Here we go again eh! Go out for Sunday lunch and a couple of beers, wake, up, watch a bit of country file and then xfactor on a Sunday night and all hell breaks loose. Those of you who are getting impatient with me for not moderating this quickly enough, please read my instructions on reporting posts that are offensive etc here:
http://www.marple-uk.com/smf/index.php?topic=3741.0Dear Mike, I’m very sorry that I haven’t answered your inquiry quite as quickly as you would like and I’m very disappointed to read many of the posts in this thread that appear to be attacking me personally or just insulting each other. When I’ve finished this reply I’m going to remove a lot of them.
I think I have always been quite clear that I am personally against a Supermarket on Hibbert Lane. I am against it because I believe that it will damage the community that we live in and I think it has the potential to destroy much that is good about Marple, including the local shops and the community spirit that creates things like the fantastic festival that we have running at the moment. I might be wrong but I’m not prepared to take the risk of waiting to see if it happens or not because if it does it will be too bloody late to do anything about it. So I would rather eliminate the risk by stopping it in its tracks if at all possible. It is also my opinion also that another supermarket in the town centre would be good for Marple and would give the Co-Op the competition and the kick up the backside that it desperately needs.
I therefore support Marple in Action by providing their web site free of charge. I am also responsible for setting up the on-line petitions and facebook page amongst other things. So I am not seemingly biased. I am VERY biased.
Despite that I believe I have moderated this forum very impartially and have accepted with good grace posts that are totally opposed to my own views. I have also made a big effort to accommodate the Yes Campaign here and you will find that most of the posts I have removed are Pro-No. I note that one or two have leapt to my defence on this and I thank you for that.
In reply to Tina’s comments, this section of the forum is not run by MiA. The MiA web site and the MiA facebook page are run by MiA. There is also a thread in this section that repeat the MiA “News” as published on their web site. The whole forum, including this section of it, is moderated by me. The comments made by Miss Marple / Paula on the Yes FB page today that have since been removed were incorrect.
As far as I am concerned this forum IS a soapbox for local opinion and the only things that get removed or overwritten are those that are rude, aggressive or offensive, which seems to be on the increase. I am now going to remove all the posts from this topic that I consider to fall into those categories, or are completely off topic.