Childish behaviour in the forum?

Gogsie wrote

Many people talk about having a Union

I feel Gogsie may be referring to past discussions on unions. As far as I am aware there is no drive towards forming an ROV union but there does appear to be some movement towards an Association being formed as Scott has pointed out.

So why not give the option to lock that particular thread?

To the poster as that is the worst affending thread ROV Agency requirements it happens quite frequently.

Or make it a one post thread in that topic no replies at all.

Valid suggestions, but the issue with that is almost anyone could post any comment and lock the thread right away so that nobody could respond.
It’ll take a clever person than me to make such tweaks and for them to be effective without spoiling forum usage in general.

Of late we’ve (appointed admins) done a not too bad job of locking job threads.. this one slipped through the net. I have had dialogue with the OP and they are happy with the outcome.

In the interim if anyone sees a thread going out of whack please contact an admin and we’ll do our best to fix it in short order.

Seems to me always this site has become ROV Company World as opposed to what it was back in the early days, just a good open forum for ROV people.

Back in the early days (back in 2000 and pre this site) we seemed to not have to put up with the immature sniping we are seeing here today. People in general were friendly and helpful. Whilst an element of that still prevails here today we have been forced to censure whereas year back it appeared not to be required.

Not sure what you mean by ROV company world…. Over the years (ten in fact) we have had to put up with emails from companies asking about the ID of posters or attempting to get me to remove threads because the information appears not to show their company in a good light. Each time the so called offending posts have been looked at and a decision has been made based on content, not on pressure from any source.
We never divulge the identity of any poster to companies, but would do so to legal authorities should an offence appear to have been committed.

With regards to the deleted employment thread. I deleted that off my own back. There was no outside request. Plus. Our guidelines are quite clear on the reasons behind my actions. Whether a response it is deemed to be relevant or not, members should start a new thread under employment discussions to discuss various job posts, not reply to the job post itself. That little gem of a guideline is posted at the top of each employment forum for Agencies and Companies.
The original job post was also deleted (as per guidelines) because the OP did not supply sufficient contact information either. Then OP posted later with all the required information and the topic was locked by an admin.

We have always been proud of our record of giving people a place to debate our industry. What we are not here for is to offer a place for people to start flame wars and basically slag off other posters. The guidelines clearly state that anyway and to use this site you will have seen a copy and agreed to them.

It’s a free world. If people don’t like the way things are being looked after around here they are of course free to say so, leave or start their own ‘improved’ discussion forum.

We’ve been here a few times before.
It doesn’t matter what we do around here.. there will always be people that aren’t happy… the way of the world no doubt.