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Post by upthevilla on Aug 7, 2015 17:29:29 GMT 1
Think you footie fanatics need to make a separate forum for football results as have no idea how posting Premier League Football scores here has anything to do with Croatia? Just a thought! Once again objections from crojoe. And once again. If I had to explain you wouldn’t understand........ and that has proven correct. And do you know what, this year I cant be bothered with your pathetic whinging and wining.. get over it, you don’t like football. Nobody is making you read it and contrary to your own self deluded beliefs your not in charge of this forum. I am not particular interested in any of the nonsense and your daily mail views that you write on here, but I don’t object, and cry about it. I cant even be bothered correcting you. I just see, oh crojoe has found something else to comment on, and offer his often misinformed and often incorrect self righteous view. Just because you have no interest in the subject there is no need for you to annually and intermittently try and dictate whether or not it should be discussed or participated in. Is it because its one of the few subjects, correction, the only subject on the here that you don’t have an over inflated self egotistical opinion about ? The football competition draws in 4,000 to 17,000 views. That is higher than ALL the other posts and discussions. Regardless of whether the subject is relevant or not, that is a lot of views and hits that are generated for this web site . Now, because of you ,all those viewers will not be here this year, and all those adverts wont be potentially clicked. Less views = less clicks = less value per click = equals less income for Anna Thanks for all those that have played and enjoyed over the years, but i cant be bothered with ar....les like this any more. life is to short... if someone wants to take over i will happily participate.
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Post by crojoe on Aug 7, 2015 20:28:21 GMT 1
Thanks upthevilla for your comments! Sad that all you can resort to is written verbal abuse, outlandish accusations and a pitiful attempt at character assassination, all because you didn't like a comment about footie. I don't see Anna trying to wrap me over the knuckles (and I doubt it will hurt her finances as you say, unless of course you happen to be her accountant). Big difference between a general comment and going personal. If you feel you "have some right" to dish out righteous judgement... I honestly wonder what you will say about other forum users (when you loose it). Anyway upthevilla (VS) keep scoring, not collecting red cards!
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Post by upthevilla on Aug 7, 2015 20:52:28 GMT 1
Thanks upthevilla for your comments! Sad that all you can resort to is written verbal abuse, outlandish accusations and a pitiful attempt at character assassination, all because you didn't like a comment about footie. I don't see Anna trying to wrap me over the knuckles (and I doubt it will hurt her finances as you say, unless of course you happen to be her accountant). Big difference between a general comment and going personal. If you feel you "have some right" to dish out righteous judgement... I honestly wonder what you will say about other forum users (when you loose it). Anyway upthevilla (VS) keep scoring, not collecting red cards! Your welcome
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Post by gary on Aug 8, 2015 9:57:03 GMT 1
That's a shame, I was looking forward to the annual football competition. Thanks very much UTV for the work you've put in over the years, I, along with others I'm sure will miss it. The quality of discourse has been dropping over the last couple of years,witness the nonsense and unnecessary post here yesterday by crojoe. Happy now? Anyway, I'm off and won't be back.
Cmon you lions!
Gary.
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Post by kesterj on Aug 8, 2015 9:58:23 GMT 1
That's a shame, I was looking forward to the annual football competition. Thanks very much UTV for the work you've put in over the years, I, along with others I'm sure will miss it. The quality of discourse has been dropping over the last couple of years,witness the nonsense and unnecessary post here yesterday by crojoe. Happy now? Anyway, I'm off and won't be back. Cmon you lions! Gary. Garry - I am starting a new competition now. Don't go away.
