I have been away since Monday so only now have a chance to reply with my thoughts. Here they are (take or leave, I don't much care).
1. I find it wholly repugnant that a member of our community shares some info with the forum in the hope that it might be of use to a few others and gets attacked for their thoughtful post.
If the topic isn't for you, move on to one that is
2. After 13 years as the Forum Administrator of CBF it never fails to disappoint me how there can be such bitterness and plain nastiness to others who are here only due to the fact they share everyone else's love of a little resort in Turkey.
3. In all of the 13 years it leaves me absolutely gobsmacked that the people that carry out these verbal assaults have to request to be deleted from the forum by the admin team - they are happy not to come here, but simply incapable of preventing themselves coming. I think that is evidence of disturbed minds - like paedophiles who beg to be arrested because they claim they can't stop themselves.
CBF has long since peaked - we are losing posts and page views by the shedload each year to sites like Facebook. I am grateful for the busy times and more than content with what we have now. The number one rule of CBF is respect other members. Go like hammer and tongs over something or other - fine, just don't get personal here.
If people can't do that, on a forum about such an uncontroversial subject as this one, I haven't got time to administrate it fully and nor have John and the mods - the team and I will warn then remove.
And I Assure you all, if it ends up with half a dozen of us talking about the price of Efes and the good old days, that'll do me.
