Hijacked threads

[buffaloskinner]

Re: Foundry Mill at Seacroft
Post by warringtonrhino » Tue Dec 22, 2015 9:09 pm
We seem to be straying off the Foundry Mill at Seacroft topic. The mill was on Foundry Mill Street, and the leat that supplied it only ran from Easterly Road to the mill. Should we create a new topic 'Asket Hill' ?



I have to agree with WarringtonRhino on this subject, there is nothing more annoying than someone hijacking your thread with what they believe is a relevant subject but is completely off the thread title. Please if you want to go off subject or post replies that are not relevant START YOUR OWN THREAD.

[Leodian]

Re: Foundry Mill at Seacroft<br abp="838">Post by warringtonrhino » Tue Dec 22, 2015 9:09 pm <br abp="839">We seem to be straying off the Foundry Mill at Seacroft topic. The mill was on Foundry Mill Street, and the leat that supplied it only ran from Easterly Road to the mill. Should we create a new topic 'Asket Hill' ?<br abp="840"><br abp="841"> <br abp="842"><br abp="843">I have to agree with WarringtonRhino on this subject, there is nothing more annoying than someone hijacking your thread with what they believe is a relevant subject but is completely off the thread title. Please if you want to go off subject or post replies that are not relevant START YOUR OWN THREAD.<br abp="844"><br abp="845">

. As I've just posted on the Foundry Mill thread I thought I was trying to help, but clearly it is not appreciated so I won't bother doing so in future.

[warringtonrhino]

Leodian, You were not trying to hijack the thread, you merely stepped outside the room, and needed help to guide you back.

I was also trying to help, by suggesting that it would improve the site if post are restricted to the topic title.
It would make it easier to find information,in the future.
You and I would find the ponds and weirs because we are familiar with your recent posts, but others might find them difficult to find.
On the site there are several topics which have hundreds of posts, some with only a tenuous link to the title of the topic.
There must be ways to improve the situation, it might help if our topic titles were explicit.
To add to the frustration we don't have a word search facility at the moment.

[j.c.d.]

I probably need to apologise more than anyone else as recently I have diverted from the Japa Mill thread onto something concerning Titus Salt. Its because the other Sites I post on they tend to follow on with one subject running in to another. as I am new around here I shall be more careful in future. Regards Jack Daly.

Just a thought , Expressions to Adult regular members such as " You stepped out of the room" may be more likely to make them step out of the site

[Happy Valley]

This is all just my opinion obviously and certainly not meant to start a fight in any way with any member on this forum. It also isn’t a post saying if you don’t like how the threads evolve sometimes that there is an X button in the top corner either. Sorry for the long post but there is a few things that I want to say.

Leo I have learned so much about Leeds that I simply didn’t know from your pictures and posts. Long may they continue on the forum.

There are many threads on here that I’ve learned something I didn’t know from a members post simply sharing a memory in a thread that sparked the memory in the first place. It is part of the wonderful charm of this website, and one of the many things I love about the forum.

While I do understand where you are coming from both of you, I like the forum just the way it has always been and the site banter in threads that used to be very common on here once upon a time, which added to the charm and brought many a chuckle at this end of the screen. I only really read the bus threads for example, just to see if Blakey has another of his wonderful memories to share, and I know that I am not the only one that opens a bus thread and enjoys these posts.

The tenuous links to the thread - however small that might be to some reading the thread sometimes gives newer members a reason to join in posting on the forum, who just might not feel confident enough to start a new thread. At times this has not been a nice friendly forum to join in with over the last 8 years that I have been lurking in the background, and I for one don’t want to ever see those days come back again to a forum that I love spending time on.

Jumping on members for sharing something that simply doesn’t quite fit with the thread title, isn’t going to encourage any new members to join the forum and start posting. I think it will have the opposite effect in the long run and will put many other members off posting altogether. With several social media groups doing the same sort of thing in many ways, and not requiring a new thread every time to join in - we should really encourage new members to find a way to join in and not force them away. It is no good starting new threads moaning that it is quiet on here at times, if you discourage people from wanting to join in with the threads available in the first place.

I know that it took me many years of making an odd few posts a year in threads and a change of user name, before I actually felt confident enough to start a new thread on here, some of which probably didn’t attract any or little interest with posts from other members and just were not worth bothering starting a new thread about really. I’ve made more posts over the last year than I did in 3 years with my old user name which had less than 60 posts in 5 years. Many of which probably fall into what you both consider to be thread hijacking because I simply wanted to share something in that thread.