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Post by kesterj on Aug 8, 2015 10:38:21 GMT 1
Thanks upthevilla for your comments! Sad that all you can resort to is written verbal abuse, outlandish accusations and a pitiful attempt at character assassination, all because you didn't like a comment about footie. I don't see Anna trying to wrap me over the knuckles (and I doubt it will hurt her finances as you say, unless of course you happen to be her accountant). Big difference between a general comment and going personal. If you feel you "have some right" to dish out righteous judgement... I honestly wonder what you will say about other forum users (when you loose it). Anyway upthevilla (VS) keep scoring, not collecting red cards! Dear Crojoe, you cannot just sit there all nice, naive and innocent and pretend you are above criticism in this - you too called us (involved in this) "football fanatics". And I don't think UTV has just come on and posted his reply 'out of the blue' - there is history here. I have never seen a post by UTV like this to anyone else - so perhaps it is something you should think about. I can certainly understand some posters do not appreciate the Tipster threads over the years. But please remember, if all you see in winter is the tipster posts, it is not because the participants are trying to dominate the board - it is because of the lack of activity by other posters. I am only a 'middle-aged' poster on this forum, but it is pretty clear to me that, for a variety of reasons (not the least of which is dissolusionment with the rule of law in Croatia)that posting on the forum has dropped off significantly. Fact is, if it were not for the Tipster competition, I would probably have given up looking at this board years ago. I can certainly say that a certain Slovenia forum, which, although in its prime had nothing like the peak readership of this board, also had no equivalent to the footie thread - and has died off. Fact is, too, that these off-topic threads keep a small, usually friendly, sub-group in touch, and this does have ramificaitons: I visited Ribs and his wife personally in May - it was a great little get together. In fact, I will say it is one of the memroable highlights of 2015 for me to meet them and share time and thoughts. If I were anywhere near UTV some time, if we could arrange it, I am sure we couold have similar, friendly meeting. And there is one catalyst in this - the Tipster threads. Sure, the world will not end without these little rendezvous, but they have happened. If Anna should come to us and say: "Chaps, sorry, but the evidence is that your competition is driving people way form the board, so, sorry, but please let's drop it" - I'm sure we would all say, OK, Anna, it's your board and we appreciate your concerns. But something tells me that if, for whatever reason, we do drop this tradition, then it will actually not lead to any increase in other postings whatsoever. In fact, it would mean a number of us would visit the site only rarely - and that would mean our postings on other subjects would decrease. (This is certainly the case with me. OK, I'm not a prolific poster, but it would be one fewer - and we all count.) So, that is why i posted the games for round 1 on the new thread. I think we need 4 or 5 competitors to make it work, so I just plead with everyone to at least contribute for the first week or so - if we all decide to drop it - OK, but I think it is a shame to just abandon it on account of one critic. best regards, kesterj
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Post by kesterj on Aug 8, 2015 10:50:39 GMT 1
Think you footie fanatics need to make a separate forum for football results as have no idea how posting Premier League Football scores here has anything to do with Croatia? Just a thought! We are already in a separated 'off-topic' section, Crojoe - a kind of sub-forum as it is. You have absolutely no reason to be bothered, unless you use the 'recent posts' link to keep up with postings. And if you do, I can imagine it may be a little annoying, but is it SUCH torture for you to ignore the footie posts and access what you want? kesterj
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Post by crojoe on Aug 10, 2015 0:15:30 GMT 1
Think you footie fanatics need to make a separate forum for football results as have no idea how posting Premier League Football scores here has anything to do with Croatia? Just a thought! We are already in a separated 'off-topic' section, Crojoe - a kind of sub-forum as it is. You have absolutely no reason to be bothered, unless you use the 'recent posts' link to keep up with postings. And if you do, I can imagine it may be a little annoying, but is it SUCH torture for you to ignore the footie posts and access what you want? kesterj Tx Kesterj. Yes I had the settings to "recent posts", and as you mentioned it does seem most posts are now about this. It's not a big deal. Sorry to all you "Enthusiastic" footie fans for using the word "fanatic".
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Post by Anna on Aug 10, 2015 18:25:28 GMT 1
I personally don't see any problem with the football predictions thread - in fact, many a year I've thought to myself "ooh, maybe it'd be fun to join in this year" and then never done anything about it. (But that's beside the point.) To me it seems quite a fun, social thread and a place for regulars to check in with each other every week. And I mean that genuinely - I definitely don't see the thread as a way of keeping the forum 'busy' or updated, and absolutely not as a way of hoping people will click on the ads...and definitely don't see it as a way of generating income! I should probably only whisper this, but I don't even check the tipster threads that often - I just assume everyone's chatting away merrily and not causing any trouble...
The "Off Topic" section is just that - it was always intended to be a section for thread members to discuss anything they liked, *not* related to Croatia. (Although there are a lot vaguely-related Croatia threads - seems like there's a bit of a cross-over between here and "Anything Else" but I don't think that really matters.)
Sure, this is one forum with several boards but I think it's fairly easy to track the stuff you're interested in and avoid the stuff you're not. As well as 'Recent Posts', it's also possible to look at 'Recent Threads' which shows the ones with new posts.
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Post by kesterj on Aug 15, 2015 10:34:28 GMT 1
I personally don't see any problem with the football predictions thread - in fact, many a year I've thought to myself "ooh, maybe it'd be fun to join in this year" and then never done anything about it. ....... you'd probably win it hands down, putting us 'experts' to shame, Anna! Seriusly, you should join ... some of us have not got very far in the fist week
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