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  1. The link above is the official answer to the original question. As regards to having a sense of humour - we do really! We are aware that this thread might have been dealt with overly severely. That said, there was a chance that people might have been trapped or dead inside this factory while you were rushing to try and out do each other with jokes and puns.
  2. Resurrecting a 5 year old topic here, but it looks like we did have one at some point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_forum These days Wikipedia actually maintains a list of large forums at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_forums - and each forum on that list has a Wiki entry. Despite being larger than some of these we don't have a Wiki entry. We don't really need one, but as a matter of principle it does seem odd!
  3. UPDATE! Appears this saga is now over - thank goodness, I hear you cry! I've been told, eventually and via Twitter, that they don't write about forums. Not sure how common an editorial policy this is across the country, but it's apparently their one nevertheless. They used to write about forums, including a Telegraph story of our own launch, but no longer it appears. So they'll be no coverage of the forum's achievement of reaching 10 years or 150,000 users. It's a very odd blanket policy which clearly can't be bent, even in these exceptional circumstances. That brings this saga to a rather sad end. If you have any feedback feel free to send it to the Editor, but I'm officially giving up. PS. I will close this thread now. Not much more to say and we've reached a conclusion. Feel free to contact me geoff@s-f.co.uk if you want to comment further. Cheers.
  4. FINAL CHANCE TO SIGN CARD! We've had an amazing 263 messages 'written' on to our virtual 10th birthday card so far. I'm going to close the form at 6pm this evening (Fri 14th) and then work out a way to display all the messages on some kind of giant, online, card. So, if you haven't sent your birthday wishes to the forum (and thereby your fellow users) please go and sign the card now! Just click on the big red birthday card at http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/tenth/
  5. I think questions to Pete have to go to his talent agent now, alternatively the PM system is a shortcut ..and I've got a forum called: Forum News & Feedback But to answer your question, we do already break down the roles on the team page, but you're right in the fact we're missing one for the Forum Helpers. If you can post this in the feedback forum we can then add it to do list, thanks. ---------- Post added 13-12-2012 at 17:43 ---------- Thanks, but I'm sorry to disappoint that I'm never likely to become a high profile leader. Being the opposite for the last ~8 years has served both my sanity and the forum's success well and I don't want to fix something that ain't broke!
  6. Oih celebrity mod... I'm trying to get this back on topic (Can I tell him off even though he's now a celebrity?)
  7. Getting this thread back on topic... Has anyone got this week's Sheffield Telegraph to hand? Or a Star for that matter? Are we in it? I'll probably fall of my chair if anyone says 'yes' (and is actually telling the truth).
  8. Which is why, when people get banned from here and moan about 'freedom of speech', I tend to suggest they go and start their own forum As your posting on behalf of Facebook (good luck with that btw) surely you're from a company with billions in the bank
  9. You could ring up the news desk at the Star and see if they know?
  10. Despite the tone of some of my messages, I actually enjoy reading local newspapers - whether it be in Sheffield or elsewhere. There's a lot to be said for having organisations which help filter out the good stories from the noise. In addition to the news, the papers do far more than they're given credit for, such as organising campaigns, investigations, following endless court cases, sports coverage, etc. However, with dwindling numbers of journalists (who are then left to do their best with limited resources), the papers should be pro-actively encouraging people to submit local news stories - rather than presenting us with a drab list of names and phone numbers. And no, this is not me moaning about them ignoring our birthday again - I'm now giving up on banging that drum! One immediate and easy way to improve their news gathering would be to include their email address - it is 2012 after all! They could also work more closely with sites like SF - we'd even be happy to host a news submission form for them, if needed. I've emailed their senior management in the past, suggesting a range of ways (from closer integration, advertising partnerships, etc.) that we could support them and vice-a-versa, but so far its fallen on deaf ears. That's their choice of course, but I wanted to make people aware of my position as my slightly dry/cutting sense of humour can sometimes be lost in a tweet or forum post!
  11. People starting to put words in my mouth with this whole hot pants thing! Can we take bets on how long it will take Sheffield Telegraph to put the right Contact Us page online, i.e. the one that lists their address and staff rather than the Star's? In the meantime, just to prove I'm not (just) moaning, I have re-sent the original release to the new details they gave me on Twitter. PS. I'm now emailing Peter Kay, the News Ed. at the Telegraph, for some coverage after getting the last lot from Toby Foster #phoenixnights
  12. Surely the 'new' big news (trying to change subject from the hot pants ) is that Sheffield Telegraph just told me that the people listed on their own Contact Us page, who I've been emailing, don't actually work at that paper! No wonder it's hard (for anyone) to get any coverage
  13. I have an update! It appears that all of the people I contacted, who are listed on the Sheffield Telegraph's own contact us page at http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/contact-us don't actually work for the Telegraph! Seems they have the wrong people listed on their own site! I will now email the (unlisted) news ed. and have also suggested they put the correct contact us page on their site asap.
  14. Don't really want to turn this thread in to a one-to-one debate with you, but just to say that I agree it's bad if such groups are also not getting publicity, but that's a separate issue and exclusive of our coverage or lack of. As for me complaining about the lack of coverage on here, rather than somewhere else, well... that just seemed logical! After all this, either paper might pull something out of the hat and write something. But equally, if they don't, then that's fine. I don't see why, in the meantime, we're not allowed to discuss it - even if you personally consider the process to be 'sad'. There are other threads to look at
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