Bridgeman
Alfie Biggs
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Post by Bridgeman on Jan 26, 2016 1:44:34 GMT
Hey guess what folks, there are more viewing this forum than Gaschat at this moment, so is Gaschat slowly dying ?
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Bridgeman
Alfie Biggs
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Post by Bridgeman on Jan 26, 2016 1:47:50 GMT
Oh and it's the one which is on the PC at the Civil Service Club on match days too
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gooliegas
Dick Sheppard
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Post by gooliegas on Jan 26, 2016 8:45:26 GMT
Another missing person is Basel (Steve) always had his heart on his sleeve or has he renamed himself UTG
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dido
Predictions League
Peter Aitken
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Post by dido on Jan 26, 2016 8:48:57 GMT
Listen to Radio Bristol post-Mem phone-in.
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JeffNZ
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Jimmy Morgan
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Post by JeffNZ on Jan 26, 2016 8:56:57 GMT
Another missing person is Basel (Steve) always had his heart on his sleeve or has he renamed himself UTG Yes Bas was a great contributor to the old AF. Come back Bas we miss you and all is forgiven!!
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brizzle
Lindsay Parsons
No Buy . . . No Sell!
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Post by brizzle on Jan 26, 2016 9:52:50 GMT
Another missing person is Basel (Steve) always had his heart on his sleeve or has he renamed himself UTG Given his style, I doubt that he could re-name himself. He was a one-off, and totally unique. It's a great shame that he no longer contributes.
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irishrover
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Post by irishrover on Jan 26, 2016 12:51:27 GMT
Another missing person is Basel (Steve) always had his heart on his sleeve or has he renamed himself UTG Given his style, I doubt that he could re-name himself. He was a one-off, and totally unique. It's a great shame that he no longer contributes. Unfortunately we lost quite a few good poster (Bas included) when we took the decision to close the current affairs forum. I think that was part of the attraction for a number of posters and there were a few who didn't like the way it was done. This was a shame but ultimately it's fair enough if they felt it wasn't worth it any more and we really didn't have a choice in the matter. Contrary to what some people assumed at the time - it wasn't other posters complaining that put us under pressure, it was the terms and conditions of the host that would have forced permanent moderation of that board which we wouldn't have had the capacity to do on an ad hoc forum like this.
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faggotygas
Byron Anthony
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Post by faggotygas on Jan 26, 2016 13:13:24 GMT
Another missing person is Basel (Steve) always had his heart on his sleeve or has he renamed himself UTG Yes Bas was a great contributor to the old AF. Come back Bas we miss you and all is forgiven!! I stand next to Steve in the East Terrace. As I understand it he still reads the forum occasionally. Hi Steve!
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kingswood Polak
Without music life would be a mistake
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Post by kingswood Polak on Jan 26, 2016 14:00:56 GMT
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. Can't say that this saddens me but what does so is when fellow gasheads, brothers in arms, can get aggressive and just HAVE to have the last word. There are a few I could name and shame, who seem to have no other life than the club and then seem to think their views are somehow more valid. Certainly self important types. Before Internet and forum, I always felt part of a bigger family at rovers and it's sad but I don't feel that way now. I don't even go if not with certain people now. There certainly seems to be no shortage of those whose only purpose would seem to be the cause offence, to interrupt and irritate. I just block these now but only after trying to reason, fails
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gooliegas
Dick Sheppard
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Post by gooliegas on Jan 26, 2016 14:08:01 GMT
Yes Bas was a great contributor to the old AF. Come back Bas we miss you and all is forgiven!! I stand next to Steve in the East Terrace. As I understand it he still reads the forum occasionally. Hi Steve! Has he found new band members for his band The William Hill's ?, if I was IT savey I could link their Geoff Bradford song. Never a dull moment when your in Steve's company, great bloke
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faggotygas
Byron Anthony
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Post by faggotygas on Jan 26, 2016 14:49:48 GMT
I stand next to Steve in the East Terrace. As I understand it he still reads the forum occasionally. Hi Steve! Has he found new band members for his band The William Hill's ?, if I was IT savey I could link their Geoff Bradford song. Never a dull moment when your in Steve's company, great bloke He's still getting over the PTSD he got from driving a bus through Kingswood on a Saturday night
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brizzle
Lindsay Parsons
No Buy . . . No Sell!
