If you stopped posting on here, where would you choose...

.....outside your house.....

Most people have stopped.

The number of betfair forum posts this year is 15% of the level it was in 2012.

Wonder where they went.

^.....proof ?

So if this thread had started 5 or 6 years ago would probably already have 18-20 replies

Sep 4, 2016 -- 12:36AM, The Leopard wrote:

.....outside your house.....

How odd!

Sep 4, 2016 -- 12:37AM, tobermory wrote:

So if this thread had started 5 or 6 years ago would probably already have 18-20 replies

It is late

.....

...a joke....crags....

What are you like!

We were discussing it on the football forum a few weeks back ( why the forum is dying ) and so i did some simple statistical comparisons.

Looking at pages from the forum index in 2016 and 2012 .

The results were very consistent : For every thread started on a given day in 2016 , there were 6 or 7 started on the same day 2012.

I was careful to makes sure they were comparable days ( eg 1st round of Carling Cup on football )

Of course the point where everything changed was the Bob Vegas meltdowns . It was him and that nutcase that was mostly on Chit Chat , spamming the forums with idiot threads .

Betfair couldn't stop them cresting new names and so stopped anyone from joining.

On the football forum thread a guy explained what it is like to join the forum  now ; months of emails and phonecalls to customer service , practically having to beg for it !

Maybe 50 people have joined since 2012 , maybe 500 regulars gone.

Sep 4, 2016 -- 12:43AM, crags wrote:

What are you like!

I'm wacky.....i'm wurrrrrr.....you ain't seen me !

What was that Chit Chat nutter's best known name on here ??

Metal Mickey or Secret Squirrell ?

Possibly confusing him with someone else .

The one i had in mind was banned with Bob Vegas but i think he had a spare username and his last act here shortly after that was to post a link live streaming of an amateur porn film he was making with his Mrs

Sep 4, 2016 -- 12:43AM, tobermory wrote:

We were discussing it on the football forum a few weeks back ( why the forum is dying ) and so i did some simple statistical comparisons.Looking at pages from the forum index in 2016 and 2012 .The results were very consistent : For every thread started on a given day in 2016 , there were 6 or 7 started on the same day 2012.I was careful to makes sure they were comparable days ( eg 1st round of Carling Cup on football )Of course the point where everything changed was the Bob Vegas meltdowns . It was him and that nutcase that was mostly on Chit Chat , spamming the forums with idiot threads .Betfair couldn't stop them cresting new names and so stopped anyone from joining.On the football forum thread a guy explained what it is like to join the forum  now ; months of emails and phonecalls to customer service , practically having to beg for it !Maybe 50 people have joined since 2012 , maybe 500 regulars gone.

We need a petition to get new users.....less stringent gate-keeping

.....maybe a sectioning should not dis-barr one !

The way it is now probably easier to become a member The SAS than The Betfair Forum

going fishing

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