What's the point of General Talk?

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Penge Eagle Beckenham 05 Oct 17 10.21pm
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becky over the moon 06 Oct 17 7.58am
Originally posted by Penge Eagle Some initial thoughts... Politics/Current Affairs board would work. Maybe a new board means fresh "etiquette on debating" rules? Then rename Football Talk to Sport Talk as probably not enough topics to cover two forums. The revised General Talk would be anything that wouldn't involve politics such as celebrity, music, pop culture? Renamed Pop Culture Talk?? Would anyone follow it? Or would it just descend once again into the same people hurling the same personal insults at the same targets, based on nothing more than their perception of the person, for page after page, after page.... this is what, for me, makes so very many of the threads almost unreadable! A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers
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over the moon 06 Oct 17 7.58am

Originally posted by Penge Eagle

Some initial thoughts...

Politics/Current Affairs board would work. Maybe a new board means fresh "etiquette on debating" rules?

Then rename Football Talk to Sport Talk as probably not enough topics to cover two forums.

The revised General Talk would be anything that wouldn't involve politics such as celebrity, music, pop culture? Renamed Pop Culture Talk??

Would anyone follow it? Or would it just descend once again into the same people hurling the same personal insults at the same targets, based on nothing more than their perception of the person, for page after page, after page.... this is what, for me, makes so very many of the threads almost unreadable!

A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers

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Kermit8 Hevon 06 Oct 17 9.45am
Politics, EU, Religion and Terrorism Forum. Or PERT for short. It'll be WW3 in there but at least the bored of it can give it a nice easy swerve then. They won't though. Big chest and massive boobs [Link]
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Hevon 06 Oct 17 9.45am

Politics, EU, Religion and Terrorism Forum. Or PERT for short.

It'll be WW3 in there but at least the bored of it can give it a nice easy swerve then. They won't though.

Big chest and massive boobs

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Pikester Worthing 06 Oct 17 11.05am
Originally posted by Moose I love it when Pikey's on the blob. I told you - I'm not doing all that weird s*** - no matter how much you pay me. Bloody Sanchez .... as Arsene Wenger used to say. You fed me, you bred me, I'll remember your name.
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Worthing 06 Oct 17 11.05am

Originally posted by Moose

I love it when Pikey's on the blob.

I told you - I'm not doing all that weird s*** - no matter how much you pay me.

Bloody Sanchez .... as Arsene Wenger used to say.

You fed me, you bred me, I'll remember your name.

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DanH SW2 06 Oct 17 11.42am
Can we have a posts per day limit for every user please? Would stop every. single. thread. being taken over by the same few posters who have far too much time on their hands for fully grown men.
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SW2 06 Oct 17 11.42am

Can we have a posts per day limit for every user please? Would stop every. single. thread. being taken over by the same few posters who have far too much time on their hands for fully grown men.

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Stirlingsays 06 Oct 17 11.52am
Originally posted by DanH Can we have a posts per day limit for every user please? Would stop every. single. thread. being taken over by the same few posters who have far too much time on their hands for fully grown men. Any more asinine value judgements you want to pass on? 'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)
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06 Oct 17 11.52am

Originally posted by DanH

Can we have a posts per day limit for every user please? Would stop every. single. thread. being taken over by the same few posters who have far too much time on their hands for fully grown men.

Any more asinine value judgements you want to pass on?

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

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Hrolf The Ganger 06 Oct 17 12.10pm
Originally posted by DanH Can we have a posts per day limit for every user please? Would stop every. single. thread. being taken over by the same few posters who have far too much time on their hands for fully grown men. You are right about that. But HOL serves as an outlet for people with little or no power to vent their frustrations about things that annoy them. I don't see that as a problem unless you just don't like people disagreeing with you. Embrace it. It's one of the better things about the 21st century. You can bounce opinions around and maybe, just maybe, you might learn something.
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06 Oct 17 12.10pm

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Originally posted by DanH

Can we have a posts per day limit for every user please? Would stop every. single. thread. being taken over by the same few posters who have far too much time on their hands for fully grown men.

You are right about that.
But HOL serves as an outlet for people with little or no power to vent their frustrations about things that annoy them.
I don't see that as a problem unless you just don't like people disagreeing with you. Embrace it. It's one of the better things about the 21st century. You can bounce opinions around and maybe, just maybe, you might learn something.

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Southampton_Eagle At the after party 06 Oct 17 12.45pm
Originally posted by Midlands Eagle The point of General Talk (which is what you asked) seems to be for the same half dozen people to try and verbally bash each other senseless on every single thread thus ensuring that the majority of HOLers who might have something to say, stay well away. There should be two General Talk forums with the first exclusively for nickgusset, hedgehog50, Hrolf The Ganger and two or three more to argue with each other until the cows come home and a second forum for the rest of us who might want to discuss issues without the rabble rousers involved Spot on.
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Originally posted by Midlands Eagle

The point of General Talk (which is what you asked) seems to be for the same half dozen people to try and verbally bash each other senseless on every single thread thus ensuring that the majority of HOLers who might have something to say, stay well away.

There should be two General Talk forums with the first exclusively for nickgusset, hedgehog50, Hrolf The Ganger and two or three more to argue with each other until the cows come home and a second forum for the rest of us who might want to discuss issues without the rabble rousers involved

Spot on.

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Stuk Top half 06 Oct 17 3.50pm
I'd just prefer more moderation to stop the ones that descend into just slagging each other off, to try and stop threads going off track and to lock threads that are so far off their original topic it's absurd. Optimistic as ever
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Top half 06 Oct 17 3.50pm

I'd just prefer more moderation to stop the ones that descend into just slagging each other off, to try and stop threads going off track and to lock threads that are so far off their original topic it's absurd.

Optimistic as ever

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DanH SW2 06 Oct 17 4.37pm
Originally posted by Stuk I'd just prefer more moderation to stop the ones that descend into just slagging each other off, to try and stop threads going off track and to lock threads that are so far off their original topic it's absurd. All about the nanny state, you are.
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SW2 06 Oct 17 4.37pm

Originally posted by Stuk

All about the nanny state, you are.

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