Private Threads

[Royal24s]

I'm a great believer in private medicine, and good neighbourhoods. Nice houses with large gardens with high fences, in places without train stations or bus routes.
These are the things which help us enjoy a reasonable standard of life, which is short, without having to deal with workshy problematic people who bother everyone else with their depressing behaviour, lack of manners and constant bloody problems.

Now, it seems to me that there are many perfectly nice intelligent people here who enjoy a bit of a chinwag and a joke together, and get hours of gentle distraction and entertainment sharing their views and musings. There used to be more , but in the end they all leave, just as decent people leave council estates when they can , rather than having to put up with the degraded half witted riff raff hanging around the place swearing and eating drugs.

Well, it has occurred to me that the solution to this could be for the forum to start charging, with different levels of access according to your subscription rate. You could restrict it even further by standards of IQ, education, rank and social standing, so that the gold standard service would become a most erudite and informative one.
Stupid people who troll and abuse everyone and can hardly form an intelligible phrase or thought could carry on swearing at each other and posting emoticons in the free threads - the tower blocks of discussion forums if you like.
I wouldn't mind paying some small extra fee to subsidise their access to this service , just as I do in the real world to pay for their housing and benefits.

The forum could become a viable business in itself , making a decent profit for the proprietors, professional moderators could be employed to referee and supervise the free threads, and the membership to the premium service would increase , attracting intelligent successful people who would produce a high standard of debate and discussion .

What do you think ? Would you pay for the opportunity to have a civilised conversation without these thick yobbos spoiling it for themselves and everyone else ?

[m4rkb]

Five grand a month is the figure I've heard to keep this place running.

[delboy1983]

Its Bantz innit

[birdie]

There are three things that can be done,
1, name the thick yobbos
2,put them on 'ignore' then you won't see what they post
3, start your own subscription forum and wait for the dosh to roll in, it's guaranteed to be as popular as a fart in a lift.

[Dinger]

Royals start your own forum or even Facebook page, invite the people that agree with you (you will tell me that bit is wrong but ho hum) and you're all set pal. Worked for Horse

Close 'fred

[kancutlawns]

No one would pay to use a nessageboard just like people don’t pay to use porn sites, stream movies or download music. The concept of messageboards is dying out with more infringements on civil liberties and curb on our freedoms. Anyway, this is a good site for rubbing shoulders with others from different walks of life, sharing experiences and indulging in a some friendly joshing if people who think they’re better than others. Quite therapeutic after a hard day’s work.

Nothing to stop you from running a oarrakel site but would you really put the dough ad effort to set it up? Loads have said they would but like you they’re just throwing their toys out of the pram because they can’t get their way. Fat Maude threatened the same but struggled when mark gave him a helping hand and gave up.

How would you sustain the forum? Where would you generate advertising revenue from? How would you make it sustainable and stop it from dying? It needs some thought rather than an ill conceived bitter rant. Good luck royals.

[kancutlawns]

Royals start your own forum or even Facebook page, invite the people that agree with you (you will tell me that bit is wrong but ho hum) and you're all set pal. Worked for Horse

Close 'fred

He’s having a wah wah wah moment because the horrid posters aren’t playing game innit?

[Dinger]

No one would pay to use a nessageboard just like people don’t pay to use porn sites, stream movies or download music. The concept of messageboards is dying out with more infringements on civil liberties and curb on our freedoms. Anyway, this is a good site for rubbing shoulders with others from different walks of life, sharing experiences and indulging in a some friendly joshing if people who think they’re better than others. Quite therapeutic after a hard day’s work.

Nothing to stop you from running a oarrakel site but would you really put the dough ad effort to set it up? Loads have said they would but like you they’re just throwing their toys out of the pram because they can’t get their way. Fat Maude threatened the same but struggled when mark gave him a helping hand and gave up.

How would you sustain the forum? Where would you generate advertising revenue from? How would you make it sustainable and stop it from dying? It needs some thought rather than an ill conceived bitter rant. Good luck royals.

A well thought out post lawnso.

[kancutlawns]

There are three things that can be done,
1, name the thick yobbos
2,put them on 'ignore' then you won't see what they post
3, start your own subscription forum and wait for the dosh to roll in, it's guaranteed to be as popular as a fart in a lift.

