How friendly are you?

[bill-xxx]

Are you curious and creative but a bit standoffish? Then you're probably a Londoner. Think of yourself as more dependable and down to earth? You may well live in the Midlands. And if you pride yourself on your friendliness and ability to stay calm in a crisis, you're most likely to be Scottish. This is according to experts at Cambridge University, who have marked out a personality map of the whole of Britain. (Kent didn't get a mention. An obvious oversight!) Tsk! 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3010236/Unfriendly-Maybe-s-m-Londoner-Psychologists-identify...

[malacandran]

But if you want to "have a laugh", couldn't you go on Twitter -  why come on eBay?

eBay is a market-place for buying and selling goods. Like a supermarket or a shop.

I mean,  suppose you go into a shop, to buy some groceries.  Do you want to see a bunch of clowns sitting in the corner, next to the frozen-food compartment, giggling and making witty remarks?

That would be very off-putting for the customers. It would make them stay away, as it wasn't what they expected, when they went into the shop.  Bearing this in mind,  the shopkeeper would get rid of the clowns.

Which is what eBay is doing.  First, the appalling Q&A board was shut down, and the truly dreadful Nag's Head.  The RT board still survives, but not for much longer, as it's a quite insufferable in its smug arrogance.  It must cause any casual visitor, to reel away, in shock.

It definitely can't encourage trading on eBay.  Which is after all, a place for buying and selling, not an internet version of Hyde Park Corner.

[fallen-archie]

As a casual visitor I thought I would pop in to look for some smug arrogance? Seems in short supply, Perhaps we need a soap box, won't bother going to Hyde Park Corner, they're on offer at homeless bargains. Right shall I philosophasise about buying and selling on eBay? No I'm gonna place a bid on a bucket of Haribo's

[malacandran]

archie, you've made an insightful reply. But unfortunately, it might not encourage eBay. That organisation is very properly interested in buying and selling.  And the fees rightfully earned from these activities. Hence, your reply might seem a little irrelevant, and possibly even antagonistic, from their viewpoint.

You should rather have expressed the fullest possible confidence in eBay, as a trading medium. And thus gained favourable attention from the eBay staff.  The staff constantly monitor these forums, as you know.

It's best to keep in with them, and please them. That may do you some good, in the future.

[margaret*e]

I have no intention of going on twitter, it isn't me complaining about the boards, I'm quite happy with the way they are.

[electric*mayhem*band]

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@malacandran wrote:

But if you want to "have a laugh", couldn't you go on Twitter -  why come on eBay?

Which is what eBay is doing.  First, the appalling Q&A board was shut down, and the truly dreadful Nag's Head.  The RT board still survives, but not for much longer, as it's a quite insufferable in its smug arrogance.  It must cause any casual visitor, to reel away, in shock.

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Oh the irony in those two statements. I've heard you complain about this forum on previous occasions, and yet you still return.

If you feel the RT is beneath your intellect, mundane, and depressing, and you are looking for something along the lines of 'The Oxford Debating Society', why do you continue to log in here ? Please explain ? Without even trying, I find that you have already participated in at least four threads, from the few at the top of the main page. Have you perhaps got some kind of masochistic tendencies ?

Might I just remind you that this particular forum is a 'chat' site, for a wide range of topics from the frivolous to the serious, from the intellectual to the light-hearted. And if you want to speak about things ebay connected, there are a myriad of forums on here, designed for just that.

How you have the audacity and the effrontery to come on here and denigrate and belittle other poster, simply beggars belief.

[jd.linklater]

Public chat, help, and discussion boards

The public chat, help and discussion boards on eBay can be informative, helpful and entertaining. People can receive support, learn about eBay and their collecting interests, and meet new friends on the boards. When members abide by the principles found in the eBay Community Values, the boards are a positive and enjoyable experience for all members.

Why so serious malacandran?

[Anonymous]

Yippee, looks like the RT is back in business.

[electric*mayhem*band]

Harriet, I find this particular member's remarks appertaining to other individuals on here at best rude, at worst offensive. And not for the first time incidentally, and yet she - yes she is female - continues to patronise it. I'm at a loss to imagine just exactly what she thinks a social media forum is for. If it's irritating and annoying her, why doesn't she just sling her hook ? I doubt very much she'll be missed.

[Anonymous]

It makes life interesting. It would be so boring on here without a little bit of opposition.

As for people's motives to come on here?

Well, first of all who can resist a bit of Clint......

Second of all................hmmmmm.............well, just a bit more Clint I suppose....

[malacandran]

The above posts are very good. Some of them are brilliant. I  intensely admire and envy posters, for their first-class minds.

But - what are they doing putting their posts on eBay?

eBay is concerned only with trading  - the buying and selling of goods. It's not a science forum, or a kind of intellectual medium.

It's about buying and selling.

So I can't see why so many fine minds, are wasting their valuable thoughts on here.

[Anonymous]

Same reason as you I suppose................nothing better to do.

[margaret*e]

Evening Harry, could be because we like it here.

[fallen-archie]

Well said Marg, we are the Roundtable equivalent of CND at Greenham Common,
Altogether now

We shall overcome erom
We shall overcome
Someday

[Anonymous]

Hmm....Yeah  that's a point Margaret. 

It has it's magnetism for some of us, or maybe just good old memories which keep calling us here from time to time. Nothing wrong with that is there....

[electric*mayhem*band]

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@malacandran wrote:

I mean,  suppose you go into a shop, to buy some groceries.  Do you want to see a bunch of clowns sitting in the corner, next to the frozen-food compartment, giggling and making witty remarks?

That would be very off-putting for the customers. It would make them stay away, as it wasn't what they expected, when they went into the shop.  Bearing this in mind,  the shopkeeper would get rid of the clowns.

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Well I see Malacandran has returned (once again) to participate with the chattering classes, in the RT's corner shop. Bit like the Hotel California, ain't it ?  (insert confused and/or laughing smiley here).

* cue ♫ Send in the Clowns ♫ *

[malacandran]

Well this the point, electric. You obviously have a strong intelligence,  So shouldn't you put it to better uses, where it might benefit humanity.

Instead of wasting it on chit-chat forums like these.

I mean, these forums don't do any real good, do they?

[suzieseaside]

Why are you here?

Apart from feeling the need to tell people what they should or shouldn't be doing

[cee-dee]

After watching the postings on this thread since the OP, I think the responses have confirmed my thoughts when reading the question posed in the thread title and for many responders that is "Not very".......

[Anonymous]