Portobello Online and the Community Council

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 07 Nov 2006, 23:22

JP - it's a pot calling a kettle black.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 07 Nov 2006, 23:25

Yes and it a reference to my "performance" at the PCC meeting last monday. I lost my cool a bit about an agenda item.

Still, I managed to put the brakes on the attempted hijack by BL developments. At least for the time being.

ali · Post by **ali** » 07 Nov 2006, 23:30

Jackson Priest wrote:
Dave Connelly wrote:
Porty wrote:
The forum is a PITA for some folks. Particulalry the ones that like to believe they speak for the whole community, you see them regularly in the evening newa. "the community will fight this" "it is well loved by the whole community" and so on. Normally they can speak without fear of being challenged, they enjoy the experience, as there is no forum in which they can be challenged. The longer they go on speaking without challenge the more they believe they do speak for the community. For example I'm sure that fairly recently Gemini claimed that PCATS represented 97% of the portobello community
<img src="http://www.clanconnelly.com/portyonline/don.jpg">

Bob

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Don Vito Corleone
Ha ha! Brilliant! You're right - they do look a bit like each other!

ROLTFAMO

MORFALTO!!!!!!

ali · Post by **ali** » 07 Nov 2006, 23:35

Dadaist wrote:JP - it's a pot calling a kettle black.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ROMALORF!!!!!!!!

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 07 Nov 2006, 23:52

ali wrote:
Dadaist wrote:JP - it's a pot calling a kettle black.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ROMALORF!!!!!!!!

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foxy · Post by **foxy** » 08 Nov 2006, 11:30

Porty wrote:Thanks for the apology Tom. I see most others haven't acknolwedged it. I put it down to them not knowing you. I appreciate it and i'm sure they feel better too.

I apologise for not acknowledging your apology Tom. I feel better

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 14 Nov 2006, 21:52

I feel better too.

Cleopas · Post by **Cleopas** » 15 Nov 2006, 02:00

Whew ... what a task that was ... reading through all this thread.

Can I just say for the record I'm, not a Porty resident, but I have had links with the area all my life and my aunty just moved away recently. I love Porty ... since I was a wee 3 year old wading in the waters and building sandcastles. You all live in a fabulous place and POL is a great way of advertising Rio Del Porty.

This forum is one of the best I've ever been on ... and I've been on a few that are so shallow and bad-tempered, it fair takes your breath away. Some forums are run by complete nincompoops. POL isn't. It's intelligent, funny, serious and comic with light handed mods ... and I don't understand why Bob's being got at, at all. I suppose I'm just not into internal politicking.

I know nobody on this forum ... except as they are presented ... and the it's the same for me. None of you know me ... except as a contributor and my place-name quizzes. I'm enjoying my time here. Do you HAVE to know more? Don't we have enough of a police state as it is?

As for the CC ... well, my encounters with several of them have completely alienated me from them. CCs are full of their own self-seeking importance with just a sprinkling of really decent, giving people amongst the rest of the chaff. I give them a wide berth ... and they don't affect me.

I don't like when forums get caught up in malarkey. It ruins it for the majority, who are here because they want to be ... not because they need to be for community reasons or political recognition. Get over it already and work out something that benefits you and your community ... stop the c rap getting in. Arguing is fine for some things. but it's not debate I see that's going on in this thread. I hate the personal stuff.

Maybe I'm naive, but I really dislike all that c rap which is why I THINK Anarchy is better. (google it and find out what it really means)

Gods, I've rabbitted on so much ... rant ended, off soapbox ... night night. Please don't shout at me!

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 16 Nov 2006, 18:41

From the minutes of the October CC meeting:

243.8h Portobello Online: no report this time. Stephen Hawkins wondered when he would receive an answer to his complaint. Diana Cairns observed that she had asked for an item to be withdrawn from Porty Online, but after she had been told it had been, she could still find it with Google. The Chairman agreed to discuss these points with Maria Devoy.

Post by **wangi** » 16 Nov 2006, 20:19

243.8h Portobello Online: no report this time. Stephen Hawkins wondered when he would receive an answer to his complaint. Diana Cairns observed that she had asked for an item to be withdrawn from Porty Online, but after she had been told it had been, she could still find it with Google. The Chairman agreed to discuss these points with Maria Devoy.

We can only delete content from the site itself, not from search engines - their "copies" of the sites content gets updated on a periodic basis...

ali · Post by **ali** » 28 Nov 2006, 09:42

Dave Connelly said "I was sorry to hear that POL is distancing its self from the community council, (May have picked that up wrongly though) and forming a public interest company, could someone please explain what that means in lay persons terms. How will it change POL and the rights of those who have an interest in it/post on it?"

Anyone from Admin care to comment on Dave's comments elsewhere?

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 28 Nov 2006, 11:33

ali wrote:Dave Connelly said "I was sorry to hear that POL is distancing its self from the community council, (May have picked that up wrongly though) and forming a public interest company, could someone please explain what that means in lay persons terms. How will it change POL and the rights of those who have an interest in it/post on it?"

Anyone from Admin care to comment on Dave's comments elsewhere?

I announced last night that the CC sub-group were disbanding. For a variety of reasons and through no fault of anyone involved it just hasn't worked. Instead, the plan is for POL to become an interest group on the CC, much like "The Portobello Reporter" is at present.

With the support of our techie team of Paul and Lee, Bob, Paula and myself are in the process of setting up a Community Interest Company (CIC). This is a limited company which as the name suggests is run for the benefit of the community and not for individual profit. It will make no difference to users of POL other than the CC will no longer play a part in the complaints procedure. It does, however, mean an even greater commitment to POL for Bob, Paula and myself.

We would continue to be represented on the CC, to publish the minutes of meetings, to feed back useful information etc. and to welcome their support and input.