British Farming Forum 'My Progress'!

Arrow in the Knee

Ok so last week I registered with the British Farming Forum.

I used my own personal email address 'I purchased my own Domain name' not the free emails like 'hotmail or Gmail'.

So they sent me the standard click here and we'll get back to you.

I also Registered with Forum4Farming and became a full member within 24 hours which just shows ya how slow the BFF are.

So if or when I become a full member I will inform you's of this by a post.

They have no reason to decline me!

Seems like I would have a better chance of joining the Freemasonries in America.

restive

I tried before using safe-mail.net and was turned down.

Arrow in the Knee wrote: »

Ok so last week I registered with the British Farming Forum.

I used my own personal email address 'I purchased my own Domain name' not the free emails like 'hotmail or Gmail'.

So they sent me the standard click here and we'll get back to you.

I also Registered with Forum4Farming and became a full member within 24 hours which just shows ya how slow the BFF are.

So if or when I become a full member I will inform you's of this by a post.

They have no reason to decline me!

Seems like I would have a better chance of joining the Freemasonries in America.

Conflats

Arrow in the Knee wrote: »

Ok so last week I registered with the British Farming Forum.

I used my own personal email address 'I purchased my own Domain name' not the free emails like 'hotmail or Gmail'.

So they sent me the standard click here and we'll get back to you.

I also Registered with Forum4Farming and became a full member within 24 hours which just shows ya how slow the BFF are.

So if or when I become a full member I will inform you's of this by a post.

They have no reason to decline me!

Seems like I would have a better chance of joining the Freemasonries in America.

I joined in may/june 2011 and i'm still waiting for to be accepted, and i even got help from a member on here who is on there and he got a lets just say not to nice a response, i also used my own email address not my hotmail one and still nothing

I wouldnt hold my breath on getting accepted anytime soon

pakalasa

boards.ie/farming&forestry are like the GAA. They'll let anyone join....:D

As Groucho Marx said - "I would not join any club that would have someone like me for a member"

johngalway

I asked the BFF admin, on behalf of a few people here, about the hold up in their registration.

Long story short, the reply I got from the admin went along the following lines, that while they have a few existing "overseas" members, that they aren't sure they want too many due to "cultural differences and that".

I have my own view on the matter, I'm saying no more about it, those who I asked for know what it is.

sardonic

I just saw your post there. I registered with British Farming Forum a couple of months ago using my eircom webmail address with no problems and was accepted.

Arrow in the Knee

sardonic wrote: »

I just saw your post there. I registered with British Farming Forum a couple of months ago using my eircom webmail address with no problems and was accepted.

How long did it take for you from registering to full membership Sardonic?

bee_keeper

you cant join with a hotmail account , i had to get my sister who works in a law firm in dublin to register for me with the company email , if you know someone at a place of business with their own email , that might work

fastrac

I thought i was the only one.

leg wax

i tried as well and failed, their loss:D:D:D:D:D

Arrow in the Knee

The British Farming Forum have around 10,300 members as of today.

Just wondering how many of those 10,300 members are actual active members on their forum.

Would it even be half of the total members on BFF?

bee_keeper

johngalway wrote: »

I asked the BFF admin, on behalf of a few people here, about the hold up in their registration.

Long story short, the reply I got from the admin went along the following lines, that while they have a few existing "overseas" members, that they aren't sure they want too many due to "cultural differences and that".

I have my own view on the matter, I'm saying no more about it, those who I asked for know what it is.

i havent posted there in a while but i never got that impression , they also have posters from the usa , canada and new zealand , farmers dont tend to be petty in that way

johngalway

bee_keeper wrote: »

i havent posted there in a while but i never got that impression , they also have posters from the usa , canada and new zealand , farmers dont tend to be petty in that way

That's the reply I got from Blue, who is the administrator on BFF. I never have or had a bad word to say about the BFF members.

sardonic

Arrow in the Knee wrote: »

How long did it take for you from registering to full membership Sardonic?

It took about 2 months to get full membership.

johngalway

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Arrow in the Knee

I'd be interested to know whether they check the new members daily,weekly or monthly and accept or decline such newbie members.

By the way I didn't specify which country I came from!

I sent them emails before to them but no response for a previous attempt. Ya think they would at least gave a reply/reason for declining membership.

I read some where that they are so strict because of spam messages but this forum and other forums on www.boards.ie are very informative and I don't see any or rarely any junk messages.

josephsoap

Arrow in the Knee wrote: »

Ok so last week I registered with the British Farming Forum.

I used my own personal email address 'I purchased my own Domain name' not the free emails like 'hotmail or Gmail'.

So they sent me the standard click here and we'll get back to you.

I also Registered with Forum4Farming and became a full member within 24 hours which just shows ya how slow the BFF are.

So if or when I become a full member I will inform you's of this by a post.

They have no reason to decline me!

Seems like I would have a better chance of joining the Freemasonries in America.

Exact same thing happened to me never got to fully register :mad:

Arrow in the Knee

When did ya register Josephsoap?

josephsoap

Arrow in the Knee wrote: »

When did ya register Josephsoap?

