C&CC to Close Their Forum

I monitor most posts on CT and I can't agree that they are overwhelming negative which is what you seem to be suggesting. Certain threads might well be but they are usually balanced by other posters suggesting the opposite. There are a lot of questions on CT which are answered, often with a depth of knowledge you probably won't get on other Social Media. 

David

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Bump, just to get it back on line!!

Disappointed to see the above two posts have been removed. There was and element of truth in what vbfg said. Is it any wonder some give up posting. What with CT being so slow to bring up pages, errors and over moderation is it any wonder so few bother to post regularly .

peedee

Talking about moderation is a no peedee as well you know. That gets deletions whether the posts have an element of truth or not. 

I disagree with your last sentence. My opinion is people avoid CT because of the constant air of negativity. Myself and quite a few colleagues actually speak with our members on site and that seems to be the general consensus when the subject is raised.

JK

Yup I do know but we all have our opinions JK. I just felt more strongly on that one!

peedee

I wonder if one issue with both the CMC and C&CC forums is that many that contribute to both tend to be new to online discussion groups. If that is the case they will be totally unaware of what tends to happen on such discussion groups which comes as a bit of a shock? Clearly some are not as you see the same user names across different groups. I have been using caravanning forums/message groups for the past 25 years. Even back in the day  when it was email groups some people could get quite excited by a given subject! I think we have to accept that online groups are not for everyone, although I would encourage everyone to at least give them a try. This forum does provide a lot of help to people that ask questions and I often think that people that complain about the tone of some discussions are at risk of throwing the baby out with the bath water? In my view it would be a very sad day if the CMC Management decided to follow the C&CC and decided that they no longer want to support a member forum just because a few people find discussions not to their taste. I suppose we will never know why the C&CC management decided to close their forum. It has always been pretty low tech and members generally well behaved so I can't see it taking up much in the way of resources?

David

Surely if you don’t like a particular discussion just ignore it.  I have found this forum to be more informative/useful than negative. Yes there are of course spats from time to time but they are not really that frequent in comparison to the number of posts. I don’t usually follow threads like What have you seen or Where are you etc which I would have thought would have garnered more postings. I tend to follow the more technical threads where it is true there are perhaps some very strong views and also, at times, a bit too much navel gazing. But that’s forums for you.

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