lies on the forum

[alant]

An excellent question.

Personally, I'd be prepared to pay say £50pa, or thereabouts. However I suspect a charge at that level would reduce membership to an excessive extent. So perhaps a figure in the region of £20pa might be reasonable.

What about a combined annual charge of say £50, to give access to the forums AND to all editorial content in PBO, YM and MBM? Or some variation of that general idea?

Wot, free issues of all the mags?

 

[Searush]

Wot, free issues of all the mags?

After you've paid the fifty squid . . . Don't you read the posts you respond to?

 

[alant]

After you've paid the fifty squid . . . Don't you read the posts you respond to?

The £50, was for access to the forums.

get a grip searush!

 

[quimby]

50p and I might consider it!

 

[fireball]

An excellent question.

Personally, I'd be prepared to pay say £50pa, or thereabouts. However I suspect a charge at that level would reduce membership to an excessive extent. So perhaps a figure in the region of £20pa might be reasonable.

What about a combined annual charge of say £50, to give access to the forums AND to all editorial content in PBO, YM and MBM? Or some variation of that general idea?

Or how about pay for access to certain forums orr perhaps payp ?!or a fine of complaints are made about your post and upheld by moderator. That'll be a nice cash generator!

 

[Madhatter]

£50 to go on a forum that :-
sells your details to the highest bidder
deletes posts/threads without explanations
whose members insult and deride one and other

I do enjoy some sections of these fora but as for paying money to come on them - "no way hosa' "( however you spell it )

 

[Searush]

The £50, was for access to the forums.

get a grip searush!

"And ACCESS TO ALL MAGAZINE CONTENT". Sorry, didn't mean to shout, the Mods may hear me.

 

[FishyInverness]

I do enjoy some sections of these fora but as for paying money to come on them - "no way hosa' "( however you spell it )

It's José you flaming idiot!!! (said with Tongue firmly in cheek given your last post smiley!)

 

[duncanmack]

It's José you flaming idiot!!! (said with Tongue firmly in cheek given your last post smiley!)

Hi Fishy. Do I know you? You look familiar, but why are you sitting on that bloke's head?

 

[Richard Shead]

All good Saturday night entertainment ....

 

[FishyInverness]

Hi Fishy. Do I know you? You look familiar, but why are you sitting on that bloke's head?

He's my dual identity!

 

[RichardS]

All good Saturday night entertainment ....

It's this or the X-Factor at chez-nous!

Richard

 

[Richard Shead]

It's this or the X-Factor at chez-nous!

Richard

Snap to our names and snap to our evenings ....

 

[Colvic Watson]

Sounds fishy to me

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

The mods have made it very clear, they don't have the time nor resources, to do the fine dicing of removing individual posts. It is very time consuming, so I can understand their issue. Not just in reading the whole and related threads, but understanding the legal issues of each and every post in the thread. I know Kim used to complain about the issue, and he was a full on moderator, on these forums all hours of day and night,and things were a lot quieter then, and I used to read every post - I can't do that now, nor can any moderator on here. They have to resort to blunt instruments.

If they actually moved the site on from being 'just' a forum and started to create a sailing site with lots of functionality, then the marketing opportunities available from an ABC1 audience would be collossal... But then IPC seem to stuck on the dying art of printed media...

 

[Elessar]

A company tells lies. And the truth gets out.

Lots of information of use to boaters, it may even keep them safe. But its getting uncomfortable for the company.

So make a complaint and poof it's gone.

I get the fact that the moderators can't read and edit every thread. Generally they have to be pulled if their is any doubt of illegality.

Sometimes though the information is just too valuable to boaters, and the effort should be made to edit the thread not pull it.

So the effort was being made. I apologise for this comment and this thread.

I didn't believe Natalie's comment when I started this thread.

I didn't think effort was being made, clearly I was wrong in this and my subsequent comments.

Well done and thank you Natalie and all those who helped.

And all without adverts Brendon.

 

[Madhatter]

It's José you flaming idiot!!! (said with Tongue firmly in cheek given your last post smiley!)

Look "ere" how dare you call me an irriot

 

[alant]

If they actually moved the site on from being 'just' a forum and started to create a sailing site with lots of functionality, then the marketing opportunities available from an ABC1 audience would be collossal... But then IPC seem to stuck on the dying art of printed media...

What makes you think its only ABC1's that are interested in sailing?

 

[photodog]

If they actually moved the site on from being 'just' a forum and started to create a sailing site with lots of functionality, then the marketing opportunities available from an ABC1 audience would be collossal... But then IPC seem to stuck on the dying art of printed media...

Ahh! But you see, There is Money in Ink. IPC run a profitable printing business... Versus there is only one media/news website in the UK that I am aware of that makes money..... and that is the Daily Mail.

 

[Coaster]

What makes you think its only ABC1's that are interested in sailing?

I hesitate to speak for another, especially someone that doesn't spell correctly, but Phoenix does not claim that only ABC1s are interested in sailing. What Phoenix presumably does mean is that there's a much higher proportion of ABC1s in the sailing fraternity than in the population at large.

I'd agree with that. Do you dispute it?