Post by whitesince63 on Jul 21, 2016 21:13:57 GMT
Thank you for the warm welcome.
As I said originally I come in peace and everything I have said has been factual, so I have no idea where anyone may have got the idea that I have been condescending in any way???
Bolton Nuts was set up over four years ago by three long time forumers who had been on many previous sites but for various reasons never actually found one to our overall liking.
Circumstances occurred such that we ended up setting up our own site more for our own amusement than for anything else, to talk about BWFC and anything else that came to mind.
We, the founders are not youths by any means, the youngest amongst us is in his forties with the oldest being in his sixties, so we have been around the block a time or two and probably of the same generation and social-economic grouping as most on here.
We tend to treat our members as grown ups and more often than not allow themselves to self moderate.
Yes you do find posts of two sentences or less on Nuts but I can see many of the same on here too!
Yes not all our posts are 'quality' but neither are all of yours.
Contrary perhaps to some of your initial opinions about Nuts there are plenty of 'quality' posts on there as you would expect from a membership that contains many successful professional career persons, which include people who have stood for a major political party in the recent General Elections, senior local government officials, prospective ward councillors, lecturers, entrepreneurs, business owners, skilled and unskilled tradesmen and homemakers, carers and those currently out of work - so you certainly don't have a monopoly quality posts, in fact number wise, simply based on how busy our respective sites are, we have more quality posts per day than you will - and just for balance, we would also have more 'two line' non-quality posts (if that is how you would wish to define them) than you would!
Our forum though does not wish to consider ourselves elitist's though and everybody irrespective of their IQ or grammatical abilities are more than welcome on Nuts.
Obviously a single forum will not be able to satisfy everybody's taste and preferences, we know that from our own personal past experiences but forums that have in the past we have had issues with such as Bolton Banter and Burnden Aces have ceased to exist or are dead in the water, whilst Nuts flourishes by the day. Maybe that is because we have no ulterior for being than just to chat about Bolton and have a bit of a laugh at the same time.
We don't make anything from running the site, we are more than happy to pay the few quid from our own pocket to fund the forum and put up the odd competition prize fund every now and again.
We would like to extend the hand of friendship to you as the more and varied people involved in a forum the better it is for all of us who partake in it but if you rather decline outright our invite, or decide to be active on both sites, you are obviously free to do so.
If we manage to get our act in order for the new season kick-off we intend to start a blog around the games and publish it not only on our site but through our twitter feed (1,500 followers) and the global NewsNow outlet, and if you have no objections we will post it up on here also.
Indeed, if any of you would like your posts to be blogged out by us just let me know and I will gladly arrange it where possible.
If anyone also would like live match day commentary of the games irrespective of where you live in the world, you can find it on Nuts - we have regular listeners from France, Germany, the Caribbean, South Africa and the USA, as well as assorted places throughout the UK!
I hope this post gives you a better understanding about what our site, Bolton Nuts, is about.
Thank you for reading this post.
Apologies if I appeared to be critical in my comments about 2 liners nuts it certainly wasn't my intention at all and neither did I mean to insinuate that there was no quality posts on your site. Having also signed into your site again since your visit I can testify that there is and like AndyL being a BWFC nut myself will also read anything I can wherever I can. Hopefully I didn't offend you or the effort you and your colleagues put into your site.and long may both continue to be well supported.