General Chat

Perhaps some people have become reticent to post Island, because they feel they might be shot down in flames. I know I have :-(

Sorry Tec but I do not call threads with high double figures of views and very low single figures of posts 'community spirit'.

At the end of the day ;-) it is what is on here.....views are different, fun and silliness is different, people are different. The boards are here to be enjoyed for everyone .....

Sometimes things are voiced in away as to some know what is being talked about and others dont.....can sometimes be misconstrued or not understood at all.....

I would like to say I like to participate in many threads and hopefully without rudeness, upset or come across the wrong way, if I am wrong as others it is nice to apologise and move on.......

Long may the threads reign with all kinds of posters with all kinds of subjects, fun or serious......

GR do have some serious issues to sort out in my opinion more so like Sylvia mentioned about the error messages and also the notifications.....There is hardly any communication between the posters and GR anymore......

Communication is a wonderful thing and expressed in different ways can be
enjoyed by a variety of all kinds of persons.....

Just saying :-D ;-)

Things have been quiet on the boards lately, but I seem to remember the same thing happened last summer.
People are away on holiday and take time to return here, others have other things to do, but come back as the nights draw in.

As for the irritating RRer, well those sad people are best ignored.

As for community spirit - earlier this year I spent nearly three months in hospital, and came out minus a leg.
At one time things looked grim, and my life was in the balance, but I won't go into all that.

During that time Shaun on the Welsh thread compiled a booklet of all the people on here who had sent messages wishing me well. Kind, heart warming messages from many people I had never "spoken" to.
To say that I was astonished that forty five GR members had sent messages to me is an under statement.

Those messages really did make a difference when I was at a very low ebb, and I can't tell you how much.

I am home now, and life goes on, though sadly my OH is now in a home.

The point I'm trying to make is that the community spirit is still alive and well here, and I for one are grateful for it.

Tec

There are times when I wish I could say something refreshing & unexpected on these threads.

And then on odd occasions, being a Gemini, I'm forced to bridle my tongue.

a lot of the "oldsters" have left, and there's very little "new blood" coming in

people lost patience with continual Error messages, problems with the tree, etc etc



and now the Error message is creeping back in, there's no (or very little) email notification of new pms, etc etc



GR itself is stagnating

I don't think the stagnation has anything to do with RRers....... In my opinion that is......tis cos it is all old hat and what there is to say has already been said.....Tis no longer the novelty it was......we hang on for various reasons.


Edit.....I take some of that back......where is the lack of Community spirit? ..look at Sharron's threads for instance...... A thriving mixed community adds to her threads regularly as do they on a few other threads.....some threads are obviously just for those on them but hey ho.........I like the threads who accept all who enter them as long as they behave themselves.....Those threads will always have all sorts participating and not just the few.......My opinion of course......and as I say......nowt to do with RRers

We try our best Uzzi but wonder if it is worth it. :-\
There's not enough community spirit!

Prickles I was on the same song

For united we stand, divided we fall
And if our backs should ever be against the wall
We'll be together, together, you and I.

Ooops, sorry........I went off on one!!

:-D :-D

reminisce is the word,
Just thinking back when my threads would have dropped off the board or become the amusing threads they were meant.
I know the GR community is still active so why have we allowed the boards to stagnate.
If we stagnate the RR has their way
WE AS A COMMUNITY are better than RR´s

Hold together because together we are strong apart we are just a twig cast adrift :-D