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basildd · Post by **basildd** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 1:09 am

There has been much talk lately, generated by a percieved 'mis-use' of the forums as to the fact that the raison d'etre has been lost under the quagmire of postings which are not appertaining purely to train sim matters.

Well, as I am stuck on a night shift and have nothing better to do, I have taken yesterday (and a bit after midnight) as a 'snapshot' of UKTS forum use and the results of the 190 postings made are as follows;

Forum posts purely relating to the subject matter - 55% (111)
Irrelevant comments with some MSTS connection - 12% (23)
Posts which are not related to MSTS in any way - 33% (56)

Not sure what it proves or even why I thought it would be interesting to read, count and classify them, but it passed the time until it was time to put the kettle on again!

MichaelGreenhill · Post by **MichaelGreenhill** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 1:15 am

I'd reckon that most of that 33% of nonesense posts were mine!

MichaelGreenhill · Post by **MichaelGreenhill** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 1:17 am

BTW like my new avatar?

basildd · Post by **basildd** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 1:29 am

What is it? He says yawning and drinking copious amounts of coffee to stay awake and thinking of a way to steer this back to being relevant.....

MichaelGreenhill · Post by **MichaelGreenhill** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 3:50 am

Nevre mind, if I explained it'd only make this thread off-topic, too.

basildd · Post by **basildd** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 3:55 am

It looks like a stuffed pigeon to me! (like the ones that cause problems for Voyagers - there, back on topic!)

danielwilkieuk · Post by **danielwilkieuk** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 11:25 am

You have to much time on your hands, How about helping me with some of my Textures!

johndibben · Post by **johndibben** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 11:51 am

Yea .... having stared at it for a while .... I can see a pigeon

33.5%

Goingnorth · Post by **Goingnorth** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 12:38 pm

Does it really matter? For any internet site (or tv, radio, paper or any other media format) there is one thing that is important: PUNTERS.

In other words: HITS, HITS and MORE HITS!

As long as people keep turning up I don't suppose Matt is too worried, nor would any other website owner be.

Why do they turn up?

Number one reason is the downloads

Number two reason is reasonable debate on any subject, but mainly on MSTS/Rail. That's it really. If you censor too much people will bog off, if you edit too little then the the forums may decend into flame wars or become very uninteresting. I don't think that's going to happen, at least here.

johndibben · Post by **johndibben** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 12:58 pm

The site was probably a bit 'incestuous' at the beginning with few members .... downloads were appallingly low to the point where people were thinking of giving up or finding alternative outlets.

Now the membership has grown and downloads often reach Trainsim.com levels.

That's going to mean more 'discussion' and more 'moderation' but I don't reckon it'll ever get that bad as its mainly British or ex-pats and its not our way.

dilflat · Post by **dilflat** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 1:29 pm

Hi Basil
The answer to your comment about my avater in the screenshots forum is that it was drawn by my 9 year old neice, unprompted, after a trip to said miniature railway near Eastleigh.

Now she's discovered MSTS so I am putting together some 9 year olds boredom threshhold type activities for her.

Regards
Dave.

basildd · Post by **basildd** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 3:16 pm

dilflat wrote:Hi Basil
The answer to your comment about my avater in the screenshots forum is that it was drawn by my 9 year old neice, unprompted, after a trip to said miniature railway near Eastleigh.

Now she's discovered MSTS so I am putting together some 9 year olds boredom threshhold type activities for her.

Regards
Dave.

I thought it might have been! I must be in the wrong profession - should have been a detective...

Oh and don't mention 9 year olds....

Still, 'phat' chance of that I suppose

basildd · Post by **basildd** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 3:19 pm

danielwilkieuk wrote:You have to much time on your hands, How about helping me with some of my Textures!

I thouht I had already agreed to that in the PM! Send me whatever it is you want done

johndibben · Post by **johndibben** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 8:44 pm

"Oh and don't mention 9 year olds....

Still, 'phat' chance of that I suppose

"

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