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Originally Posted by KIPAX

accyweb could be so many things.. it has potential to be so many things...I mentioned this the other night... and fireman has now touched on it in another thread...

But instead accyweb is used as a soapbox for everyne to moan about there town

pees me off...... a bit

It's a funny thing about human beings that having a whinge seems to make a lot of us happy. I have two friends who are permanently miserable. They've got it down to a fine art by now and it's guaranteed that every time I see either of them there'll be a complaint about something. I came face to face with one of them coming out of the loo in Peel Street the other day and her first words were "I'm not happy!" Not even "hello" lol. When I told Busman his response was "nothing new there then".

You are absolutely correct that AccyWeb could be so many things and it already is a lot of things. It's a place where people have been helped to trace their ancestors, or find living relatives. It's a place where ex-Accringtonians have found photos of places they fondly remember. It's a place where people have a laugh and a joke, play arcade games, stay up til the wee small hours for a chat, help each other out with needs and wants, buy sell and swap things, offer advice and generally witter on about life in the big bad world. It's a place where I've had technical help with things I would otherwise have struggled with.

Funny thing is that I think we are all as fond of Accy as you are and it's our love of the town which is behind a lot of the moaning aimed at the council. We want Broadway to look terrific and for visitors to go home thinking they'd love to return. We want the shops all to be occupied by an interesting variety of retailers. We want to see the litter cleaned up. We want to be proud of Accrington because we love it. We wouldn't be here otherwise.

Just as you said this website has great potential so does Accy itself and we want it to be great.

I hope you don't see that as a whinge because it isn't. It's a view of the positive potential and my point of view about how I and other people feel.

If there's anything good out there we can do to help this town and surrounding area become great so that we don't have anything to moan about let's work on it, and that includes not sitting back and accepting second or third best just so as not to make waves.

Encouragement works far better than criticism so let's have a few more carrots and a few less sticks and look at it this way. We've still got a lot of Monday to go at and I'm sure we can find plenty of good things to post about. You never know, the idea might catch on and we'll be doing it for the rest of the week and beyond too. Some people had already started last week probably without even thinking about it. That thread of Fireman's about giving something back by helping out the vandalised school was inspired by bad news but look what a positive reaction came out of that.