how many of you are considering leaving cs? (140)
jovisst: I don't use Facebook. Didn't know. Thought it was a hot dating site.
someone who isn't familiar with FB? someone who doesn't use it, isn't a member of it?
and I thought I'm the only one
yeah!!! I'm not the only one, living behind the moon
Boban1: actually, I was referring to the conditions in my country during the 90s ...
Its much better now in my country... we almost earn 300 euros a month and the costs of living are approximately 800 euros per month...
Its much better now in my country... we almost earn 300 euros a month and the costs of living are approximately 800 euros per month...
Yeah I know
... once again the money men are making the money and the rest.... can diet 
.Many times i want to leave the cs website, then i come back again, perhaps i will leave soon, or i always fail to run away ... 
Happy New Year to you Lion 
Happy New Year to you Lion
But actually bubba, I'm in awe of you... sometimes you seem more American than we do... you are the spirit we were 40 yrs ago... wish you could have seen us then 
... you would have fit right in! 
... you would have fit right in! I enjoy the forums and I am unfortunately, addicted to Gems Swap in the games section. It's very rare that I receive mail that is genuine. Lots of people seem to look at my profile though. As long as I keep enjoying the forums and I can't win on Gems Swap I'll stay.
GingerBe: Good post. I think the reason is that it is not cost effective to keep it on track, because they are answering complaints constantly, people reporting threads or posters etc., for not obeying rules.....
True Ginge but a few folk on here deliberately set up a thread to antagonise people then complain when the majority of folk argue against the point the OP made and then the OP screams "Pack attack" and folk get kicked of or banned for a bit as they used to. As far as the OP is concerned they have "won". I have been bitten only once by that particular ploy and never again, Especially when the person/s concerned then opens a thread gloating about "who is missing" If you take part in a serious discussion be prepared to see the opposite viewpoint as VALID not everyone argrees and we all have as we keep saying the right to free speech.I may not like your opinion but I strongly defend your right to have it and most threads are heated but only very few folk get personal.
As always JMO folks
CS is one of the only reasons I turn my pc on lol
LegsEleven8: CS is one of the only reasons I turn my pc on lol
And why not it keeps a few of us sane
Well maybe patmac: And why not it keeps a few of us sane Well maybe
I've gone insane from here since 2009
patmac: True Ginge but a few folk on here deliberately set up a thread to antagonise people then complain when the majority of folk argue against the point the OP made and then the OP screams "Pack attack" and folk get kicked of or banned for a bit as they used to. As far as the OP is concerned they have "won". I have been bitten only once by that particular ploy and never again, Especially when the person/s concerned then opens a thread gloating about "who is missing"
If you take part in a serious discussion be prepared to see the opposite viewpoint as VALID not everyone argrees and we all have as we keep saying the right to free speech.I may not like your opinion but I strongly defend your right to have it and most threads are heated but only very few folk get personal.
As always JMO folks
If you take part in a serious discussion be prepared to see the opposite viewpoint as VALID not everyone argrees and we all have as we keep saying the right to free speech.I may not like your opinion but I strongly defend your right to have it and most threads are heated but only very few folk get personal.
As always JMO folks
Wise words.
And that's a damn shame ... haven't been around long enough to have this happen to me...but don't they track back the thread to confirm where it went awry? Guess it's a time consumer right?
But then I've never put up with tattle tales or sneaks... slithery little wretches.
GingerBe: I hate polls like this that just give CS more reasons to close the forums than they have already.
Whether to keep forums, or not, is up for review soon and CS have been seriously considering closing them from some time now.The forums have served us well over the years and many people have met and got married, or set up home together, from here.
Many people, like me, only use the site to stay in touch with friends through the forums.
Instead of talking about what you don't like about them, why not just leave, and be done with it, and let people who actually want to use them, be here.
Polls like this just give CS a false idea that people don't like their service, when in fact the opposite is probably true.
Whether to keep forums, or not, is up for review soon and CS have been seriously considering closing them from some time now.The forums have served us well over the years and many people have met and got married, or set up home together, from here.
Many people, like me, only use the site to stay in touch with friends through the forums.
