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Originally Posted by dotti34
I apologise, AccyX. I must have posted my comments at the same time you were entering yours but you got in first. You have sort of covered some of my statements.
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No apology necessary dotti
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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Folk DO create threads when something worth commenting on comes to mind...there is not much point in creating mindless threads(and Jason, this is not a dig at you....I am forthright enough to tell you when you post something which is not so hot).....there is not much point in creating threads that will cause ill feeling or be hurtful.
Swearing is totally unnecessary to get your point across...and it is a family forum.It is bad enough having to listen to swearing in general conversation....as if the commonality of it makes it alright...for me, it is only alright when you have bashed your thumb with a hammer or stubbed you toe against the doorframe.
I welcome new members with a fervent hope that they will bring something of themselves to the forum...something interesting.......and even when this hope is dashed I am always willing to give them another chance.......I don't condemn someone because they hold different views to mine.
I have never seen the community spirit of Accyweb fail...and that is over 11 years of being a member. If someone is in a tough spot there are always words of comfort, and in many cases offers of practical help too.
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After the boom of Fakebook,Twitter and the like good discussion forums seem to have died off,I'm glad this isn't the case here.
I didn't really want to bang on about this particular forum,but since it's on the cards,there is (usually) a good diversity amongst the comments here and like most I check regularly...whatever you post,someone will (usually) know what you mean and with the search facility whatever your interest is there's a good chance there is something about it on here (other forums seem a little subject specific unless I'm just looking in the wrong places).Maybe the diversity of comments is down to the age range of folk on here....I dunno
However,from what I've been told (only hearsay) but allegedly Accyweb is quieter than a few years back ("the good old days") is there a specific reason for this? Surely, it can't all be my fault
Thankfully it's still more than busy enough to work well and generates enough traffic to allow advertising which along with its contributors to help fund it.
We're rather lucky to have Accrington web,you'd assume every town would have one but sadly this isn't the case....long live the Accrington web
Now,with regard to my swearing comment I only meant It's use for emphasising purposes,not a free for all with every other word being explicit (it would save the abbreviations etc that I've seen on here too).
That being said,moderation is good and unbiased here, if it wasn't the (cough cough) trolls and spammers would be flooding the place and decent,rational,sensible folk like yourself an others would be abandoning ship.
I feel unwelcome here from time to time with some of the habitual belittling comments I receive but I put that down to those folks awareness of what they feel a good site should be like (and my unthinking,half baked comments). I've mentioned numerous times that I'm not here to make friends....however,I have picked up one or two along the way and for that I'm grateful
I originally joined to document the abandoned buildings in Accrington but have thankfully succumb to the allure of Accrington web and it's members.