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I personally think it was a good move from admin. The first page seems a lot busier with responses. That might not be the case but where before responses to threads were spread now they are in one place makes it seem that way.
What do others think?
I like it! All the chatter in one place. Now if they'd move the current affairs forum in here too that would make it back to normal! I like reading everything but I'm not hugely up on current affairs. Sometimes it's good to read them, I learn stuff when its not all full of aggro. I think there'd be more people contributing to them if they were in the cafe too. I'm sure others like me look at the current affairs forum and think they're not smart/interested enough to get involved.
Personally I hate the games here, looks horrid, the introduction is a good move IMO.
Apart from I keep clicking on the second forum down the list assuming it's the cafe
banghead
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I like it! All the chatter in one place. Now if they'd move the current affairs forum in here too that would make it back to normal! I like reading everything but I'm not hugely up on current affairs. Sometimes it's good to read them, I learn stuff when its not all full of aggro. I think there'd be more people contributing to them if they were in the cafe too. I'm sure others like me look at the current affairs forum and think they're not smart/interested enough to get involved.

But that wouldn't be back to normal. Back to normal as in as it was years ago is as it is right now. I showed by linking to the forum in its previous state that the glut of Current affairs topics now in the current affairs forum never really existed until that forum was made. The previous version of the cafe was pretty much current affairs free. I wouldn't put the CA in here you will just draw more people into some of the highly debated threads which to me is a bad thing. The forum stops becoming fun then IMHO. ITs easy to see there are folk from the CA who really dont like each other, I wouldn't spread that into the cafe.
As for the other merge so far yes I like it :thumbup:
Back to normal since I've been here! wink
love it much better flowing or at least looking that way
also with DG on bringing in the CA i know there used to be some forumites bleeting on about not liking them but i said it before they split it and i stand by it still if you don't like such threads just don't open the buggers
over the years there has been a few threads i have never even opened as the title told me straight away it was not for me and it would get me wound up so i avoided it plain n simple
but also agree again with DG that it is nice to read um from time to time as you actually learn summat sometimes my opinion on some things have actually been altered even if only slightly by things i learnt in such threads but yet with them in a seperate forum its as rare as hens teeth i even go in there
I'm not a fan of all the games threads. It feels a bit overwhelmed by them at the mo.
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Back to normal as in as it was years ago is as it is right now.

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Back to normal since I've been here! wink

dunno Seem to have said the same thing
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love it much better flowing or at least looking that way
also with DG on bringing in the CA i know there used to be some forumites bleeting on about not liking them but i said it before they split it and i stand by it still if you don't like such threads just don't open the buggers
over the years there has been a few threads i have never even opened as the title told me straight away it was not for me and it would get me wound up so i avoided it plain n simple
but also agree again with DG that it is nice to read um from time to time as you actually learn summat sometimes my opinion on some things have actually been altered even if only slightly by things i learnt in such threads but yet with them in a separate forum its as rare as hens teeth i even go in there

I stick by what I have said in many previous threads. This is not a Current affairs forum, there are plenty of places on the web to debate current affairs should you wish to. The types of thread in the CA hardly ever existed prior to the creation of the CA forum. In one way I would be for the merging of the CA forum as that means closing it down lol I dont think a CA forum should be on the list of forums in a swingers community. The problem with that is now that the CA community has formed and there are posters who like to post in there then closing it will bring the threads in here sad Yes I dont have to read them but it is not only me thats affected and and I am also affected by not reading them :shock: Thats because others who may not have read them tucked away in the CA forum will read them in the cafe. They are then more prone to becoming part of the bickering squad that goes on around some of those threads and often carries over into cafe threads.
I think the best way to look at this is if the CA forum was not created a few years back would we now be saying lets make the Cafe title
The Cafe
General discussion and chit-chat and current affairs. Post anything here that is NOT a Meet Up or about Dogging.
I think not.
Quote by Dirtygirly
I like it! All the chatter in one place. Now if they'd move the current affairs forum in here too .

Ditto
Quote by tweeky
Back to normal as in as it was years ago is as it is right now.

Quote by Dirtygirly
Back to normal since I've been here! wink

dunno Seem to have said the same thing
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love it much better flowing or at least looking that way
also with DG on bringing in the CA i know there used to be some forumites bleeting on about not liking them but i said it before they split it and i stand by it still if you don't like such threads just don't open the buggers
over the years there has been a few threads i have never even opened as the title told me straight away it was not for me and it would get me wound up so i avoided it plain n simple
but also agree again with DG that it is nice to read um from time to time as you actually learn summat sometimes my opinion on some things have actually been altered even if only slightly by things i learnt in such threads but yet with them in a separate forum its as rare as hens teeth i even go in there

