Diaries

[Ironside]

I wish oh dear would use capital letters and paragraphs like the rest of us. His posts are so tilting to try and wade through, it's just a big wall of text with the occasional decent point mixed in, it's just not worth the effort anymore.

Reminds me of arboby

ohdear, are you arbboy?

i'm glad i remind you of arbboy, he turned up, got on everyone's nerves, turned out to be completely right though 

No no no.

That idiot came on and tried to tell us something we were unravelling ourselves the proper way. He just made it a more lengthy process and was actually a stumbling block for us finding out about the Blatch scam.

Good fail of a post there though.

I have spoken with him quite a lot Cos but never about the Blatch stuff because it was before my time. He seems really knowledgable about all sorts of random stuff and I like and agree with a lot of stuff he has to say about poker.

Calling him an idiot is more like something I would and it takes a lot to wind you up. Do you hold a grudge against him and would you not welcome his return to blonde?

Just read Ironsides and kinboshi responses too. Guess the mods don't like him either

i have no problem with arbboy just his ego and the fact some miss informed people seem to think he brough the blatch scam to light
i dont hold grudges and i try not to take thinks online to heart

[ohdear]

lol i only came on here to stick up for mantis  

reading the forum for ages without posting trust me gives you a bit more perspective, the bb'ing forum i post on has the perfect balance for the diaries/jounals, you've made a complete mess of it imo and it seems obvious to me that it's hurting some aspects of the forum, just for tightend that isn't a fact btw just my opinion, this could be easily rectified but it wont because of the egos of individual diary owners not wanting to have the importance or prominence of their diaries lessened, i think it wouldv'e been nice to have the discussion about the diaries, moving them to their own board etc but because the only real reason in place to stop that is the self serving ones of diary owners not only will they never be moved but the discussion about it will never even take place otherwise it would come to light the only thing blocking the diaries being moved were a few of the top diarists noses being put out of joint(no pun intended greekstien) there's not much more i can say on it, there wont be any movement so i'm off to take some steroids and lift some weights in front of a mirror whilst screaming "ARBBOY" after every rep

[Ironside]

lol i only came on here to stick up for mantis 

mantis is big enough and i have been assured ugly enough to stick up for himself

[cambridgealex]

None of the diarists have ever argued against having a separate diary board as far as I'm aware?

I wouldn't mind at all.

[claypole]

I like it here, I read what I like the look of, I ignore what I don't. I enjoy many of the diaries, others less so...yes, I may miss a few things as we don't have a set of regimentally organised boards - however that makes it even better when you find something like Taximans diary and can kill a couple of hours while playing in a very good way.

I think debates good on a forum, however don't thinking of these areas are "biggies" - just chill, enjoy the sun and Cheltenham - in the scheme of life it's not important and enjoy the forum

[millidonk]

I don't know who of the diarists you're referring to when you say they don't contribute to other threads. Red and Tikay, you've already agreed post loads elsewhere. Greekstein does, mondatoo does, I certainly do (I mean I don't post in the betting section cos it's not my thing) maybe ant doesn't, but his diary is all personal content and he doesn't discuss issues that could be in a separate thread anyway.

I think all the diarists contribute loads to blonde in general, not just from having popular diarys that attract new members, but from their posts all over the forum.

Sick rubs for Eso.

[ohdear]

None of the diarists have ever argued against having a separate diary board as far as I'm aware?

I wouldn't mind at all.

someone said it earlier on the thread that the discussion started up once before but it was very quickly swept under the rug and no explinations were given as to why it was dismissed, i think i've made it clear on what my view is about why that probably was

[cambridgealex]

I don't know who of the diarists you're referring to when you say they don't contribute to other threads. Red and Tikay, you've already agreed post loads elsewhere. Greekstein does, mondatoo does, I certainly do (I mean I don't post in the betting section cos it's not my thing) maybe ant doesn't, but his diary is all personal content and he doesn't discuss issues that could be in a separate thread anyway.

