This forum is what you make of it

Dear all

Forums have good times and bad. A couple months ago, this forum was going through a good time - constructive comment with really good interaction and advice. Right now it is going through a bad time with some forum threads that generally leave a bad taste in your mouth.

Like all the Y&Y team, the reason I work silly hours on this site is because I love sailing. My aim is to provide a place where you can all chat. At times I've been too heavy handed and apologised for that. At times I feel I've been too light handed, but when I get accused of joining China in banning free speech I guess you can see why I might try to leave the forum to find its own level.

Let's hope we can get things back on track. As this thread is titled, this forum is what you make of it - please let's all use it for this purpose and engage in lively debate. Don't get personal, and try to show the good side of our sport and of our own characters.

All the best

Mark

Too late for me!

Like you I work silly hours but when the postings keep me awake at night that's just too much.

I'm out of here!

Rodney

Originally posted by rodney Too late for me! Like you I work silly hours but when the postings keep me awake at night that's just too much. I'm out of here! Rodney

This forum has been reduced to rubbish in recent weeks by the lack of insightful contribution.  It is clearly difficult to control contribution but effective moderation is not beyond the wit of man. 

What is sad is that some of the underlying topics are of interest.  However discussion about rig improvements on one design classes is bizarre.  There are two choices in life, one of which is one design.  It really does not matter if it is OD.  The idea is that you build em cheap and stack em high.  I know that the frustration is that no one feels that they are as cheap as they should be and this is because an OD class needs marketing investment. It needs the investment because the boat is inevitably dull and less interesting than its development equivalent.  What happens is they both cost the same but the money goes to different places.

My suggestion is that Dinghy Development was always an incongrous title.  The forum should be split.  Clearly a One Design section is needed and this will hopefully focus people on the fact that OD design does not mean development.

 

Mathew 7:6

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet.

....why does everyone sail on sundays, we should be at Church,,,,,,,aargh...I'm a torn man