People you reckon will/wont be on chitchat in 12 months' time?

Are you going on a killing spree then?

Errr.. If so then why is SF on the "will" list?

He's a Jedi - You can't kill him?

why won't the latter group not be there

I am just sticking my neck out tober.  Of the regulars i have a feeling they might be more likely to give it up than the former group.  I suspect most of them will still post in 12 months' time tbh.

I definetly wont be .. I will be Christmas shopping next September according to my wife.. ha ha

probably odds against there will even be a forum in 12 months

Do you have inside info tober?  Else I would fancy an even money dabble on there being a forum in 12 months' time.  3.5 years since they said we were all doomed post May 6 2010 etc.

F*cking hell. Despite the attrition rate, have I still not become a betfair stalwart?

I don't qualify as a regular at all, but I definitely wont be here in 12 months, i'm on my last posting legs.

Judorick wont be here, he'll be sectioned by then.

Sorry HM, sure I have forgotten many.  You are 1/2

Can't believe you've put Kenny Mann on the 'will' list. He's 874, ffs - All that good karma being nice to tom cats can surely only allow you to cheat the undertaker for so long?

I'm off for a kip. See you in a week or two. Winky face (I resent change).

Reckon it will be just annie and Tommy left at the end.

Naked wrestling, with St John's Ambulance standing by

Ok, possible reasons for not being here anymore.

Orioles.... Imprisonment
, sparkmaster,.... Been losing interest for a while
naydam,.... No staying power
Ken Masters, .....orders from wife
HH sultan Vinegar, .... Boredom
judorick,..... Mental breakdown
makybe diva.....  Has to become judoricks fulltime carer
, MC Moonbeam..... Finds something better to do

what Tobermory said

me still here 5/4
me not here 8/11

I've been here over 10 years, another year won't make all that much difference. But I will be a pensioner then ffs.

does dying count as not being here?

no that excuses you.

I would have thought so sideshowbob

Ignore KM, he is just talking his own book.

Sep 16, 2013 -- 6:59PM, rob_dylan wrote:

Do you have inside info tober?

ffs

No, but the forum will be used less and less without new customers being able to join . Maybe only 50% as busy as it was when they blocked registrations now, and within another 12 months it will surely reach the point of critical mass where people who would still carry on find they are waiting so long for a reply to their threads/posts that they will not bother either.

What about those pegging out over the keyboard and still appearing to be online with a green dot, despite not posting for a while?

Well, Mr. Dylan (sounds like Chester!), seeing as how you've been here less than two years and have over ten thousand posts...I would say that you are nowt but a sprog (in forum years) who has far too much to say!

I shall decide when I leave this forum and it won't be because of any lack of 'staying power'. I have to maintain my role as Devil's Advocate otherwise you lot would just be in total agreement about everything. Forums are for discussion not pissing up each others back!

You know who you are.

Makes no odds to me - I'm the Gareth Bale of the forum and if it all goes pear shaped, I'm good for an £85 million move to mumsnet.

You are not half as controversial as you appear to think naydam, in fact you are pretty mainstream imo.

Saga and the co-operative funeral services currently battling over an exclusive advertising deal for 2015 according to my exclusive sauces.

naydam • September 17, 2013 1:22 AM BST
Well, Mr. Dylan (sounds like Chester!), seeing as how you've been here less than two years and have over ten thousand posts...I would say that you are nowt but a sprog (in forum years) who has far too much to say! SillySilly  Bang on

I'm just overly polite.

never feckin shuts up.

Last 401 Days that new registrations were open: Jul 6 2011 -Aug 10 2012: 156 pages of Chit Chat

401 Days since they were closed: Aug 10 2012 onwards 117 pages

Give him a break KM, naydam's one of the good guys.

Can we have some very rare chips to go with the exclusive sauces?

Maybe, but 50 of those pages were filled with utter crap from one or two serial poster just trying to blitz the forum.

they may have had an influence!

Tober... Do you know why they dont just make it so that you cannot open an account until you have deposited a minimum amount and/or made a few minimum bets?  They seemed to change the rules to allow anyone to make multiple accounts, and went from that situation to just stopping all new accounts.  Still reckon the forum will still be here in 12 months.

That is, in fact, a very good point naydam.

kenny mann
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no wonder the house is a mess.

I think though many of their blatant nonsense threads were deleted and do not contribute to the count. Though it is still striking how many surviving threads were started by 'Metal Mickey'

No Rob . Yes i recall when you had to have placed a bet on an account linked to the forum name to be able to post .So people had to have a new bank card to get another account.

I imagine it would be fairly easy to set it like that again so the fact that they dont suggests they are just letting it run down

If they wanted rid of the forum surely they could have just done it in, say 6 months.  Just give a warning and say this is the end date, and that is it.

As I said...You know who you are!