I think all the diarists contribute loads to blonde in general, not just from having popular diarys that attract new members, but from their posts all over the forum.

Sick rubs for Eso.

He does too! There's Sean as well but he doesn't really support my point so I had to leave some out haha

[Acidmouse]

no matter how obvious it is that it's having an adverse affect on the forum it's a hard habit to break, but for now it seems people are content to sacrifice the groth of the forum for the personal gain of their diaries

you are stating this as if it is a fact. Its not. No growth of the forum is being sacrificed (evidence, traffic and sign ups), and no-one amongst the forum principals is interested in "personal gain of their diaries" over other aspects of the forum

You state a lot of further stuff as facts. They are not, they are opinions. Albeit verbose ones, that to me dilute some sensible points you make!

also just to ask about the numbers, even though they're up haven't you gone through 10 or so different forum sponsors and everytime get dumped, the reason being not enough traffic through the site, not enough clicks on the sponsors banners, generally not enough new members and growth(yay got it right) for a sponsor to justify continuing, if this just keeps on happening and happening time and time again does it not leave you scratching your heads as to why you're not able to keep a sponsor, didn't even DTD sponsor you before and it just didn't work? i think even though you are growing the numbers are nowhere near enough to keep a sponsor happy or interested, if you don't need a sponsor then it doesn't matter, if you do and you've failed with a handfull of them then shouldn't you be looking at why it is you're not getting the new numbers in and growing in accordance with how a sponsor would like, in that case i'd be breaking my back to make this place as easy as possible for new members to come into, with the configuration of the rail and mentality if the diarists it's like your actually trying to make it as difficult as possible, it's a shame, it's like you're living day to day and just about keeping your head above water when you should be thriving and growing, make a start, have a word with the owners of the diaries, get them to get their stuff out onto the rail and in the lounge, streamline the rail, move the diarys to their own section, it'll tidy up the rail and the whole forum and make it so much easier for newbies to get involved

Blonde had an opportunity to go boom a while ago, Tony G did not fit with the forum members so it was passed over. But thats just one example of where blonde could have sold out.

[cambridgealex]

None of the diarists have ever argued against having a separate diary board as far as I'm aware?

I wouldn't mind at all.

someone said it earlier on the thread that the discussion started up once before but it was very quickly swept under the rug and no explinations were given as to why it was dismissed, i think i've made it clear on what my view is about why that probably was

OK then let's restart that debate. Why isn't there a separate board for diaries?

[TightEnd]

None of the diarists have ever argued against having a separate diary board as far as I'm aware?

I wouldn't mind at all.

someone said it earlier on the thread that the discussion started up once before but it was very quickly swept under the rug and no explinations were given as to why it was dismissed, i think i've made it clear on what my view is about why that probably was

Again, simply incorrect. I will find the thread from a year ago. It ran for many pages and nothing was swept under the rug. Simply not our style. Everything is discussed here, far more openly than I sometimes like!

[millidonk]

Surely we just put this to a vote? I can see an overwhelming majority voting for Diaries just to have their own board.

[smashedagain]

None of the diarists have ever argued against having a separate diary board as far as I'm aware?

I wouldn't mind at all.

Yeah but when you wanna talk about tats n pussy would you have to start a different thread 

[RED-DOG]

TBH I'm shocked and dismayed to find that I have obligations and responsibilities.

[TightEnd]

None of the diarists have ever argued against having a separate diary board as far as I'm aware?

I wouldn't mind at all.

someone said it earlier on the thread that the discussion started up once before but it was very quickly swept under the rug and no explinations were given as to why it was dismissed, i think i've made it clear on what my view is about why that probably was

Again, simply incorrect. I will find the thread from a year ago. It ran for many pages and nothing was swept under the rug. Simply not our style. Everything is discussed here, far more openly than I sometimes like!

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