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[Graham Davis]

1 hour ago, Jim Riley said:

All this fuss and bother over nowt! Fora can be free, unmoderated and successful. Adults don't need moderation and can control themselves so as not to overstep the boundaries of the site host. Posters who just wish to cause trouble don't stay forever, they hitch up their caravans and move on to cause bother elsewhere. 

Yeah right!
So you agree with inflamatory personal insults, potentially defamatory statements and threats being made against people without any moderation being taken?
 

Edited November 26, 2018 by Graham Davis

[Arthur Marshall]

3 hours ago, Jim Riley said:

All this fuss and bother over nowt! Fora can be free, unmoderated and successful. Adults don't need moderation and can control themselves so as not to overstep the boundaries of the site host. Posters who just wish to cause trouble don't stay forever, they hitch up their caravans and move on to cause bother elsewhere. 

Speaking personally, like wot I can only do anyway, I've found the site a more pleasant place to discuss stuff since some of the more invective inclined personalities buggered off elsewhere.  While web-based insults don't bother me much, and certainly wouldn't give me any sleepless night, they still are an irritation I can do without, and several times arguments just descended into playground abuse.

Unmoderated fora tend to end up full of salesmen and other rubbish, so, while this one isn't as exciting as it used to be, and I do miss some of the characters who have gone elsewhere, I don't miss the kneejerk shoulderchip stuff. And I speak as someone who has been (justifiably) modded once or twice...

Edited to add: Ye Gods, just had a look at the Thunderboat (as I do every now and then to try to keep up with Tony's travails) - they seem to spend more time discussing us and working out subterfuges as to how to get back on our site than they do on anything else. 

Edited November 26, 2018 by Arthur Marshall

[Mac of Cygnet]

The plural of forum is forums.  Just sayin', like.

[alan_fincher]

26 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:

.................just had a look at the Thunderboat (as I do every now and then to try to keep up with Tony's travails) - they seem to spend more time discussing us and working out subterfuges as to how to get back on our site than they do on anything else. 

Well a boy has got to have a hobby!

[Dyertribe]

36 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:

 

Edited to add: Ye Gods, just had a look at the Thunderboat (as I do every now and then to try to keep up with Tony's travails) - they seem to spend more time discussing us and working out subterfuges as to how to get back on our site than they do on anything else. 

That’s a little dramatic ! 14 posts in one thread is hardly monopolising the forum is it?

Possibly the fact some individuals find it so easy to get a reaction by poking the CWDF hornets nest might explain it?

[Iain_S]

41 minutes ago, Mac of Cygnet said:

The plural of forum is forums.  Just sayin', like.

Both "forums" and "fora" are correct in English as she is spoke.

 

 

[Guest]

Just now, Dyertribe said:

That’s a little dramatic ! 14 posts in one thread is hardly monopolising the forum is it?

Possibly the fact some individuals find it so easy to get a reaction by poking the CWDF hornets nest might explain it?

I think that rather cuts both ways, and your reference to 14 posts is a gross understatement. The place even has a whole sub forum dedicated to discussing here, not that I have a particular problem with that that is their right but it does indicate a bit of a fixation with this forum and its members.

 

And if people prefer it so much over there why exactly is Ricco so seemingly desperate to try and get back on here, but seemingly frustrated by the measures in place to prevent it.

 

I guess it's because he actually debated quite well in the Brexit thread and enjoyed it, but you just don't get the level of intellectual challenge over there as everybody just appears to agree with his perspective on leaving, on here he was tasked to actually come up with a developed argument. 

[Mac of Cygnet]

9 minutes ago, Iain_S said:

Both "forums" and "fora" are correct in English as she is spoke.

 

 

 

You bit!   From the Oxford English Dictionary "The plural of forum is usually spelled forums; the plural fora (as in the original Latin) is chiefly used when talking about a public square in an ancient Roman city"  Several other sources, if you wish, including the top of this page.  

Apologies for this - I don't usually nitpick, but the pretension of 'fora' is peculiarly irritating.

Edited November 26, 2018 by Mac of Cygnet

[Iain_S]

https://grammarist.com/usage/fora-forums/

 

https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/69/which-is-the-plural-of-forum-fora-or-forums

(The graph in this one is quite interesting)

 

https://www.mediacollege.com/internet/forum/forums-vs-fora.html

(which would suggest that the reason for the popularity of "forums" is contained in the signature of a bit of a monster in another place ? )

 

https://painintheenglish.com/case/627

 

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forum

Edited November 26, 2018 by Iain_S

[Dyertribe]

22 minutes ago, MJG said:

I think that rather cuts both ways, and your reference to 14 posts is a gross understatement. The place even has a whole sub forum dedicated to discussing here, not that I have a particular problem with that that is their right but it does indicate a bit of a fixation with this forum and its members.