People who have others on ignore usually can’t resist reading what the posters they have on ignore say about them. They have to proclaim they gave them on ignore as if it gives them the higher moral ground but it’s just a cry of attention. If you name the “thick yobboes” you’re just descending to their own levels and allowing yourself to get eaten up inside.

[kancutlawns]

No one would pay to use a nessageboard just like people don’t pay to use porn sites, stream movies or download music. The concept of messageboards is dying out with more infringements on civil liberties and curb on our freedoms. Anyway, this is a good site for rubbing shoulders with others from different walks of life, sharing experiences and indulging in a some friendly joshing if people who think they’re better than others. Quite therapeutic after a hard day’s work.

Nothing to stop you from running a oarrakel site but would you really put the dough ad effort to set it up? Loads have said they would but like you they’re just throwing their toys out of the pram because they can’t get their way. Fat Maude threatened the same but struggled when mark gave him a helping hand and gave up.

How would you sustain the forum? Where would you generate advertising revenue from? How would you make it sustainable and stop it from dying? It needs some thought rather than an ill conceived bitter rant. Good luck royals.

A well thought out post lawnso.

He started the thread and fair play it’s provoked a few decent responses. I think personally that he’s a little miffed that we aren’t attaching ourselves to his scrotum with fawning acclaim and he reefs to take the feedback constructively. I’ve tried to give him what I think is feedback from a layman to chew on.

Sad he feels so angry and bitter but hopefully he’ll read some old colonial books about putting the riffraff over his knee and give them a damned good thrashing like the Afrikaans’s did to the Kaffirs.

[Zambo]

I'm a great believer in private medicine, and good neighbourhoods. Nice houses with large gardens with high fences, in places without train stations or bus routes.
These are the things which help us enjoy a reasonable standard of life, which is short, without having to deal with workshy problematic people who bother everyone else with their depressing behaviour, lack of manners and constant bloody problems.

Now, it seems to me that there are many perfectly nice intelligent people here who enjoy a bit of a chinwag and a joke together, and get hours of gentle distraction and entertainment sharing their views and musings. There used to be more , but in the end they all leave, just as decent people leave council estates when they can , rather than having to put up with the degraded half witted riff raff hanging around the place swearing and eating drugs.

Well, it has occurred to me that the solution to this could be for the forum to start charging, with different levels of access according to your subscription rate. You could restrict it even further by standards of IQ, education, rank and social standing, so that the gold standard service would become a most erudite and informative one.
Stupid people who troll and abuse everyone and can hardly form an intelligible phrase or thought could carry on swearing at each other and posting emoticons in the free threads - the tower blocks of discussion forums if you like.
I wouldn't mind paying some small extra fee to subsidise their access to this service , just as I do in the real world to pay for their housing and benefits.

The forum could become a viable business in itself , making a decent profit for the proprietors, professional moderators could be employed to referee and supervise the free threads, and the membership to the premium service would increase , attracting intelligent successful people who would produce a high standard of debate and discussion .

What do you think ? Would you pay for the opportunity to have a civilised conversation without these thick yobbos spoiling it for themselves and everyone else ?

Sorry mate I can't support this, it penalises the responsible and doesn't punish the riff raff. You should be charging them to stay. Apart from that discussion would descend deciding who is the responsible and who is the raff

[kancutlawns]

Royals start your own forum or even Facebook page, invite the people that agree with you (you will tell me that bit is wrong but ho hum) and you're all set pal. Worked for Horse

Close 'fred

and 2dans. Ask both how successful their remarkable new ventures were. Would I pay to use Royals’ site? Hell yeah just to see how it got on. How would he initiate an IQ test? Would we all go to a centre? Would there be a postcode lottery? How would his own forum cope with a meltdown, not from the huge surge of activity but with him being owned by a drunken, foul mouthed yobbo from a sink estate such as carc? Backtracking Italian tanks ahoy!

[Petingo]

I'm a great believer in private medicine, and good neighbourhoods. Nice houses with large gardens with high fences, in places without train stations or bus routes.
These are the things which help us enjoy a reasonable standard of life, which is short, without having to deal with workshy problematic people who bother everyone else with their depressing behaviour, lack of manners and constant bloody problems.

