PaulB wrote:   Would Party

  I for one have quit the WSM/Yahoo Group list as frankly it is outdated and a pain in the arse. I have been busy and when I go online, less frequently now, my in-box is crammed with the most boring shite discussion from the same half-dozen people about utter crap that bears no relation to anything going on outside my front door or to the reality of most working people’s lives. This forum is far, far better and although I find even this clunky in operation, it still knocks spots of the WSM/Yahoo model which should in my opinion be closed. If the contributors such as they are wish to re-join us ihere, they can start their own threads and see how popular they really are when there are far more interesting things to discuss. I thank the IT lads and Darren for the new site and the new forum, but I still maintain we would have been better having separate forum on the popular BB format which is easy to use, customisable and familiar to anyone using online forums and easily directable from this site. I find these embedded forums a bit long winded to use, but that’s a minor point. And to reply to other criticisms, moderation is entirely correct and acceptable. It is not a case of silencing critics, it is a way of maintaining discussion. A moderator fulfils the same role in a forum that a chairman does in a meeting – or would endless interruption from hecklers and opponents be tolerated to the point of disruption in a ‘real’ meeting? The same principles apply. Stop the muppets from abusing our benevolence, shut the outdated Yahoo system down and start disseminating our ideas amongst the working classes and not wittering our lives away trying to argue with the headcases and oddballs.