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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.42.48.249
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 02:49 pm:   

I've got that spooky lonesome feeling. It's very dark and big in here, and echoey.

Who's that just gone round the corner? Hello?
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.244.38
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 04:24 pm:   

I fear almost everyone (even me) has left for Facebook, Tony. It's a shame. I noticed people started drifting off a while ago - this board wasn't as active as it was when I first joined. Then, when I posted stuff, folk kept saying "We've been talking about that on Facebook". Eventually, I gave in and joined FB too.

I remember reading an article a little while ago about how forums/message boards would soon be dead/out-of-date. I'm afraid it seems to be true. It's a real shame as you can't have a proper discussion on Facebook. I wish this message board was more active again as I really enjoyed it then ...
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.42.48.249
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 05:24 pm:   

Caroline, I know exactly what you mean. Facebook is calmer, but it's more like a bus station than a pub, which this place is very much like. I still drop by every day even if I don't post, and I went on a bit of a marathon today to shake things up. But it got a bit antagonistic recently - nothing major, partly started off by the Rhys stuff (which might have been the beginning of the end) - and it sent me away from it for a while.
I dunno - part of me likes the quiet. I always did like empty afternoon pubs, sheltering in them from the rain.
Also - I think we forgot this was a horror board. People weren't even arguing about horror or Ramsey but rather WHO and the moon and stuff. Stupid, really. And yes, sad.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.42.48.249
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 05:27 pm:   

But facebook - yes, to quote Dylan, the times do seem to be a changin'. People think and communicate in bite-sizes. Everything small, compartmentalised. It's very hard to adapt.
Are you drinking? We still do hot drinks here I think, if not...
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.180.123.78
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 05:30 pm:   

It could well be Facebook but this board has been getting quieter for some years; not everyone who's left here has appeared there.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.42.48.249
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 05:42 pm:   

True...
Er, who are you?
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.42.48.249
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 05:45 pm:   

Did facebook draw you to it Mick, or was it stuff happening here too? It is an easy place to use, FB, but ... I dunno. It's bustly and you can feel a bit lost. If this place is a village FB is London.

Stop me drawing analogies!
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 86.140.213.21
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 05:56 pm:   

I noticed a lot of people leaving because of the row about ebooks.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.42.48.249
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 06:21 pm:   

:-(
I wonder why? Are rows avoidable? Was a code of conduct broken?
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.244.38
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 06:28 pm:   

I think it started before the row about ebooks, Des. Sadly, the rows (about all kinds of stuff) haven't helped though.

I think it's a combination of things - including simply the fact that FB is more popular than any message board. Perhaps FB is just "easier" as folk don't really have to think about points for discussion - they just post those bite-sized bits of info?

I'm actually enjoying FB, but I preferred this board when it was going strong and we were really talking about interesting things. The only way we're going to get it going again is if people here start to discuss things (without antagonism) again. C'mon folk, why don't we try to resurrect the RCMB? It's no good Tony bravely posting on old threads all on his own - there needs to be a few of us talking to get things going again.
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.244.38
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 06:30 pm:   

I do think the rows here have been really rather silly though. Let's face it, we have different views - that's only natural. But to up and leave because somebody disagrees with you is just plain silly in my book.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.42.48.249
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 06:34 pm:   

It boils down to tone of voice. That's all it ever was.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.42.48.249
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 06:35 pm:   

Now where's the 'like' icon?
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.244.38
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 06:39 pm:   

"Now where's the 'like' icon?"
Caroline likes this comment!
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.42.48.249
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 06:40 pm:   

To be fair, facebook does many excellent things. But by God it's addictive! :-(
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 06:52 pm:   

Hey! I think rows draw people in!

You got that, all you limey pommy potato-peeling far-flung-foreign-land-occupying thin-skinned insipid-minded pap-writing Moon-landing-denying-denying endless-"Me! Me! Me!"-pumping Donnie Darko-fawning Tuckerization-pandering RPG-masturbating "Doctor Who"-loving/hating random-stupid-joke-foisting kill-me-already-boring-horror-convention-itinerary-planning spam-re-posting pun-mongering crap-horror-flick-praising ebook-obsessed angsty-moping anger-exploding... um, who'm I leaving out?...
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.42.48.249
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 06:54 pm:   

:D
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.42.48.249
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 06:54 pm:   

(that looks like Al Jolson...)
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 07:28 pm:   

RACIST!!!!!!!
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Lincoln (Lincoln_brown)
Username: Lincoln_brown

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 101.119.28.202
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 11:18 pm:   

There's no discussion about horror, let alone Ramseys' work - take a look at the topics. It's a shame, because I've read some great stuff lately - but unless you're pumping up a board members tyres, it's hard to get a response.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.42.48.249
Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 01:02 am:   

I've been thinking this. But this place has long been a bit chatty and drifty... Maybe the writing world has become too prickly to enjoy talking about? And now that so many people on here have proper writing careers maybe there's nothing left to talk about?
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 109.79.0.235
Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 01:11 am:   

I've been on this board for over 10 years. Some people have been on longer. Just how much can you talk about one writer's work, or even a whole genre?
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.148.242.195
Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 01:33 am:   

If you look over just the last week there are threads discussing the Grimm up North festival, Joel's latest collection (which certainly sounds like it has horror tropes galore), the Black book of horror, Attack the block, Absentia, Horror games and the paranormal activity films.

