This probably isn't the best topic in which to post this, but as the criticisms started in it, I suppose it has to be the best place for it.
Those of you who were members of the forum back in 2019 may well recall the member 'kirrin_castle' (Jonathan) started a number of polls on Enid Blyton books, characters, etc., on here and which went down pretty well with most members.
Jonathan subsequently had the idea that he would like to expand on those polls but the limitations of what could be achieved on here using the forum's facilities of the day, made it not possible.
It was at that point that I offered to help Jonathan bring his idea to fruition by setting up a completely new website that would be able to accommodate such polls. It was in the summer of 2019 that we registered the domain
eb-surveys.uk at our own expense and I agreed to include it in the hosting package on the server where I have a number of other domains. Whilst the website would run on a forum-based domain, it was made clear that this would NOT be used as a forum as it was certainly not our intention to take anything away from the E.B.Society's website and forum in doing this, but to run it in tandem with the Society's which we believed would have stimulated even more discussion on there.
Both Jonathan and I put in a great deal of work on setting it up, he creating the polls and myself mainly creating the website and helping getting the initial polls up and running, over a period of about two months, during which time the EBS members were invited to apply for membership of the new website using the same username as used on the EBS forums, as it would be necessary to take part in the polls on there, and to do so you would have needed to be registered on the EBS forum first.
When the first polls got up and running in early October 2019, apart from Jonathan and myself there were just fifteen of the remaining forum members who had bothered to register so they could take part, and they were as follows:
Fiona1986
Nick
Courtenay
Rob Houghton
Lucky Star
Laura
Nicko
Chrissie777
snugglepot
shadow
IceMaiden
jstevens1
Ambersmum
Pohutukawa
ed fulcrum
It's now, when I look back at this list, that it is apparent that the three members who seem to have offered up most criticism on the 'Journal comments issue' are all conspicuously absent from it. What happened to them at the time? Too busy doing other things to be able to take part? Were they criticised at the time?
NO! Well, the same should be applied to other members on other issues, no matter what they are, without being subjected to unnecessary criticicm! I don't criticise what personal photographs others post (I probably could if I wanted, but I don't) or what topics others post into, either.
I would add that there is one other member who registered on the eb-surveys not included in the above list and that is 'S-Dog2001' but as they only joined in March 2021, shortly after joining the EBS forum, I didn't include it. I did inform them at the time they applied that there was unlikely to be any further additions to it.
Finally, it was the lack of enthusiasm by many of the established members who seemingly had no interest, that led to Jonathan advising me that he saw no point in creating further polls than those that were already up and running at the time. I have continued to let the website domain renew, although I had intended to let it float off into cyberspace when it came up for renewal a few months ago. It is now due to do that in nine months time, when I will almost certainly let it do that.
