Welcome and introductions

by witchfinder Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:40 pm

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

by boatlady Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:58 pm

Hello - nice to meet you - not TOO deadly I hope

by starlight07 Wed Mar 20, 2013 8:19 pm

Hi Eggy and Deadly.

by skwalker1964 Thu Mar 21, 2013 9:58 am

Welcome deadly!

by Deadly Nightshade Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:00 pm

Talks to everyone for the warm welcome

by iamjumbo Tue Apr 09, 2013 7:04 pm

howdy. i know a couple of folks on here, but, the majority of y'all are just getting the privilege of knowing me. for that, we are all thankful.
i look forward to roaming around the board

by boatlady Tue Apr 09, 2013 7:11 pm

nice to meet you

by **moonbeam** Wed Apr 10, 2013 2:41 am

iamjumbo, your name looked familiar to me, but I couldn't figure out where I had seen it. I've since figured it out, however. Welcome aboard!

by Malcolm Armsteen Tue Jun 11, 2013 5:56 pm

Hi all. I suspect I know some of you from elsewhere. Looking forward to reading through the many threads.

by boatlady Tue Jun 11, 2013 6:45 pm

Welcome Malcolm - nice to see another new face

by jamie_wd Wed Jul 24, 2013 2:46 pm

Good afternoon, all. I don't think any of you know me, though I have seen a few of the names on Twitter I think.

Good to be here.

by Mel Wed Jul 24, 2013 2:54 pm

A very warm welcome to all you newcomers. Enjoy!!!!

by boatlady Wed Jul 24, 2013 3:25 pm

Hi Jamie

by **moonbeam** Wed Jul 24, 2013 4:05 pm

HI Jamie! Welcome to Cutting Edge!

by James Gibson Sat Jul 27, 2013 1:37 pm

Hello Jamie - I'm new as well!

I've just received an invitation to this forum from Ivan via email so I thought I should come and join in the discussion.

I also write a leftist political blog, [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Thanks for the invite!

by **moonbeam** Sat Jul 27, 2013 1:40 pm

Welcome to you, too, James! I hope you like the board.

by boatlady Sun Jul 28, 2013 9:13 pm

James - good to meet you

by Catlover Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:05 pm

Hi all

Just joined yesterday following an "invitation to join" message from Ivan.

I think I may have come across Ivan on one of the Yahoo Discussion Boards some time ago. If so, I liked his style there and so was more than willing to give Cutting Edge a go.

Hope I can contribute something worthwhile!

BFN

by boatlady Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:29 pm

Lovely to meet all you new members - I really hope you'll contribute and enjoy your time with us

by **Ivan** Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:38 pm

Catlover. Yes, that was me on the Yahoo boards, thanks for the kind remark. Very Happy

Please have a good look over all the boards on the forum. Most posters tend to congregate around just UK politics and economics or the religion board, but there is much more to Cutting Edge.

I've lent you an avatar of one of my cats, when she was looking angry (probably when a Tory canvasser knocked on the front door). If you want to replace the pic with something of your own, please do so.

by oftenwrong Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:43 pm

Welcome "catlover". Presumably you know from experience that "catowner" is a word of no significance for a cat.

by **Ivan** Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:48 pm

Don't tell me! My dog wants a friend, my two cats want (and get) a servant. Sad

At least Catlover will get on well with the other administrator, Shirina, who is also a cat person. cat

by **moonbeam** Wed Jul 31, 2013 2:23 am

I'm a cat person as well. We have 5. Four of them were not really intentional, lol.

by Catlover Wed Jul 31, 2013 2:43 pm

Thanks all for your very warm welcomes! Good to know there are more catlovers out there and thanks to Ivan for the lovely avatar. I shall probably keep it - at least for a while and until I work out how to replace it with one of my own.

Looking forward to contributing when I feel more confident at what I am doing! But will be quiet for next few days at least as I'm away from the computer.

Thanks again folks.

by JP Cusick Thu Sep 05, 2013 12:56 am

I have been here before almost 2 years ago? and the forum yesterday sent me an email inviting me back, so here I have returned.
Rolling Eyes

by **moonbeam** Thu Sep 05, 2013 2:36 am

Welcome back, JP! Glad to see you.

by boatlady Thu Sep 05, 2013 3:00 pm

Nice to see you JP

by Shirina Thu Sep 05, 2013 4:08 pm

Heya, JP, nice to see you back. thumbsup

by Dan Fante Fri Oct 11, 2013 9:04 am

Hello all,
Someone from the Amazon forums (where the moderation had been annoying a lot of us) suggested this place was a good alternative so I thought I'd give it a whirl.

by boatlady Fri Oct 11, 2013 10:13 am

Good to meet you - hope you enjoy yourself

by Dan Fante Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:40 am

Thanks, I'll try my best Very Happy

by Norm Deplume Fri Oct 11, 2013 3:17 pm

Hello to all,

I am new to the forum but I hope I can contribute.

by Bellatori Fri Oct 11, 2013 3:49 pm

I thought I ought to say Hi as I drift in. I really must see if I can find a decent Avatar. I am another refugee from Amazon.

[EDIT] There you go... rootin', tootin', shootin' cowboy Jo at about four years old in 1955

by boatlady Fri Oct 11, 2013 4:05 pm

Norm DePlume and Bellatori - great to meet you both

by **moonbeam** Fri Oct 11, 2013 4:36 pm

Welcome to Dan, Norm, and bellatori! Good to have all of you here.

by AW Fri Oct 11, 2013 5:03 pm

Hi, I'm here from Amazon too. It's nice to see some familiar names.

by **moonbeam** Fri Oct 11, 2013 5:52 pm

Hi, AW. Nice to see you!

by snowyflake Fri Oct 11, 2013 6:20 pm

Hello to all of you who defected from the Amazon forums and welcome to Cutting Edge. Please take a moment to familiarise yourself with the terms and conditions and the forum rules.

Have fun!

by Bellatori Fri Oct 11, 2013 6:37 pm

I already feel welcome... Very Happy

by AW Fri Oct 11, 2013 7:01 pm

Thank you.

by boatlady Fri Oct 11, 2013 7:24 pm

Nice to see you all - it will be good to hear some more opinions

by oftenwrong Fri Oct 11, 2013 7:30 pm

Where's Jeff?

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