Farewell...

[Pete]

Glad to see people calling out Metropol - it really did push me to the brink in the dying days of the blue place and has never felt like a safe place for many members of the TVF/TVLF to discuss radio or off topic stuff as a result of the "watch" threads.    To be fair though it has cleaned up it's act a bit in the last few months.

You know I’ve been thinking about this post for a few days now and I think “cleaning up its act” is not the right concept. Certainly none of the mods have made any changes to how things are done, at least not deliberately. 

I think one of the things that really has changed is the atmosphere on this board was less toxic than in the dying days of TVF. 

I put a fair bit of that down to the rota ban as it both removed so many awful posters, but allowed space for people to actually see the sillier posts that would get more of a gentle ribbing. And it’s spotting simply daft comments where the watch thread was always at its best. 

Obviously rota chat was ended in the last few bits of tvf but I think the shedding of users that happened during the move helped clear things up significantly.  

I’d say that many years ago there could be a nastier undercurrent on metro. But certainly not in the past five years or so. But I suppose opinions form and stick don’t they. 

Anyhow we’re not going anywhere. I realised once we reach the end of next year metro will have been around for longer than TVF itself.

I honestly have no clue what’s going to happen next. I’m sad this place is going as it did operate as a good successor and I’m glad I was able to help Rob in the initial set up in particular. 

How many successors we up to now? Four?