I had a couple of posts that I was going to make today for example in response to some posts that have drifted off the original thread title. The OP actually started the drift off topic in one thread which I have taken part in along with J.C.D because of this drift from the original title, it also sparked me starting another thread of my own, as it jogged a memory of a couple of other things that I thought was worth actually worth starting a new thread about. Without the drift I wouldn’t have started that thread and I wouldn’t know what I do today from the members who were only too happy to share their superior knowledge with me in it.
It has also sparked me joining a few social media groups over the last few weeks where memories sparked by an old photograph or comment are actually welcome, so I’m one of those members that could easily take the memories I have away from the forum to another outlet, whilst to some that might not be a bad thing and sometimes I do wonder why I joined up, as I haven’t lived in Leeds for 20 years or so now, but how many other long time lurkers just like me will the site lose to social media groups, if sharing memories in the thread that sparked them is actively discouraged by a few who don’t like it.

My posts that I was going to make aren’t really worth starting a new thread today (sorry about that J.C.D and yes, it was to do with Lightcliffe and Titus Salt which I know quite a bit about), so what I had to say about a few points that have cropped up in a thread that has interested me quite a lot so far, and the offline typing up that I did for Jack before coming onto the forum today, have now been lost to the recycle bin after looking at this thread this morning simply because Lightcliffe and Saltaire isn’t in Leeds, and I will think very carefully about any other posts that I might want to make on the forum in the future because of it.

With a lack of search function at the moment it isn’t easy for anybody new to find an old thread where the topic might have been covered before. I’m sure that will be fixed, but we all know that Duncan’s company pays his bills, so it has to take priority over the forum and that it will be fixed when he has the time spare to do it.

With recent topics being limited to just 5 threads at the moment, which as I remember was what some of the senior members wanted at the time when it was briefly much larger, having a new thread for every little thing will only result in even more threads being lost into the sub forums where some like me simply don’t venture into for a quick look at new posts with a cuppa. I know I have threads in there, but once they have gone from the 5 recent topics lists, I don’t go looking for them again to revive it and think that any interest in the thread is now finished due to forum rules on other forums that I post on, that are heavily policed by members and bumping threads that has gone off the first page
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I miss the old active threads page which was the old landing page I used to have a quick nosey at new posts on the original forum, and while I work with what we have got on the new forum without complaint as this is just what the members wanted, if you now want a new thread for every little thing on the forum, I think the old active threads page needs to be brought back again with a much larger number of threads and given more than 48 hours before they disappear into sub forum oblivion for me.

[warringtonrhino]

[quote="Happy Valley"]

''Jumping on members for sharing something that simply doesn’t quite fit with the thread title,''

Suggesting we start a new topic IS NOT jumping on members!
If you take the time to read, and understand,my post you will see It was a only a suggestion not a declaration of war.

[jonleeds]

On the subject of hijacking I'm going to be ironic and do the same to this thread here myself. The very word "hijack" reminds me of a scene I saw in an episode of "The Sweeney" where the boss of "Regan" and "Carter", Mr "Haskins" is discussing a potential crime they are trying to anticipate happening. The coppers dont know what form the organised criminal event will take and are reeling off a list of possibilities - bank robbery, armoured car heist etc. Mr "Haskins" says the word "Hijack" as a possible crime, to which "Regan" replies "...Hello Guv!"..! I thought this was rather clever as "Regan's" first name is "Jack" so when his boss says the word "Hijack" he light heartedly reads as "Haskins" saying "Hi Jack"!! Anyway it made me chuckle.. And hows that for "Hi-Jacking" this thread?! Eeh! Its all part of life's rich tapestry / 'angins too good for 'em!

[Bruno]

Hello Jon,
So the Earl of Harewood has unchained you from the wall of his dungeon then?

I liked your Sweeney recollection; was it Haskins, I always thought it was Hoskins?

[jonleeds]

Hello Jon,
So the Earl of Harewood has unchained you from the wall of his dungeon then?

I liked your Sweeney recollection; was it Haskins, I always thought it was Hoskins?

Hi Bruno, Yes I've escaped from the Harewood Estate by evading the patrollling pickup trucks with flashing orange lights. Although my pal left his tent still pitched in the woods cos he didnt want to pack it up while wet... I wonder if its still there over a year later? If anyone is interested there was an unopened tin of corned beef inside the tent so fill your boots if you're anywhere near the area of woodland to the south of the lake.

I believe the 'Hoskins' you're thinking of is ' Bob Hoskins', also a 1970s macho cockney hard-man type character actor.