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Post by brizzle on Jan 26, 2016 14:53:33 GMT
Given his style, I doubt that he could re-name himself. He was a one-off, and totally unique. It's a great shame that he no longer contributes. Unfortunately we lost quite a few good poster (Bas included) when we took the decision to close the current affairs forum. I think that was part of the attraction for a number of posters and there were a few who didn't like the way it was done. This was a shame but ultimately it's fair enough if they felt it wasn't worth it any more and we really didn't have a choice in the matter. Contrary to what some people assumed at the time - it wasn't other posters complaining that put us under pressure, it was the terms and conditions of the host that would have forced permanent moderation of that board which we wouldn't have had the capacity to do on an ad hoc forum like this. I've never met Bas, but I did have a fair amount of interaction with him on the old forum. And the things that I gauged that were most important to him were BRFC, music and current affairs. He also had a very healthy sense of humour. It seemed to me that in the lead-up to his disappearance, he most definitely took exception to the Current Affairs section being closed down. I believe that I'm correct in saying that he was one of the founding fathers of the old Alternative Forum, and felt like his ''baby'' was being taken from him. But sadly it's all water under the bridge now of course, but I will say that it did appear to me at the time that the new forum moderators were being put under undue pressure by some of our newer and ''right on'' members, who seemed to me to have a PC agenda and wished to impose their views on the forum. But if you say that this is not the case Irish then I accept it totally. But the fact remains that for many posters the Current Affairs section was a vital part of their membership of this forum, and for whatever reason is no longer available.
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kingswood Polak
Without music life would be a mistake
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Post by kingswood Polak on Jan 26, 2016 16:15:24 GMT
Unfortunately we lost quite a few good poster (Bas included) when we took the decision to close the current affairs forum. I think that was part of the attraction for a number of posters and there were a few who didn't like the way it was done. This was a shame but ultimately it's fair enough if they felt it wasn't worth it any more and we really didn't have a choice in the matter. Contrary to what some people assumed at the time - it wasn't other posters complaining that put us under pressure, it was the terms and conditions of the host that would have forced permanent moderation of that board which we wouldn't have had the capacity to do on an ad hoc forum like this. I've never met Bas, but I did have a fair amount of interaction with him on the old forum. And the things that I gauged that were most important to him were BRFC, music and current affairs. He also had a very healthy sense of humour. It seemed to me that in the lead-up to his disappearance, he most definitely took exception to the Current Affairs section being closed down. I believe that I'm correct in saying that he was one of the founding fathers of the old Alternative Forum, and felt like his ''baby'' was being taken from him. But sadly it's all water under the bridge now of course, but I will say that it did appear to me at the time that the new forum moderators were being put under undue pressure by some of our newer and ''right on'' members, who seemed to me to have a PC agenda and wished to impose their views on the forum. But if you say that this is not the case Irish then I accept it totally. But the fact remains that for many posters the Current Affairs section was a vital part of their membership of this forum, and for whatever reason is no longer available. It funny really as I have never used the other parts of this forum nor have I done so on the others. I do remember one poster, in particular, would not let go of talking about Somalis and others, taking over the country and of loads etc. Have to admit that I read a bit and was laughing so much as he obviously was very serious. I am sorry but when someone starts on about hybrid species and Lizards in human form, I would run if I could. Pit is a great shame though as it did seem to attract a fair few
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Post by Curly Wurly on Jan 26, 2016 17:26:14 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? I wouldn't know the exact stats, but it appears on subject of the actual matches themselves, this forum has gone remarkably quiet in comparison (?) Considering we've taken 2400 away at Ox, and 6days later see largest home attendance of season, and not lost either game, can we surmise both forums are only buzzing with activity when it concerns negativity? Everyone's at the match then.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2016 18:13:20 GMT
Unfortunately we lost quite a few good poster (Bas included) when we took the decision to close the current affairs forum. I think that was part of the attraction for a number of posters and there were a few who didn't like the way it was done. This was a shame but ultimately it's fair enough if they felt it wasn't worth it any more and we really didn't have a choice in the matter. Contrary to what some people assumed at the time - it wasn't other posters complaining that put us under pressure, it was the terms and conditions of the host that would have forced permanent moderation of that board which we wouldn't have had the capacity to do on an ad hoc forum like this. I've never met Bas, but I did have a fair amount of interaction with him on the old forum. And the things that I gauged that were most important to him were BRFC, music and current affairs. He also had a very healthy sense of humour. It seemed to me that in the lead-up to his disappearance, he most definitely took exception to the Current Affairs section being closed down. I believe that I'm correct in saying that he was one of the founding fathers of the old Alternative Forum, and felt like his ''baby'' was being taken from him. But sadly it's all water under the bridge now of course, but I will say that it did appear to me at the time that the new forum moderators were being put under undue pressure by some of our newer and ''right on'' members, who seemed to me to have a PC agenda and wished to impose their views on the forum. But if you say that this is not the case Irish then I accept it totally. But the fact remains that for many posters the Current Affairs section was a vital part of their membership of this forum, and for whatever reason is no longer available. I see your "right on" and "PC" and raise you an "out of date" and "intolerant"
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Jan 26, 2016 18:26:29 GMT
I wouldn't know the exact stats, but it appears on subject of the actual matches themselves, this forum has gone remarkably quiet in comparison (?) Considering we've taken 2400 away at Ox, and 6days later see largest home attendance of season, and not lost either game, can we surmise both forums are only buzzing with activity when it concerns negativity? Everyone's at the match then. Not unless the match was on Sunday afternoon, when I posted it!
