Is it just me or is there a distinct lack of interesting posts

Sugar_and_Spice said:
Do you use the "what's new" button? That's what I do and I'm on here reading most days whilst I have a cuppa. I'm not bored of the forum and I was lurking years before I joined, so I've been around a while. There are posts I CBA with so I don't click on them. There are those like the london fire thread where I don't have any advice or the whole thing is too upsetting so I don't post, but I've read the whole thing. There's the posts where I try to help. I thought the one about leading was interesting, something we all do every day, a reasoned discussion with lots of explanations and no nastiness about any particular method going on. The forum isn't as active as it used to be but it's not dull. I do think it's a bit insulting really to post threads like this basically saying "where have all the good threads gone?". It's like saying all the threads currently around are worthless, which isn't going to make the posters who started them feel good, is it. A bit tactless of you. Have you tried the search function too? You can bring up some old threads you've never seen before, on a subject you're interested in, that way.[/QUOabove

Lord above some people get insulted very easily - I wasn't aware that many people on here actually own 45 year old laminitic 3 legged horses - maybe I'm wrong?

I do know how to use the search button on here which is why I'm surprised to see so many duplicate or extremely similar posts.
I have found so much useful info over the years by doing exactly this.
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Tihama said:
on here lately? Everything seems to be getting very samey e.g. Wwyd re changing yards - please choose from the following - a,b,c,d,e,f,g - or - I can't find a bridle without a xxxxx noseband or - What balancer do I feed my obese, laminitic, 3 legged, 45 year old semi retired good doer yada yada yada - Where on earth have all the interesting, informative or just downright contentious posts gone???
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Maybe people have decided to spend more time in the real world than hours and hours on the computer. Most likely the winter will see those interesting threads come up again when the weather changes and people stay indoors.
 
Leo Walker said:
Quite. But dont moan that people havent provided you with interesting things to read when you havent ever contributed yourself. It smacks of hypocrisy.
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Actually I have contributed a couple of times in the dim & distant past so maybe get your facts straight before you post?

I'm beginning to see now why people shy away from expressing their opinions like they used to - it gets very personal very quickly :(
 
Irish gal said:
Best thread in a while I reckon! You should post more often Tihama.
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Why thank you Irish Gal I just might ;)

Actually I've a bit of time on my hands this weekend as my hubby has taken our son away for the weekend.

Long long story - my 20 year old son suffers from severe anxiety and depression.

It's been a nightmare 6 years for our family with no clear end in sight.

I find spending time reading this forum a good way to chill out and no Levrier I'm not a troll just a very very tired stressed out 54 year old who had a few glasses of wine last night and decided to express an opinion -
maybe not as tactfully as I could have admittedly.
 
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I'm more of a reader or 'lurker' than a poster myself, but I never find the forum uninteresting and if there isn't much new that interests me, I search through older posts to find something that's more relevant. personally if I was finding things a bit stale or 'samey' I'd try start a few interesting threads before diving right in with a complaint.

I wonder if it's perhaps just a little quieter with it being summer or maybe people use Facebook groups more these days? It's certainly something I noticed rising in popularity before I deleted my account there. Although THAT was quite samey - "guess the age" - "what colour saddle pad suits" - "guess my horses breed" (ITS A BLOODY COB) anyway... I digress.
 
Tihama said:
Actually I have contributed a couple of times in the dim & distant past so maybe get your facts straight before you post?

I'm beginning to see now why people shy away from expressing their opinions like they used to - it gets very personal very quickly :(
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My facts are straight. In 4yrs you have commented 4 times, then started this thread moaning there is nothing interesting to read. No one has been personal.
 
Or the one I love Wildfox here and on FB 'Can someone help me trace my ISH's breeder' to find out what he was like as a foal. Chances are the farmer who bred him wouldn't even remember the horse, they might have had so many. And what are people really going to be able to add to their knowledge about the horse - did he like carrots as a foal maybe!?

That's a tough situation to be in Tihama and very worrying for any Mum. Sometimes knocking back a bottle of red can help blow off a bit of steam, so I find anyway. Strange to find someone on here who is practically a neighbour, you're only the next county over from me!

I hope the trip away helps your son. Fingers crossed that it will.
 
