General Chat

Newby!!!! is that you? If so I was just thinking about you yesterday!

Perhaps it 's because anyone who put up a thread that asked for discussion that was not deemed as twee or comfortable is reported. ?
GR used to be a place where people could argue .. discuss.. snipe and fall out over the daftest things but without reports about posts , it found its ballance..and it worked
It was fun and it was interesting . not always nice but a real community ... now it's boring
I wandered off because it really beacame so stale ... no offence to the people with the really great on going threads... that is the only reason I still log on but don't post

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:-D

Emma :-) :-) :-) no, I don't think you are getting stale at all - your posts are always fun! :-D :-D :-D ;-)

In the short time I,ve been on today Ive been booted off three times and had to get back on.It pees me off, Had my Cousins Son down over the weekend and he checked out my Computor ( He,s got a Degree in Computor Science and works at GCHQ" so he,s pretty well on the ball with these things,He reckons there is nothing wrong with my Laptop at all, Its GR. and in all probability they have put all these extras on here but not uprated their capacity. So will continue" Hoping" they can get their collective fingers out and Sort it. :o((>

I'm not afraid of her, girls, she is only a size ten...did she tell you? *yawns....... :-D :-D :-D

:-D :-D :-D <3...BC..you are sooo brave ;-)

:-D :-D :-DNow you will be in trouble BC.

Typical wummers thread! Asks a leading question and then fecks off for a cuppa and a bikini wax.. :-D <3

I said I was stale not Mersey's thread :-)

well said GIN

but maybe people dont know what else to do on there family tree
i know i dont

Gins. Merseys thread is great "When you can get on it" Its just GR being slow ,almost in reverse. It pees you off not being able to post properly,i/e being thrown off a few times for no reason. :o((>

Well, I don't find anything stale about Mersey's thread - it's fresh every day, and a great place to meet friends, old and new! :-D :-D :-D ;-) <3

Its Slow, everybody, with the exception of Genes, knows that, but they will not accept it is their fault ,always saying (It something wrong with your computor) where as in fact its theirs.Even the fact that some people have no longer got "Emoticons" time they got real and fixed the problems instead of making Lame excuses all the time. :o(((>

Behave Emms...your fabulousous !! not stale :-D ;-)

I must admit that I am bored quite a bit of the
time with the boards even though I visit Mersey's
thread every day, look in on others.
In winter months I get back into Ancestry so not on
here so much.
Maybe it's me who is getting stale and had too much
of a good thing on here.

Emma :-)

Rootschat is nearly as slow as Genes at present.

What I think has happened is that more and more people have become interested in their Family History, but are taking the time to do their own reasearch and only come onto Forums when they are well and truly stuck.

Yes, you do get the odd newbie who asks the questions that you look at and think, WHAT!!!! But I know that even when I started I rarely asked questions just looked at my problems from a different angle. And read posts on here for questions that I may have asked but did not wish to repeat.

So I think it is slow all over. And the FB pages on Ancestry, Genes and FMP are just full of people looking for living relatives or complaining about the sites!!!! :-) :-) ;-)

And, of course, other genealogy forums are available.

I know for certain that a considerable number of regular posters on these boards now spend their time on Facebook as part of a closed "Friends" group. There were several reasons why they moved on, amongst them, no trolls or WUM's, freedom of thought and speech, no wanton use "Review" button. It is a shame that they no longer contribute to these boards as between them they have excellent genealogy knowledge and skills and were always willing to use them to help other GR members solve their puzzles.

Maybe folks are just fed up with reporting threads and nasty comments that go on most days,it has been better of late I might add.

I always have considered that the Boards are for people seeking help with their research but some helpers are very nasty with their comments when people ask for help and just more or less tell them to go look for yourself here or there , they just don't ask again .
The Boards are very quiet and a big difference to 2006 when I first joined.

Very sad I think ...I love my hobby going to hang around for a bit longer.

Suex

So many differing opinions and a "report button" was always going to be detrimental to the site,

Roy