Should the ED forum be just for people who live in East Dulwich?

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Gidget Wrote:

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> What is this in joke to do with tea cosies?

Have you ever costed the export of Yak's wool to Singapore?

I haven't either... but I know a man who might have...

[Marie81]

Well said Huguenot!

[giggirl]

You need to get over yourself. Why exclude people for goodness sake? Terrible idea. Keep the doors open and you'll meet people from all walks of life (and Nunhead).

[BrandNewGuy]

My, the non-SE22ers are touchy today! Possibly touchier than a Bugaboo-toting, Cath Kidston-packing yummy mummy trying to get through to Fusion...

On a slightly more serious note, when politicians (or journalists) appear on here fishing for opinions, it might be wise for people to state their whereabouts if they're not 'local'. I'd happily pontificate about CPZs, buggy bans, dog poo patrols etc if I knew it would have no effect on me because I lived miles away. It wouldn't necessarily negate my arguments but it shouldn't be taken as representative of local opinion.

[giggirl]

Charlotte - I think the general consensus is that the forum is for everyone. I do live in ED but my horizons are bigger and, thanks to the forum, I've made friends with other forumites in and out of the SE22 postcode. If you're buying and selling and travel is in issue for you then it's best to say that upfront.

[Huguenot]

Ha ha. Could we all wear yellow stars too, 10 centimeters wide, on the right arm, just below the armpit?

Perhaps we could be restricted only to certain areas of the forum - a sort of ghetto?

Maybe you could wait in alleyways for us with axe handles?

[????]

FFS

Talk about 'cliques' making low volume posters feel unwelcome!!! The OP just politely puts forward a debate on whether the For Sale section should be restricted to SE22, that's all. Otta, one of the longest posters on here, answers this well in the first post pleasently and with some empathy on the for Sale section idea. Then it piles out as per.

I suspect there are a significant number of potential posters who don't post on this board because of this sort of cliquey response which is far too frequent and long standing IMO . Still, Huge gets to stroke his own C8ck once more.

[Huguenot]

"should the ED forum be just for people who live in East Dulwich?"

No she doesn't, she's absolutely clear that it's the forum she's talking about.

BTW what clique is this one? I wasn't aware that gigirl, BNG, Marie81 and myself formed a clique? We don't even agree with each other - I was responding to BNG's suggestion that we identify ourselves when posting as a form of segregating 'valid' opinions from 'non valid' opinions.

You can tell it's a mickey-take by the 'haha' that precedes it.

As for the low volume poster feeling unwelcome, this isn't the fault of a clique. She's just come onto a chat forum she hardly visits and proposed that 20,000 people be banned from posting by virtue of their location.

You think I'm the one that's being unfair?

[Pickle]

Completely agree ????

I don't mind where people are from, but it seems sensible for sellers to state their location if not in the immediate ED area. I found it amusing a year or so ago when I sold a phone on here, to have the buyer first ask where East Dulwich is, then moan about the fact it took him over an hour to get here :)

[hibbs]

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> FFS

>

> Talk about 'cliques' making low volume posters

> feel unwelcome!!! The OP just politely puts

> forward a debate on whether the For Sale section

> should be restricted to SE22, that's all. Otta,

> one of the longest posters on here, answers this

> well in the first post pleasently and with some

> empathy on the for Sale section idea. Then it

> piles out as per.

>

> I suspect there are a significant number of

> potential posters who don't post on this board

> because of this sort of cliquey response which is

> far too frequent and long standing IMO . Still,

> Huge gets to stroke his own C8ck once more.

[Huguenot]

It would surely make sense when buying or selling, but that's not what BNG suggested.

BNG suggested that individuals should have to identify themselves when discussing ED issues.

That's the problem with both of your justifications - you're rewriting the proposals to be something more reasonable than they actually were and then slagging off people who disagree with your new versions.

That's simply misrepresentation. It's dishonest.

Besides which, this sounds like a rather spiteful girl writing a birthday party invite list that starts with all the people they're not going to invite. She'll end up appearing rather horrid, and be sat alone with her party hat crying into stale butterfly cakes.

[????]

As for the low volume poster feeling unwelcome, this isn't the fault of a clique. She's just come onto a chat forum she hardly visits and proposed that 20,000 people be banned from posting by virtue of their location.

You think I'm the one that's being unfair?

No She doesn't huge - Seriously, sometimes actually read what people actually write?

