Bronco
:They haven't been moaning for a good couple of weeks now about how they don't like this and that.
Okay, 2 weeks then. Time flies when you're having fun.
You have been clawing at any little resemblance of a fault you can find. All you've succeeded in doing so is to piss a few people off.
I'd say those people are too easily pissed off. Who cares what I say?
If you had your way we'd all come back and play happy families.
Yes, at first. I've since said several times that I know that's not gonna happen. BTW, see my post on the new LWOS section at TFR.
No new members would ever join up because that would unsettle the perfect little world we'd have going. No I never said that. All I really ever said said was I prefer the actual look, feel, and features of MSN to the TFR format. In spite of you guys telling me all the superior features of TFR, I still feel at home with this format. Even so, I'm catching on to some of the TFR functions.
BTW, if you want to see a perfect little world of a forum, check out KRL. It has no new members, and no new posts. Actually, I'm thankful no one has rubbed that in my face in this discussion.
The only word I've thought of when reading your posts over the last couple of weeks is childish and thats coming from a 17yo. Only childish, not funny, clever, poignant, none of those? Actually,I think my reaction was not so much childish, as that of an older guy not wanting to change after becoming set in his internet ways. Much like Lord Ted expressed earlier, except as you and Willow point out, I've expressed it more times.
Willow:
When you started raising your 'concerns' I said, Its not a battle between the two boards.... its a personal choice. I still stand by that, It's shame that you haven't quite worked that out yet. Of course it's a personal choice. But one of the points I was making was that the choices made to move to TFR have left LWOS a bit depleted. Not a "battle", but one affects the other. I know we've been over this ground already - but I have worked it out, I do get it.
Now here's a first. I have a question for you Steve. Why do you think we set up TFR? Do you think there is some ulterior motive or something slightly sinister going on? Yikes, a question for me. What do I do now?
No, nothing sinister. I'm sure your reason are as you've stated, things to do with a better format (in your opinions), more control, the logic of having a forum with LU, etc.
I will say this: back when you first started talking about LU and TFR (in its earlier incarnations), I remember checking them out briefly and saying on LWOS I didn't like them as much. (I'm sure that old thread could be found here, and it wasn't just me saying it.) I also remember thinking that eventually these guys are going to leave LWOS and go to their new playground. As the buildup to the latest TFR got bigger and bigger, I sensed it was going to happen. And when I was away from LWOS for a couple of weeks, and came back to find it largely deserted, I didn't like that. Now, I think you must have also known the move to TFR was going to damage LWOS - I think you said as much recently on TFR (and that you felt sad about it.)
That's not an ulterior motive, not sinister.But you also have made statements about how LWOS would always be here. And then you said something on TFR about how the "old boat" wasn't doing well, and what a shame it was. That just struck me the wrong way, as if you were saying what a shame when you knew full well the reason for it. Let me say now that that's what I felt at the time of reading your statement - I have since read your numerous clarifications and understand where you were coming from.
Can you see where I was coming from? (Even if I have talked about it way too many times)
