Locked Thread

[John S]

Firstly, as most of you already know we don't get paid for looking after these forums, it's all voluntary.

 

Secondly, it is often much easier to just lock a thread rather than wade through it deleting any offending posts and then have to edit out quotes in other posts. That thread was going nowhere fast anyway, and if Newt hadn't locked it, I would have.

 

Thirdly, live with it....

[Guest Rabbit]

It wasn't intended as a joke, I really thought by the way you post, that you were a young girl and I didn't want to offend you if you were.

 

Romney Marsh is a place, how can that be funny ?

 

Are you sure you are not a young girl.

 

No not a Bunny Girl. Why this thing about young girls?? Is it that you really thought I was a young girl because I am not afraid to show some concern about cruelty to animals? Real men dont do that Do they? Oh and I have had all the Gay slurs on here in the past, not Gay either , married with 3 grown up boys, not a guarantee I know but should be a good pointer even for someone like yourself.

[Guest Rabbit]

Firstly, as most of you already know we don't get paid for looking after these forums, it's all voluntary.

 

Secondly, it is often much easier to just lock a thread rather than wade through it deleting any offending posts and then have to edit out quotes in other posts. That thread was going nowhere fast anyway, and if Newt hadn't locked it, I would have.

 

Thirdly, live with it....

 

Live with it?? How difficult would it have been to delete the offending posts? Rather than locking the whole thing? People do actually put some time into posting, thats what AN is all about isn't it Too many times good threads have been locked, for no apparent reason.

[chesters1]

romney marsh is a nice place ,i spent many happy hours fishing the canal and drains.

luckily i only ever saw coypu and sheep! never rabbits

Edited April 18, 2007 by chesters1

[Elton]

romney marsh is a nice place ,i spent many happy hours fishing the canal and drains.

luckily i only ever saw coypu and sheep! never rabbits

 

Roger Standen's patch, that. He often mentions Romney in his articles:

 

http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/author/rogerstanden.html

[chesters1]

Roger Standen's patch, that. He often mentions Romney in his articles:

 

http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/author/rogerstanden.html

caught my only ever sea trout in the rother at iden lock ,we used to go (me and another boy from up the road) every few weeks (he obviasly had some sort of hold over his parents) and just turned up and fished anywhere he could park,never saw anyone else all day.

the canal was a bit featureless but the drains an anglers dream.

that was from bromley

strangely when i moved to folkestone i only ever fished the cingue ports stretch never further .i did though with another chap fish as many small ponds we could around folkestone (the best ever pond is now under a roundabout off the m20) some were tiny but amazingly all held fish of some type (if you count goldfish and tank transplants) most farmers thought you mad but let you try anyway.

my most unusual fish was a catfish from a tiny pond in the warren now long gone in the continual movement of the cliff.

the most spectacular was the ex pond under the roundabout ,all golden tench and beutiful roach and rudd ,such a shame! the roundabout didnt have to be there but could have been next to it.

the close season was spent fishing the pond in radnor? park ,why we were never chucked off was a mystery but for a concrete pond surprisingly well stocked ,it was still in council? hands then i believe a club has the rights now.

Edited April 18, 2007 by chesters1

[Ken Davison South Wales]

Notice I just kept out of the cat thread ?

 

Is that in case you get badgered??? :lol:

[Gaffer]

Hi Rabbit,

 

Live with it?? How difficult would it have been to delete the offending posts? Rather than locking the whole thing? People do actually put some time into posting, thats what AN is all about isn't it Too many times good threads have been locked, for no apparent reason.

 

Picture this; You've got a high pressured job, you're in your office, the phone hasn't stopped, people are queing up outside, you got a million and one things to do and things are going pear-shaped rapidly, and whilst dealing with all this you get an email alerting you to a thread on Anglers Net.

 

You look at the thread, the phone is still continues to ring, etc, etc, which you're still having to deal with, you then have to read through and edit each post individually, making sure you do and say the right things so as not to make the situation worse.

 

Do you think you could do it and if you could (which you couldn't), would you want to do it and keep doing it, for nowt, only to be constantly whinged at, whined at and criticised? .....c'mon!

 

Look, I've got no problem with all you good folks on here, but please bare a thought for us Mod's, we're only human and we're doing our best, so, in short, live with it!

 

Garth.

[Janet]

How difficult would it have been to delete the offending posts?

 

Not particularly difficult I assume, but very time consuming, and possibly resulting in the thread not making sense any more. Just where do you expect the Mods to draw the line? I guess it was far easier for them just to lock it than have to faff around and try to make it more acceptable. Let's just face it - it started off as a good thread, then went downhill rapidly due to one or two muppets. It's not been totally removed. It's still there for all to view, and for us to comment on with this new thread. It's not censorship, just damage limitation!

 

Remember guys, the mods on here do it for love not money! They do their best, and they do it exceptionally well considering the vast diversity of people and posts that we have on here. I haven't seen one locked topic that didn't deserve to be locked for one reason or another.

 

I think it's grossly unfair to have a go at our Mods if we can't keep ourselves on topic and posting sensibly. I think many of us perhaps get too involved and forget that this is a totally open forum, where anyone can view. Let's keep it a site that we can be proud of.

 

Janet

[barry luxton]

Hi Rabbit,

Picture this; You've got a high pressured job, you're in your office, the phone hasn't stopped, people are queing up outside, you got a million and one things to do and things are going pear-shaped rapidly, and whilst dealing with all this you get an email alerting you to a thread on Anglers Net.

 

You look at the thread, the phone is still continues to ring, etc, etc, which you're still having to deal with, you then have to read through and edit each post individually, making sure you do and say the right things so as not to make the situation worse.

 

Do you think you could do it and if you could (which you couldn't), would you want to do it and keep doing it, for nowt, only to be constantly whinged at, whined at and criticised? .....c'mon!

 

Look, I've got no problem with all you good folks on here, but please bare a thought for us Mod's, we're only human and we're doing our best, so, in short, live with it!

 

Garth.

 

 

Masochistic tendancies appear to spring to mind. Bless.