Below is a comment from someone who, earlier on in the year, posted on Trip Advisor about Tortosa Forum Message Board. There are a number of replies agreeing with the sentiments of the first post. Unfortunately, I fully agree with a lot of what is said - it would be nice to get helpful and/or positive feedback from posts rather than the all too frequent slagging off and supposedly 'jokey' (but often just downright unpleasant) comments. C'mon guys lets be more helpful and constructive when posting and not let the few who do put up such posts be allowed to dominate and side-track threads.


Tortosa Forum

24 January 2014, 15:00

Has anyone had experience of using this forum? I signed up to it last year and made a couple of posts but they were completely hijacked by a few unpleasant characters and so I no longer use it. I do occasionally use it as a guest but it seems to have deteriorated even further and whoever is running it seems to have no control over what is put on there or rather chooses to have no control over it and as a result it seems to be full of bickering and negativity.

Does anyone know of any other forum that is a bit more positive in nature?

I think Nigel & Rita run the Forum well.Only my opinion,but we need to be careful regarding too much "censorship",back in Blighty now,freedom of speech exists only for a selective few     

Of course,as this Forum is run well,all those that disagree with the above comments,will be allowed to post as they wish.

I have always found the forum helpful. Advice has saved me from making mistakes.  I have found equipment I need through it being posted there. It strings together a diverse expat community. I try out or ( not) restaurants reviewed there.
I have got good legal opinion there. Good medical advice. Good advice re my car, my residence, insurance etc. etc.  Had a few jokes, a bit of political debate, Ryanair, and been annoyed from time to time. In fact it covers very well the day to day struggles of life of the expat residents in the area.
So well done all members, Those who wish to criticize you can do that too but try to temper you negative feelings by understanding the level of good that the forum provides.
Thanks all for the time and effort you have put in I for on am grateful.

You can please all the people some of the time,
some of the people all the time,
but you can't please all of the people all of the time.

I once listened to a local Radio Oxford programme where they were asking people to pone in with their views on the recently launched station. I was amazed at the negative comments that were being made. My thought was: You can always tune to a different station or switch your radio off but it seemed as if the audience preferred to moan and criticise.

By the way isn't moaning a British sport?

I set up the Tortosa Fórum nearly 10 years ago. It was as a result of a posting I made on Trip Advisor, I don't recall exactly what but I think it was something to do with satellite TV. It was removed by Trip Advisor as being inappropriate...
So I set up this fórum so that hopefully there could be more freedom of speech.

The membership has changed over the years and a lot of people have come and gone but as I remove any members that haven't been active for 12 months the membership is reasonably up to date with active members, much more so than many other fórums with thousands of members.

As moderators Rita and I have to balance our own personal views with those of the members; not always an easy task. I would like to think we manage reasonably well.

Nigel

I, for one, am delighted with this forum and think it is a brilliant facility and resource for help and information. Thank you Nigel and Rita, you do a great job and we would all be very much poorer without your efforts.

Quite why people in the Western world complain about trivia beats me. Swap places with a Syrian refugee for a day and then see what matters. We are in the top percentile of the worlds population for wealth, health and freedom. Get over yourself!

Bob, it's you're. Honestly, no wonder people moan.....












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yes the forum is a great help, but maybe  set up a chat room, for people to chat and talk and joke on ....this will channel all comments

Fishman and Coco are you seriously suggesting having a forum where the odd joke and humor are not allowed ?