016 15:13:48 GMT
Higgs's fault, he should have loaned out the current moderators and got some new ones in on loan. I have heard it said that the current moderators can only perform in one position. We need more utility moderators who can play in any position and for longer. Sack the board I say Here here. This is the anti-board forum. So, I too say, Sack the Board
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Post by csssmooth on Jan 19, 2016 15:37:35 GMT
Only days after we were quoted in the independent i, surely some mistake
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Post by severnbeachline on Jan 19, 2016 15:39:53 GMT
Reading Gaschat makes me want to eat my own face off.
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Post by irishrover on Jan 19, 2016 16:08:20 GMT
I never really understand this. It is a message board, not some independent entity. It will survive as long as people continue to post to it. If people stop posting to it then it will cease to exist presumably because either people no longer want to use it or they have found somewhere else that they prefer. There's not really much more to it than that.
Personally, I think this is a pretty good message board that has a good range of posters. TBone is largely talking nonsense when referring to this as the 'anti-board forum'. Presumably it is a reference to the RAFC forum that was a predessor of this one. We are now at least 3 iterations removed from that forum and (as I understand it) none of the people who originally set it up are still involved in the administration of this forum. In fact very few of the original founders still post here and several of them have openly suggested this forum be shut down because it no longer serves that purpose ignoring the fact that it ceased to actually be that forum about 6 years ago. This is something the current administrators strongly reject because the forum has evolved and continues to do so and therefore has a clear purpose. It's a position just as daft as those that cling to the notion that this is an 'anti-board forum'. Again characterising a forum as some kind of independent entity is ridiculous - it is nothing more or less than the contributions of the people who post to it at any given time. All any forum exists as is a space on the internet for people to type crap at each other.
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Post by Wreckless on Jan 19, 2016 16:12:25 GMT
From my perspective, gasheads.org and gaschat are pretty much the same.
They hardly provide contrasting views on the way in which the club is going.
Frankly, I find it a total waste of time having both, as you end up reading the same stuff twice.
No doubt there are a few egos around who see it as being important that both are preserved.
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Post by mjhgas on Jan 19, 2016 16:27:34 GMT
Nothing to moan about at the moment!
I've spent more time on Otib.co.uk waiting for Stuart Pearce to be announced as the new manager!!!!
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Post by chippenhamgas on Jan 19, 2016 16:33:19 GMT
Nothing to moan about at the moment! I've spent more time on Otib.co.uk waiting for Stuart Pearce to be announced as the new manager!!!! Is it now a mandatory requirement to have been a failure at nottm forest to get considered for the s**t job?!
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Post by Peter Parker on Jan 19, 2016 16:49:06 GMT
I think any sports teams forum is quieter when things are going ‘well’. I say that relatively as there are plenty of question marks/clouds hanging over the club off the field pending the Stadium appeal/court case.
Poor results, or poor leadership will always stir more debate as it is always easier to offer an alternative view or way of doing things. Far harder to argue against doing things differently when the manager and team are doing things well
I like the odd bit of humour and innuendo that we sometimes get on here, but personally can’t/couldn’t stand Gaschat after a while when every thread descended into some banal/inane nonsense
I think we are all relatively pleased with our performance on the pitch and the results and we are doing better than most of us probably expected to on the pitch and in the table at the start of the season.
As for the off field stuff. Well it seems never ending and perhaps some/many/all of us have just got tired of it.
As and when this appeal gets heard and old/new arguments come to light or as and when Nick Higgs talks in forked tongue about Plan B’s, no doubt that will stoke some more debate and/or derision
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Post by Curly Wurly on Jan 19, 2016 17:02:31 GMT
For me, this forum and its immediate predecessors have/had a distinctive appeal from gaschat. There always seemed to be a different view and the forum was endowed with its fair share of experienced posters who had lived through the numerous trials and tribulations of Bristol Rovers. Many seem less inclined to post, or have stopped altogether.
Perhaps it is just that there is less controversy for us to get our teeth into. As bulbous says, the lull before the (next) storm.
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Post by a more piratey game on Jan 19, 2016 17:03:30 GMT
TBone is largely talking nonsense when referring to this as the 'anti-board forum'. Presumably it is a reference to the RAFC forum that was a predessor of this one. We are now at least 3 iterations removed from that forum I think I was on all of them. I've never considered myself 'anti-board', nor really seen it any of them as an 'anti-board forum'. As a generalisation, I like reading a lot of the posters on here, and I wish many of those who have left were still here, but all is good - more of the same please!
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Post by a more piratey game on Jan 19, 2016 17:04:17 GMT
TBone is largely talking nonsense when referring to this as the 'anti-board forum'. Presumably it is a reference to the RAFC forum that was a predessor of this one. We are now at least 3 iterations removed from that forum I think I was on all of them. I've never considered myself 'anti-board', nor really seen it any of them as an 'anti-board forum'. As a generalisation, I like reading a lot of the posters on here, and I wish many of those who have left were still here, but all is good - more of the same please! ps, in the spirit of old times, how many do you think we'll take?
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