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Dear Admin


I would like a fecking good moan because a detail of the way that you run your forum is inconvenient for me/obstructs the smooth progression of my personal agenda. For ease of interpretation I will be willing to break my complaint down into the areas of how come this doesn't exist?, how come such-and-such can but I can't?, and a final miscellaneous category entitled whyyyyy?. Please could you let me know where I can stick my thread?

*approaches nervously and tentatively*



I think the only mistake that Admin appear to have made here is to basically spoil the lot of us over the years! Most of us, in all probability, now take this Forum for granted - myself included.


When we attempt to log onto it, we expect it to be there, functioning without fault with all of its trimmings. If it slows down we complain, if a thread develops a malfunction we express further displeasure, and if a post disappears we throw the toys out of the pram (well I do!) and so on. Now that Admin have more or less decided to do away with signatures we communicate our dissatisfaction once more - most vociferously. It's only natural, we are merely human after all. However, we should in all fairness stop and remind ourselves that this Forum is not a right...we are not entitled to access it as of right, by law, or under some contractual arrangement. If, after years of permitting users of his forum to enjoy signatures, Admin in his wisdom now decides this should no longer be the case, then (it is my belief) that he is entitled to do so.


The decision may appear inconvenient and even unfair to some, but, at the end of the day we should all remember that Admin could shut this forum down if he felt so inclined. And, to be honest, I wouldn't blame him given the hard time he is currently experiencing - not only on this thread, but in the Lounge too. I too have had my spats with Admin over various issues (still do), but, in the interests of forum harmony, I prefer to keep them private.


I suspect this post might not find favour with some of you - so be it. However, I actually sympathise with Admin on this occasion as it is my view that he is being treated unfairly harshly.



*ducks*


Edited to comply with Sue's request (see subsequent post)

Administrator Wrote:

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> bignumber5 Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > nobody's perfect

>

> I beg to differ :)) >:D<


xxxxxxxxx


Yeh we'd sort of picked that up :)):)):))


Edited to say: LadyMuck, please occasionally use that big key on the right of your keyboard, in fact the biggest key, with an arrow on it.


It takes your cursor down the page so that you can have the occasional space between your sentences, ie it divides your text into paragraphs so that it is readable :)


Edited again to say: You must have discovered this big key, because you do have a space at the top and bottom, just an indigestible mass of text in the middle! In my opinion, obviously.

Sue Wrote:

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> Edited to say: LadyMuck, please occasionally use

> that big key on the right of your keyboard, in

> fact the biggest key, with an arrow on it.

>

> It takes your cursor down the page so that you can

> have the occasional space between your sentences,

> ie it divides your text into paragraphs so that it

> is readable :)

>

> Edited again to say: You must have discovered this

> big key, because you do have a space at the top

> and bottom, just an indigestible mass of text in

> the middle! In my opinion, obviously.



Acted upon!;-)

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Ladymuck, consider my cap doffed in your general

> direction.



*blushes*


Oh my oh my...I am speechless ...absolutely speechless...blimey...


Why thank you mockney piers.


*walks away slightly dazed*

KalamityKel Wrote:

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> That surely is truly reckless Sue! ::o


I have to say that I totally agree with you KalamityKel (tu):)-D>:D<(!)(td)(6)(?):'(:)):-$:-S::o;-):(:XB)...oh, and have a ((((KK)))) and some xxxx too!

karter Wrote:

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> isn't it great when the everyone is smiling and

> the bitching is over.:)



What? Don't you bloody well start!(6)


Only jesting karter...only jesting...hee hee...yes, of course you are quite right xxxx

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