Over four months ago now, tried email the admistrator and all never got a responce at all :mad:

Doesn't look like I'll get to join now

Arrow in the Knee

Their right f*****s! LoL

JohnBoy

that is a pity, I think it's such an informative forum, there's such a spread of farming types, scales, systems etc that I find it fascinating.


I had a bit of a row with the farmingforum crowd as you have to post X posts before you can see pictures, they werent impressed when I spammed my thread in the help forum trying to figure out how many posts it would take to be able to view the pics

JohnBoy

that is a pity, I think it's such an informative forum, there's such a spread of farming types, scales, systems etc that I find it fascinating.


I had a bit of a row with the farmingforum crowd as you have to post X posts before you can see pictures, they werent impressed when I spammed my thread in the help forum trying to figure out how many posts it would take to be able to view the pics

Arrow in the Knee

Yeep very informative forum.

It'll be interesting to see if they accept me or not.

Maybe they delay accepting ya as a full member because they want to know whether you are still viewing the forum in a months time or just someone who just wants to post spam or rubbish on their forum.

leg wax

Arrow in the Knee wrote: »

Yeep very informative forum.

It'll be interesting to see if they accept me or not.

Maybe they delay accepting ya as a full member because they want to know whether you are still viewing the forum in a months time or just someone who just wants to post spam or rubbish on their forum.

over 2 years looking at it everday still not left in:p:p:p

pakalasa

How do they know you're not English? What if you created, say a hotmail.co.uk account first and used that?

49801

I must say I find bff brilliant. The diversity and depth of knowledge is just incrediable.

I think the farming section here on boards.ie is good and improving but I at the same time I struggle to belive that there is the critical mass for boards.ie to be brilliant.
Bit like our irish soccer squad unfortunately, we just dont have the critical mass (population) to be good at so many sports. But that is a whole different can of worms that I really did not mean to open:eek:

Obviously British and Irish farming are really very simular if not the same and have many of the same concerns. I see no good reason why they should be discouraging Irish memberships. But at the same time the name of their forum is 'British farming forum'. Ireland ain't british lads! Maybe if history was different we did not succed in becoming a republic! Of course I am being feasious now.
Geographically Ireland is still part of the 'British Isles'

The forum4farming.com group did break away from bff for several reasons. Their biggest issue at the time was the lack of an Off Topic section where they used to have a good cut off of each other. Bff are quite concerned about liable cases being taken which is fair enough. f4f.com is a good start for an Irish and british joint forum but I dont find it is as well organised as bff

I joined bff with a hotmail account before that became a requirment.
It is an effective tactic to avoid spamers and the quality of the bff is maintained. I have reported a couple of posts on bff before for obvious and annoying plugging and the user in question did not return.

There are several industry interested parties posting on bff very successfully but they are very willing to share knowledge without constantly plugging the $hit out of the place.

I would not like to encourage ppl on here to move over to bff as I would fear it would be at the expense of boards.ie.

johngalway

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Arrow in the Knee

I just joined forum4farming to see how long it would take to become a full member and they were really quick compared to the BFF.

Also I have no intention of leaving www.boards.ie as I find it very informative and it is really interesting to gain knowledge and learn from other peoples experience.

Also I am very republican in my views and politics but I'll leave that for another forum!

49801

Hi folks,
I decided to start a thread about this over on bff
http://farmingforum.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=943171#post943171

Bodacious

[Quote=leg wax;[/QUOTE]
over 2 years looking at it everday still not left in:p:p:p[/Quote]

you like a young bull going up and down by the fence looking in at a field of heifers :-)

josephsoap

pakalasa wrote: »

How do they know you're not English? What if you created, say a hotmail.co.uk account first and used that?

Prob because they can see you are using an Irish IP adress ?

pakalasa

I wonder have we any foreign members on this forum? If so, 'Come into the fire and have a cuppa tae'....:D

Atilathehun

Arrow in the Knee wrote: »

I just joined forum4farming to see how long it would take to become a full member and they were really quick compared to the BFF.

Also I have no intention of leaving www.boards.ie as I find it very informative and it is really interesting to gain knowledge and learn from other peoples experience.

Also I am very republican in my views and politics but I'll leave that for another forum!

So do you believe in a land tax, like the brethren heading up the shinners?

dar31

49801 wrote: »

Hi folks,
I decided to start a thread about this over on bff
http://farmingforum.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=943171#post943171

i see they have taken down the thread now.

jeez lads, annoying the nice lads on the other side of the pond now, have ye nothing better to do.



i joined 2 years ago using a eircom address and had no problems, but there has been problems getting registered for a while now, from all walks of like

whelan1

dar31 wrote: »

i see they have taken down the thread now.

jeez lads, annoying the nice lads on the other side of the pond now, have ye nothing better to do.



i joined 2 years ago using a eircom address and had no problems, but there has been problems getting registered for a while now, from all walks of like

i am the same... no probs registering then

Arrow in the Knee

Atilathehun wrote: »

So do you believe in a land tax, like the brethren heading up the shinners?

I had to check in the dictionary to see what brethren meant!

I don't believe in a land tax.