Tihama said:
Why thank you Irish Gal I just might ;)

Actually I've a bit of time on my hands this weekend as my hubby has taken our son away for the weekend.

Long long story - my 20 year old son suffers from severe anxiety and depression.

It's been a nightmare 6 years for our family with no clear end in sight.

I find spending time reading this forum a good way to chill out and no Levrier I'm not a troll just a very very tired stressed out 54 year old who had a few glasses of wine last night and decided to express an opinion -
maybe not as tactfully as I could have admittedly.
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Must have cross posted with you. Very hard and sad situation, and a few glasses of wine and expressing opinions is fine! Okay so you could have been more tactful, but we're only humans after all! I'm rarely tactful. I word vomit on a daily basis.
 
Irish gal said:
Or the one I love Wildfox here and on FB 'Can someone help me trace my ISH's breeder' to find out what he was like as a foal. Chances are the farmer who bred him wouldn't even remember the horse, they might have had so many. And what are people really going to be able to add to their knowledge about the horse - did he like carrots as a foal maybe!?

That's a tough situation to be in Tihama and very worrying for any Mum. Sometimes knocking back a bottle of red can help blow off a bit of steam, so I find anyway. Strange to find someone on here who is practically a neighbour, you're only the next county over from me!

I hope the trip away helps your son. Fingers crossed that it will.
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Oh I love those ones as well, so entertaining! Like a farmer or dealer from 20 years ago has a picture of every single horse that's every been through their gates. Posts like that were quite rife around one particular area of Scotland where there's a large dealer who has up to a hundred horses at any one time in acres of fields and forrests, mostly run of the mill cobs and unbroken youngsters and the like but with the rare gem as well. The horses don't have names, you just give them a name when you buy it and you'd forever see people saying "I got this horse from this dealer and it's pregnant and I want to know who the dad is, can anyone help, I think it might be five years old but there's no history and I don't know where it was before I bought it from the dealer"
 
Irish gal said:
Or the one I love Wildfox here and on FB 'Can someone help me trace my ISH's breeder' to find out what he was like as a foal. Chances are the farmer who bred him wouldn't even remember the horse, they might have had so many. And what are people really going to be able to add to their knowledge about the horse - did he like carrots as a foal maybe!?

That's a tough situation to be in Tihama and very worrying for any Mum. Sometimes knocking back a bottle of red can help blow off a bit of steam, so I find anyway. Strange to find someone on here who is practically a neighbour, you're only the next county over from me!

I hope the trip away helps your son. Fingers crossed that it will.
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Thanks very much Irish Gal - and yes indeed a bottle of red has saved my sanity many a time.

A neighbour you say? Will you be at Ennis show tomorrow? ;)
 
Wildfox said:
Must have cross posted with you. Very hard and sad situation, and a few glasses of wine and expressing opinions is fine! Okay so you could have been more tactful, but we're only humans after all! I'm rarely tactful. I word vomit on a daily basis.
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Thanks Wildfox - I love that turn of phrase "word vomit" - very descriptive :D you're not a Sagittarius too by any chance?
 
Fairly sure everyone is welcome to find somewhere else to go, or contribute more than a few posts in 4 years if they wish to help make it more interesting, some of us do our best *puts head in sand about own post count :p*

And yes maybe not as tactfully as you could have been for those of us who do post and try and keep it going :p. I might forgive you had you offered to share the wine :p
 
Irish gal said:
Yip I'm in Limerick. Sadly no show for me tomorrow but I bet it will be good, that's if the weather picks up. Are you going?
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Love Limerick - most of my friends are from there :)

Might go to show just to cheer on the YO's young daughters - no competing for me atm either.

Ahh yes our lovely weather so bloody unpredictable ;)
 
ester said:
Fairly sure everyone is welcome to find somewhere else to go, or contribute more than a few posts in 4 years if they wish to help make it more interesting, some of us do our best *puts head in sand about own post count :p*

And yes maybe not as tactfully as you could have been for those of us who do post and try and keep it going :p. I might forgive you had you offered to share the wine :p[/QUOTE

Hi Ester if you have a look at my earier post I explained about the lack of contributions - if I'm ever drinking & posting again (highly unlikely) I'll save a glass for you ;)
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