Change is inevitable. People grow older and re-think their priorities. New technology and social trends are constantly shaping and re-shaping the landscape of communication.

As one of the two creators of this site who sketched out a rough working model on the back of a cigarette packet over a decade ago in The Oak Tree pub in Newton-le-Willows I think I'm in as good a position as any to draw conclusions.

Overall the RLFANS site continues to pull in massive amounts of traffic. I've never really bothered a great deal with statistics but I do know that we were close to overtaking Virgin Rail's website in terms of numbers three or four years ago.

I once thought Facebook would squash us flat but instead we seem to have reached a happy equilibrium. As older members leave to pursue new interests younger ones fill the holes.

As for individual forums - from the moment we first switched on traffic has waxed and waned. During the close-season especially conversation is always fairly sp. Insofar as the Sin Bin is concerned - sure, this is a relatively quiet period. Yes, some long-term members have left. But this isn't a problem specific only to this forum. You find similar trends on any popular message board.

To those who think things were somehow "better" a few years back - I'm afraid nostalgia is clouding your judgement. Sure, there were more people posting in the Sin Bin. But don't think for one moment it was a moonbat-free zone because it certainly wasn't. Trust me. I was there.

Person with nothing to say comes on a forum bemoaning that nothing much is being said.

At least we now have an example of irony for those who struggle to understand the word.

Bit of a 'whooosh' moment there methinks

Wow. RLFannies has its very own CONSPIRACY!

And why not. I always suspected that Wanderer was really a lizard. But a flock of admin sheeple, "muzzled" by the higher powers? Just wow.

If you tell us any more, will you have to kill us?

This place has become a playground for the Clique to flex their cyber muscles waging a bullying tactic agenda behind the destitute of vision in discreet behind the scenes of this forum. And all this is due, because a certain individual expressing his passion regarding a Geocentric viewpoint which has obviously caused harm and goes against the grain to this Cyber clique. proving this behaviour is nothing short of Cognitive Dissonance. Yes i've been threatened and barred from the Astronomy thread deleted posts so it seems like that Ficticious cartoon CGI thread only has one way traffic. Whatever happened to free speech. Fortunately theres a Ying and a Yang to all subjects of life in this world so why this ficticious thread gets preferential treatment only proves this undeniable conspiracy is alive and kicking and the Cyber police are condoning and conspiring to eradicate my alternative viewpoint,

With regards to Ferocious obsessive Aardon being rewarded moderator status just after a prejudiced bigoted remark just goes to show and prove the clique and conspiracy to what i'm dealing with here.

So yeah this place stinks of injustice, stinks of conspiracy, stinks of cliques, stinks of gagging orders, stinks of double standards and most of all stinks of prejudism and bigotry. This is exactly what the NWO has instilled into society they already have installed their one world religion in Heliocentrism without you even knowing, next its agenda 21 then one world monetary units, then micro chipping. Then last but not least One world government. 1984 is just round the corner, believe me.

So theres a great summary of this place, a place where Evil overpowers Good and the Truth is overshadowed by lies, bigotry and deceit.

Happy New Year

Surely we already went round that corner 31 - almost 32 - years ago?

And on that subject - where's my bleedin' hover-board?! I was promised flying cars and hover-boards, by both Michael J Fox *and* Tomorrow's World, yet I still have neither. It's typical of the establishment heliocentric overlords to keep me striving for something that I will never achieve, like a mindless drone - which weirdly, we actually do have.

It's a topsy-turvy world.

Please don't derail the thread its a yellow card offence now.

It's taken a while but I finally get Stan.

It's been a parody all along and I've fell for it. Well done Stanley. Your post at the top of the page was the give away. You put just a little too much emphasis on the ludicrous and the deliberate misspellings were just too perfect. The overall tone of paranoia was bang-on, but missing the opportunity of not mentioning RLFans Masonic overlords sealed the deal.

Once again, spot-on with the parody up until now. My hat's-off to you.

Well, the very fact hat this post still remains would suggest that what you assert is NOT the case.
I personally think that you have had a fair hearing on here and the mods have been very lenient with you.
There is NO clique on here, just fairly normal posters that disagree with silly ideas.

I guess that you're simply choosing not to heed the advice being given?

You can't reason with a lunatic.

I haven't derailed the thread....Keep conspiring

This is pretty much your own thread though. Why is it still here, and why are you here, if everyone is out to shut you up? I would suggest all you need to do is stick to forum rules like we all have to. But that is a bit too Occam.

Why don't you start an anti-astronomy thread? People who wanted to debate your geocentric nonsense might, if they felt inclined, discuss it there.

I would suggest that the reason is that you don't actually want any discussion, you are scared of it. You have nothing, and so prefer to mock, insult and whinge