New Threads And New Authors

killian12

johnrooney80
You made me laugh there. 😁
Well somebody’s got to bless us John! 😇

the_bookie

Ah thankyou killian12

@johnrooney80 and all

Being civil kind and showing some
social costs nothing .

Gosh & the old fun boy three words

it ain’t what you do its the way that
you do it and thats gets results lol

Springs to mind to mind everybody

Where treating each other with milk
& honey works does get a far better
reaction from lovely folk .

Fun boy three and Bananarama

Lets hope we do see more uplifting &
positive threads & new authors here
as it can only help our community as
I’m sure most of you will agree thanks

the_bookie

Afternoon @killian12

Treasures in jars of clay comes to
mind thankyou .

Where we are have talents here &
have our part to play .

Yes and @johnrooney80 you are
good ambassador & cheer lots of
our lovely members up thanks .

johnrooney80

the_bookie 🙋‍♂️

thank you, and same to you Pilgrim.

you remind me of El Clint.

love that song man.

endorphin

@johnrooney80 @the_bookie @killian12 why don’t you continue this conversation in the GD forum and see if you can attract some new blood!?

johnrooney80

endorphin I think thats great idea, @the_bookie I Vote your Thread-Meister buddy 😉

the_bookie

endorphin johnrooney80

Ah thankyou perhaps a link would
be great as a lot of the good folks
in General discussion never post
in contribute & would love to see
new things happening .

Yes and things freshened up a bit
thanks @endorphin

Some fresh threads subjects and
new authors .

As we don’t want any more of our
members who are really unhappy
with the same old stuff here & lack
of interesting subjects and content

disillusioned and maybe leaving .

Another thought was requesting a
link in the Gaff with the team .

Does everybody feel this is the way
to go or have any other suggestions

@dtuxcomp @killian12 @untz
@themzbiker @frenchielove
@z201205 and all thanks .

killian12

the_bookie
Sounds good to me.
I think you’re right about people not accessing Contribute. I only come in to visit the Mental Health thread, so, it was just chance that I came upon this thread.
See how it goes. 😊

untz

the_bookie I think you’re right about people in GD not really reading Contribute. I only happened on this thread by accident.

It might be good if you want more input from more members to post in GD or get a mention in The Gaff.

themzbiker

the_bookie

i don’t have any suggestions myself you & lots of lovely members may do
The thing is ive stopped doing threads of my own & pick & choose which threads to post on

Only last week I’d posted on a thread here in contribute & received nasty comments which in my book is a form of bullying but that member report me for my reply which wasn’t nasty i was just giving my opinion

You & lots of members do some great threads so I’m sure you’ll come up with something as for getting different members to do threads will be difficult but can be done
Edited so i don’t get into bother again
Best of luck mate 👍

the_bookie

Thankyou @endorphin

@johnrooney80 @killian12
and @untz

Link now put up in General
Discussion

https://community.giffgaff.com/d/33150051-discussion-new-threads-authors-in-contribute

PM sent to Will on the Gaff
for link to be posted in the
Gaff on latest subjects of
interest if possible to folks .

claire1uk

Just read through this thread with great interest.

I’ve been saying for a while that GD has gone more towards social Media style postings, which puts me off, as I’m not interested in what someone had for their tea.

It’s grabbing members attention and intrest when starting a new discussion thread that’s the hard bit.

I gave up starting anymore, as there would be a few replies then it would drop into the giffgaff community black hole. It would be disheartening. And yet another member would have a similar subject getting loads of replies.
😪😪😪😪

I do feel members have their favourites. I have a thread going on GD. I restarted an old thread of mine when lockdown appeared.
It’s just a light hearted look at life.
I cover many subjects. But I have to say sadly it does not have the popularity that I imagined it would have. It’s just a few regulars who pop on, to whom I am grateful, otherwise what would be the point.

GD used to be good for the variety of discussion posts, it was interesting to participate.

I do wonder if the ages of the members who post on GD has got younger and maybe that’s why I feel it’s swaying more towards a social media type forum.

