Regularly post, but not enough to make any list like !

I've been posting on here for about 6 months now, quite regularly, I'd say

Used to be but had a looong absence during pregnancy. Am back now





In 3 days I'll have been posting on here for 6 years and have made 6161 posts, making me 258th overall. I hope that doesn't make me too much of a geek!

Read most days, rarely post.

What a bleedin cheek





Thanks for pointing it out cat.



Im a regular, much to the chagrin of others

I post when relevent



which is most of the time

Not been here long but chip in a bit.

Not as much as previously.



This board has gone right down the ter.

Lovely phrase

Ditto.

I've posted a fair bit this week, but have certainly had a quiet close season on here

Totally agree.



There's a select band of people on here who seem intent on ruining evrything that is good about the place.



I remember why I first joined here, because it's called 'RLFans'. I classed myself as a fan, a fan of Warrington Wolves & a fan of RL. I wanted to speak with like minded people and to share opinions and god forbid, maybe even learn something, or see a different prospective. I'm glad to say that I've actually made some friends through this forum, not just people that I agree with on a thread, genuine friends who's company I enjoy very much, and so in that respect, I'm very glad that I joined. There's also people who I've never met, but I speak with on here, and I look forward to reading their posts, a mix of wit, humour and not least some knowledgable people about rugby. We've all got a different vantage point at the game, and see things through different sets of eyes, so It makes sense we'll not always see things the same.



I'm not sure recently, that's the way folk are viewing this forum. It appears that the forum is heading in a way that people think the only way to promote debate is to criticise something or somebody and that's crap, the whole dynamic of the forum has changed, we used to have 10 page threads probably about nothing really, they just drifted, lots of people got involved, and if you like we 'shared the joke'. If you weren't involved, they might give you a wry smile in work, they did me. Every post now feels like defence & counter defence, like if your posting, your constantly battling for your corner and after a while, folk will just give up, by the looks of things, folk already have done.

Well posted and well reasoned and I agree.



I do think it is fair to say though that there was/is an underground superiority/ownership issue between those who posted on here before the exodus from Andy Topham's wolfweb and those that joined afterwards. The former posters lament the direction in which the forum has gone since, and ther latter believe that there is a clique and it is exclusive. Both attitudes cause friction which we see frequently vented. In reality no-one "owns" the forum and everybody has a right to post what they like within the bounds of the AUP.



I consider the outcome will be that this forum continues in, what I beleive to be, it's inexorable decline and a new forum will be set up for those dissatisfied with the offering and wish to recover what was lost.



Although this will be a shame, I am getting sick and tired of the sniping and back biting. What is more concerning is that we have recently had blatant personal insults made from posters I respect who are being dragged down at equal rate with the forum content.

You see, without getting too nostalgic, but your one of the people that I'm on about really. We used to have a pop at each other, but in between would share a PM that would acknowledge a witty retort or such. We've had page after page threads about you, poking fun at your life, putting iu up against mine, 'How the other half live' sort of jest. The thread would roll along, and you'd know in your head certain folk from here would join in, it'd rattle along, and if you went offline for an hour or two, it was two pages longer when you came back, it gave you a good laugh, folk had taken the thread along, and you'd rejoin and enjoy it kinda thing. That wouldn't get past a page now without folk saying 'LOCK IT' and putting the MOD's in a position.



For me that's what this forum was about, when there was an RL point to be debated, lets debate it, 30 pages of it, great. When there's a lull, Tuesday or Wednesday like, have a bit of fun, otherwise the same stuff just comes up. If you look at the thread, and it's not for you, come off it. Some stuff bores me senseless on here, but I'll just click 'Back' and try and find another thread that I think I can add something too.



There used to be a friendlyness to the banter, if you had gone too far, an apology was always around the corner & I think the poster felt a tad upset, even though in jest they'd gone a little far. I did it once or twice I know, and apologised, but I think both parties kinda took it at face value (over the net ??), and no harm was intended etc. Right now, it feels a little bit aggresive, and I think this stems back to what I said, that every thread, you always feel that your on the backfoot from the off.