 

And if people prefer it so much over there why exactly is Ricco so seemingly desperate to try and get back on here, but seemingly frustrated by the measures in place to prevent it.

 

I guess it's because he actually debated quite well in the Brexit thread and enjoyed it, but you just don't get the level of intellectual challenge over there as everybody just appears to agree with his perspective on leaving, on here he was tasked to actually come up with a developed argument. 

And you are a past master at poking the hornets nest in both places. 

 

[rowland al]

48 minutes ago, alan_fincher said:

Well a boy has got to have a hobby!

It seems to me that it is this forum which treats it’s members as children. 

 

[Guest]

Just now, Dyertribe said:

And you are a past master at poking the hornets nest in both places. 

So what exactly are you doing here with this? And your earlier post about me based on misinformation.?

 

I'm afraid pot and kettle spring to mind.

 

[Dyertribe]

I made no post about you, you flatter yourself. 

 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Dyertribe said:

I made no post about you, you flatter yourself. 

 

Why would I consider a post made by you flattery?

[Dyertribe]

5 minutes ago, MJG said:

Why would I consider a post made by you flattery?

And where have I mentioned you?

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Dyertribe said:

And where have I mentioned you?

You didn't. So who exactly were you referring to with your supporting comments to his post, since Mike has subsequently confirmed it was me he was discussing.

 

 

Edited November 26, 2018 by MJG

[Dyertribe]

1 minute ago, MJG said:

You didn't. So who exactly were you referring with your supporting comments to his post, since Mike has subsequently confirmed it was me he was discussing.

 

 

As I am not Mike I cannot know to whom he was referring. 

Many people have thrown their toys from their various prams, take your pick. 

[Guest]

Just now, Dyertribe said:

As I am not Mike I cannot know to whom he was referring. 

Many people have thrown their toys from their various prams, take your pick. 

His post on was predicated on a previous reference to a caravanner, which sort of narrows it down a bit.

 

There is only one on here that I know of who has also been a member of Thunderboat. Do you know of another?

[Mac of Cygnet]

47 minutes ago, Iain_S said:

https://grammarist.com/usage/fora-forums/

 

https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/69/which-is-the-plural-of-forum-fora-or-forums

(The graph in this one is quite interesting)

 

https://www.mediacollege.com/internet/forum/forums-vs-fora.html

(which would suggest that the reason for the popularity of "forums" is contained in the signature of a bit of a monster in another place ? )

 

https://painintheenglish.com/case/627

 

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forum

 

I looked at your links, and all of them agree that forums is the usual plural, except in scientific and classical contexts and in the sense of  Roman public meeting places.  I was quite surprised, considering that you presumably listed them in support of your original response!   Vox populi, and all that.

Edited to say that the graph is misleading in that the present commonest meaning of 'forum' didn't even exist for most of its timeline.  Sorry, you've lost me about the monster in another place.

Edited November 26, 2018 by Mac of Cygnet

[Dyertribe]

1 minute ago, MJG said:

His post on was predicated on a previous reference to a caravanner, which sort of narrows it down a bit.

 

There is only one on here that I know of who has also been a member of Thunderboat. Do you know of another?

I’m afraid I dont know the other interests of forum members either here or on Thunderboat so I can’t answer your question, sorry.

 

But, hey just because youre paranoid it doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.

[Guest]

Just now, Dyertribe said:

I’m afraid I dont know the other interests of forum members either here or on Thunderboat so I can’t answer your question, sorry.

 

But, hey just because youre paranoid it doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.

You appear to have made a simple mistake.

 

No problem or paranoia here. Goodnight Alyson.

[Dyertribe]

Just now, MJG said:

You appear to have made a simple mistake.

 

No problem or paranoia here. Goodnight Alyson.

Sweet dreams

[Athy]

1 hour ago, Mac of Cygnet said:

 

You bit!   From the Oxford English Dictionary

You didn't look it upon social mediums, then.

[Mac of Cygnet]

35 minutes ago, Athy said:

You didn't look it upon social mediums, then.

 

No, I don't know any clairvoyants.  Is there a society for them?

[Iain_S]

 

1 hour ago, Mac of Cygnet said:

 

I looked at your links, and all of them agree that forums is the usual plural, except in scientific and classical contexts and in the sense of  Roman public meeting places.  I was quite surprised, considering that you presumably listed them in support of your original response!   Vox populi, and all that.

Edited to say that the graph is misleading in that the present commonest meaning of 'forum' didn't even exist for most of its timeline.  Sorry, you've lost me about the monster in another place.

But they all agree that :

 

2 hours ago, Iain_S said:

Both "forums" and "fora" are correct in English as she is spoke.

 

 

 

And I forgot the Cambridge one https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fora?q=Fora

???

 

 

Edited November 27, 2018 by Iain_S