[Thomas J Stamp]

No. I have formed an opinion regarding the t&c boards on boards and it is this, you can tell me if I'm right in this or just being silly.

When we were the subject of a thread of our won over there during the summer Mark, Derek and I all decided not to post there for a while, funny enought it wasnt anything we actually agreed upon, I think we just got sick of it all at once. The result was that railway related threads and rail passenger issues droppped off the radar altogether.

It became obvious that without P11 input, or without knowing that P11 will input, no-one bothered about the issues we are about.

It is also easy to spot who the people who take an anti-P11 stance are, and they are fairly small in number (3 I count) - its important to discount people who would be anti P11 because they are members of the NBRU or SIPTU, because during the strike in May there was a quite a divisive line. I am talking about a small number of people who have taken against P11 personally, from what I read of their posts, and sadly that includes a moderator on that board. They post snide remarks and we react to them, they then get what they want, more posts, more threads, more hits on their board. Sure Derek started the DART thread, fair enough, but I didnt expect the sort of rubbish that was posted as "debate" in response and which then kicked off a similar load of balls over on IRN.


If I was to post on this issue over on boards again we'd only be starting the same thing off again.

As we're very much into transparancy here on P11 I'm disclosing that I am a mod on boards (sort of) but I post on the C&T board as an ordinary poster and member of P11, a fact that I disclose in their Conflict of Interests Thread. It is a pity that the moderators dont insist that our critics do likewise.
Also, despite boards shouting on and on about how they have 75,000 registered people, the number online at any one time is only a small multiple of this site and we usually have more registered on our board than there is on the C&T board. Our policy really as an organisation is to ensure that factual innacuracies about P11 are corrected if they appear there, nothing else. IMHO the importance of the C&T board is greatly inflated in the minds of both its own Moderators and some of its regular posters.

That's my two cents anyway.