Is gasheads.org slowly dying?

Yeah, we're all at the game

this place does fine for me

I can't speak for all regulars on here but I would guess they will be losing no sleep on how many people read the forum and how it compares to the Gaschat playground.

Another poster mentioned that this forum tends to attract the older supporter, I tend to agree with that, generally speaking it feels that way, and quality over quantity is why I only use this forum, no huge threads polluted with non relevant trash on what are supposed to be serious issues at the club.

What people tend to struggle with when they find this forum, and bang the drum about the other forum being a happier more positive place (which it isn't), is the difference between optimism and trust, I am optimistic in life and have every reason to have to be, on the other hand there has been no shortage of reasons to not trust in the current chairman, if NH delivers a debt free stadium to the original spec he will get all the plaudits he deserves, and if i met the bloke in person i would thank him, congratulate him on his achievement, after the Cheltenham lies, the Kev Spencer episode and numerous other poor decisions made solely by the chairman its a case of speak as you find, not just say nice things to have 'optimistic status'.


What is hard to understand is why viewing numbers are in question, who really cares in the big scheme of things? Does it really matter? Lets just hope that the rumours are true that the club is in talks with a consortium who are in a position to ensure a long term secure future for the club in a volatile industry, and a new stadium and player investment becomes a reality, that's about the only thing I care about at Rovers because IMO 2016 will soon become the most important year in the clubs history in hindsight and I hope NH makes the right decision for the good of the FC, and as for who reads the breaking news and what forum each supporter read the news on is as good as irrelevant.

Yes - that is absolutely right.  Optimism v trust - I like that.  Another could be hope v positivity.  In the sense that it is perfectly possible to very much hope things will work out but at the same time be critical of the methods for obtaining it especially in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.  A final one could be the depressing concept of positive thinking as if we all live in a Disney movie and that any problem can be sold if everyone thinks positively enough about it for long enough.  The phrase is optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect.  In other words acting, hoping and believing in a better future is essential but without the neccesary self-criticism then it risks becoming delusional.  I always think the best decisions I've ever made in my life were never the ones where I carried on trying to succeed at/enjoy something against ever increasing odds but when I was brave enough to say to myself 'this isn't working - time to do something else/something differently'.

I totally agree with that statement.

I'm most certainly not anti-board because we supporters have a lot to thank them for I believe. But equally the BoD (including the chairman) have made some decisions that I don't agree with, and I reserve the right to voice my concerns when that happens. I've always believed that we supporters are entitled to disagree with the Board (or anyone else for that matter), but
in a proper way of course. It's all a part of life's rich tapestry surely? And who knows, it may just bring some influence to bear from time to time.

I have no problem when it's not always the case. It when it gets to be the norm then it's just a drag and really not funny anymore. Maybe it's my age but when threads turn into slanging matches and personal abuse then it's not for me. I have to manage my life in a lot of ways and I now don't even allow myself to be drawn into the stuff that I really should have let go over my head. 
I noticed that when I blocked certain people, many have not posted or have disappeared. Seems my dear friend Lord justice has has turned away, I am pretty happy at that. 

Think he got himself a ban TBH.

I registered on here (the old version) before the OF closed down. I stayed on here when Gaschat was set up and when the new version of the forum was created, and later joined Gaschat too, but I said on both forums that we should merge. No-one seemed to agree with me, but I felt that we lose influence and shared knowledge if we split into two main forums.

I still read this forum, but it seems all the team and stadium news is coming from Gaschat now, and this forum is feeding off that. The number of posts and posters is declining. That's a real shame. I still think we should merge. I think Gaschat would have no problem with that whatsover, but a few proud people here, maintaining their independence, wouldn't want it. Which is silly, since we're all cut loose from the OF now.

There is a lot of silly chat over there, but since recent tightening up by the mods recently, a lot less personal abuse. In fact almost none.

I do think this forum is currently suffering. With so many good posters on here not responding much, because there's not much to respond to, it might become moribund.

There are as you quite rightly accuse this forum of having, many good posters, they're good because they consider they don't have to reply to every minutiae posted here.
They just appear to have a greater maturity about their posts and don't get half so excited about disagreements, so not so much moribund but chilled (or perhaps snoozing until shaken ).
No problem about merging the forums I'm sure we'd make them very welcome here wouldn't we  (oi, wake up at the back there !)