BBC Television

Hi everyone - I think that some of you have heard whispers about me over on the blogs and here I am, your new host for the TV board. I thought I'd start by introducing myself - no, no, don't go! I'll keep it short I promise. Many years ago I was a BBC message board moderator, after which I was the community producer for BBC Collective (now sadly not with us) where I was very fond of the bunch of folk who called it home. I've got a new role now which involves helping to oversee various community and social media activities, which is how I've ended up here with you guys. I don't really start until sometime in January but I thought I'd say hi now and start popping round as much as I can for the time being. I'm certainly not planning to drive your topics, but it sounds like a friendly BBC face round here might not be unwelcome.

Having read some of the things which you took the time to add to Nick's recent blog posts it sounds like you've experienced some inconsistencies in moderation, that there are debates about what's off topic on this board, and what's not, as well as some disruptive behaviour. I'm really hoping that I'll be able to help sort some of these things out.
* If you experience an unfair moderation decision then please take a minute to reply to it so that it's flagged up and dealt with. Sometimes if you reply to something off topic your post will be removed too, it doesn't necessarily mean you're being punished or anything, it's just so that the boards make sense and remain tidy.
* It sounds like there's a debate about whether non-BBC programmes can be discussed here. What about trying out one thread for generally off topic discussion and seeing if we can make all the other threads BBC related? I don't work for Points of View, but they certainly do cover just BBC programmes, so it seems to follow that we do that here too. Shall we give that a go and see how it works out?
* Personally when people are disruptive I've found that the most effective thing for everyone to do is ignore them completely on the boards and alert their behaviour to the mods - that way they get pretty bored pretty quickly. But please let me know if you suspect that anyone's specifically out to upset things round here and I'll see what I can do.

In the mean time please be patient while I find my feet - and don't think I've abandoned you when I take off a couple of weeks for Christmas at the end of next week. And for your info, I love Family Guy at any time of day, I've recently enjoyed the Stalin programmes on 2 (although missed last night's one) and I certainly don't know as much about BBC telly as you guys do so I'm hoping to pick up a few viewing hints from you.

It's very nice to meet all of your acquaintances - Rowan

hello

are you the Archbishop Of Canterbury in your spare time ?

although you wont get much spare time being on these boards !!

Hello Rowan!
Welcome!

I have 2 friends with your name - one female and one male!
I 'm trying to guess!

It's very nice to meet all of your acquaintances - Rowan

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Likewise!
Greetings from Belgium and I always stick to the beautiful English language. D...I mean bye.

Hi Rowan


Welcome to the madhouse.
You seem to understand our concerns so hopefully things might achieve some consistancy & normality (tho' I'm not holding out much hope for normality )

Is that keeping it short...there may be trouble ahead......

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:04 GMT, in reply to Lucretzia in message 12

I thought that too.

Who's going to lead?

(Rowan, we're wandering off topic already. You've got your work cut out!)

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:07 GMT, in reply to rowan host in message 1

Have they told you about the unwritten rules, Rowan? You know that there are no Big Brother threads, no discussion of individual films (there's a Films on Television thread for those) and that the host has to buy drinks and cream cakes for everyone on Fridays?

Peta and Lee always did.

<Have they told you about the unwritten rules, Rowan? >

<the host has to buy drinks and cream cakes for everyone on Fridays>

Jam doughnut for me please

Peta and Lee

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And I am so old that I remember them from when they won Opportunity Knocks!!!!

Welcome aboard, Rowan and good luck

John H