Scraping the barrel

I know there's a genuine need to develop the site and to attract more users.

Surely the right things to allow this to happen organically are already taking place: the site being active with some decent posters and spreading the word through referrals and social media.

I don't know who came up with the character 'BH's Mum' but if it was any of the admin, it strikes me as desperate, unfunny, and desperately unfunny. If it's someone else trying to entertain us all, you're not.

Lets get rid of BH's Mum. Vote her out. If this works, it can become a regular feature.

Funnily enough, not 10 minutes ago I sent a PM to the person behind BH's Mum telling him that she has made her last post.

Excellent, Passi. You are a kindred spirit. Can I count on you to vote 'no'?

I still voted 'yes', I've always liked a woman who can cook.

Be careful: I can edit all this to be a vote about giving you the old Spanish Archer instead of BH's Mum.

People Power.

Don't be too hard on the person, I'm sure it was only meant as a bit of fun.

Possum!

Everyone knows where i stand on "crchters" I don't understand why anyone would make them, and i don't find them funny at all.

but it appears I'm very much in the minority so i live with it. Won't stop me moaning about it though!

I doubt very much that you are in a minority.

If someone really wanted to post as a number of different characters and went to the trouble of setting up different email addresses, registering different accounts and using proxy sites to 'hide' their ip addresses, then there is very little we could do to stop them really - we could ban them obviously - but they would only set up another account.

We would rather the forum takes off and people are treated with enough respect that they don't feel the need to wum / hide / whatever it is they do - behind more than their 'genuine' account and post their views, banter, debate, disagreements, leg pulls, etc, in an open and free way.

But we are on the internet and that simply will never happen!

Hipster_Nebula wrote:Everyone knows where i stand on "crchters" I don't understand why anyone would make them, and i don't find them funny at all.

but it appears I'm very much in the minority so i live with it. Won't stop me moaning about it though!

i agree with hipster nobula

I'm still waiting to find out who is behind this 'largehat' crchter. Next thing - why would anyone name their little darling 'Hipster_Nebula'?

Keegan wrote:I'm still waiting to find out who is behind this 'largehat' crchter.

Largehat started a campaign against the mother that's done 7 indifferent posts, and not the son who's on 300 mainly hostile posts.

Bit suspicious...

Haha, you're right, it's a fair cop. I AM BOLTON HATER.

That's one confession out of the way. Now who is this hipster nobula person? I've noticed that you hardly ever see Hipster and Sluffy posting at the same time... coincidence? I think not!

Its Sluffy for sure, I have been monitoring it, own up Sluffy you turn coat.

I think the poll is missing an option for posters that find "characters" neither funny nor day-ruining.

I think some of them are brilliant for creating a bit of harmless banter, but even the pathetic ones don't ruin the forums for me.

Mr Magoo wrote:Its Sluffy for sure, I have been monitoring it, own up Sluffy you turn coat.

Well we certainly have some similarities in style, I think we are both fairly laid back and easy going and take far more abuse than we would ever dream of giving out.

The thing is though that Hipster is far more cleverer than me, he obviously knows how to do stuff that people under the age of their mid thirties can, such as twittering, trending and able to send text messages by using more than one digit!

He also knows about bands that are younger than the Rolling Stones and Status Quo and he probably knows whose won Britain's Got Talent.

I'm flattered to be possibly thought of to be Hipster - I hope he doesn't take the reverse as an insult though!

My guess is NatashaWhittam is BoltonHater, they always appear at the same time.

OneOinCoyle wrote:My guess is NatashaWhittam is BoltonHater, they always appear at the same time.

lol, you bunch of Bolton losers. Spending your lives wondering if someone is someone else on a football forum with 10 members. GET A LIFE. Sorry to disappoint, but I am just me.

If people have multiple usernames on the same IP address the system flags it up to admin immediately, as happened with BH's Mum.

I'm not saying Bolton Hater isn't someone on here taking the piss, but that person is going to extreme lengths if that is the case.

ive had a bit of fun owning our friend 'Bolton Hater' of late...

I like him, hes a nice easy bit of sport. you also have to admire his honesty.

for anyone who has not seen the thread, it appears that he is known to be a 'cock' around Blackburn, I initially thought this was taken out of context and that he meant he was the hardest, or one of the hardest residents of the town of Blackburn.

as the conversation went on however, it appears he was in fact, admitting to me that he was just indeed a cock in the 'im a total dipshit who gets bullied and nobody likes me' sense.

he also went on to 'come out as gay' first of all by admitting to 'enjoying lifting his and other peoples shirts' of a weekend. I have nothing against this but i had to question his sexuality more out of interst than anything...the reply to the question was 'Yes, Im gay'

so...to summarise, Bolton hater is a Gay Blackburn resident who everyone thinks is a cock...