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I think Someone's got the old Saturday Morning Forum Blues :/
One should never tell another how to spend their money!
I hear a big "but" coming...
I love this forum. It's simple and super easy to navigate. I appreciate both.

haha bentply, feeling so...
haha bentply, feeling so scared of competition that you think everyone's a dealer? and dieter rams is hardly niche knowledge... it's Braun ffs

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Why do you insist on this childish name calling you are a fantasist you do not intimidate me one bit neither does competion after over 20 years dealing I have seen it all but you ....you are something special. "Plastic rubbish, that chair looks like an ass, that ottoman is gay" just some of the classic lines I think I may start a thread dedicated to your lunacy?

lol. good to see you're...
lol. good to see you're following me so closely. must be boring up in marylebone, what with nobody going into the shop

I have been on this forum for...
I have been on this forum for a very long time. The time and effort Patrick and Alix put in for so long without much thanks is incredible. I guess being a newbie, you would not know that, Lit. However, I do find this more a akin to a "Just the Ten of Us" episode I saw years ago ... the father worked very hard to make his kid a skateboard because he could not afford the very best one desired by said child ... dad was met with a severe lack of appreciation. Even though it would have been easier to just purchase a skateboard and he put forth so many hours of work the skateboard was just not "2.0" enough.
Kids. Better yet, adults that act like kids.
Cheers.
i for one, enjoy the site's simplicity. When Dwell magazine "updated" their forum everyone left.

I really think the...
I really think the conditions should exist in this forum where one can make a suggestion about the website without being interpreted as making personal attacks on the people who created it, "spitting in their face" or otherwise being seen as ungrateful... that just reeks of intolerance, that's all.

Yeah, Lit Up, but did you really think
that you were the first person who might've noticed that this forum doesn't have all the features of EZBoard, vBulletin, etc?
If you'd spent a minute or two searching the forum for relevant terms like "private message", you would've seen that the topic has been discussed before. If you'd read those earlier threads, you might've seen that your ideas weren't new, and you could've just shrugged and accepted that the forum is what it is... Or, if you still thought you had some original ideas that were consistent with what you'd then have known were the desires of the forum owners and participants, you could've presented your suggestions graciously and helpfully, rather than just jumping in like a bull in a china shop.
Here's an analogy: I drive a nice car, and I've ridden in other nice cars, and it turns out that I really like them a whole lot more than I like crappy cars. Big surprise. But if I were to run out of gas in a blizzard, and some kind stranger stopped to give me a ride to the next gas station in his beat-up, rusty old 1970s Dodge Dart, it wouldn't in a million years occur to me to complain that he wasn't driving a newer car. Not even if I prefaced that complaint with "Hey, thanks for the ride".
It's the same thing here; what you're doing IS ungrateful. Don't you see that?

Of course I didn't think I...
Of course I didn't think I was the first person to clock onto this, but I don't think that means I shouldn't mention it again. I've already said how much of a great resource the website is and how much I appreciate the advice of the community and the founders of the site. With that made explicit, I hope you see that gratitude and criticism can coexist.

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I have no option but to follow as you seem to have smothered this forum in a blizzard of lunacy and poppy cock!
I think as we will never be bezzies we should agree to cut contact and never speak again and try to brush this whole sordid episode under the carpet. Do you agree?

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No way, the schadenfreude is addictive and gay Ottomans are hot, I won't hear a word said against them.

Good conversation
I have - from time to time - notified the forum about an item currently listed on eBay - usually either because it's a rarity or to point out a stupidly high opening price or something that is interesting to point out.
By doing this, I suppose I'm giving the sller 'free advertising', but it's not my intent to do so. Thus far, it's been OK to post an eBay link on a current item, and I don't think it's ever been removed.
Sometimes, someone will ask 'where to find a part, something unusual, or where can I get a piece repaired or reulpholstered'. Others have been helpful by sharing the link to a website, which technically is a form of advertising. Patrick and Alix have usually allowed that.
All of you know that it's never been my intention to profit from DA whenever I've put in a link, but others have tried.
I hope that it will be OK to share this kind of information without it being deleted.

Fastfwd--
The analogous 'kind stranger' should have been driving something akin to a 3 year old BMW-- not a 1970's beat-up rusty Dodge Dart.
It would have been a more accurate representation of this site... AND a more accurate representation of the chutzpah displayed by the person who looked the gift horse in the mouth.