[Forum Admin]

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[The_Fed_Man]

Any plans of an area to upload files, pictures etc?

[Terry_Burrows]

;)seeing as you are going to be the forum for window cleaners will you be doing some kind of forum mag,on line!,like cleanzine that could be interesting!

well you are the only forum,so you may as well grab every corner u can and y not! :)or do a 3 monthly or monthly update on forum people etc watch this space your members will be growing,at a very pleaseing rate!

[STEVE71163]

I think this forum is going to grow and grow because their has been a need for something like this for a few years.

Steve Lowe

[luap]

i think steve is right..the only prob is if it does expand you have to watch out for the flamers.as long as the board has bona fide members and you dont have guests able to post....it can be a terrific resource for everyone....

paul.

[karlosdaze]

There is another English wc forum where I think its by invitation only. Its for more experienced window cleaners, and hardly any flaming at all. I don't think I'm allowed to advertise it here though. I've learned more from that EU forum than the other American ones, and the members go out of their way to research for you.
Who will be the first to spill the beans?
Andrew, John, Terry?

[STEVE71163]

Karl,
     Sorry to sound a bit stupid but what does flaming mean

Steve Lowe

[Terry_Burrows]

I am with you on that one steve please explain
what do you mean by Flaming

[Forum Admin]

Flaming is a term used when discussions get out of hand and members start insulting each other. Believe it or not it can be quite common on message boards and tends to happen as member lists grow!
Although we have had to remove a couple of posts which were 'unprofessional' flaming is more of a problem where guests can post messages without having to register.
We are trying to improve the site all the time and, needless to say, your suggestions are welcomed.

[Terry_Burrows]

;)Thank you for that forum! I have had simular to that myself,but replied in a sturn not swearing,dont muck with me mate! 8)to a American who started it,
slagging me off,because the Guinness Book listens to me
and not them,to which I said,what have you done,what have you won!have to one for your country!then you have done none!who are you!

[STEVE71163]

Thanks for that Forum Admin It looks like you are getting all these things sorted out quite quickly because i noticed a few posts you deleted last week. If people can not post in a polite and professional way then why bother posting at all.

Steve Lowe

[Dean Taberner]

Flamming hell

[JSMC]

only thing missing is private messaging. Only forum i use without out and it's a pain TBH

[R W C]

why you brought this back up dean, its 6 years old.

[cozy]

If you have private messaging on a forum like this, all the nasty WC's would build "gangs" and go around picking on poor little defencless WC's

[Nathanael Jones]

only thing missing is private messaging. Only forum i use without out and it's a pain TBH

I believe that PM's were allowed on CIU for the first few years, but some fool supplier decided to abuse the privilege for advertising purposes, so it was removed along with the memberlist.

[Dean Taberner]

why you brought this back up dean, its 6 years old.

RWC

I live in the past

Dean

[Clive McDonald]

I opened this with trepidation thinking that admin had read the arguing thread and thought we should all grow up a bit and start behaving.

Mostly my time on ciu has been positive, it has taught me things that may have taken a decade to learn on the job. Some ideas i have been resistant to, i have bowed to others who claimed success, and been glad that i did.

The best bit about the forum is it doesn't tell me what i know, it tells me what i don't know.