General Chat

All i can see on the first page are A-Zs. where is everyone?
Just come back on myself, been watching So you think you can dance and the lottery.

I have been watching An Englishman Abroad for the nth time, Ann,and am now watching mindless rubbish...lol....

I don't know Rita, the other night there were lots of good threds on here and few A-Zs, I guess most people are out this evening. What I don't understand is, why don't the people adding to the A-Zs add some decent threads?

i just don't understand the need for them,lol

the A-Z i mean

well, they were fine at first, an excuse to exercise your brain and gave you something to do between posting. But they have gone on too long now and must be repeating themselves. they just clog up the boards now.

Muffy's thread on chat is a barrell of laughs..

I put up threads about different things but because they are early in the morning before 5am mostly, people don't go back to look so they mostly die a death. It's so boring on here now at night as there is no one out to play the way there used to be unless Susan with numbers comes to join me and then our friends from the other side of the world.
Once was the time there would be ten pages to check back over but now it's half that or less!

LIzx

Stella yes I agree with you there.

I also find the birthdays clogg the boards up. I am sure that they use to be on one thread?

I use to like watching the song quizz but since most use google its more who can find,copy and paste.lol. i was never quick enough hence why i watched ,lol

Hi Ann, I really come over to gen now, I got sick of the A-Z threads and doom and gloom. I agree the site isnt the same as it was 5 years ago, but I think thats because there is more sites available now, when I started posting here the threeads use to move so quickly and at times it was very entertaining and adictive, I still read chat and post on there...but I still like this site.

Tina Elizabeth, the birthdays have never been on one site but they only ever used to be of people on the boards. we now get a lot more for relatives, friends etc.

Hi Hayley, I still like the site a lot. strangely last week Gen was great we had a lot of threads on all sorts of things and the A-Zs took a back seat, but unfortunately once other people stop posting, and weekends of course people have other things to do, back creep the A-Zs. But if nobody puts up a decent thread, and it is the same on chat, people wont post.

Liz, unfortunately if you post in the night and the A-Zs take over nobody sees your threads.

I think we have all tried that but they move so quickly, not sure if people like them, are bored or are contrary Lol!!!!

Some of us have been put off trying to put our point accross,because we get abused for daring to have an opinion.

Please don't mind the A-Z threads,sometimes they give our brains a stretch,and we enthusiasts do have fun on there.

Nina, it is not that we mind but when 8 of them are on the first page they block all the other threads and put people off looking any further, especially new people because they think it is a games board.

I have never ever seen anyone abused for having a valid opinion that doesn't contravene the T&Cs of the boards. And even if they were, well abused is a very strong word and if it were the case should be reported to GR. And, if it was just a case of not agreeing, but putting it more strongly, then I would just ignore it. as far as I am concerned all opinions are valid.

I can't see how continually repeating the A-Z of names gives your brain a stretch. far better to take turns concocting quizzes. The A-Zs must be repeating now you can't avoid it because nobody can remember all of them.

If all the A-Zs are on the first page, there are a lot of them, people go on the board and all they see are A-Zs so they don't actually block other threads but they make it appear there are no other threads. Some people, if they don't see anything interesting on the first page just don't look any further. You will see a lot of people who only post on Chat because the A-Zs have taken over Gen.

Ann, I plod through the day's threads and reply if I have something to add, and also try to make sure the birthday threads are added to so they are on the first page but if someone else comes in and just does all the puzzles before going off to their daily routine, then everything is back to the second page, there used to be people who would look back to see what was going on the day before as I had, but now everyone just comes on here and steams into the current day.
I do get niggled when people post on one day but don't go back to their thread so lots of folk are left unanswered or acknowledged.

Lizx