John Drake

The TV landscape has changed out of all recognition since the early noughties, I think mostly down to technological advances in the means of delivery, rather than the actual content. There is an avalanche of content these days, of all kinds, top notch drama, documentary, music, reality, you name it, it is out there being made, it's just harder to find as a viewer, as it is so disspipated over hundreds of channels and pay-tv services. Even Big Brother, the supposed trigger for the downfall of television, now only resides on a secondary channel of the ITV network (ITV2) and its streaming platform ITVX.

Because people like me still watch it. I like to take a break from all the opera and documentaries every now and then...

Steady on. This is an internet form, not a courtroom. No one is obliged to respond to anything they choose not to on here (especially when the information you are demanding is already widely available and doesn't need repeating for the umpteenth time in a thread that is now 440 pages long and ever-growing going round in circles).

Does every thread on here have to end up down the same rabbit hole? Time to put this one out of its misery, given that the thread title now has absolutely no relevance to the ongoing discussion. Maybe we should just convert the whole RL forum into the IMG forum.

Reminder.

Nobody wants ads. Nobody wants to pay a subscription. Everyone wants content for free. This equation does not balance.

Thanks for the feedback. We were trialing some new ad serving code on the forum to see how it worked against the old setup. Not very well, it seems... We've reverted back to the old set up now. We know ads can be frustrating, but without them, the forum wouldn't be here at all, so we have to persevere and try and find the right balance.

dufftown1, Damien, Coggo, your endless circular arguments with each other are driving everyone else nuts. Please, stop.

Congratulations! Your application for the position of Super League Marketing Manager has been successful. No group of people better at talking the game down than rugby league fans themselves. Every sporting league in the world has teams at the bottom of it, and games between them won’t be as good as those involving the teams at the top. But these games still matter to the clubs, the players and the fans involved in them. No club wants to finish bottom. It might not have meant anything to you, but my anxiety levels were through the roof!! We could talk that kind of thing up a bit more, perhaps?

Stop this, you two, or I will ban you both. No further warnings.

I'm bored of saying this now, but here we go again. If you think someone is trolling, report the post, do not respond to it at all, otherwise you are contributing to the problem, not easing it. Also, if you're just not seeing eye to eye with someone on here, stick them on ignore. You are not obliged to respond or react to every point they make. No one is. Just walk away. Trolls really hate it when people ignore them. This is aimed at everyone who posts in here, not just you. Thank you.

I mean, y'know, there is an existing thread, with about ten millions posts in it with people arguing the toss over this very topic. We don't REALLY need another one, do we...?

Various posts removed. Keep politics OUT of this thread and all other threads in the rugby league section. No further warnings on this. If you want to discuss political matters, do so in the politics sub-forum.

You could just report problems as and when they arise, instead of joining in. Same goes for anyone else who thinks there is some kind of problem in this thread, other than 'this person disagrees with me and I don't like it'.

The general rule in this thread is: if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all. Posting a few heartfelt tributes, that's absolutely fine. Jimmy Cricket was a similar case to Dolly Parton. No one had a bad word to say about him in here. The entire thread didn't end up being about him, though, with peope arguing the toss over whether his jokes were funny or not, etc etc etc, which would happen every time a politician or suchlike dies, if we didn't try and impose some kind of restriction on that in here, without being accused of curtailing anyone's freedom of speech. That's why we ask people to start new threads if a particularly controversial figure dies and is referenced in here. Once people start arguing about the individual who has died, whether pro or anti, it drags the entire thread off topic. If anyone would like to start a new thread about Dolly Parton, please feel free.