Now, it seems to me that there are many perfectly nice intelligent people here who enjoy a bit of a chinwag and a joke together, and get hours of gentle distraction and entertainment sharing their views and musings. There used to be more , but in the end they all leave, just as decent people leave council estates when they can , rather than having to put up with the degraded half witted riff raff hanging around the place swearing and eating drugs.

Well, it has occurred to me that the solution to this could be for the forum to start charging, with different levels of access according to your subscription rate. You could restrict it even further by standards of IQ, education, rank and social standing, so that the gold standard service would become a most erudite and informative one.
Stupid people who troll and abuse everyone and can hardly form an intelligible phrase or thought could carry on swearing at each other and posting emoticons in the free threads - the tower blocks of discussion forums if you like.
I wouldn't mind paying some small extra fee to subsidise their access to this service , just as I do in the real world to pay for their housing and benefits.

The forum could become a viable business in itself , making a decent profit for the proprietors, professional moderators could be employed to referee and supervise the free threads, and the membership to the premium service would increase , attracting intelligent successful people who would produce a high standard of debate and discussion .

What do you think ? Would you pay for the opportunity to have a civilised conversation without these thick yobbos spoiling it for themselves and everyone else ?

Brilliant stuff.

Royals I have to admit, you are one heck of a WUM, sir.

Great Fred

[Dinger]

The size of the reply admonishing the plebs will break the internet.

[Royal24s]

I'm a great believer in private medicine, and good neighbourhoods. Nice houses with large gardens with high fences, in places without train stations or bus routes.
These are the things which help us enjoy a reasonable standard of life, which is short, without having to deal with workshy problematic people who bother everyone else with their depressing behaviour, lack of manners and constant bloody problems.

Now, it seems to me that there are many perfectly nice intelligent people here who enjoy a bit of a chinwag and a joke together, and get hours of gentle distraction and entertainment sharing their views and musings. There used to be more , but in the end they all leave, just as decent people leave council estates when they can , rather than having to put up with the degraded half witted riff raff hanging around the place swearing and eating drugs.

Well, it has occurred to me that the solution to this could be for the forum to start charging, with different levels of access according to your subscription rate. You could restrict it even further by standards of IQ, education, rank and social standing, so that the gold standard service would become a most erudite and informative one.
Stupid people who troll and abuse everyone and can hardly form an intelligible phrase or thought could carry on swearing at each other and posting emoticons in the free threads - the tower blocks of discussion forums if you like.
I wouldn't mind paying some small extra fee to subsidise their access to this service , just as I do in the real world to pay for their housing and benefits.

The forum could become a viable business in itself , making a decent profit for the proprietors, professional moderators could be employed to referee and supervise the free threads, and the membership to the premium service would increase , attracting intelligent successful people who would produce a high standard of debate and discussion .

What do you think ? Would you pay for the opportunity to have a civilised conversation without these thick yobbos spoiling it for themselves and everyone else ?

Sorry mate I can't support this, it penalises the responsible and doesn't punish the riff raff. You should be charging them to stay. Apart from that discussion would descend deciding who is the responsible and who is the raff

Not at all . There'd be no need for any discussion at all - it'd be down to market forces and natural selection because these people couldn't afford the fees.
Incidentally , I wasn't saying I wanted to do that , I was suggesting it as a way forward for the current management as well as members. Carlos could be getting a good salary for example instead of arguing with people for nothing.
Someone suggested that forums are a bit out of date, but with the new revenue , it would be possible to invest in intricate software and interactive artificial intelligence features in the better threads.
In fact , if it was luxuriant enough to attract the right sort of people, it might well alter or shape world events . We know, for example, that the President himself enjoys discussions and banter on social media and I can't see why we couldn't attract him as a member, as well as other wealthy and influential people who wouldn't want to be bothered by some of the dingbats who currently hang around here swearing and saying such bloody stupid things.

Imagine a thread on the death penalty or North Korea for example, which , if a concensus were reached , actually resulted in the re introduction of hanging or possibly a full nuclear launch in real time from the room !