Hi Scruffy,
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Originally Posted by Scruffydog777
I think all members get tired of the bickering, not just the ones that post, but the ones who just observe. It seemed like little was done about it until the damage was done. Going to AF just became a bad experience. People want to hear news, thoughts, opinions on Alizee and in many cases wanted to argue, but there is a way to argue. You don't have to be insultive to make a point. If you are, you probably don't have a good point to begin with.
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There were issues and bickering and trouble especially in the English section and it became a regular almost weekly even daily incidents of bickering that rightly does create a sour taste in members. Maybe all sides have got to accept that errors were made but as a mod you try and do what you believe is right and what is best for the forum. However it may have been a contributing factor I dont think this is why the forum is as it is now
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Originally Posted by Scruffydog777
What I thought AF should do is they should add a couple of mods. These should be people who are in there every day posting. People who have good reputaions. People who wont go off the deep end and people who will be given the power to warn or to issue temporary or permanent bans. One thing we did in this forum is when warning or ban is issued, it comes from the forum, not the individual.
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In practice this is a good idea. However lets be clear there is practically no one on the forum these days. Even in the mod forum it is dead and in the chatterbox after the announcements of the closure by RQ there has only been three replies and one of them was from you and thats been a month now...
AF has been home for me since May 2006 and the fitness of it has been critical for several years now and with no one donating towards the upkeep of the forum (which several members did include me at one stage) and with Ricc only keeping the forum alive out of the kindness of his heart this day was always going to arrive.
But yes there isnt anyone visiting the forums irregularly yet alone alone regularly enough these days from what I can see to be able to promote anyone into mod status
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Originally Posted by Scruffydog777
Of course if Alizee were to announce a new album, that would cure everything and it might be the only way AF can be saved, but I don't see anything on the horizon as far as that.
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Yes that would be the only chance the forum has but then again as you say that is unlikely.
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Originally Posted by Jenny_HRO87
Hello AlphaDevil! It's so nice to see a familiar face from AF! 
I fear what really killed AF (personally I never felt any bad vibes there) was the fact that we suddenly weren't allowed to post download links anymore because Ricci used Google ads to pay for the server or sth. If you don't even know what your allowed to post it doesn't help at all.
Also people just went away simple because they lost interest and in times of fb and Twitter a forum doesn't have the same appeal as in previous years. The German forum started dying even sooner and I have to admit I also stopped posting there because there were simply no responses and I could have more interesting conversations with my kitchen wall.
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Hi Jenny long time no see!
I think these are very good comments. Especially the one about Facebook and Twitter. back in the day when I was a newbie (I feel old now!) Fan sites were the primary source of information but now you can easily keep up with any information through social media platforms and its not as if there is the need to discuss any new information these days!