Instead of talking about what you don't like about them, why not just leave, and be done with it, and let people who actually want to use them, be here.
Polls like this just give CS a false idea that people don't like their service, when in fact the opposite is probably true.
Where did you get this information please?
If the forums are gone then so am I! Baby and bathwater come to mind!
lion131: maybe you don't get any replies,or you just can't find anyone compatible on this site.maybe there is another reason? .so will we still hear from you in 2011 on this site?
Not a chance, whether I meet someone on here or not is irrelevant, I've met a great bunch of people here that I chat with daily.... actually even if i meet someone I'll stay
Godsgift: Where did you get this information please?
If the forums are gone then so am I! Baby and bathwater come to mind!
If the forums are gone then so am I! Baby and bathwater come to mind!
Mods wrote it in an e-mail to a friend of mine and she sent me a copy of the mail.
patmac: True Ginge but a few folk on here deliberately set up a thread to antagonise people then complain when the majority of folk argue against the point the OP made and then the OP screams "Pack attack" and folk get kicked of or banned for a bit as they used to. As far as the OP is concerned they have "won". I have been bitten only once by that particular ploy and never again, Especially when the person/s concerned then opens a thread gloating about "who is missing"
If you take part in a serious discussion be prepared to see the opposite viewpoint as VALID not everyone argrees and we all have as we keep saying the right to free speech.I may not like your opinion but I strongly defend your right to have it and most threads are heated but only very few folk get personal.
As always JMO folks
If you take part in a serious discussion be prepared to see the opposite viewpoint as VALID not everyone argrees and we all have as we keep saying the right to free speech.I may not like your opinion but I strongly defend your right to have it and most threads are heated but only very few folk get personal.
As always JMO folks
This is good advice.
Yeah I know about the sleekid little scum that do that with threads Pat. Haven't fallen into that trap yet, but close. Just gotta stay clear when you see it happen. CS are death on what they consider pack atttacks.
Godsgift: Where did you get this information please?
If the forums are gone then so am I! Baby and bathwater come to mind!
If the forums are gone then so am I! Baby and bathwater come to mind!
Hi K,
Nice to see you and Happy New Year to you... I left just before Christmas because I was really needing some time out.... but I decided that I sort of missed my friends on here, and I really cannot blame this site for anything... It gave me the opportunity to expand my knowledge and horizons..
But if the forums went... I guess the humor, learning ,jokes, smiles and laughs would go too...
Meanwhile, I intend to enjoy it while it lasts... cheers
GingerBe: This is good advice.
Yeah I know about the sleekid little scum that do that with threads Pat. Haven't fallen into that trap yet, but close. Just gotta stay clear when you see it happen. CS are death on what they consider pack atttacks.
Yeah I know about the sleekid little scum that do that with threads Pat. Haven't fallen into that trap yet, but close. Just gotta stay clear when you see it happen. CS are death on what they consider pack atttacks.
After the mad politico session last night I will be selectively coming on CS when all the threads are'nt pushing someone elses political ideas down your throat.
Merriweather: Hi K,
Nice to see you and Happy New Year to you... I left just before Christmas because I was really needing some time out.... but I decided that I sort of missed my friends on here, and I really cannot blame this site for anything... It gave me the opportunity to expand my knowledge and horizons..
But if the forums went... I guess the humor, learning ,jokes, smiles and laughs would go too...
Meanwhile, I intend to enjoy it while it lasts... cheers
Nice to see you and Happy New Year to you... I left just before Christmas because I was really needing some time out.... but I decided that I sort of missed my friends on here, and I really cannot blame this site for anything... It gave me the opportunity to expand my knowledge and horizons..
But if the forums went... I guess the humor, learning ,jokes, smiles and laughs would go too...
Meanwhile, I intend to enjoy it while it lasts... cheers
Happy New Year to you down under too!
To me, CS is the forums! I have taken a break from time to time myself! There's a load on FB trying to recreate the forums but I don't like FB and all they seem to do is play word games!
I know a huge batch left in November and December but I have to say, there's far less trouble on the site. I noticed there's still a few stirrers left and one or two who have returned. Why they have to use a dating site for some of these discussions is beyond me. It would be no more appropriate to print war stories in a teenage girls magazine.
