boltonbonce wrote:If you get time Sluffy,it'd be nice to have a potted history of nuts.
When and how it started etc; Don't know much about it myself.
I was a mod on Burnden Aces and basically ran the site whilst its founder and owner was struggling to do his degree course at the time.
I basically built up the site from nothing to a forum that rivaled tw and ww in terms of daily posts.
Over the couple of years I was doing it (for fun, in my own time) I had to deal with all sorts of issues and even though I did everything fairly and honestly, some people didn't like what I did and went to quite extreme lengths to cause trouble.
Anyway out of the blue one day the site owner - without any warning - decided to sack me.
As it would have been impossible to continue on that site due to the amount of abuse I would have had from those I'd upset during my time in defacto charge, I posted my thanks and gratitude to a number of posters who I had built up a rapport with and explaining why I would be no longer be posting on the forum.
I was quite touched from the overwhelming thanks and support I got back in return and a number of people offered their help and support for me to start a new forum.
As I had nothing to lose, I brought together two other people and between ourselves founded Nuts.
Biggie joined us shortly afterwards and helped immensely in setting up this very forum that we are on today.
Contrary to anything you may see or read on any other forum, we did not poach anyone away from anywhere else, nor offer mod roles as 'bribes' to get people to join us.
A couple of existing forum owners actually set out to sabotage us and try to strangle the site at birth - true story.
We advertised the best we could by word of mouth, a few distributed calling cards and asking permission of other forums to announce that little old Nuts was in existence.
The latter wasn't as cheeky as you may first think.
All the forums at the time were long existing, had very strong and loyal memberships and the forums that had started since BA, had all failed.
We, the founder members ourselves didn't think we had a great chance of survival but we were only doing it for a laugh, it wasn't expensive to run and we were all old time forumers - most of whom had already been banned from one forum or another - over nothing much.
We were no threat to any other forum.
Only Bolton Mad and JA606 said is was ok.
BA censored any mention of Nuts on their site.
TW, kept us hanging on and hanging on, then said no.
WW and the Mavis forums were the ones whose owners tried to sabotage us - so not much point asking them.
Bolton Evening News was unmodded and had no one to ask - it as of course since been shut down.
Anyway we've done our best, got a few things wrong and many things right. Had our ups and downs and plenty laughs - and that's how we like things.
We aren't perfect, we aren't always PC, we believe most people enjoy a laugh but we also know a small few take it too far.
At the end of the day we are all adults and it isn't our job to tell people how they should behave.
We try to run the site fair and squarely to everyone, we run it for free, in our own time, and if anybody doesn't like what we do then they are quite free to say - and if they don't like our reply to post some place else.
Thats not a threat or bullying - just common sense.
It's ashame one or two try to spoil it for the many but that's how it is in normal life too.
We created the site for a laugh, we would like to get more people involved and posting to make it even better for all of us and hopefully with everybodys help and cooperation thats exactly what we will do.
Up the Nutters!!!
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