some of the utter rubbish people waste time posting on this informative helpful forum

[firstchoicegary]

Please can anyone tell me why there is so much utter rubbish and waffle posted on here at times amongst the glorious reviews, adverts, and informative happy to read threads. I have used this forum for years , so why do some members ruin it with unethical unrelated and boring posts????

[AGW3]

Maybe what is waffly and rubbishy to you is not to someone else.

[firstchoicegary]

Fair enough AGW3 I hear what your saying but just seems to be alot more of this than actual good stuff to hear and read don't you think?

[indiepanda]

If you're after reviews, adverts and useful information, then I wouldn't really spent your time reading the lounge.... It's just a place for people to chat, which will sometimes be frivolous, sometimes interesting, sometimes dull and occasionally offensive.

[*Bob*]

Are there any glorious reviews in particular you'd like to mention, firstchoicegary?

[Louisa]

Talking of boring posts firstchoicegary, this one is sending me to sleep. Go on *Bob*, drop one of your sarcasm bombs to spice it up a bit.

Louisa.

[*Bob*]

There's no call for such ungentlemanly behaviour, Louisa.

... yet

[Louisa]

;-)

Louisa.

[Jah Lush]

OP has a point. Silly word game threads and the endless stupid bloody song game thing. Yawn.

[Louisa]

I think we need a complete Lounge overhaul. Discuss.

Louisa.

[*Bob*]

Louisa Wrote:

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> I think we need a complete Lounge overhaul.

> Discuss.

Don't be lazy - Start us off

[Louisa]

It's about time some of us forum members were given the opportunity to open specific threads in which we offer advice and expert knowledge on things we know quite a bit about. Foxy and computershorty for example would be great examples, maybe dedicating a specific hour or two each week to a thread in which they discuss topics such as local history or magic etc it would be a great honour for me personally to dedicate an hour or two each week discussing spiritualism and hauntings (without having my thread taken over by radical thinking piss takers who like to mock everything I say!).

Louisa.

[*Bob*]

There you go, Gary. From glorious adverts - to hauntings - in less than a day.

QED

[Otta]

I would love to see a "games room" section where the likes of the word / song games could go. I enjoy the Who am I? game, but that could go there too.

[*Bob*]

I'd like 'a basement' - where I can keep my collection of virtual severed heads.

[Louisa]

A thread dedicated to pubs would be great. Not just local pubs - but pubs we've experienced on our travels too. Somewhere for people to come for advice on nice places to visit and stay in, discuss alcoholic drinks past and present.

Louisa.

[Jeremy]

I'd like a thread - possibly even a "room" - dedicated to posts moaning about the lack of quality/content in other posts.

[Louisa]

What about a section of the forum dedicated to gentrification? If we had that, and banned it being mentioned elsewhere, places like the Lounge could be left in peace and harmony.

Louisa.

[peckham_ryu]

indiepanda Wrote:

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> If you're after reviews, adverts and useful

> information, then I wouldn't really spent your

> time reading the lounge....

In fairness, this thread was Lounged from originally being posted in General Issues/Gossip.

IMO, if having room for waffle and banality means more users, then that's more sets of eyes seeing the more practical posts and ads, so it all works out well.

[*Bob*]

I still haven't got a bloody clue what this thread's about tbh

[KidKruger]

"It's about time some of us forum members were given the opportunity to open specific threads in which we offer advice and expert knowledge on things we know quite a bit about."

Could there be a 'miserable' section for negative posts, a 'genius' section for everything I post, and finally (I've always fancied this) an 'Arts' section for people to share their creativity - example threads perhaps being poetry and scribblings, output (photos of paintings/creations), music (your recordings [get in there Otta]), 'Events' (in the arts world).

[steveo]

Don't pissed postings deserve an alcove of their own?

Hic

[civilservant]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> Are there any glorious reviews in particular you'd

> like to mention, firstchoicegary?

i thought that was a pretty good first sarcasm salvo, Louisa

[Blah Blah]

The OP has a point though in that there seems to be no catagory for things that warrant serious discussion, but are not ED specific.

[*Bob*]

But does anyone know what tipped Gary over the edge?

I MUST KNOW