I'm told there are many fakes and multiple profiles so I seldom welcome newcomers anymore and stick with long term posters who I believe to be genuine.
But CS is what it is and sadly not what it was. I have my own theories as to why, but I don't own the site.
But like yourself, I have made a handful of good friends on here and some people have been invaluable in their practical advice to me.
Fortunately Ireland is small and I've been to enough meets to separate the wheat from the chaff!
Thanks to contacts I've made on here, my life has improved and inspite of burst pipes, frost, snow and the car breaking down, I have just had my best Christmas and New Year in more than half a lifetime! So I've now got a life outside of cyberspace in the real world again. That's why I don't post as much as I once did!
You seem to have made a few good friends yourself on here and you met a few on your world tour last year! I was sorry not to be home in Scotland when you were there! But I saw some great pics!
Anyhoos, you're one of the good ones and I'll always be happy to see you on here!
I would only leave once I find my other half.
GingerBe: Good post. I think the reason is that it is not cost effective to keep it on track, because they are answering complaints constantly, people reporting threads or posters etc., for not obeying rules.....
I really wonder about it being "cost effective". I remember reading somewhere that POF makes 30.00usd every time somebody logs into the site just from the advertising rates. I haven't seen the ad's since I've always had my blocks up full force, but around the end of November I obtained a new computer and logged in here without the blocks up...it was a horrible experience since I did not have the computer set up to block the ads.
I do not think CS is in the poorhouse! Granted it costs them money to run the site, but if you can apply the same statistic from POF to CS the number of people using the forums is important to them.
Godsgift: Happy New Year to you down under too!
To me, CS is the forums! I have taken a break from time to time myself! There's a load on FB trying to recreate the forums but I don't like FB and all they seem to do is play word games!
I know a huge batch left in November and December but I have to say, there's far less trouble on the site. I noticed there's still a few stirrers left and one or two who have returned. Why they have to use a dating site for some of these discussions is beyond me. It would be no more appropriate to print war stories in a teenage girls magazine.
I'm told there are many fakes and multiple profiles so I seldom welcome newcomers anymore and stick with long term posters who I believe to be genuine.
But CS is what it is and sadly not what it was. I have my own theories as to why, but I don't own the site.
But like yourself, I have made a handful of good friends on here and some people have been invaluable in their practical advice to me.
Fortunately Ireland is small and I've been to enough meets to separate the wheat from the chaff!
Thanks to contacts I've made on here, my life has improved and inspite of burst pipes, frost, snow and the car breaking down, I have just had my best Christmas and New Year in more than half a lifetime! So I've now got a life outside of cyberspace in the real world again. That's why I don't post as much as I once did!
You seem to have made a few good friends yourself on here and you met a few on your world tour last year! I was sorry not to be home in Scotland when you were there! But I saw some great pics!
Anyhoos, you're one of the good ones and I'll always be happy to see you on here!
To me, CS is the forums! I have taken a break from time to time myself! There's a load on FB trying to recreate the forums but I don't like FB and all they seem to do is play word games!
I know a huge batch left in November and December but I have to say, there's far less trouble on the site. I noticed there's still a few stirrers left and one or two who have returned. Why they have to use a dating site for some of these discussions is beyond me. It would be no more appropriate to print war stories in a teenage girls magazine.
I'm told there are many fakes and multiple profiles so I seldom welcome newcomers anymore and stick with long term posters who I believe to be genuine.
But CS is what it is and sadly not what it was. I have my own theories as to why, but I don't own the site.
But like yourself, I have made a handful of good friends on here and some people have been invaluable in their practical advice to me.
Fortunately Ireland is small and I've been to enough meets to separate the wheat from the chaff!
Thanks to contacts I've made on here, my life has improved and inspite of burst pipes, frost, snow and the car breaking down, I have just had my best Christmas and New Year in more than half a lifetime! So I've now got a life outside of cyberspace in the real world again. That's why I don't post as much as I once did!
You seem to have made a few good friends yourself on here and you met a few on your world tour last year! I was sorry not to be home in Scotland when you were there! But I saw some great pics!