I also seen the thread 49801 on BFF but while it was on it seemed like it fell on 'Deaf Ears'.

Thanks anyway.

Seems like we're becoming the 'Noisy Neighbours'!

Atilathehun

pakalasa wrote: »

I wonder have we any foreign members on this forum? If so, 'Come into the fire and have a cuppa tae'....:D

There is a few lads from Kerry! That's enough -:)

49801

Too many conclusions being drawn on here already!
Too tired right now to go further. just finished putting tyres on the pit in the rain:o

Thanks
49801

49801

dar31 wrote: »

i see they have taken down the thread now.

jeez lads, annoying the nice lads on the other side of the pond now, have ye nothing better to do.



i joined 2 years ago using a eircom address and had no problems, but there has been problems getting registered for a while now, from all walks of like

Right lads,
Ignore that the thread I started was removed. They simply do not like threads going on about registration.... end of.

Most of the problems seem you seem to be experiencing is very simply to do with the email accounts you are using. They dont like dodgy ones that leave them open to spamers and you are being filtered out. You need to use a very reputable one.
Has anyone mentioned any trouble with eircom accounts?
A work around is when you are registering use a reputable account of a friend. Once you are registered you can change the email account to one of your choice no problem.

Username John

49801 wrote: »

A work around is when you are registering use a reputable account of a friend. Once you are registered you can change the email account to one of your choice no problem.

I registered with a @vodafone.ie email account - while it took a while (a few months from what I remember) it worked fine.

You get an @vodafone.ie email with your vodafone phone number, same for o2.ie I imagine

49801

Username John wrote: »

I registered with a @vodafone.ie email account - while it took a while (a few months from what I remember) it worked fine.

You get an @vodafone.ie email with your vodafone phone number, same for o2.ie I imagine

No harm in highlighting that the mods are volunteers and dont get paid to deal every little quam that goes on. So their work on the forum hast to fit in around their everyday lives. So sometimes these things do just take time.

bbam

Atilathehun wrote: »

There is a few lads from Kerry! That's enough -:)

Cavan too.
I was buying something in Cork a few years ago and the lady I was dealing wanted to know would we have much bother getting it across the border. She was truly shocked to hear Cavan was in the republic, bloody langer!

pakalasa

I was in a meeting one day when an English guy said 'He would send on the information when he got back to the mainland'. There was a young guy there from Sligo, who I thought would hop across the table to him..:D

Figerty

You should have been accross the table yourself!!!

We often use this line to get a rise out our english visitors when they visit work.....especially if we want them on the back foot on negotitations..they know it's sensitive! Usually it's 'over here in the colonies' and then start laughing...

pakalasa wrote: »

I was in a meeting one day when an English guy said 'He would send on the information when he got back to the mainland'. There was a young guy there from Sligo, who I thought would hop across the table to him..:D

greysides

Username John wrote: »

You get an @vodafone.ie email with your vodafone phone number, same for o2.ie I imagine

I registered initially with an O2 account but they are now defunct.

josephsoap

Figerty wrote: »

You should have been accross the table yourself!!!

We often use this line to get a rise out our english visitors when they visit work.....especially if we want them on the back foot on negotitations..they know it's sensitive! Usually it's 'over here in the colonies' and then start laughing...

You what mate??

Arrow in the Knee

Off topic a bit but the owners of Boards.ie and BFF that 'relate to me' must be getting a free ride getting advertising money while the poor moderators get nothing.

If only I thought of a forum like www.Britishfarmingforum.co.uk or www.Boards.ie before they did it.

Damn it

razor8

49801 wrote: »

Right lads,
Ignore that the thread I started was removed. They simply do not like threads going on about registration.... end of.

Most of the problems seem you seem to be experiencing is very simply to do with the email accounts you are using. They dont like dodgy ones that leave them open to spamers and you are being filtered out. You need to use a very reputable one.
Has anyone mentioned any trouble with eircom accounts?
A work around is when you are registering use a reputable account of a friend. Once you are registered you can change the email account to one of your choice no problem.

your way wrong, sure you cant register at all if you use hotmail, gmail etc. i know i have and others have used paid emails accounts and still were not accepted

razor8

josephsoap wrote: »

Prob because they can see you are using an Irish IP adress ?

exactly, just get someone living in the uk or northern ireland to register for ya and get them to give you details

LostCovey

Obviously the secret of a successful club is to make it really hard to join.

Ye all sound pathetic, begging to join a forum that clearly wants nothing to do with the likes of us proletarian muckers. Thinking we are their equals and trying to rub shoulders with our betters on BFF.

"I say, Jeremy, is that one of those frightful Irish savages trying to get past the doorman? Didn't we give them back most of their horrible wet poor little island?"

"Please sorrr, is there eyre a chance atall atall ye might let me in for a whileen, like, OY'll be no thrubble atall.

Maybe a wee bowl of soup to warm me up, sorr?"

Arrow in the Knee

I was thinking about the IP address aswell.

Would you have to just register again with personal email in UK or buy email and register in the UK.

I'm heading to the Nottingham soon so I'll get it done there hopefully.

The BFF mob will read this and say 'no chance'. LOL