[El Pibe]

I dunno, whilst I get where quids is coming from, and I generally applaud efforts to make people feel welcome, I think he's wrong.

For clique (and there is none) I think we should read the regulars or high volume posters.

Without all the regulars this forum is just buy and sell with some added curtain twitching.

Without them this forum would never have achieved critical mass and it'd still be thirty odd people taking the piss out of each other *sighs* and the low volume types wouldn't be able to flog or buy all that lovely stuff for free, JB couldn't reach out to his (soon to oust him) public, and just think how dull all those CPZ consulations would be without the EDF!!

Actually the family room has generated it's own momentum, regulars and personality which is different to the rest of the EDF, though to be fair it suffers just as much from in-jokes, aggressive responses and trolling as the rest of the site from my limited experiences there (not to mention freezing us poor downtrodden dads out :( )

Pickle, love it!!!

[????]

and I wonder if the angry, spoilt boy who tries to wreck all the games and no one wants to play with will get an invite?

[Huguenot]

Wreck all the games Quids?

I'm not trying to wreck any games - quite the contrary I believe that everyone should be able to play.

Besides which, you forget that 50% or more of your posts on the forum are venting spleen at people like me. Where would you be if there weren't people like me to disagree with?

Not on here.

It's your joy, your passion, your raison d'?tre.

Look at you on this thread, actually changing what she said in order to make me sound more unreasonable than I already am just so you can have a rant! ;-)

[katie1997]

and be sat alone with her party hat crying into stale butterfly cakes.

what's this - the 1970s?

anyway... massive load of (deliberate)?) 'whooshing' going on here, no?

Clearly (to me anyway) the OP was simply pondering whether the 'For Sale' section could be more local. Most people have responded politely and reasonably, pointing out the pros and cons of this. I've never used that section but can imagine it must be annoying to find something you want to buy only to find its miles away to collect but great if selling and your stuff has a better chance of being sold to a wider pool. Not everyone has as much history and knowledge about the forum as others, long-time or frequent posters so its not always a 'game' to them, just a case of asking a question...or so they thought.

What Quid said a million times over.

[giggirl]

Katie Numbers! What are you doing on here? You're definetely off piste.

[katie1997]

Wanna buy a toaster? :))

PS collection only.

[woodrot]

I would post on teh for sale section but due to an administrative error, I am temporarily unable to access it. I live in Penge BTW

[giggirl]

Yes, actually. Get the spare room ready.

[DulwichFox]

My first post here was to sell a Valve Trombone.

Guy that bought it was from Scotland. He paid the full asking price and postage.

Do not really care where the buyer lives..

Would not agree to allow non E.D. Companies advertising themselves on EDF.

Having said that where no local service is available, cannot see problem with someone

here (EDF) reccomending someone outside E.D.

Many people Eating and Drinking in E.D. Pub, Bars and Restaurants come from far afield.

Would anyone even think about barring outsiders from their facilities. ??

Fox

[maxxi]

Listen mush - no one is using MY facilities unless they're friends or family.

[Charlotte86]

Where to start...

My intention was not to offend people and certainly was not to ?propose that 20,000 people be banned from posting by virtue of their location?

Thank you Quids, Pickle and Katie 1997 ? you are right, I was simply just trying to get people?s views on whether they think ED forum (in particular when it comes to selling) be just for people who live in East Dulwich, not implying that I think it should be.

Huguenot - ?She's just come onto a chat forum she hardly visits? ? how do you know how often I visit the site? I regularly read the forum but, as you kindly looked up, I do not post that often.

I suspect that some of your comments are purely intended to get a reaction from people, but as Quids correctly states this does put off low volume potential posters, myself included.

[Gidget]

Huguenot has established his own clique.

[Huguenot]

Charlotte86, you've just negated everything your defenders claim.

"I was simply just trying to get people?s views on whether they think ED forum (in particular when it comes to selling) be just for people who live in East Dulwich"

This is NOT 'just' when it comes to selling, this is 'in particular' when it comes selling. I accept that you have revised your comments, but the essence of what you have repeated is that you are talking about the site in general, and the selling in particular.

It's not me that needs to change my interpretation, but the people who claimed that you were just talking about selling.

You were not, and you are not.

I stand by everything I said.

I'm not trying to get a rise, I'm simply stating the obvious. You contribute next to nothing to this site, and yet you propose to exclude 80% of it's users simply because they're not convenient to you.

More shame on you.