I stick by what I have said in many previous threads. This is not a Current affairs forum, there are plenty of places on the web to debate current affairs should you wish to. The types of thread in the CA hardly ever existed prior to the creation of the CA forum. In one way I would be for the merging of the CA forum as that means closing it down lol I dont think a CA forum should be on the list of forums in a swingers community. The problem with that is now that the CA community has formed and there are posters who like to post in there then closing it will bring the threads in here sad Yes I dont have to read them but it is not only me thats affected and and I am also affected by not reading them :shock: Thats because others who may not have read them tucked away in the CA forum will read them in the cafe. They are then more prone to becoming part of the bickering squad that goes on around some of those threads and often carries over into cafe threads.
I think the best way to look at this is if the CA forum was not created a few years back would we now be saying lets make the Cafe title
The Cafe
General discussion and chit-chat and current affairs. Post anything here that is NOT a Meet Up or about Dogging.
I think not.
been using these forums since mid 2005 hun and there has always been threads that would come under the title CA and there has always been bickering yet i still feel it was better when it was all merged into one but that is just a personal opinion
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I stick by what I have said in many previous threads. This is not a Current affairs forum, there are plenty of places on the web to debate current affairs should you wish to.

Yeah but there are probably very few where it would be acceptable during a conversation to suggest popping round for some gratuitous sex.
On most current affairs forums I should imagine it would be taken the wrong way if someone was to suggest fucking someone up the arse ....whereas here lol
:giggle:
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been using these forums since mid 2005 hun and there has always been threads that would come under the title CA and there has always been bickering yet i still feel it was better when it was all merged into one but that is just a personal opinion

This... exactly what I meant but for me since 2006! :thumbup:
Erm.... Whats a forum?
innocent
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Erm.... Whats a forum?
innocent

Open public space in the middle of a Roman city wink
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been using these forums since mid 2005 hun and there has always been threads that would come under the title CA and there has always been bickering yet i still feel it was better when it was all merged into one but that is just a personal opinion

Actually not, only the odd few and I provided the links to prove that point in previous threads. Not going to keep putting them up. You can check the forum through history and if you go back prior to CA forum being added there were very few if any CA type threads. Yes there was bickering but it was about different issues.
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Yeah but there are probably very few where it would be acceptable during a conversation to suggest popping round for some gratuitous sex.
On most current affairs forums I should imagine it would be taken the wrong way if someone was to suggest fucking someone up the arse ....whereas here lol

Same points made over and over but badly. We couldent do the above on a Gardening forum, medical forum etc etc etc etc etc etc so lets have those two forums as well rolleyes Then later we could suggest merging them into the cafe :lol:
I dont like it .... a place for everything and everything in its place and all that
i hadnt realised at first that the forums had merged ... i just wondered why the page looked different lol
i cant rember what i said before the merge but as it is now i dont much like it .. try as i might, i simply dont like "the just for fun" threads and i dont care much for introduction threads either
i do like the CA forums and i read it but dont often post on it but im not bothered if its merged or not with the others
iv been here since july 2005 and there have always been similar threads to the CA ones of now
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I dont like it .... a place for everything and everything in its place and all that

I'm with Fun on this... the JFF should have it's own place as it can sometimes be "fast and furious" and the other threads get in the way - perhaps to the great annoyance of regular Café forumites...
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I dont like it .... a place for everything and everything in its place and all that

I'm with Fun on this... the JFF should have it's own place as it can sometimes be "fast and furious" and the other threads get in the way - perhaps to the great annoyance of regular Café forumites...
I agree it is looking a bit like that, I thought it would just settle down like old times, but can see others points
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i hadnt realised at first that the forums had merged ... i just wondered why the page looked different lol
i cant rember what i said before the merge but as it is now i dont much like it .. try as i might, i simply dont like "the just for fun" threads and i dont care much for introduction threads either
i do like the CA forums and i read it but dont often post on it but im not bothered if its merged or not with the others
iv been here since july 2005 and there have always been similar threads to the CA ones of now

As its panto season ........... OHhhhhHHH noooooOOoooOOOOooooOO there hasn't rotflmao or at least nowhere near in the quantities there are now. do the searches yourself and you will find front pages of the cafe from all dates without hardly a CA/political thread on them.
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I dont like it .... a place for everything and everything in its place and all that

I'm with Fun on this... the JFF should have it's own place as it can sometimes be "fast and furious" and the other threads get in the way - perhaps to the great annoyance of regular Café forumites...
I agree it is looking a bit like that, I thought it would just settle down like old times, but can see others points
Right now out of the first 10 posts only 2 are JFF threads dunno
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I dont like it .... a place for everything and everything in its place and all that

I'm with Fun on this... the JFF should have it's own place as it can sometimes be "fast and furious" and the other threads get in the way - perhaps to the great annoyance of regular Café forumites...
I agree it is looking a bit like that, I thought it would just settle down like old times, but can see others points
Right now out of the first 10 posts only 2 are JFF threads dunno
but that's exactly the point tweeks. The other ones are getting in the way of the JFF ones!
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but that's exactly the point tweeks. The other ones are getting in the way of the JFF ones!

