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poemeelectronique:

Sorry for butting in but TES is the way it is because of the people that post on it.  It hasn't changed significantly since I joined a couple of years ago. I don't understand why you'd join a forum that's been going, in the way it is, for a long time and try and exercise change or challenge the way it operates.  If you prefer deeper and more analytical discussions then perhaps this isn't the place to find it.  I think it's a bit "off" to try and make people do things differently when you're a newbie, tbh.

I came and posted because I had some prior conceptions about TES from reading it.  Because people now treat me as being knowledgable on forums it didn't seem fair to rely on these assumptions.  It seemed better to be part of it. 

As you said poemeelectronique TES is the way it is because of the type of people who post here.  I'm just a particular kind of poster.  The way I think tends to take conversations deeper.  Been that way for a while.  Not doing anything special here. The kind of way I interact with topics here is exactly the way I've done it on many other forums, without causing offence.

I agree with you that this may not be the place to find more analytical discussion. I've said so already in this thread. But I'm discovering more as I explore which I am enjoying.  It's just my kind of thing.  It's not suitable for most threads but it seems to be suitable for some.  If that proves not to be the case I shall doubtless get bored and depart.

Once again - there are issues for new posters here - Middlemarch I appreciate that you and quite a few others deal in PMs and am very grateful to those who've been helpful by PM.  However my first well intentioned PM was posted, misrepresented and picked to bits, others have been aggressively rebuffed and I've received quite a few disturbing ones so I now understand better why people are afraid of them.  The browser issues are horrible.  But the delay for moderation issue is by far and away the worst and I just don't think most of you went through it because it was only introduced this year.  I experimented on other parts of the forum to get the hang of how it worked but I never guessed that it's completely different when you come onto opinion and this played havoc with my ability to communicate clearly and answer questions promptly and directly.

I really do wish one of you would come to conference so that you will properly understand that there genuinely is no reason for you to feel threatened.  My main interest is in how forums can more actively and effectively consult on policy issues but I'm also interested in the practicalities of how teachers can support and learn from each other through forums.  I've no interest in embarassing anyone and have only reluctanly begun to have a go at the posters who are being really disruptive here, which is very few.  

DM I'm happy to accept your terms.  Do PM me if you require any further apologies or explanations.

I know I've caused offence.  My apology already offered in this thread is sincere and I'd like to reiterate it here.  I understand that many of you come here for R&R and felt threatened by me because I have an interest in writing about forums.  I'm sorry to those who have felt threatened.  I didn't intend it and I hadn't realised you might. 

weebecka:

the type of people who post here

There isn't a "type of people"....just people.

weebecka:

The way I think tends to take conversations deeper. 

Ach, us shallow people aren't capable of deep conversations - there have never been any of those on tes!  Heaven forbid.

Now that you're here we'll be able to be deep.  Thank you ever so much.  I never thought I'd be able to achieve deep conversations on here.

weebecka:

Once again - there are issues for new posters here - Middlemarch I appreciate that you and quite a few others deal in PMs and am very grateful to those who've been helpful by PM.  However my first well intentioned PM was posted, misrepresented and picked to bits, others have been aggressively rebuffed and I've received quite a few disturbing ones so I now understand better why people are afraid of them. 

People are not afraid of PMs.  They choose to use them how they use them.  Or not.

weebecka:

My main interest is in how forums can more actively and effectively consult on policy issues but I'm also interested in the practicalities of how teachers can support and learn from each other through forums. 

Then watch and learn.  Because a LOT of posters have had help, support and advice on these forums.  Without any guidance from you.

weebecka:

I understand that many of you come here for R&R and felt threatened by me because I have an interest in writing about forums.  I'm sorry to those who have felt threatened.  I didn't intend it and I hadn't realised you might. 

Threatened?

Don't flatter yourself.

airy:

Except that you didn't - you said you had done so but until pressed you never said how. By that point it was an anticlimax when you said that you used such revolutionary strategies of phoning home and sending kids out of class

Sending the stressed ones out of class, not the actual perpetrators too. I can see how both would view this 'great I've got him sent out hahahaha' and 'Why did that silly XXXX send me out ?'

I think your reception class might be a bit psychotic for her.

Maybe I should let her have half an hour with my fluffy white cat that purrs at any person that comes within 20 feet of him, just as an easy start (he is borderline 'C' grade in miaowing and eating cat food).

As a mathematician and cultural analyst, I'm sure weebecka will make good use of the 2+2=5 sort of thinking that characterises this particular corner of dystopian cyber-Britain.

 Erm, the second quote is actually my original wording but taken from Weebecka's quote of it. 

*wonders if I'll ever get the hang of the quote thing*