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  • #3002
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    maxxuumman wrote: »
    Scandalous treatment of bbam. The posters make the forum not the moderators. Adios

    I'm waiting for a pm from Someone and think I'll join you


  • #3003
    exercise is the antidote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 346 ✭✭exercise is the antidote


    Lost my iPhone today, chasing cattle in a forestry, not a hope I can find it.. Was looking for hours. It's gone dead now aswell :(... Anyone no where I'd get a metal detecter?


  • #3004
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,669 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Taltos wrote: »
    All for a laugh guys, but seriously continuing to question mod / cat mod direction on a thread is a big no-no. I have just issued two warnings, in other forums such behaviour results in an immediate infraction or a ban.

    The rules are in place to ensure everyone has fun here, however if posters continue to cross the line you are forcing us to act in a way we don't want to.
    F&F is not "other forums". I seem to remember the Mods posting something about throwing in the towel when it comes to trying to keep us on track and on topic. I cannot locate the particular post at the moment.
    The goal posts have now shifted and official rules are now been applied. It is a real pity - new brush sweeps clean :mad:
    I understand that moderation is required on such a large website but I personally feel that we are been lashed out of it :(
    If I get a ban for speaking my mind then so be it.


  • #3005
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    exercise is the antidote wrote: »
    Lost my iPhone today, chasing cattle in a forestry, not a hope I can find it.. Was looking for hours. It's gone dead now aswell :(... Anyone no where I'd get a metal detecter?

    I have one, but I don't think you're near me.
    There are other ways though surely?


  • #3006
    exercise is the antidote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 346 ✭✭exercise is the antidote


    .Kovu. wrote: »
    I have one, but I don't think you're near me.
    There are other ways though surely?

    No where at opposite ends..but thanks anyway..i have a fair idea where I've been I can trace my steps, the problem is there's a deepish green cover on the forestry.


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  • #3007
    GrandSoftDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 743 ✭✭✭GrandSoftDay


    Base price wrote: »
    F&F is not "other forums". I seem to remember the Mods posting something about throwing in the towel when it comes to trying to keep us on track and on topic. I cannot locate the particular post at the moment.
    The goal posts have now shifted and official rules are now been applied. It is a real pity - new brush sweeps clean :mad:
    I understand that moderation is required on such a large website but I personally feel that we are been lashed out of it :(
    If I get a ban for speaking my mind then so be it.

    A while back it didn't need to be moderated heavily because there was hardly ever any trouble on here apart from the odd spammer. Lately all there is is threads being derailed when the Ifa is mentioned and personal insults, jibes and bickering. No harm for something to be done about it because a lot of good posters have closed accounts or just become inactive because of it. Maybe I'm the only one on here who thinks like this though....


  • #3008
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    exercise is the antidote wrote: »
    No where at opposite ends..but thanks anyway..i have a fair idea where I've been I can trace my steps, the problem is there's a deepish green cover on the forestry.

    Shiny cover? Dry night and go with a torch maybe?

    Worked for me with a ring I lost on the lane to the shed.


  • #3009
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,623 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Well anyways I got the stock out today and got all the sheds washed out, it's the first sign of summer I tells ya :D


  • #3010
    Round Bale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭Round Bale


    Lads where is Reilig?


  • #3011
    J.O. Farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭J.O. Farmer


    Round Bale wrote: »
    Lads where is Reilig?

    Check out the cheap grass reseed forum and the posts earlier here. We're not to discuss the matter.


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  • #3012
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,669 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    GrandSoftDay wrote: »
    A while back it didn't need to be moderated heavily because there was hardly ever any trouble on here apart from the odd spammer. Lately all there is is threads being derailed when the Ifa is mentioned and personal insults, jibes and bickering. No harm for something to be done about it because a lot of good posters have closed accounts or just become inactive because of it. Maybe I'm the only one on here who thinks like this though....
    Any mention of the IFA in the current climate is going to upset at lot of people and therefore result in conflicting posts.
    In fairness when we were all on the pigs back some years ago the IFA and factory prices were the least of our worries.
    However its a big wheel that keeps turning and its coming full circle again. Some would consider that the IFA are too close to the spindle to observe the outer ring of the wheel :eek:


  • #3013
    the man from athlone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭the man from athlone


    rancher wrote: »
    Shame, I kept asking posters to accept the mods decision but a couple people kept on niggling.
    Have to say I saw this coming

    Great..
    We'll all be happy with those gone and those still here !