Who knows. That’s just my 4peneth after being on the old platform, comparing the posting.

dtuxcomp

claire1uk members who post on GD has got younger

That’s definitely not me then hon 🙂 🤣

wagstaffes

claire1uk I like reading your thread, and, other regular threads, but I don’t tend to comment very often. And, the thing with General Discussion is that there are so many threads that even popular threads can quickly drop down the view list, unless they get comments to bump them back up. Perhaps we could do with another sub section/tag within General Discussion for regular general interest topics, like they have with the Creative Corner, so that they are easier for everyone interested to access. What do you think? the_bookie

killian12

themzbiker
And, unfortunately, that’s it! A few can spoil it for many………… 😥
Prefer this kind of face - 😀

claire1uk

themzbiker
That’s not a nice thing to happen to you.
I don’t think your answers are offensive or critical enough to warrant a response like that.

The problem I find, is sometimes you can’t tell what ‘tone’ the post was meant to be for any of the posts on the forums, so if a member hasn’t used emojis to express a ‘tone’ it can cause some members to overreact.
People are so sensitive these days.
Keep doing what your doing, there’s always one!
Keep smiling 😃😃

dtuxcomp

themzbiker Sorry you had trouble with a member, not sure why they reported you though, I’ve never seen a dodgy post from you 🙂 Educators can look over the whole conversation anyway, not just the comment that is reported.

the_bookie

Ah thankyou @themzbiker

Like our @killian12 & @claire1uk
have said I cannot understand
why you were picked on .

As you are friendly post a lot of
lovely stuff have a nice word for
a lot of people share your music
jokes have put up some amazing
things in Upcycling with all in our community and yes are very well
liked .

the_bookie

Ah @claire1uk you do a really
wonderful job hosting .

You have a lovely thread there
and I know you put a lot of very
hard work and time in .

I do think on a whole a lot of us
do need to pop into threads we
don’t normally participate in as
it is too easy to stick to what we
know & it appears to be cliquey
even though we don’t realize at
times & its one of the things that
I must do more thanks .

the_bookie

Hi there @untz

Continuing the conversation
over here lol .

As our @dtuxcomp said the two
Original Hosts that did the music
Official threads are now gone .

The Official music thread needs
to be restarted & get the proper
love and attention it deserves I
feel .

Cause without a host as you are
aware as we touched on earlier
a ships without a rudder and it
just drifts about .

You really love your music and I
feel your video thread is superb
and you should continue with it
and your getting a following .

Or to be honest restart ceecees
with giffgaffs permission where
I feel you’d be a perfect Host .

untz

the_bookie hi - I don’t know if I could take over the official music thread as I don’t know how people would feel about that. I know that going back a bit both me and my husband used to post on it and some people implied that we were the same person 🙄. So I don’t know if those people (and I can’t remember who they were as it was so long ago 😂) still use it, and whether they’d be receptive to me taking it over.

I would only take it over if I thought people wanted that.

I do think there is a desire for a music thread though. As my husband nerrin (deliberately not shouting him out here) started one about Frogs and Banjos in music (a bit niche 😂). But people started to talk about music more generally in the thread.

So thanks for thinking that I could restart the music thread. Like I said I know there’s a desire to talk about music, and if people were interested in me doing it then I would be willing to give it a bash. But only if people are interested.

dtuxcomp

the_bookie I think it would be a good idea to try out the thread that Ceecee took over with fresh eyes, it’s a lot of work for one person to keep that sort of thread going, I wonder if it could be co-hosted ? That way a couple of members could share the load ?

killian12

untz
Oh why do some people have to spoil it for others? I just don’t get it - and it infuriates me!
I don’t know what the previous music thread was like (wasn’t around then) but why don’t you go for it? If you do, enjoy the positive posts, and rise above any negativity!
Don’t know how relevant content would be to me, personally, but I would certainly check it out.
Good luck. 😊

themzbiker

untz

i think you’d be great at the music thread weither they would let you take it over I’m not sure you’ll need to speak to kara she’s one of the eds

But go for it if you’re interested no harm in asking

johnrooney80

untz

I toss a Coin to your new Thread and im interested, @killian it accustom all Niches and Genres, Different ages, Different Tastes eh?

You have my Support.. 👍🤸‍♂️😊

dtuxcomp

untz If you do start one up, feel free to throw in a mention to me or send me a link to it, I don’t have time to view the community ATM but I’d happily chip in sometimes 🙂 🎸 🎼 🎶 and no that’s not an offer to post my stuff, I don’t do that in public threads 🙂