Announcement Section?

[WILDER]

Andy wait till you have kids then you will know.

 

[andywg]

Andy wait till you have kids then you will know.

So once I have kids I while know what can and can't be announced? Also, your statement assumes that both I and my partner want to procreate, which is by no means a given.

However, back to the actual point I was making:

I have no problems with the announcements of babies per se, but if you are announcing those, then people will want to announce other things, such as marriages.

Further people will see marriages and births and want to announce other things (such as a new job). Where does one draw the line on exactly what counts as important enough to be included in the forum? This is the problem that needs to be addressed before allowing such a forum.

 

[WILDER]

Andy going to start calling you mr glum.
Well underneath the title could always say only for births and such and not passing your driving lesson.

 

[stang1]

I don't really see the problem with people making announcements but I suppose you do have to draw the line somewhere.
To be honest, I think it's nice to see other people's achievements and share in what they have done. It makes a nice change to see a thread where people aren't having a go and have something nice to say.
Saying that, there is always going to be someone who wants to ruin it but then you just ignore them and hope they go away!

 

[andywg]

Andy going to start calling you mr glum.
Well underneath the title could always say only for births and such and not passing your driving lesson.

So I am Mr Glum because I can see problems in having an announcements forum that need to be addressed, or does the fact my wife to be and I don't want children somehow make me glum?

And what would be the "and such"? Different people have different things that are important. When I was 17 the thought of passing my driving test and the freedom given was far more important than babies. I would not be at all surprised if many of the board's late teens think the same.

The bottom line is: who decides what is important enough to be announced, and how?

 

[pica_nuttalli]

wilder, you're definitely missing the point 100% by focusing in on the birth announcement aspect of this. andy makes a highly valid point to ask where do we draw the line distinguishing between the trivial and the important.

as it stands, i agree that it's an abuse of the system to make personal announcements here on the forum i made my announcement with the complete awareness that it would probably wind up closed. that's still very likely to happen and i would have no room to complain about it. but i, personally, would have been satisfied even if the thread had been closed before anyone had even responded to it.

i'm sure most of you are familiar with the phrase "posting the bans" with regards to the announcement of a birth, marriage or other positive personal milestone. the phrase refers to a time when these events were communicated to the general community by literally posting a banner or poster in a public area. there was no invitation of discussion and any congratulations had to be relayed privately. people didn't go around responding to these announcements by writing on the bottom!

that sort of tradition is what i have in mind when i suggest a subforum where there are no replies. if you want to offer your congratulations, then you can send a private message. if you don't agree that someone's announcement is meaningful, then you can just not look or you can send them a private message in response. if the mod's see a post that appears to be facetious or otherwise inappropriate, then they can delete the thread just as they do in the regular forums. but i don't see the need for debate in every single instance. sometimes its nice just to be happy or sad for someone and allow them to experience the emotion that they want to experience.

--EDIT--
andy, i think you should have kids because otherwise the numpties will outnumber us in twenty years time. make your genetic contribution to the cause!

 

[Danno]

I thought of an amazing idea just now. How about not worrying about miniscule internet drama and learn and talk about some fish! People get too worried about "This is right" "No!! THIS is right".

Its a fish forums. Swim with it

 

[andywg]

I thought of an amazing idea just now. How about not worrying about miniscule internet drama and learn and talk about some fish! People get too worried about "This is right" "No!! THIS is right".

Its a fish forums. Swim with it

I can't help but think that some people will take issue at describing child-birth as "miniscule internet drama"...

 

[PlecMama]

Just do what everyone else does, myself included, and take a picture of you holding the certificate/baby/job offer etc and sneak it through the door of "Non fish photographs" - it's been working well for a long time.

 

[pica_nuttalli]

I thought of an amazing idea just now. How about not worrying about miniscule internet drama and learn and talk about some fish! People get too worried about "This is right" "No!! THIS is right".

Its a fish forums. Swim with it

danno, this particular section of the forum is for the discussion of non-fishy things. if you don't like that, then i suggest that you spend your time further up the page instead of condescending to the rest of us.

 

[Danno]

But what goes on down here affects what goes on up there.

 

[pica_nuttalli]

But what goes on down here affects what goes on up there.

that's no excuse for condescension and dismissal of the interests of others. like i said: if you don't want to participate in the discussion, then stay out of the thread.

 

[Danno]

I already voiced my opinion, so why are you being to rude to me?

 

[pica_nuttalli]

'cause i'm grumpy as all get out and i didn't appreciate being told that this discussion wasn't important.

 

[The-Wolf]

As someone who has been on this forum for quite some time, I thought I'd add my tuppence worth.

when I first saw this thread, I thought Bloo was talking in a foreign language. 'An announcement forum.' I thought. 'this is an anouncement forum, what is she on about?'
now after comming back to it, I can clearly see the point she was getting at. however I'm with Andy. Just exactly where would the line be drawn?
what is an important annoucement to one person is piff and balderdash to others.

I don't feel that this particular forum (TFF) needs such a place to announce things.
the way I see it, the only people on this board that would really care about such personal things
would be those that you talk to through PM, emails, chatrooms and IMs, in other words your freinds.
sure people are interested in the manushia of other peoples lives, but do they care; I doubt it.
your friends would care and if they are your friend, chances are you've already told them about the event.

Random thought
is telling the world about such an event actually a boast about it designed to
make others enviouse of you?
Take births
someone proudly announces they have given birth,
someone else reading this has been trying to get pregnant for years or worse for some medical reason can not have children
could you just be adding salt to their wounds?

I can see a great minefield of problems having such a forum on TFF