Dry bean. wrote:
G'Day Brett, The reason I post on any forum is to interact with like minded individuals, when little or no response is forthcoming the effort involved seems futile, I'm a member of other forums, have been for years, when you post some form of dialogue ensues, seems on Crema this is not the case, was a little different a few years back, things kind of bubbled along, albeit slowly, now its a pretty hard slog, hence :head: Cheers, Jon. 🙂
Agree 100% - and from my perspective this is very disappointing. Like Brett, my life is too full (busy) working more than twice a standard week in hours every week, so I struggle to get time at all to post anything. A while back, there was a fair bit of heated discussion regarding the perceived impact (or influence) of the chat area. Some of this debate reached emotional levels and there was some private discussions along with quite strong opinions that were stated publicly by members. At that time, I stayed out of the "switch off chat" debate out of respect for individuals to express their own opinions....thinking that it will sort it self out naturally. Personally, I never look at the chat area, so have absolutely no idea what goes on there other than if it's not working, people appear to get a little peeved - which is just an observation on my part. Thus, I don't know what sort of content is in the chat area or if it would make it's way into static posts had a chat area not been made available. I also don't know if there is a link between chat being available and the effect of reduced post counts. Have no proof, facts or anecdotal evidence to support such a theory, however, one can always speculate.......and people will speculate. We have tried our best to be open, transparent, respectful and considerate on this forum without the need to enforce too many constraints in comparison to some other forums where there can be rules and draconian consequences. Perhaps it's time now that some changes (or trials) are implemented.
