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Bodger



Joined: 23 May 2006
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 16, 06 7:04 am    Post subject: I've plucked up courage to ask Reply with quote
    

A few serious questions. I don't intend to be troublesome and I hope that the moderators can see the reasons why I feel the need to ask:-

Why was it decided in the first place to keep this section secret and to keep the majority of the forum members ignorant of its very existance ?

How were the members selected for membership to it ?

I'm sure that in bringing these questions up that I'm voicing concerns that other people have .
Having looked at the dates of the threads , its obviously been around for some considerable time.
I'm very pleased that its been made available to the full membership , but its appearance has left me with a bit of an us and them feeling !

sally_in_wales
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 16, 06 7:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

As best I can remember, it was originally a section for people with trading banners on the site. But we were either all really lazy and didnt use it to talk about banners and ads here, or when we did it was a general question that was clearly of much wider interest to everyone with small business interests. I think that was all, and when that became apparent it had a quick name change and came out to be more useful generally

cab



Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

PostPosted: Thu Nov 16, 06 8:30 am    Post subject: Re: I've plucked up courage to ask Reply with quote
    

bodger wrote:

Why was it decided in the first place to keep this section secret and to keep the majority of the forum members ignorant of its very existance ?


We have a number of 'secret' forums here.

Theres one called 'staff room' where moderators get to discuss how the site works, where we work out what to do with things that need moderating, where we keep track of spam-bots that come and register with the site, etc. Thats viewable by the whole modding team.

Theres one called 'publishing' where articles for review are posted; most of the articles that make it to the front page go through there to get knocked into shape. Thats viewable by anyone who is commonly involved in the editing and publising of those articles.

So we have fora like that where, for purely dull, site admin matters we have restricted acces. Trust me, they're dull, but they're necessary.

This forum was originally a place where people who were advertisers here (they've applied to get their ad accepted here and been accepted) could talk about issues arising from that; what they wanted from being advertisers here, what their goals were. But we also used to get questions here that didn't need to be kept out of the public eye, and we really weren't getting topics that needed to be kept secret. And as we've got a whole load of small traders here other than those who already advertise on the site, there was nothing to be gained from leaving this forum as it was, it could just as well be open to all.

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How were the members selected for membership to it ?


People who had been accepted by our vetting group to advertise (for free - we do not get any money for the ads) on the site.

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I'm sure that in bringing these questions up that I'm voicing concerns that other people have .
Having looked at the dates of the threads , its obviously been around for some considerable time.
I'm very pleased that its been made available to the full membership , but its appearance has left me with a bit of an us and them feeling !


Thats one of the very good reasons to make this a public forum rather than a private one; when theres a good reason to keep something private ('staff room' for example) thats one thing, but it was apparent that we didn't have to keep this one private, so that was changed.

Bodger



Joined: 23 May 2006
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 16, 06 8:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Thats a perfectly satisfactory explanation.
Thanks for that.

Blacksmith



Joined: 25 Jan 2005
Posts: 5025
Location: Berkshire
PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 06 5:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Thank goodness you didn't let slip about the "naked ,oiled ,twister web cam , forum " phew !!

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45672
Location: Essex
PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 06 5:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Blacksmith wrote:
Thank goodness you didn't let slip about the "naked ,oiled ,twister web cam , forum " phew !!


That was supposed to be between you, me, and Jonnyboy

sean
Downsizer Moderator


Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon
PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 06 6:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I feel all excluded now.

tahir



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PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 06 6:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

sean wrote:
I feel all excluded now.


See what you've done now? Blacksmith....

Blacksmith



Joined: 25 Jan 2005
Posts: 5025
Location: Berkshire
PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 06 9:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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Becki



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PostPosted: Sat Nov 18, 06 12:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I never saw it either, if that's any help bodger?

tahir



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PostPosted: Sat Nov 18, 06 12:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Becki wrote:
I never saw it either


The DVD?

Becki



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Devon
PostPosted: Sun Nov 19, 06 12:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

No. this section of Downsizer

dpack



Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes
PostPosted: Sun Nov 19, 06 4:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

handy
ive asked and answered stuff that goes here in all sorts of places
thanks .

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