Natasha Whittam wrote: Sluffy wrote:I guess the old saying that we judge others against ourselves must be true then, if your belief is that a mods job is to take the lead and be centre stage of a forum, whereas my belief is to provide the forum and allow others to be the stars of the show and the characters we all love or hate.
I'm not asking you to be centre stage, I'm asking you to make an effort to save the site from dying off. Someone viewing the site for the first time today is likely to think it's a news site with a handful of comments.
My reasons are purely selfish, I like it on here and don't want it to end up like Bolton Banter or Burnden Aces. Not so long ago I could spend all day on here, there was always some crazy thread going on to keep me entertained - and not a BN news story in sight.
Unless something changes, I'm going to have to start working for a living.
What exactly do you want me to do?
I've always been the one over the years to create the circus for others to perform in, it always seemed common sense to me to let people do the things they are good at, you make people laugh and I kept things on a fairly even keel as best as I can. We certainly could not do things better if we swapped about those roles.
You've created a certain amount of mayhem over the time we've been together on forums and that's created a lot of fun - but things started to go wrong when people started to bring their own agendas on here to get certain posters banned and even set up rival forums.
I'm somewhat ridiculed these days for my constantly stated truism, that we are nothing but an irrelevant, not to be taken too seriously, internet footy forum - but that is exactly what we really are and why people come to the site for a few moments escape from what's going on in their real lives - for a bit of news about the club and hopefully a laugh or two.
Well we still provide the news part but the incessant personal abuse, the constant negativity flowing from the agendas a handful of posters hold on stuff such as Brexit, and Trump (which of course is about as meaningful as arguing about politics or religion because no one ever changes their minds and joins the other side) as inevitably taken it's toll on the enjoyment and fun factor side of the forum.
Added to that the unsubstantiated diatribe that at least one poster has, constantly banged on about Anderson being here simply to plunder the club for his self-enrichment, with out one iota of proof and despite the fact that he's been at the club for coming up to three years and we have won promotion, stayed in the Championship despite being big favourites with everyone to return, build a side with no money and being in embargo, where we are currently (after just three games admittedly) sat in the play off places and are on course to make a profit this season!
God if that's the case he really must be the worst crook in the world.
I don't apologise for attempting to put the opposite view (and provide actual facts) to challenge such shite and to keep it off the forum - and push it back to the Bolton News comments page where the other anti-Anderson trolls seem to inhabit.
So I ask again what do you expect from me?
I/we have built Nuts for others to enjoy, we've done the things we are best at and have provided a good solid platform for everyone to post on. It's up to others to determine what fun it is on here because I'm not the funny guy, I'm simply the straight guy that sets up the jokes/forum for others.
Nuts is provided to you all for free, if you really want it to be your stage then go ahead - take the lead in us rising from the ashes, bring back Chris Amos and see if we really would ditch poor Boggers?