Chatterbank Hits All Time Low!!!!!

[bruce5755]

Sorry all, but I cant help thinking that "Chatterbank" seems to have lost it's way!  In the few weeks since it was set-up, it appears to have gone downhill and is in danger of turning in to one of those dreaded bl**dy awful chat rooms!!  I have noticed how lots of the old regulars seem to have abandoned it already, and I fear that it will not be long before it is soley inhabited by people wanting to say "good morning is anyone up yet" and "goodnight"!  I suppose that this was inevitable to some degree, but that it has happened so fast is beyond me! 

AB in its original guise was a site where intellectual, genuine, questions and answers were posted and often debated.  We all seem to get to know each other and generally got on well, and because of that, we looked forward to a section where we might get to know each other a little better!  But this sadly has turned into a boxing arena on many occasions of late.

I have a feeling that many people are "googling" chat rooms, and ending up here!  Now, here's a suggestion that I'm sure will get many peoples backs up, but here goes.  When a new user joins the site, as well as being a "greenie" how about a two week delay before Chatterbank can be accessed?  This may seem harsh but it may put off those people who just want to ask if you want a beer etc.  If they then get "a feel" for the site and like what they see then lift restrictions, and hopefully everyone will all be singing from the same songsheet so to speak!  I dont want to appear to be elitist in any way, but I think many people feel like me as well but dont want to say so! 

I love AB and I dont want to see it ruined by mindless plebs with nothing more to do than watch paint dry!

[blueeyedlass]

all these people moaning about chatterbank and yet they feel the need to moan about it over and over well then surely this is taking up room and wasting time as much as the chatters at cb?? i thought if a question has been asked it doesnt need to be asked again ? so why at least once a week is someone in here moaning about the same thing???

[georgit79]

Agree with you- but it just seems to be a few posters who think it is worth posting 'questions' like "I'm off to bed now, night!' or 'Yummy yummy scrummy that was the sound of me eating a turkish delight'. More to the point, who answers those threads?!

Let's have proper stuff on Chatterbank- it's getting a bit inane and I might not log on anymore if the questions remain in the same vein...

[VINNY100_2]

6 questions by the same person on chatterBank!!say no more.12:50 pm.

[45703]

As georgit79 has said I think it is those questions (what time is it) that are pushing questions off the front page too quick that annoy new and regulars users. I�m sure everyone is welcome on AB just some commonsense needed.

[Robinia]

Like woofgang I still post on AB & CB but have,as far as I remember, only posted one question in Chatterbank.  I really would have liked my recent question about childhood to be in Chat but I had to put it in Body & Soul as I knew it would be off the first page in minutes. 

[shaneystar]

We now seem to have someone posting stupid remarks on Q&P.I don't mind CB if it's something that interests me I will join in but all this other futile stuff is so boring and it pushes all the other stuff off the page.If there is an interesting thread you miss it.I am more than happy to give someone an answer for their quiz or puzzle.Most or should I all of us on there have a common interest .So perhaps missprim will take herself back to CB where her comments will probably more than welcome.

[blueeyedlass]

well i have recently noticed that some questions do get moved from chatterbank into other sections a couple i have answered in cb have been moved so it looks like i was being chatty in other sections.so its not always how it looks ( whoever it was that said people are starting to turn the whole thing into a chat room ) !!!

[blueeyedlass]

and shaneystar if that miss prim you are refering to is me then am i not entitled to my opinion too without someone making it personal with their snide little comments???

[shaneystar]

I don't know or care if you are missprim or not..All I know is that whoever they are... .they are making sarcastic comments on Q&P.

[blueeyedlass]

well if you had just read my last post you will see that some of the posts are being moved from chatterbank into other sections so this might be the reason for that.

[georgit79]

woah, blueeyedlass, before you go getting all humpy (is that an adjective?), missprim is a user who is posting loads of silly pointless comments in the Quizzes & Puzzles section. So don't worry he wasn't having a dig!

[shaneystar]

I don't wish to offend you bel but why would AB ED move the posts I am referring to over to Q&P.It's a mystery to me!! I have never seen this person before on any section.Perhapos it's planestinker in disguise!!

[blueeyedlass]

hi shanystar ive just been to the q and p section sorry i got the wrong end of the stick i thought you were getting a dig at my earlier answer on here. i dont go to qandp so didnt realise someone had been posting under the name miss prim . so i do apologise.

[blueeyedlass]

sorryyyyyyy

[acw]

I agree with bruce, and also vinny and redshoot's suggestions.

According to the latest rules being handed down by the CBers, this is, however, not allowed.  Agreeing with people is not to be accepted. 

I think the idea of limited the number of Qs each person posts per day on CB is a great idea. 

Oh - and I realise it's WAY too much work for over-stretched enough alread ABE, but combining all the "good morning", "good night" and "what time is it posts" would be brilliant.  That way, new threads would stand a chance of being seen.

The only reason why I started a thread for Artful yesterday, when one was already going, was that I simply didn't see the first one because it had already been "pushed out".  Was a shame that we couldn't all contribute together, but I'm not going to start scrolling through 7 sets of 20 questions to find the begninning of the day.  Sorry.

[shaneystar]

No problem!!
On a way back thread on Q&P some of us had given answers to a x word .The questioner thanked us and said if they won they would share the prize! I just quipped back that I was partial to a box of chocs .Whoever missprim is they have gone to an awful lot of trouble to wade through an awful lot of what is ,probably,to them,boring crossword answers ,just to make a silly comment. It's people like this that upset the applecart for all AB users.:)

[mfewell]

Does anyone get seriously disturbed by the on the edge a bit smutty stuff that gets on here ?  I only wondered because it's Friday afternoon and people might be drifting back from the pub. Questions might become a bit more surreal than "who wants a cup of tea?"

[shaneystar]

acw ... If they limit our posts to two per day over on Q&P some of us over there would never finish our crosswords!!

[acw]

One or 2 per day on CB I meant!!!!  :-p :-)

[shaneystar]

Thank goodness for that!
I was beginning to suffer from withdrawal symptons!!!