I think the message is all ass backwards GNV confused??: Broken it down below so you can see my way of thinking.
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I'm with Fun on this... the JFF should have it's own place as it can sometimes be "fast and furious" If it is the posts will stay at the top of the forum dunno and the other threads get in the way How? if they are updated often enough they will stay at the top - perhaps to the great annoyance of regular Café forumites... How do the JFF threads not being at the top annoy Cafe forumites?

All a bit confused for my mind.
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i hadnt realised at first that the forums had merged ... i just wondered why the page looked different lol
i cant rember what i said before the merge but as it is now i dont much like it .. try as i might, i simply dont like "the just for fun" threads and i dont care much for introduction threads either
i do like the CA forums and i read it but dont often post on it but im not bothered if its merged or not with the others
iv been here since july 2005 and there have always been similar threads to the CA ones of now

As its panto season ........... OHhhhhHHH noooooOOoooOOOOooooOO there hasn't rotflmao or at least nowhere near in the quantities there are now. do the searches yourself and you will find front pages of the cafe from all dates without hardly a CA/political thread on them.
i have better things to do with my time than do a search ..... i am probably wrong with what i can remember and im sure you are right
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i hadnt realised at first that the forums had merged ... i just wondered why the page looked different lol
i cant rember what i said before the merge but as it is now i dont much like it .. try as i might, i simply dont like "the just for fun" threads and i dont care much for introduction threads either
i do like the CA forums and i read it but dont often post on it but im not bothered if its merged or not with the others
iv been here since july 2005 and there have always been similar threads to the CA ones of now

As its panto season ........... OHhhhhHHH noooooOOoooOOOOooooOO there hasn't rotflmao or at least nowhere near in the quantities there are now. do the searches yourself and you will find front pages of the cafe from all dates without hardly a CA/political thread on them.
i have better things to do with my time than do a search ..... i am probably wrong with what i can remember and im sure you are right
i didnt actually say the quantites were the same tho, i just said there have always been threads like them !
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i hadnt realised at first that the forums had merged ... i just wondered why the page looked different lol
i cant rember what i said before the merge but as it is now i dont much like it .. try as i might, i simply dont like "the just for fun" threads and i dont care much for introduction threads either
i do like the CA forums and i read it but dont often post on it but im not bothered if its merged or not with the others
iv been here since july 2005 and there have always been similar threads to the CA ones of now

As its panto season ........... OHhhhhHHH noooooOOoooOOOOooooOO there hasn't rotflmao or at least nowhere near in the quantities there are now. do the searches yourself and you will find front pages of the cafe from all dates without hardly a CA/political thread on them.
i have better things to do with my time than do a search ..... i am probably wrong with what i can remember and im sure you are right
i didnt actually say the quantites were the same tho, i just said there have always been threads like them !
And of course you are right there has always been the CA/political type threads they just intensified when a forum with a complimentary name was created. Makes sense really. Its only my opinion but I dont think that will mingle well in the cafe. I just dont think I really want people who surf into a swingers forum to see a first page with Guantanamo bay threads student protest threads and a host of members with politically charged signatures.
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but that's exactly the point tweeks. The other ones are getting in the way of the JFF ones!

I think the message is all ass backwards GNV confused??: Broken it down below so you can see my way of thinking.
Quote by Theladyisaminx
I'm with Fun on this... the JFF should have it's own place as it can sometimes be "fast and furious" If it is the posts will stay at the top of the forum dunno and the other threads get in the way How? if they are updated often enough they will stay at the top - perhaps to the great annoyance of regular Café forumites... How do the JFF threads not being at the top annoy Cafe forumites?

All a bit confused for my mind.
Well, it was all tongue in cheek really tweeks... I much preferred you old avatar as well :lol2:
merge or no merge you will never keep everyone happy
it was split up because of the moaning about the CA threads and the JFF threads getting in the way there was even a thread about it (no i can't find it and boy i have looked gone crossed eyed tryin to find it lol ) and now we got peeps moaning they want it all merged again
so it just goes to prove the old addage "you can't please all of the people all of the time"
i still say get CA back in here but like i said thats just my opinion
Hate it. You think someone's come along with something new and interesting / sexy to talk about but it turns out to be someone saying that they're the last one to in a particular thread. So frickin what - I don't care!
Bringing "fun" threads into The Cafe because it seems quiet or to bump the post count is just masking the inherent problem of a lack of posts!
I'd happily go back to the previous setup where everything had it's place. It's mean I wouldn't have to ignore the first half page of detritus before I got to a real thread worth reading.
But thats just my opinion...
*Him*