  • #3014
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Was just out locking the car and heard the Larsen trap snap. "Bit odd" thinks Kovu and off I go down the field. Two mags in the trap and one very irate pine martin who looked a bit more than slightly miffed to have his nice evening meal interrupted.
    Go back to the house to get gloves to let him out and told dad what the story was. He wants to go see him as he's never seen one so he comes with me to let him out. Arrive down and all there is left is half a dead mag. So now Dad either thinks I killed the mag in a fit of madness or that we've got a very smart pine martin that can open Larsen traps from the inside:pac:

    (Its the latter by the way:D)


  • #3015
    the man from athlone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭the man from athlone


    GrandSoftDay wrote: »
    A while back it didn't need to be moderated heavily because there was hardly ever any trouble on here apart from the odd spammer. Lately all there is is threads being derailed when the Ifa is mentioned and personal insults, jibes and bickering. No harm for something to be done about it because a lot of good posters have closed accounts or just become inactive because of it. Maybe I'm the only one on here who thinks like this though....

    Funny follow through..
    If you follow the whole forum... those who speak out against said organisation are no longer here..

    I'm a bystander to the most part... but its hard to avoid !


  • #3016
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Had a lad pumping slurry on the out-farm today. Went back at 3p to see how he was getting on, 6 grey crows in the middle of the first field he had spread.. Gotta build that trap.


  • #3017
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Had a lad pumping slurry on the out-farm today. Went back at 3p to see how he was getting on, 6 grey crows in the middle of the first field he had spread.. Gotta build that trap.

    First thing you want to make is a "Larsen mate". That will make you self sufficient in catching call birds, the hardest bird to catch is the first.


  • #3018
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,669 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Was just out locking the car and heard the Larsen trap snap. "Bit odd" thinks Kovu and off I go down the field. Two mags in the trap and one very irate pine martin who looked a bit more than slightly miffed to have his nice evening meal interrupted.
    Go back to the house to get gloves to let him out and told dad what the story was. He wants to go see him as he's never seen one so he comes with me to let him out. Arrive down and all there is left is half a dead mag. So now Dad either thinks I killed the mag in a fit of madness or that we've got a very smart pine martin that can open Larsen traps from the inside:pac:

    (Its the latter by the way:D)
    Whilst having lunch in a local pub last week I met with an auld hunter and we got talking about vermin control on farms/pheasant and poultry keeping, particularly with regards to mink and pine martins.
    We had a pine martin in the meal shed in late Jan this year :eek:
    He said that a pine martin will rip a mink or larsen trap apart as they are strong creatures.
    Like your dad I have never seen one in the flesh but judging from what he told me, they are formidable creatures.


  • #3019
    A cow called Daisy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭A cow called Daisy


    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Riiiiight. I'm off to check the cows. Seems the wise thing to do right now:pac:

    Don't you usually do that in your pajamas? or is that just for ones calving?

    The one day i not read posts for a while and all in crazy. Father Ted and protesting about the film spring to mind.
    "Down with this sort of thing" and "careful now"


  • #3020
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Base price wrote: »
    Whilst having lunch in a local pub last week I met with an auld hunter and we got talking about vermin control on farms/pheasant and poultry keeping, particularly with regards to mink and pine martins.
    We had a pine martin in the meal shed in late Jan this year :eek:
    He said that a pine martin will rip a mink or larsen trap apart as they are strong creatures.
    Like your dad I have never seen one in the flesh but judging from what he told me, they are formidable creatures.

    Yup, that's why I went up quickly to the house to get gloves and a wire to lever it open. Last cage we had was chewed open by one. At lease we still have a slightly traumatised call bird though.


  • #3021
    GrandSoftDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 743 ✭✭✭GrandSoftDay


    the man from athlone wrote: »
    Funny follow through..
    If you follow the whole forum... those who speak out against said organisation are no longer here..

