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I have to agree with quids *gasps all round*.

I've slightly fallen out of love with the forum, but will echo all the sentiment about having met some great people, and it has added a whole extra dimension to, at least my perception of, the community in and around East Dulwich.


It is a bit samey though isn't it; I hide in the lounge.

But to echo ???? and Piers slightly - if the forum is used simply as an online resource then I would probably say yeah - occasionally interesting and fun, but then again, dull from time to time, repetitious over longer periods*.


It's when you start to engage on the social side that you start to see it's real potential - even if it's only printing out a few documents at someone elses house because you haven't a printer


*That said if you find a better forum for a similar sized community then please let me know where...

maybe that's just the final stage of forumitis.

I feel somewhat disillusioned and depressed by the griping and blinkered views and argy bargy that goes on. But then sometimes you do still get a good old laugh and it is a fantastic resource if you can get through the postcode envy and class wars.

still managed 2000+ TT - a good innings I'd say ;-)


I've noticed the general bickering and crawling-over-ten-bodies-just-to-have-a-moan behaviour increasing of late - as numbers of registered users has gone up. Shame - there have been some people who have joined just in the last week or two who I would really like to hear more from as well...

I think that we should remember that many of us old stagers did get involved in the original old ED vs new ED debates, we had our say, through our toys out of the pram and then kissed and made up.


So we do have a sense of deja vu when the newer posters cover old ground. I guess this is a sign of a lively and constantly refreshing membership.


I now only look at threads that look interesting or posts by people I know. I avoid all posts about missing cats and football.

Maybe the only other forum I've ever been on for any length of time was right, right out there but this forum is an absolutele pussy cat compared to that one - like completeley polar opposites I've never seen anything remotely aggressive and offensive compared to literrally what went on (and still does I think) on almost every thread on my old stomping ground....newbies completlety abused, people pulled up on anything, constant swearing, some deeply deeply unpleasant politics, almost no moderation..but it was somehow fun like a dodgy boozer compared to an All Bar One... Still very pleasant on here and homely so don't go changing......

???? - you keep making references to this "other" forum - I'm dying to know what it is. If you haven't declared by now I doubt you will/can - but that just makes it worse!


I think Piers has posted on the subject before but, as I frequent several other forums, I can concur that this is by some distance, Hobbiton compared with those pits of Mordor. Nowhere salacious (they tend to be very polite ;-) ) but things like computer forums are seemingly populated by.. well, the sort of people that live up to the clich?s. It get's very very tiresome. It's why I cherish the "niceness" of this place so much.


sorry

I was on utata for a while, which is a photography forum. It's a wilfully nice place, in that homebaked apple-pie sort of way, and was so saccharine it actually drove me away.


This forum tends to get the balance more or less right, though it can certainly veer.

Good moderation policy too.

Rarely venture out of the lounge myself which I find a v pleasant antidote to work, and I like the fact it gives you more of sense of the community, which after all is one of the best things about Dulwich. Can't quite be bothered to get uptight about some of the local issues though.


Am often intrigued by the way the Wanted section seems to attract a completely different set of people; like they've just popped in to buy something on their way to another, more grown-up, part of the forum that I haven't found yet.


(Edited to removed fat finger 4th P from 'popped')

I know just what you mean about the Wanted section MsB, although there are some gems in there if you look.


The forum has had a bit of a dip recently, I find I've been PMing much more than posting, but I still love it. Mostly, as several people have already said, for the people I've met through it.


Quids, I like the atmosphere here and I have to say I don't see the point, or the fun, in a forum where people were always rude and aggresive, but perhaps just me being dull. The only other forums I have any experience of are wedding forums, which are way more twee and much, much madder than this one.

I love this forum because....


I can vent my splein, albeit politely.


I feel I have things in common with other miscreants.


I can ask a wide range of others for their opinion, and hopefully they prevent me from getting things out of perspective.


I find skilfull people who do things well and I enjoy praising their talents for the benefit of others in need.

I love this forum because ...

I just got a fab Home theatre DVD system for ?20 because I happend to be on line 2 mins afterit was offered in the Offered Section and the lovely lady delivered to me!

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?9,140083


I also love it because most of the contributors seem so well balanced and intelligent, liberal and forgiving.

Only most, mind.

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