the chat box

Must say david you have got it in one. You are the boss here, and luckily you arent strict towards everyone, thats partially why its friendly here, the other part is decent members.

i know what you are saying david and i,m not getting at you and you should know i would,nt but if members used this section it would be better all round, there has been many a time i have went on to a topic to find something out which i needed to know and the subject is totally different.when this happens i will not go back to find out what i needed to you because it takes too long to do...we are all guilty of it.. so from now on i will use that sectoin to talk if the chat box is busy and i hope other follow suit

hi ray, i`m not saying you are wrong.........i agree with you about if someone is asking for advise or if a member opens a popular subject/topic that it does usually get spoilt by either argueing or pages of smiley faces etc, but its gone on for the last two years now and if we start to get heavy handed some members might be upset by it and leave the site as i think our tolerant atitude is why the site is so friendly and helpful........


as ive said, i do think pages of smilies and argueing do the site no favours......

ok, but i think if we start it as we are on the most , the rest will follow . so if they are not on the chat they can go on the non pigeon chat to talk . if not well at least we have tried

we`ll just have to try it ray and if subjects are going badly off topic i`ll move them to none pigeon chat or something like that..........the odd post of just smilys or banter isnt too bad but it has to be monitored or as you say, if it goes too far off topic in any way no one can reply to nonsence can they and the topic goes dead.