    I'm a bystander to the most part... but its hard to avoid !
    I'm talking about posters who never got involved in those discussions. Plenty here closed accounts and opened new ones including myself for various different reasons and most of the same posters are here under a different heading. It's the same story being spouted over and over again in regards the Ifa and everyone is entitled to their opinion ( I never gave mine ) but it's senseless going down the road it has gone of jibes and digs. Nobody is gaining anything from it and it's annoying all the threads that get derailed when they are mentioned to spout out the same auld crap over and over again. I wouldn't envy a mods job trying to deal with it.


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  • #3022
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,669 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    GrandSoftDay wrote: »
    I'm talking about posters who never got involved in those discussions. Plenty here closed accounts and opened new ones including myself for various different reasons and most of the same posters are here under a different heading. It's the same story being spouted over and over again in regards the Ifa and everyone is entitled to their opinion ( I never gave mine ) but it's senseless going down the road it has gone of jibes and digs. Nobody is gaining anything from it and it's annoying all the threads that get derailed when they are mentioned to spout out the same auld crap over and over again. I wouldn't envy a mods job trying to deal with it.
    In fairness to the previous Mods they allowed for equitable debate which is important in any democracy.
    I presume that most of us posters are stakeholders in the IFA (i.e. farmers), via membership fees, levies etc and therefore have a right to express our opinions be them negative or positive from that organisations point of view.
    Also I would not agree that nothing is gained from dissenting view points expressed on posts.
    Sometimes it is educational to hear how other farmers are coping with their current financial realities especially when it comes to factory prices and bull beef.


  • #3023
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    4 out of my 5 springers have calved. Had to jack one, the rest all calved themselves. As luck has it, the maternal bulls I used all left me with bulls :eek:
    One of the springers has mastitis now. The joys of farming!!!


  • #3024
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    is this yellow card thingy appearing beside posts a new feature, or was it always there?


  • #3025
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    is this yellow card thingy appearing beside posts a new feature, or was it always there?

    Think it's there a while now. Seen it on other forums.

    Is it going to be like GAA soon with a black card handed out it we act out of order?:rolleyes:


  • #3026
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Only recently that Papal Infallability was quietly abandoned, can Moderation be far behind?!


  • #3027
    trixi2011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,538 ✭✭✭trixi2011


    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Think it's there a while now. Seen it on other forums.

    Is it going to be like GAA soon with a black card handed out it we act out of order?:rolleyes:
    must be a rough game a lot of yellow cards been handed out :eek:


  • #3028
    A cow called Daisy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭A cow called Daisy


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    is this yellow card thingy appearing beside posts a new feature, or was it always there?

    As if following the threads not enough, now we might have warnings, 'yellow cards' and who has been banned to keep an eye on.:(

    Noticed now that all that had 'yellow cards' before i posted have now lost them and i only one with one. Very confusing. Think i will blame phone


  • #3029
    rancher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭rancher


    GrandSoftDay wrote: »
    I'm talking about posters who never got involved in those discussions. Plenty here closed accounts and opened new ones including myself for various different reasons and most of the same posters are here under a different heading. It's the same story being spouted over and over again in regards the Ifa and everyone is entitled to their opinion ( I never gave mine ) but it's senseless going down the road it has gone of jibes and digs. Nobody is gaining anything from it and it's annoying all the threads that get derailed when they are mentioned to spout out the same auld crap over and over again. I wouldn't envy a mods job trying to deal with it.

    Plenty of direct hits at me too, only I mostly ignore the report button, I think before this week I pressed it once, well able to defend myself.
    At least some are happy with what's after happening. I can tell you I'm not.
    PS. is changing names the new protest


  • #3030
    rancher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭rancher


    A cow called Daisy wrote: »
    As if following the threads not enough, now we might have warnings, 'yellow cards' and who has been banned to keep an eye on.:(

    Noticed now that all that had 'yellow cards' before i posted have now lost them and i only one with one. Very confusing. Think i will blame phone

    Maybe yellow cards have a short lifespan, must read the rules, have never read them


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  • #3031
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,623 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    rancher wrote: »
    Maybe yellow cards have a short lifespan, must read the rules, have never read them

    Tut tut. That's the first thing you should be reading


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