Diaries

[GreekStein]

now you have the facts why dont you come out with your real reason for being here and the fact you are just jealous of the fame and attention of certain diary writers

LOL i don't know what funnier about this comment, the fact that you think i'm jealous and that's why i'm here or the fact that you think what "certain diary writers" get is "fame and attention", LOL SO good!

pop bands & film stars get "fame and attention", the certain diary writers to which you refer probably get about 10 regular people what consistantly interact with them on their diaries

seriously pmsl at "fame and attention", i cant work out if you were joking or not but i'm praying you wern't 

Why are you here ohdear?

Serious question.

[Ironside]

fame and attention was toungue in cheek but you have a serious jealous problem and i have no idea what it is

[ohdear]

now you have the facts why dont you come out with your real reason for being here and the fact you are just jealous of the fame and attention of certain diary writers

LOL i don't know what funnier about this comment, the fact that you think i'm jealous and that's why i'm here or the fact that you think what "certain diary writers" get is "fame and attention", LOL SO good!

pop bands & film stars get "fame and attention", the certain diary writers to which you refer probably get about 10 regular people what consistantly interact with them on their diaries

seriously pmsl at "fame and attention", i cant work out if you were joking or not but i'm praying you wern't  

Why are you here ohdear?

Serious question.

initially because i thought the camel was out of order with what he said to/about mantis, i hadn't read that tennis thread in a while and was just catching up, mantis always seems to get a rough ride and i couldnt have disagreed more with what the camel said, i thought the tennis analogy he made was genius and i felt like saying something

that's the serious answer, if mantis hadn't mentioned the forum stats thing, although having read the forum it's something i've always thought about the diaries, i would've never have brought it up

[ohdear]

fame and attention was toungue in cheek but you have a serious jealous problem and i have no idea what it is

so if the "fame and attention" part was tongue in cheek what is it you're saying i'm jealous of?

[kinboshi]

now you have the facts why dont you come out with your real reason for being here and the fact you are just jealous of the fame and attention of certain diary writers

LOL i don't know what funnier about this comment, the fact that you think i'm jealous and that's why i'm here or the fact that you think what "certain diary writers" get is "fame and attention", LOL SO good!

pop bands & film stars get "fame and attention", the certain diary writers to which you refer probably get about 10 regular people what consistantly interact with them on their diaries

seriously pmsl at "fame and attention", i cant work out if you were joking or not but i'm praying you wern't 

Why are you here ohdear?

Serious question.

initially because i thought the camel was out of order with what he said to/about mantis, i hadn't read that tennis thread in a while and was just catching up, mantis always seems to get a rough ride and i couldnt have disagreed more with what the camel said, i thought the tennis analogy he made was genius and i thought someone should stick up for him

that's the serious answer, if mantis hadn't mentioned the forum stats thing, although having read the forum it's something i've always thought about the diaries, i would've never have brought it up

Ban Mantis imo.

[nirvana]

If the diarists and blonde team were quite as up themselves as dearie implies, he would be banned I'n a heartbeat for all he has already sayed.

I feel I should help here and give permission to ban he'm now.

[RED-DOG]

in my pm i said to tikay that i probably thought it was a loose arrangement that he had in his contract with sky to spam sky on his diary that has gotton X amount of views and posts, also i imagine it was discussed with dtd that it should be used as a tool to promote them, that's fair enough, combined with it having been going for 4 or 5 years and tikay probably being very proud that his diary is "the place to be" on blonde despite the fact the figures i saw which show new threads(as a result of the diaries) are down 50% from last year, which you can't deny are hurting the forums growth there's not a cats chance in hell for those personal reasons that tikay would let his diary be anywhere other than the top of the most popular board, despite how much you could demonstrate it's taking away discussion from the rest of the forum, impeding growth, deterring newbies and exasperating some existing members, to me that seems a little bit selfish.

there has been so many different reasons and arguments as to why they should be moved, if you actually came up with just one reason why they wont be, and why the discussion keeps getting ignored you'd probably shut me up but i can't help sitting here scratching my head wondering why in an 8 page thread a year ago and now a 15 page one here not one of you can put forward one single reasonable, logical argument as to why they shouldn't be moved, just makes me think more vehemently that i'm right about why they wont be moved.

i wasn't singling tikay out, i sent him the pm and those were the specifics of why i thought he didn't want his own diary moved

I don't quite understand this. You refuse to let tikay publish your PM, but you take the time to explain to us what was in it and to assure us that you have no hidden agenda.

