I can't help but notice that there isn't much 'traffic' on here lately, i know a lot of people now avoid it because of certain posters, which i alluded to in a previous thread a couple of months back.
But when i log on to the VT all i see are the newshound report threads and the game on threads, with usually very little, if any, contributions.
I'm sure a lot of people are like me, and if they don't see anything that takes their interest they just go onto another forum or offline altogether, so what i am asking is, is there anyway the game and match report threads could be merged into one thread or have it's own sub-forum?
Maybe the discussion threads might pick up again and encourage more people to hang around rather than just see the same threads and decide not to bother?

It's not a criticism, just a frustration really, the matchreports usually have no contributors and the match threads, very few, seems a shame if it as to stay that way, as the VT used to be a good place to discuss allsorts, now it just seems to be links to other stuff.

As interest in rugby league decreases (which at the moment is in freefall) so does the need for the remaining fans to post on forums. It has nothing to do with trolls. 5 years ago this board had ten times the number of trolls. Its just the apathy towards rugby league in general. No one cares about it anymore

Regards

King James

I look sometimes but nowhere near as much as I used to.
I'm fed up of the minority of posters who turn every thread into a discussion about their personal crusade, regularly derailing threads.
The 'faux personas' are also irritating.
And I won't log on if my kids can see - for all the AUP a name like "Fantastic Mr Cat" is somehow deemed appropriate.
Some of the individual club boards can be interesting.

Think it's just natural progression to be fair. Forums are old fashioned now, everyone has facebook and twitter these days. Club fan pages and banter pages on FB are booming.

Its nothing to do with decline in popularity of League. There's not a lot of evidence of this anyway. its more to do with the rise of social media, facebook in particular has several thriving fans groups. for example i believe the Hull FC group has just welcomed its 5000th member this weekend, including many who used to post on here. also facebook enables easy posting of pics and videos along with all the usual comments. Its a bit embarrassing when this forum seems to pretend that youtube, facebook and twitter don't exist and actively stop links. i know there are copyright issues and other stuff, but i'm afraid its simply put people off and onto more user friendly sites. there's no use pretending its not happening because it is. another factor to add into the mix is that its not just the VT. a lot of clubs have their own independent forums which are much more popular - saints, hull kr and cas to name three.

as a long time member of this forum and the sub forums community (remember the newsgroups?) that eventually became this one in 2003 i will still post as long as there is a forum. the trolls don't bother me, i'm quite entertained by that stuff and you can always ignore them. however i believe within 3 years this forum will cease to exist or attract so few posters it won't be worthwhile. sad but it's probably progress

Just cant be doing with all the negativity on subjects that really don't bloody matter, seems like some people have just gotta find something to complain about...

You think this is poor: try The Shed (nee Scarlet Turkey).
I am forcing myself to post and not move off to the alternative site.

Too many forced opinions from a VT minority puts people off, you can also add the spelling and grammar checkers as well. Sometimes if you post actual facts it gets frowned upon and people by pass it to there own agenda. Creating a new topic is always subject to derailment, criticism and "superior knowledge" of subject matters if not written with clarity.

This - I would be genuinely interested to get a discussion going about how people felt about Magic weekend on here, but won't bother putting a topic on, because of these reasons.

Too many posters have just become a persona, whose sole aim is self promotion of the persona they have adopted... it's bizarre and quite sad tbh.

Agree with both of the previous, in years past, there would have been a thread a few pages long discussing the magic weekend, standout players, most exciting teams, best supporters, not to mention discussions about the games.
This time, there have been a few posts on the Game on: threads but little else. but you could always guarantee that one of the said "characters" will post some usual dribble!
Sad times really

Yep, can't disagree with any of that. Used to be a great place to post but the welcome 'morons' have pretty
much killed this forum, shame.

It is the case that you have to have a certain amount of intestinal fortitude to post in here - because even an earnestly expressed personal opinion will be mocked and derided by a clique of ever present smarts. That said, there are still some very knowledgeable and well-informed posters in here, so it's still worth the effort.