Cracking, just cracking. This is not the place for me obviously.
Flashy, I wouldn't suggest you were getting at me, taking things a little too personally there? Maybe you have got me wrong?
I may have been a member for 8 years, and only posted 83 times but I/we (me and my husband use this username) are busy people work full time and have a child. Its not possible or fair to my child to be on here all the time. It is quality not quantity,rep power or the number of posts that counts. i don't walk round this town with a neon sign saying how many posts I have made on the variety of forums I am member of.
I still stand by the fact that if you haven't anything useful or relevant to say then don't say it. I TRY not to take things too personally, however I do have trouble when the response is delayed and I would much prefer to speak face to face, but the nature of it is you can't. I find this frustrating.
How does anyone of you know how many members have started this forum because of me, because of how good and local and informative it WAS? I have suggested many people to join, which they have from positive feedback I have received and good genuine answers to questions. This is what this forum is for Accrington and its people.
This forum will die a death, which would be a great shame.
There are generations of young people, who suggest things which are relevant to today, which keeps the site exciting, innovative and get knocked back and fed up of the attitudes on here 'them youngens like to try to tell us owdens how this site should be run' if you don't get fresh blood, with no disrespect there is a point where the older members won't be on here any more for a variety of reasons (probably off changing their tena for men)
if you don't get any youngens and treat them fairly, nicely and respectful just as you would expect to be spoken to yourself in the flesh, its a dying site. If a young person responded in the way some people on this forum respond, they would get a clout round the ear and be told to respect their elders. (or as today's society is going maybe you wouldn't dare, you might get glassed or abused

) Respect is a two way street, so Margaret I agree a mirroring issue can occur, and people can get on the wrong foot from the start.
I have suggested, if you don't like fair enough. It's a SUGGESTION.