Just a thought

[Leon]

guys and girls, I (when I have broadband ) come on here to see pictures and chat Photography, I know current affairs are part of life but I really do not want to come here and read more about the doom and gloom of the world, plus at least one member here is probably sick of the "Jessops" subject?

can we not stick to the topic of the forum more?

If I'm out of order I'll sink back into my corner and please delete/lock the thread, just my thoughts

Regards, Leon

[Guest]

+1

[colinb]

I understand what you are saying Leon and don't disagree, but sometimes it can help those involved to talk/post about these things in a 'get it off your chest' way?

[Phil]

It's all in hand.

Debates are all well and good but for some reason they get heated far too quickly which is alien to the spirit of TIPF.

[fuzzyedges]

Am I the only person that thinks the open forum (for anything photographic or anything else) is actually designed to air these type of views

If you are underway phil to do somthing about it I would be grateful if you can supply a list of subjects I can and cannot talk about

[Phil]

Am I the only person that thinks the open forum (for anything photographic or anything else) is actually designed to air these type of views

If you are underway phil to do somthing about it I would be grateful if you can supply a list of subjects I can and cannot talk about

I'm all in favour of a healthy debate on any subject and the Open Forum is just the place to do it, but I will not stand by and allow the debates to turn into offensive slanging matches. I'm referring specifically to the Jessops episode which I am now putting a halt to.

I would like to think we are all amiable folk here so the parties involved must either shake hands and agree to disagree or find somewhere else to voice their opinions.

[NannyFerret]

I think a discussion/debate can be very good to put forward our personal views etc. Slanging isn't any good to anyone and it spoils the forum.

I hope to think that I haven't made any remarks that may have been misconstrued by anyone and as part of the public that has shopped with Jessops and the other stores that have gone down, i wish them all luck in finding other jobs as the staff have all served the public well.

[Kobione]

I think that chat about other subjects, if kept in balance with the main objectives of a forum, can help that forum continue in a community sense. All of us, at some point face things where it is nice to 'off load', and a sense of 'having friends' to support can be helpful. Leon,I fully agree that you cannot, in any way, change all the bad things going on in the world, and I don't deliberately delve in to subjects that sadden, or anger me, (not on here, I mean in a general world news sense.)

If a thread on here starts getting too heated, sorry, but I dib out, doesn't mean that I don't feel for the people!

[Leon]

I think I may not have explained myself properly maybe?

I am a realist I know the world is a crappy place, I know we all have different opinions that is what makes a forum, what I was getting at is the one subject which is close to someone's heart, we have a member who has lost his job thanks to a big company going bust, the subject was locked by admin (good work admin peeps) but more threads on the same subject keep coming up, if that was me I would not want it to keep appearing in my online community!!

now I know people may think I am just an outspoken idiot with too many opinions but it's not about me is it?

[Guest]

well said Leon. The companies going out of business is a hot topic but as a group of "friends" I feel we have to have a certain amount of tact and diplomacy when any recent hot topic affects one of our "friends" directly. When someone has lost their livelihood they don't want to read us posting about how it was bound to happen and how the company was to blame.

so lets use some tact and diplomacy and talk about the weather which is the current hot topic.

[NannyFerret]

talk about the weather which is the current hot topic.

HOT? :evil:

[Guest]

well current popular topic lol

[Alan]

May be the threads in question would not have got out of hand if some members did not come across as being whiter than white.

[Phil]

May be the threads in question would not have got out of hand if some members did not come across as being whiter than white.

Oops, another locked topic!