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Depends Aquamarine... have you got any white choc chip? :P I don't like milk or dark chocolate... lol :)

Edit: Just saw the post above - I'll go with xmas cookies. :D

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Is it weird that I really want to hear these rants everyone seems to have building up? :P

Also, I started this thread, and still nobody has shared a cookie with me! Please? :)

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Well you could move the "discussion" posts to the suggestion area of the forum where we could discuss this and leave what could this , em, converation (?) about cookies here, where I think both things may be better served.

By the way, I like M&S's bakery cookies.

Now to the more important topic and this is something I mentioned earlier on in the week. A while back one of the moderators mentioned how time consuming it was to check every thread making sure that nothing untowards was happening in that particular thread.

That comes across, I don't know obsessive. I compared it to the "police" also being involved as "street cleaners" as well.

Since I'm not a moderator, I've not seen the mod log, but, apparently they get notified some trivial things. There's a small minority of the members here that I consider to be far too serious, who take a joy on calling the fellow members up for their midemeanours and probably they report a lot to the moderators as well.

However, say if your next door neighbour was growing cannabis in the bath, would you inform the police of it. OK, I don't want to go deep into the legality of that in itself, but let's perhaps compare it to something minor as a double post. I don't know how many times a double post gets reported, but whilst it may make you look temporarily like a div, it's comparably harmless. I've no doubt it's also incredibly boring to go delete it.

Bringing the cannibis analogy back, were the police to find some in the bath, they then wouldn't check every other bath in the area to check they weren't growing cannibis, sort of bringing us back to the "check if there's nothing untowards" comment once made.

I know a lot of the untowards stuff uncovered will just by the mod saying "Oh, Ryan's made a thread about birds crapping on you" and then they come across the Ste has double posted about the time he was walking along Sauchiehall Street. They'll probably delete it because it make the thread a slightly better read, but that post made, perhaps innocently, gives me the impression of the mods going around the forum like that hoover on the Teletubbies looking to suck up all the Tubby Custard.

Trying to search for an old thread, I failed, though I didn't come across my great "Divorce: A Viable Career Option for Woman" thread. It was looking for the time I started a thread on the letter R. Anyone else remember it? Then someone took the joke to far. Glares towards Ireland.

In my post in the Unencyclopedia thread today I posted a quote that someone is sure to have said before, though I didn't quote them purposefully. I think that those who claim that the mods are the greatest thing since sliced bread, totally flawless human beings etc are missing it. The mods, and you know, can you sit down for all twelve of them or whatever and write down their own personal flaws, just as they're writing now "Ryan: "Doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut"

Since I'm one of the few members retaining from the early 2004 "clique", I do look back on those days with great fondness. I could reel of some names that none of the newer member would recognise. I personally feel that the site has drifted away from a Home and Away site. Perhaps we were guilty of that with the inception of the "The Oldies" thread, perhaps the cliquest thread of all, which was a thread specifically set up with the sole purpose for that group of members to talk betwene themselves.

Anyway, during that time the priority of the members seems to have changed. They want spoilers, they want to make artwork or they want to right fanfics, as well as talking about nothing or boring games.

Unknown to many I am second longest serving member of BTTB staff, bettered only in length of time served by Chris and such have always been around when a new rule was brought in.

It's something I've said before and will continue to say again, because I feel it's of upmost importance when moderators come to make decisions. Remember why the rule was brought in! Some of what actually happens are urban myths, others have a whole lot of truth in them.

For instance, my example is the episodes situation, that the rules weren't brought in to stop members with 20 posts requesting two or three episodes because they happened to set the recording crapply, (it was your fault, don't blame the VCR), it was a rule brought in because of the onslaught of of people signing up and immediately requesting 5, 10 episodes. It was probably less than 10 people that did it anyway.

Some I should probably get around to my summing up which is yes, there is problems and I will usually stick my beak in and give an opinion, but there is also a lot of good here, but talking about the stuff that is good isn't nearly as fun!

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  Chris J said:
Is it weird that I really want to hear these rants everyone seems to have building up? :P

Also, I started this thread, and still nobody has shared a cookie with me! Please? :)

You get the coolest cookie ever! :wink:

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I think my biggest problem with the site is negative feedback or "moaning" regarding the board seems (to me) to be frowned upon. I get the impression that it's a "Don't like it? Leave!" sort of thing.

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I think part of the problem is we end up in a cylcle of

"This rule is ****"

"Do you have any ideas to make it better?"

"Em, no"

We all like to criticise the site, the mods, the colour scheme etc, but nobody has a viable alternative.

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Fair enough on some counts, but I have seen people propose ideas of how things could have been done differently. In fact, I think Elise (I'm sorry to use you as an example) even mentioned ideas today. I just find it unreasonable, and sometimes even annoying, that it seems everytime someone provides negative feedback, I see comments such as "If you don't like it, ignore it" or "You're so ungrateful, you complain about everything". I know the site is privately owned, but how are we to improve as a site, forum, and community if negative feedback is frowned upon by some?

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