Proposal for Change to YD

[Paul Oliver]

Yup, agreed ban the lot

Doh, sorry, i meant i think they are helpfull as i look at where its posted and then don't generally bother to post as i'm not much help

[access]

No please don't ditch the DIR forum.
It would make it to tricky finding the entertaining posts,
having to do searches for "quick-release clip" etc would just take all the fun out of it

[Howard Payne]

I like to think of the whole of YD as just one giant DIR forum for the taking. It's only a matter of time before the CCR lot have died cruel and unusual deaths and everyone else is just one giant unified team Mwah ha ha ha

We shall continue to be the diving equivalent of those annoying Baptist Christians who jump on you at the bus stop and ask you if you know what it's like to have Jesus in your life?

The second coming of George Almighty is nigh people - better put your house in order......

[Sixsquid]

Originally Posted by nigelH

Well I use the 'DIR forum' tag as a marker of somewhere where I should not reply to questions as people are asking for a distinctive style of answer.

Now we accept that YD is a hunting ground for DIR to try and attract new converts to its fold but those of us who have passed beyond that would prefer not have it quite as 'in-yer-face' as abolishing their own little enclave would make it.

Similarly rebreathers need their own bolt hole. If I want to discuss alpinist solo decompression techniques I want to do it somewhere without giving offence to sincerely held beliefs.

Ditto

[frosty the snowman]

Originally Posted by Garf

Hi All

The DIR Forum ands Sub Forum.

I think we should ask Jay if he would be willing to get rid of them. I think it is just another mechamism for creating a "them" and "us" situation. If people want a DIR answer they can ask a DIR Diver. DIR divers should be able up with other divers and shouldn't need a place of their own. There's a few of us on here now and we're vocal enough.

What do you think?

Why does the word 'quarantine' keep popping into my head?

[wilbo]

keep it.

Give people an option to opt out (if that is technically possible) or otherwise people can just ignore whats in the DIR sub forum.

[Richard Mason]

I don't see that DIR section doies anyone any harm; it's a very distinctive style of diving and deserves to have it's own area. At least we in the Stroke Area get left alone.

Whilst we are about it, how about a Southern Hemisphere section too?

Somewhere we luckier people can go without having to be confronted by other unfortunates moaning about the weather, the mountainous seas, the fact that they haven't got wet since October 2005 or the sh1t vis?

It makes me feel uncomfortably guilty sometimes, like watching tv programmes about wars and famines in far away countries.

[DIVE BUDDHA]

Originally Posted by wilbo

people can just ignore whats in the DIR sub forum.

thats not very difficult wilbo

ive heard people dont come out when theyve had time in the dir twilight zone

[nigelH]

Originally Posted by Richard Mason

Whilst we are about it, how about a Southern Hemisphere section too?

Yorkshire had a North Riding and an East Riding but I don't think it ever admitted to the South existing so you might be out of luck.

You're just in Greater Yorkshire like the rest of us who post here.

[DIVE BUDDHA]

Originally Posted by nigelH

Yorkshire had a North Riding and an East Riding but I don't think it ever admitted to the South existing so you might be out of luck.

You're just in Greater Yorkshire like the rest of us who post here.

i will get my map out nigel but last i remember barnsley was in south yorkshire is greater yorkshire supposed to be like greater manchester or something ?