Welcome and introductions

First topic message reminder :

Around the autumn of 2007 I came across the MSN message boards and found one entitled "UK Politics" which I joined and enjoyed for over three and a half years, then around April 2011 MSN decided in their wisdom to close down that particular message board.

Over time the MSN message board posters had become like friends, and though I had never met any of them, they became as familiar as the regulars I have a pint with in the local village pub, one or two were fairly nasty and quite vile, most were very pleasant people.

Fortunately, one of the redundant MSN bloggers (Ivan) decided to start his own political blogging site, and many of the old MSN posters followed him to his newly created site, and after a competition to find a name, it was agreed to call it "Cutting Edge".

I have to point out that Ivan ran things in a very fair and democratic way, the members decided the rules, they chose the name and logo, several of us were appointed as moderators and common sense prevailed.

Unfortunately the host of our board was "ProBoards" whom I would definately NOT recommend to anyone, they pulled the plug and closed Cutting Edge down saying that we had broken the rules.
To this day we still do not know what rule(s) were broken, and by whom, we wrote very polite emails to ProBoards asking for an explanation, but we got no answer other than "you broke the rules".

And so here we are WELCOME

Actually... I don't have an accent... but you all do.

LOL! That's what I tell all the Americans when they comment on mine ... even though I live in the US. They're the ones "talking funny."

Hi All,

and good to be back with you again. I was hoping Ivan would start up another forum after the Pro boards fiasco...so thank you very much! I am sure we will get a lot more people joing us in the next few month, but it's good to see many familiar faces here from Pro boards and the MSN forums.

I am going to send an invite to one of my very best friends to join, even though he is an ardent leftie. We disagree on everything, but he is a good debator so i think he could add value here

Much love from the Channel Islands
Blueturando

Greetings, blue ... glad to see you have found your way here.

Greetings.  I'm finding this format a little difficult.   Is the private messaging disabled?

Is the private messaging disabled?

I've now discovered that this forum was pre-set so that private messaging cannot be done by members who have only posted a very few messages. Clearly this was arranged to make it more difficult for spammers who, with no intention of participating in discussions, might join the forum, send messages to all members, and then disappear. I intend to leave things that way.

Hello to you back, moonbeam.

I am a regular poster (for my sins?) on another debate forum, UKDebate, was recommended this forum and here I is.

Interested in more less everything...I have views...especially about the big questions...the real whoppers...like whats it all about...really?....love all that.
But I am probably more infamous on the other forum for my political and religious opinions...which I assure you are suitably bombastic and offensive to a goodly proportion of people   (Oo lots of smilies, we don't have those.)
But I mean well.  

Anyways...
I look forward to reading contributions and er contributing.

Peace!

Hi everyone, my friends call me Stox, I Look forward to posting with you all[i]

Welcome, Stox. Thanks for responding to my invitation.

Ivan wrote:Welcome, Stox. Thanks for responding to my invitation.

Your most welcome and thank you for your invitation. hope you will enjoy my posts. now just need to think about what post to made first ha ha

moonbeam wrote:Hello good people from Cutting Edge

I hope all of you had a good holiday season. For me, I'm just glad it's OVER!!

Yeah? With what's in store for us we shall be looking back on 2011 as THE GOOD OLD DAYS!

At last i have found a forum with lots of my old MSN bloggers. It is good to see so many names that are familiar to me, some i have crossed swords with but all that had an oppinion with good debate.
I look forward to joining in your debates and wish you all a very healthy and prosperous New Year.    Ben.

Hello Ben - good to see you here.

Hi sickchip, i was just logging in to another site when i received an "e" mail from Ivan who told me about this site. I am so pleased to have found you all again and it is good to hear from you.

Some of the changes have been seamless, but not without incident along the way, Ben. Welcome indeed.

MSN fell under the control of trolls and nuns. Sometimes called a coalition.

Thanks OW, and i may add good to see you here; I wish i was I.T. literate enough to have saved all the threads that i was deaply involved with on MSN such as "Bring back the act of Treason" etc, because there were comments made on there by Mandelson and Dr Appleton etc that are coming to fruition or that have caused controversy with the EU. You mension MSN fell under the control of trolls and nuns, i think more like a steamroller  

Ben, you may find that all of your deathless prose is still available to you on MSN.

Hi everyone my board name is Redflag looking forward to posting on this site

Welcome, Redflag. Thanks for joining us. I hope you will enjoy the forum.

Ivan told me about this forum so I thought I would give it a go.
My interests are US politics, the media, the Archers, F1, urban living and comics you can follow me on twitter [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

When I first posted on here I tried to write something under 'Welcome and Introductions' and wasn't even allowed to access it. Since then I rather gather it is composed of people who already know one another from somewhere else. I find it a bit unwelcoming, really. Apologies for breathing!

Penderyn, my sincere apologies.

On the entire welcome board only the staff can start threads, and (for rather obvious reasons) only the staff can write on the posting rules thread. Of course we wanted members to be able to write on the welcome and suggestions threads, but the required settings were rather complicated and I didn't get them right first time.

Yes, some of us knew each other previously. Some of us were at MSN before those discussion boards were closed, and some of the members here know each other from UK Debate. There are, however, quite a few members who haven't been on either of those forums and came here on their own or by personal invitation. And what does it matter as we're all in this together? Now where have I heard that before?

Devil? LOL.

You could be right, moonbeam, but there was certainly a glitch in the early days, and it was all my fault.


How's your forum doing these days? Keeping you busy or ticking over nicely? I appreciate how you take the time to visit us, and if you ever want a job here, please let me know!!

moonbeam. Would you have time to be a Moderator on some of our non-political boards? I'm planning a substantial reorganisation and a Deputy Administrator.

Thanks, moonbeam. I'll send you a PM.

Hi everyone....I'm MacBeth and heard of here thanks to Moonbeam.....I hope everybody is well and I look forward to popping along and posting a comment or two if that's ok ?

Hello and welcome Macbeth (or should we call you 'the Scottish play'?). I hope you'll find the forum of interest to you, and should Shakespeare be to your liking, we have just the thread on our 'History Channel'....I spent hours writing the opening posting!

Hi there Ivan....I feel we may have spoken some time ago on the old UKMSN boards under a different ID which I shall PM you....

I'll go take a look at the HISTORY Channel....oh....and thanks for the Welcome !!

Ooops ...apparently I haven't reached the posting target figure yet to be able to send PM's.....well considering I've only been here a few minutes.....hahahaha !!

You'll just have to wait a little longer before I can contact you Ivan !

Macbeth. You're not brownboots1, are you? No, you can't be him, he didn't laugh (he was just a laughing stock).

You have to post ten messages here before you send PMs (called MPs, because this is a French site - all of the buttons were in French when we arrived!). It's to stop spammers from nipping in and filling everyone's inbox with junk and then disappearing again.

Who ?!!

Never heard of brownboots1.....sorry......