If you are being honest about the contents of the PM, why not let him publish? Once the members see it, he will look like a complete idiot and you will be totally vindicated.

[GreekStein]

in my pm i said to tikay that i probably thought it was a loose arrangement that he had in his contract with sky to spam sky on his diary that has gotton X amount of views and posts, also i imagine it was discussed with dtd that it should be used as a tool to promote them, that's fair enough, combined with it having been going for 4 or 5 years and tikay probably being very proud that his diary is "the place to be" on blonde despite the fact the figures i saw which show new threads(as a result of the diaries) are down 50% from last year, which you can't deny are hurting the forums growth there's not a cats chance in hell for those personal reasons that tikay would let his diary be anywhere other than the top of the most popular board, despite how much you could demonstrate it's taking away discussion from the rest of the forum, impeding growth, deterring newbies and exasperating some existing members, to me that seems a little bit selfish.

there has been so many different reasons and arguments as to why they should be moved, if you actually came up with just one reason why they wont be, and why the discussion keeps getting ignored you'd probably shut me up but i can't help sitting here scratching my head wondering why in an 8 page thread a year ago and now a 15 page one here not one of you can put forward one single reasonable, logical argument as to why they shouldn't be moved, just makes me think more vehemently that i'm right about why they wont be moved.

i wasn't singling tikay out, i sent him the pm and those were the specifics of why i thought he didn't want his own diary moved

I don't quite understand this. You refuse to let tikay publish your PM, but you take the time to explain to us what was in it and to assure us that you have no hidden agenda.

If you are being honest about the contents of the PM, why not let him publish? Once the members see it, he will look like a complete idiot and you will be totally vindicated.

this

[smashedagain]

in my pm i said to tikay that i probably thought it was a loose arrangement that he had in his contract with sky to spam sky on his diary that has gotton X amount of views and posts, also i imagine it was discussed with dtd that it should be used as a tool to promote them, that's fair enough, combined with it having been going for 4 or 5 years and tikay probably being very proud that his diary is "the place to be" on blonde despite the fact the figures i saw which show new threads(as a result of the diaries) are down 50% from last year, which you can't deny are hurting the forums growth there's not a cats chance in hell for those personal reasons that tikay would let his diary be anywhere other than the top of the most popular board, despite how much you could demonstrate it's taking away discussion from the rest of the forum, impeding growth, deterring newbies and exasperating some existing members, to me that seems a little bit selfish.

there has been so many different reasons and arguments as to why they should be moved, if you actually came up with just one reason why they wont be, and why the discussion keeps getting ignored you'd probably shut me up but i can't help sitting here scratching my head wondering why in an 8 page thread a year ago and now a 15 page one here not one of you can put forward one single reasonable, logical argument as to why they shouldn't be moved, just makes me think more vehemently that i'm right about why they wont be moved.

i wasn't singling tikay out, i sent him the pm and those were the specifics of why i thought he didn't want his own diary moved

I don't quite understand this. You refuse to let tikay publish your PM, but you take the time to explain to us what was in it and to assure us that you have no hidden agenda.

If you are being honest about the contents of the PM, why not let him publish? Once the members see it, he will look like a complete idiot and you will be totally vindicated.

Yeah plus 1 to letting him publish the PM.  ( only coz I am a nosey bastard and don't like not knowing what the hell is going on)

[gatso]

Once someone had said no to having a pm published it does not sit easy with me when mods start hinting at the contents and/or trying to persuade them to change their mind. Either have a rule about publishing pms and stick to it or don't have a rule

[smashedagain]

Once someone had said no to having a pm published it does not sit ready with me when mods start hinting at the contents and/or trying to persuade them to change their mind. Either have a rule about publishing pms and stick to it or don't have a rule

Good point.

[cambridgealex]

Pleno said mods can see pms 

[smashedagain]

Pleno said mods can see pms 

Tighty and kinboshi certainly can just before they submitt their RSQ answers

[kukushkin88]

Just seems bizarre for a new member to have such an interest in something as obscure and inconsequential as where diaries are kept on a forum that he joined a week ago. Surely almost everything else in the world is more important than this, real life and a bit of perspective ftw.

[cambridgealex]

Just seems bizarre for a new member to have such an interest in something as obscure and inconsequential as where diaries are kept on a forum that he joined a week ago. Surely almost everything else in the world is more important than this, real life and a bit of perspective ftw.

Agreed, its very bizarre. I know he says he was just 'expressing' his opinion but this is another level. I wonder how many words collectively in all his posts over the last few days?

All this because he feels a forum (on which he's never posted) could do one small thing to attract new members.