Excatly how much more horror should we be discussing? There is a separate section completely for discussing Ramsey's work. This is the general discussion section.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 02:35 am:   

You know, if someone brings up that Shakespeare guy, one more time...

I mean it's been over 400 YEARS!!! MOVE ON!!!!
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Lincoln (Lincoln_brown)
Username: Lincoln_brown

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 101.119.28.202
Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 03:12 am:   

OK, take your points Weber and Proto. It is indeed general discussion. Also, I was wrong about the pumping up tyres comment - totally unfair, and not true. Just frustrated that the 'Grins Grin' thread has 400 replies, but the reading group, for example, has died.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 08:36 am:   

I tell you... those [adjective] Muslims sure are [adjective], aren't they?... In fact, the only group more [adjective] than the Muslims, are the [group]—they're positively [adjective]!

Controversial, I know, but someone had to say it.
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Joel (Joel)
Username: Joel

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 2.24.30.252
Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 08:58 am:   

I had been assuming the decline in activity was due to relevant stakeholders actually being busy with, you know, their lives. The news that they've migrated to Facebook is depressing.
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.244.38
Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 01:21 pm:   

Great! People seem to be posting more here again after this thread!
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.180.123.78
Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 01:58 pm:   

Well, Tony does...
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Seanmcd (Seanmcd)
Username: Seanmcd

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 193.113.57.161
Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 03:07 pm:   

I set up a FB page a few years ago but grew bored after a few weeks. I don't go near it anymore. In fact I mean to delete it. I just found it very narcissistic. But that is just my own personal impression. If I want to say something to friends such as Stevie I will say it on here or txt him or, best of all,in person. We don't 'catch up' anymore.

I just don't like the thought of an online diary complete with photographic evidence being viewable 24x7 by the powers that be and it is. That information no longer 'belongs' to you once you post it to FB. Have you noticed how Detectives and Journalists no longer need to 'investigate' anymore? If they are interested in anyone the first place they look is FB or Twitter where the electronic self surveillance diary is instantly viewable. Who needs a Big Brother? We do the work for him. We have become an self monitoring society willingly and happily providing online evidence of who we are, what we 'like', what we read, what we watch, what groups we belong to, what our views are, who we associate with, how often, where and when. Oh, and here's the photos to prove it.

Also, I may be friendly with someone one week and totally despise them the next but meantime they have had access to potentially personally harmful info about me. So, if you have dozens of 'friends', managing who sees what and when would become a tiresome chore. I always thought of FB as the adult version of the teenage BEBO anyway. You wanna keep in touch? You have an important message? TXT me!

I like Tony's Pub analogy. I like Pub's. Very private and personal. I can have an enjoyable time quietly catching up over a few pints with a few close real friends without any vaguely remembered acquaintances looking over my shoulder, eavesdropping on my personal affairs and butting in with their unsolicited opinions.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 04:02 pm:   

I also don't have a FB page, for all the reasons Sean just mentioned.

Though now, I hear, they say if you don't have a FB page, that that is suspicious—what are you trying to hide? Probably FB-spread rumors.
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.244.38
Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 04:25 pm:   

Sean sums it up nicely. I'm still finding my way around FB and have my reservations about it. It is "fun" (and very addictive!) but there are so many negatives around it, as you say. Give me a good old discussion board like this any day!
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 04:49 pm:   

Caroline - the new thing, is Pinterest. People I know all over are highly addicted to it.

I also hear people abandoning FB for Instagram. They're telling me it's FB simplified, all photos and comments/conversations.

Have you tried either of those yet?
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.244.38
Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 05:10 pm:   

I did take a look at Pinterest and set up an account so I could see how it worked. Looks quite boring though. Never heard of Instagram. Think I'll give it a miss - I need time to get some work done!
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 86.140.213.21
Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 05:57 pm:   

A good old-fashioned discussion forum like this one?

As old-fashioned as the Home Service, the Light Progamme and Wilfred Pickles?
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.180.123.78
Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 08:01 pm:   

A good old-fashioned discussion forum like this one?

As old-fashioned as the Home Service, the Light Progamme and Wilfred Pickles?


...or The Clitheroe Kid, The Navy Lark, Mrs Dale's Diary...
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Gcw (Gcw)
Username: Gcw

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.140.36.16
Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 08:12 pm:   

Muffin The Mule...?

Gcw:-)
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.244.38
Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 08:23 pm:   

The Wooden-Tops? I was a BIG fan of Spotty Dog.
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John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert)
Username: John_l_probert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 109.156.76.41
Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 11:30 pm:   

Des is obviously having a Wilfred Pickles day ;->
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Hubert (Hubert)
Username: Hubert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.165.253.15
Posted on Saturday, September 15, 2012 - 11:24 am:   

The thing I like about this board is that to the outside world it's a relatively anonymous bunch of people, wheras Facebook . . . If I had something to promote or sell I'd probably try it, but there's actually a bit of an anti-FB clamour going on over here and in France. As a matter of fact I don't want my picture or my whereabouts up for grabs. Why should total strangers know who I am or what my *sigh* hobbies are? I've been on the internet since 1997 and I've long since learned that anonymity is a commodity to be cherished.
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.180.123.78
Posted on Saturday, September 15, 2012 - 12:31 pm:   

But then Facebook will only display what you give it. You don't have to post pictures at all; neither do you have to reveal your whereabouts. You can tie it down quite tightly so only the folk you agree to have as friends can see anything more than the generic silhouette FB puts up.
It's not the same as this forum or the old BBSs I used to use before the 'net, but it's a lot more flexible in other ways.

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