Random Knife Piercings in some random part in the middle of the country

[Dewi_cool]

The 'Term' Knife in the Title of this thread upsets me, can we change it to EAR please.

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[TightEnd]

I did not say business had fallen, I said traffic is lower..forum traffic...just to clarify

[suzanne]

Ahh right, in that case if tighty says it was a female member that leaves claw, suzanne, laxie or kinboshi....

Nah that particular quote wasn't me, although I am one of those that has discussed with Rich the change in tone on the forum over the last few months.

I dont recall actually using those words but I too have mentioned to Rich that i dont feel that the forum is the friendly place it once was.

I have noticed that a lot of people who once posted dont do so now although I still see them logged in and I include myself as one of them.

A couple of weeks ago I posted a thread asking if anyone wanted to play a "$5 extended" which back in the days when blonde first opened its cardroom was very popular and was a fun game to play, I posted this because I had noticed that there were a few of the guys logged in who used to play it and thought they might want to have a bit of banter.

The following morning I received a PM saying that the thread had been removed as there had been some general mickey taking, nothing malicious I was told as I hadnt actually seen the replies but obviously bad enough that it was thought best to delete the thread.

Its things like that which makes me think twice about posting at all.

I'd have played if I'd seen it Suz - they used to be good fun.

Exactly!! Which is why I thought it strange that the thread had to be deleted.

Sorry Tikay didnt read your post before clicking send.

lol, i dont think you can blame it being deleted for the reason why no one played, it was 5am when i posted on it and there was only a couple of us on the whole forum so you must have known no one responded by then and gone to bed.

Where did I mention that no one played because the thread was deleted? As I said there were some of the old regulars logged in and the post was aimed at them BECAUSE it was so late.

[bolt pp]

I find it difficult to accept criticism of fellow members that their tone and consequently the tone of the forum is declining when Flushy one of the sites owners has the worst tone of all. Pls load up any PHA thread and see who is responsible for discouraging contribution. The tone has declined since he bought in? and business is falling since he bought in? Surprise that.

cue the Flushy fanboy's.....

its not that i'm bunking in like you say but i dont see the correlation between the sites -%$ and flushy buying in, or for that matter him contributing to the apparant decline on the forum, he was banned 3-4 times before he bought in and if anything has really toned it down since then, i'm not bunking in for him, i just dont see where you're coming from?

[Colchester Kev]

Might have been a bit of a misunderstanding regarding Suz's post ... the thread was this one

    
$5 extended anyone?
« on: September 25, 2006, 12:38:43 AM »

It had no replies until it was bumped almost 3 years later at 5am.

Once it was bumped, it quickly degenerated.

I suppose people look for daft things to do at 5am when they are bored.

[bolt pp]

Might have been a bit of a misunderstanding regarding Suz's post ... the thread was this one

    
$5 extended anyone?
« on: September 25, 2006, 12:38:43 AM »

It had no replies until it was bumped almost 3 years later at 5am.

Once it was bumped, it quickly degenerated.

I suppose people look for daft things to do at 5am when they are smashed

fyp

yeah thats the one, is that the one i bumped, what thread is being talked about then?

the old thread i bumped went:

bolt: "im in"

no2"im in"

no3"[ ]gl"

bolt:"i'm out"

that was about it wasnt it?

[Colchester Kev]

Might as well hit the most viewed thread with a bit of spam

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=43936.0

[Tractor]

I did not say business had fallen, I said traffic is lower..forum traffic...just to clarify

But surely Traffic = Business?
No traffic = No Business.

It has been quite noticeable the traffic has been lower just looking at the logged in figures, maybe its nothing to do with the forum content just the forum is not doing as well in the search engines?

[sledge13]

 

[StuartHopkin]

I did not say business had fallen, I said traffic is lower..forum traffic...just to clarify

But surely Traffic = Business?
No traffic = No Business.

It has been quite noticeable the traffic has been lower just looking at the logged in figures, maybe its nothing to do with the forum content just the forum is not doing as well in the search engines?

Traffic = pennies
Rake = pounds

[TightEnd]

I did not say business had fallen, I said traffic is lower..forum traffic...just to clarify

But surely Traffic = Business?
No traffic = No Business.

It has been quite noticeable the traffic has been lower just looking at the logged in figures, maybe its nothing to do with the forum content just the forum is not doing as well in the search engines?

the point I was making was that I was referring to traffic figures. Not revenue. A Lower number of forum posts from exisiting members may or may not lead to revenue falling (as yet, there is no direct link and in four years of blonde the link between traffic and revenue is not as simple as that).


Numbers of new members and guests hasn't fallen much, if at all, suggesting the problem we have is with current blondes not attracting new ones   

[suzanne]

Ok there has obviously been some misunderstanding here on my part, I deliberately bumped the old thread as i had spotted a name from the past logged in, I suppose a PM would have been a better idea.

[bolt pp]

I did not say business had fallen, I said traffic is lower..forum traffic...just to clarify

But surely Traffic = Business?
No traffic = No Business.

It has been quite noticeable the traffic has been lower just looking at the logged in figures, maybe its nothing to do with the forum content just the forum is not doing as well in the search engines?

the point I was making was that I was referring to traffic figures. Not revenue. A Lower number of forum posts from exisiting members may or may not lead to revenue falling (as yet, there is no direct link and in four years of blonde the link between traffic and revenue is not as simple as that).


Numbers of new members and guests hasn't fallen much, if at all, suggesting the problem we have is with current blondes not attracting new ones   

you're not taking into consideration boldie used to post 865 times per day

[MANTIS01]

I find it difficult to accept criticism of fellow members that their tone and consequently the tone of the forum is declining when Flushy one of the sites owners has the worst tone of all. Pls load up any PHA thread and see who is responsible for discouraging contribution. The tone has declined since he bought in? and business is falling since he bought in? Surprise that.

cue the Flushy fanboy's.....

its not that i'm bunking in like you say but i dont see the correlation between the sites -%$ and flushy buying in, or for that matter him contributing to the apparant decline on the forum, he was banned 3-4 times before he bought in and if anything has really toned it down since then, i'm not bunking in for him, i just dont see where you're coming from?

Understand dude that this isn't a personal attack. I don't know this fella and from what i've seen of him he's seems like a stand up guy. However, you simply cannot chastise random members of Blonde for discouraging contribution by manner of their tone if you don't want to begin that chatisement process a little closer to home. You can't see the connection with Flushy flaming and members not wanting to post. C'mon??

[byronkincaid]

i've got a problem attracting blondes