Proposed Improvements to Military Forums

[El Prez]

Most of the Military Forums users are former Royals, so it seems sensible to post this in our General Forum for open debate, however that would be unfair so this is in General Discussion. Jay (Beast) has received requests recently, from established members, to cancel their account names on the Forums. Fortunately they have all responded positively to requests to remain as part of the forum and allow a few changes to be implemented.

So why have people been asking to bug out? These forums are a rich source of amusement, information and create many friendships, as was illustrated by the Yomp in May. There is however a downside, which is apparently atypical of internet chat room facilities. There is, in this electronic age, a wealth of idiots who have only one thing in their tiny minds, and that is to insert their ignorance into other peoples conversations. Consequently an interesting, intelligent flow of topics can be completely wrecked by the utterings of a pimply youth who has neither experience or courage, but insists on expounding his theories on subjects he has no knowledge of.

Lately we have seen a whole host of these people removed from the forums. There are others appearing at regular intervals, especially as the exam period at school has ended and ‘Zit for Brains’ has time on his hands. The moderators have been talking about this situation with Beast (Jay), and have identified various ways to deal with this problem, protecting the users of the forums, and hopefully maintaining the characteristics of the forums.

The Mods are less tolerant now, people get one open and one private warning, at the same time. They are then removed from the forum if they contravene the usual etiquette/guideline. (Would my wife be offended if she read this) Jay has been working to upgrade the servers and systems. We have asked him to consider a ‘Core’ membership of users who would be charged £5 to be full and active members of a ‘locked’ forum, inaccessible to those who have not paid. There would then be a wider group, who do not pay, but have limited access to limited subjects. They would then be easier to patrol and erase. Committing £5 does not sound much, but the act of handing over personal address, telephone details and credit card info is a deterrent to the dorks we all want to see the back of.

As I’m sure most of you appreciate, I thoroughly enjoy these pages. I enjoy meeting new members and helping the lads who want to join the Corps. I was delighted to be asked to help with Moderation of the site. It is interesting work requiring patience and judgement, something my tired mind is often short of; but lately, especially since the advent of GW2 we have been dealing with youths whose only experience of combat has come from BBC and SKY news coverage and lashings of Playstation 2. These ‘wannabees’ to use a cruel expression, have spoilt OUR enjoyment of these forums with their inanities and general slobbish behaviour. It is about time we reclaimed the high ground. So stick with it lads and lasses, let us know what you think and don’t hold back!

[SYB]

Great idea

[JR]

5£ for all the 'hassle' from El Prez,well worth it?? JR

[rabby]

Would the rest of us 'genuine wanabees' still be able to play with the big boys? If so then then its a great idea! If we can't then;
plan A) Grovel Grovel Grovel....
plan B) Us young'uns can no doubt find a way to hack in...

[voodoo sprout]

Thumbs up from me, even if us lowly wannabes don't have access, I don't want to see decent blokes leaving over the mindless wittering of a few idiots .

[TheCount]

Well being a pimply half wanabee, well, a sexy Man boy in his prime, I'd have to disagree.

I'm not to fond of capitalism and would prefer to stick to my communist agenda, I do however appreciate this forum has no pop up ads and is therefore operating at a loss to the forum owner who so graciously supplies these here Forum boards.

Due to principal I would prefer to pay in kind, and, before you get any funny Ideas, maybe I could make you some hand woven baskets or put together some picnic hampers.

Or better still, single handedly hunt down these forums locusts and destroy them.

[Mike]

I'm with you.....but a'int it a shame, simtomatic of our time I guess....people having fun, has to be B*^&$%£d by some little Nurd who has no idea what its all about and never will.
I am of the same opinion, if we don't act now then we could loose something very extra special.

[Marina]

This is an excellent suggestion.
These Forums are very educational, intelligent, mind-opening, entertaining, and therapeutic for me at least (as I have stopped seeing my psychoanalyst for more than a month now).
I feel honoured to have interacted with such noble and sincere personalities, (whether seniors or juniors).

[Mike]

Here Marina....don't go over the top.... they'll start worrying that you are not what you appear to be.. A well adjusted Lady Clinical Scientist......... .

I must agree though, this is by far the best place for information and a good side splitting, tear jerking laugh and for heavens sake lets keep itlike that.....
Aye

[Andy O'Pray]

Marina wrote:

I feel honoured to have interacted with such noble and sincere personalities,

That is really stretching it a bit Marina. I will assume that you were only talking about me.

By the way, I am in.

Aye - Andy.

[may18]

Well i origonally only came to this forum to ask advice for my nephew who is keen to join when he leaves school. But found the goup of people here had a different outlook on many things, and have learnt a lot just from reading. Basically ive enjoyed talking to people here.

Generally i stick to the "general" section, aware that i havent got the knowledge to comment intelligently on military matters (other than to spam you all with questions).

But i have no problem at all with a nominal fee (assuming i haven driven you all crazy yet )

[lew]

It’s not a bad idea, but where does the money go??? To a charity for ex service men and there families, I think that would be a nice gesture even if it was only a small percentage of what was made through this new scheme...

I have also found lots of good advice on this forum, much of it that you just couldn’t get anywhere else, and have also had a few chuckles as well so thanks guys and gals..


lew

[Rotary Booty]

Do pensioners get a discount?

I'm in, ..................................... if it will get us back to how it used to be! To be honest, I was happier when it was Nomad's civvy-street, and just for Bootnecks or gonnabee Bootnecks. However, we have some excellent 'other-persons', and it would be grief to loose them. You just have to read some of the rubbish in the profiles information though to pick out the pratts.

I'm curious to see how it will work, but, unfortunately, it needs to be done.