Must admit I hadn't noticed that Kenny. I suppose we can put it waffling at your age.

It's 17 posts a day over 3.5 years maydam, plus the previous 8 years before that.

Right, I'm having a break.

I expect when the forum closes it will just disappear .

There wouldn't be a warning as that would the cue for all sorts of threads slagging of betfair

I'll still pop in from time to time.

Well why havent they already done it?  I know the cricket forum(and the barmy army forum) have largely migrated to twitter, at least for in running stuff.   I dont  do twitter, tried but couldnt work it.

Good man poker, I would defo have put you (and tober) on the "will" side.

As long as the demand for billiard and pacman related threads remains high, I'll be here.

i'll tell you what's ironic, and plain strange

there was a poster on the football forum called milan12milan

he went to the great effort of creating a forum replicating this one - and a decent effort it was too, created on  the premise this forum is winding down and will close, given registrations have been closed for 12 months solid without any foreseeable reopening and the numbers here are getting fewer and fewer - he had a good point

he was banned for posting the link. figure that out.

what was the link?

I bet erse wont be here in 12 months' time.

PM the link for your own good ayersrock, no way the betfair IT boffins will be able to track that.

pms sent

not surprised he got a ban. trademark in the domain name. silly choice, as betfair could easily seize control of the domain.

it redirects to a different domain now though, which is good.

i wonder if there's room for an erse on that forum, with a seemingly enigmatic penchant for fart threads. the customer base is getting a little thin here..........

rob_dylan 17 Sep 13 01:06 
Ok, possible reasons for not being here anymore.

Orioles.... Imprisonment
, sparkmaster,.... Been losing interest for a while
naydam,.... No staying power
Ken Masters, .....orders from wife
HH sultan Vinegar, .... Boredom
judorick,..... Mental breakdown
makybe diva.....  Has to become judoricks fulltime carer
, MC Moonbeam..... Finds something better to do

Lol, nice one.

"does dying count as not being here"?

"no that excuses you".


Only if you give reasonable notice and post a copy of the death certificate!

I definitely need taking off that 'won't be' list.
I'll be here to the bitter end until the forum becomes a burnt out lifeless cinder.

You'll be the only ember of the forum left.

Or 2009 rolls around, whichever's sooner.

My current ambition is to find myself on one of these lists, that way I'll be somebody!

Which reminds me, has anyone got the 2014 dead-pool list drawn up?

Sheppy

Where did you suddenly appear from, I don't recall you being on here before.

Did you migrate here from Poker/Footie/Horse racing/General betting?

I appeared from outer space!

I've been reading stuff on these forums since I joined, but I only started posting a few months ago. Firstly it was on General Betting, then on here.

I tend to do things in extremes. It won't be long before I get into something else and you won't see me any more.



(I only started using smileys a few days ago and now I can't stop!)

People you reckon will/wont be on chitchat in 12 months' time?

Won't...

David Frost
James Gandolfini
Michael Winner

Here's somebody you might see...

Stephen Lee

Here's somebody you might see...

Stephen Lee

I don't think you can get a Wi-Fi signal in Greggs.

Obviously, the lack of new registrations will lead to the eventual death of the forum, and people do keep leaving/being banned.

However, I really haven't noticed much of a percentage change in the numbers of people viewing the forum, as given on the main Chit Chat page. I hypothesise that there is a higher proportion of passive viewers than is generally believed.

I read Chit Chat for a while before posting. I often read comments on YouTube but never post anything there.

My 10 year Betfair birthday in 2 days time. Don't think I'll make 11 years.

I was here from day 1 and posted on the first ever thread so no doubt I'll be here when they finally turn the lights out, which will be a sad day and hopefully not something that will happen in the immediate future.

One of the most popular threads back then was "In what order would you do The Nolan Sisters?"

Quick as a flash I said Coleen but I obviously had no idea she would end up weighing more than me, I just liked her big boobs at the time

Kenny, did I ever mention to you that ....nah, doesn't matter.

That's not fair!!

Slippy, whats your favourite toothpaste?

Correct Rob,I'm still here.

Orioles gone, sparkmaster largely gone I think.judorick gone.  Hrh gone.

I made it.

Me too kenny mann . I'm sure judorick only posts on Twitter now, I haven't seen him post for quite awhile anyway here or on horse racing.
Orioles doing the offski is disappointing, maybe he moved to his French retreat for good and you can't get BF there via normal channels.

It's Colgate by the way SF.

I saw Judorick on horse racing less than a week ago, Slippy.

Ah ok kenny mann, I've been away for a couple of weeks so haven't been on here. Glad to see you are still paying attention though you filthy arber you.

I won't be. Due to technological advances my posts will be automated using the Punmaster v1.0.

Slippy only just made it after a bit of a hiccup

I'm still here

11 months and 3 weeks more to prove him wrong, then.