Anyhoos, you're one of the good ones and I'll always be happy to see you on here!
Thank you , thats very nice of you to say that... Yes, I did meet lots and like yourself, I tend to stick with those.. and a few others who seem to be wonderfully nice.. sorry to hear you are one of those affected by the burst water pipes... thankfully Scotland sent you bottles of water... ( I watched it all on the news)
But there , precisely what CS is about.. we just said it... information, communication and me watching worlds news instead of living in my coocoon of a tiny pocket of this gigantic continent.
I´m still here against all the odds....
jovisst: I don't use Facebook. Didn't know. Thought it was a hot dating site.
I have some CS former on my Facebook list.. We do chat sometimes.
stefonline: I´m still here against all the odds....
Hi stef where have you been ?????????
langleygirl: Personally I see nothing wrong with this poll. Just as in real life, there will be good/bad things to talk about. It can give people sometimes a new perspective and I think that all things should be open for discussion.
thank you!gininitaly: I didn't know that??? Well I think this is a GREAT forum!!! Much better than others I've been to, I often wonder why there is always this threat of a dating site closing it's forums... seems it happens everywhere ... a way to keep everyone behaving or it really isn't cost effective?
It doesn't seem as if they micro manage here compared to other places and allow talk about just about anything... what could be better?
What I have found as an English speaker living overseas, is that these forums are vital to my mental health ! Sometimes or many times you need to escape the cultural mores of the country you live in and want the patter of those old ingrained thought structures; silly, irreverent or as earnest as they may be. This could be true of the housebound or the country mice as well I suppose. They also give a place where people can actually discuss what's on their minds about this whole online world... or maybe that's exactly what they don't want us doing .... let the illusions live on!
They actually really do fulfill a definite public service as well as making new friends and connecting people romantically on occasion.
3 cheers for CS forums
thank you!It doesn't seem as if they micro manage here compared to other places and allow talk about just about anything... what could be better?
What I have found as an English speaker living overseas, is that these forums are vital to my mental health ! Sometimes or many times you need to escape the cultural mores of the country you live in and want the patter of those old ingrained thought structures; silly, irreverent or as earnest as they may be. This could be true of the housebound or the country mice as well I suppose. They also give a place where people can actually discuss what's on their minds about this whole online world... or maybe that's exactly what they don't want us doing .... let the illusions live on!
They actually really do fulfill a definite public service as well as making new friends and connecting people romantically on occasion.
3 cheers for CS forums
kcuc0574: Many times i want to leave the cs website, then i come back again, perhaps i will leave soon, or i always fail to run away ...
Happy New Year to you Lion
a very happy new year to you aswell my friend!Happy New Year to you Lion
I think we all think about it once in a while,i take a break from it some times and come back refreshed.If they do away with the forums next month when they redo cs i would have to rethink my being here.I like cs,think its a great site...but with out the forums it wouldn't be the same.
GingerBe: I hate polls like this that just give CS more reasons to close the forums than they have already.
Whether to keep forums, or not, is up for review soon and CS have been seriously considering closing them from some time now.
The forums have served us well over the years and many people have met and got married, or set up home together, from here.
Many people, like me, only use the site to stay in touch with friends through the forums.
Instead of talking about what you don't like about them, why not just leave, and be done with it, and let people who actually want to use them, be here.
Polls like this just give CS a false idea that people don't like their service, when in fact the opposite is probably true.
i didn't state that I had any desire to leave.i was just guaging opinion,as i have noticed in some other polls some members stating that they could probably leave soon,for various reasons.Whether to keep forums, or not, is up for review soon and CS have been seriously considering closing them from some time now.
The forums have served us well over the years and many people have met and got married, or set up home together, from here.
Many people, like me, only use the site to stay in touch with friends through the forums.
Instead of talking about what you don't like about them, why not just leave, and be done with it, and let people who actually want to use them, be here.
Polls like this just give CS a false idea that people don't like their service, when in fact the opposite is probably true.
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actually, I was referring to the conditions in my country during the 90s ...
Its much better now in my country... we almost earn 300 euros a month and the costs of living are approximately 800 euros per month...