Cjay wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:31 pm
Stayed out of this as it all got a bit uncomfortable imo.
If you want to be technical almost every single person in this country is probably descended from immigrants somewhere down the line as people have been coming and going from this small island for thousands of years.
So, this country is literally built on immigration
And as for posts I think if you make a post its ultimately yours to change or not as you see fit.
Shouldn't be interfered with by anyone else unless it's libellous.
But I've had my thread titles changed, it doesn't bother me at all and can see why it's done sometimes.
I think MOT missed the point of general chat, it works magnificently elsewhere but the ethos didn't get over here. The really interesting thing is 64 and I. (There were a few others but probably gone from here now) came over from Waccoe after the great Music Discussion thread of 2012 "war". Nods and admin in their wisdom decided as the great Music Discussion thread was doing so well that it warranted a separate Music Discussion forum for all musical needs.
Now the MD thread was on a par with the Random Musings thread currently ruling the roost on waccoe, an eclectic and all encompassing thread that just moved so well without rancour or ire... A few of us, lead by 64, took on Admin and the mods demanding the return of the thread to GD... It went on for weeks and was very similar to Sara's wanting to keep the thread title sacrosanct except with 64 on the right side of the argument
The "lot of fuss over nothing" was liberally applied by the then waccoe mods ... Which just annoyed us further. The thread obviously died, a number of us came over completely (IIRC - GW, White Riot (the other one), Gessa, Becchio Bear, Barry Anorak and a couple of others) , I stayed 50/50, and the music forum nearly died a death because discussion was lost, all we got was list threads.
The other point is the Bridge disaster needed it's own thread for gravitas anyway. Which it didn't get in this thread
I'm happy for 64 to change the thread title of the album of the year polls as 1. Not my thread it's his IIRC and 2. Without the ability to Tag it's the best way to inform the board where we are in terms of when to vote/nominate and who's still has to go. I'd assume that's the same with any "interactive" thread like that
"Never debate an idiot, they'll only drag you down to their level and they have the advantage of experience"