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Bridgeman
Alfie Biggs
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Post by Bridgeman on Jan 26, 2016 20:39:21 GMT
From memory the Current Affairs section was closed because of the huge amount of material that was being posted on it, lots of it being copied and pasted from other documents to support their views. The Mods who only have a limited amount of their own time to moderate what is posted on here considered they were spending a greater proportion of their time moderating the current affairs section than they were the rest of the forum and as this was primarily a football forum to discuss Bristol Rovers weren't prepared to continue moderating the vast quantity of stuff being posted and to be honest I didn't blame them for not wanting to have to wade through it all. The irony of the Mods position however was not lost on me as the reason the other forum was started by the originator was because he only wanted to talk about Rovers ! You couldn't make it up really could you ! I'm happy for one of the Mods to correct me if time has coloured my memory
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2016 21:31:03 GMT
Thank you Irish. I really do not want to go over old ground, life moves on etc. However I will say that the Current Affairs section caused us so many problems. At the time I was running my own business (a pub) but had certain emails and messages marked as notify immediately (basically emails from the host of the forum and all reported posts). As you can imagine most of the reports came on a Saturday night (not good for the trade I was in). The worst bit was though when links were given to other sites that the hosts did not agree with. I miss Basel (we first met at the mem when playing that other lot in the area final). Basel if you do read this, join up and send me a PM.
The admin on here do the best job we can things have calmed down a bit, but in ways I think that is good. We do not get many fans from other clubs on trying to wind us up but the ones that do take the time to come on here are usually giving us advice. Also add to the fact that forums in themselves are actually used a lot less as most have migrated to other forms of social messaging (twitter, facebook etc).
A few posters have said about joining up with the other forum, that would be up to the members of the forum. I think that would not be the right thing to do, I and others tried hard to make this a united forum (when the OF closed) but it did not work. Perhaps it is a bit like radio one and two (gaschat is radio one) where we all have moved on a bit but every now and again we dip our feet back into the youthful pond that is radio one (if that makes sense).
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Post by lostinspace on Jan 26, 2016 22:14:26 GMT
Thank you Irish. I really do not want to go over old ground, life moves on etc. However I will say that the Current Affairs section caused us so many problems. At the time I was running my own business (a pub) but had certain emails and messages marked as notify immediately (basically emails from the host of the forum and all reported posts). As you can imagine most of the reports came on a Saturday night (not good for the trade I was in). The worst bit was though when links were given to other sites that the hosts did not agree with. I miss Basel (we first met at the mem when playing that other lot in the area final). Basel if you do read this, join up and send me a PM. The admin on here do the best job we can things have calmed down a bit, but in ways I think that is good. We do not get many fans from other clubs on trying to wind us up but the ones that do take the time to come on here are usually giving us advice. Also add to the fact that forums in themselves are actually used a lot less as most have migrated to other forms of social messaging (twitter, facebook etc). A few posters have said about joining up with the other forum, that would be up to the members of the forum. I think that would not be the right thing to do, I and others tried hard to make this a united forum (when the OF closed) but it did not work. Perhaps it is a bit like radio one and two (gaschat is radio one) where we all have moved on a bit but every now and again we dip our feet back into the youthful pond that is radio one (if that makes sense). or try a bit of 6music!!
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Angas
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Post by Angas on Jan 26, 2016 22:37:08 GMT
Thank you Irish. I really do not want to go over old ground, life moves on etc. However I will say that the Current Affairs section caused us so many problems. At the time I was running my own business (a pub) but had certain emails and messages marked as notify immediately (basically emails from the host of the forum and all reported posts). As you can imagine most of the reports came on a Saturday night (not good for the trade I was in). The worst bit was though when links were given to other sites that the hosts did not agree with. I miss Basel (we first met at the mem when playing that other lot in the area final). Basel if you do read this, join up and send me a PM. The admin on here do the best job we can things have calmed down a bit, but in ways I think that is good. We do not get many fans from other clubs on trying to wind us up but the ones that do take the time to come on here are usually giving us advice. Also add to the fact that forums in themselves are actually used a lot less as most have migrated to other forms of social messaging (twitter, facebook etc). A few posters have said about joining up with the other forum, that would be up to the members of the forum. I think that would not be the right thing to do, I and others tried hard to make this a united forum (when the OF closed) but it did not work. Perhaps it is a bit like radio one and two (gaschat is radio one) where we all have moved on a bit but every now and again we dip our feet back into the youthful pond that is radio one (if that makes sense). I'd have to vote no to that. gaschat started up iirc because some who tried this one when the official one was shut down didn't like it here. It wasn't to their taste which is fair enough. Equally gaschat isn't to my taste. Leave things as they are. Folk can use whichever they prefer, or both if they want. Or neither.
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