C4 asylum seeker

CH4 refugee.

it was a terrible time soozy...................

if i remember it was a chilly day....i logged onto c4 and there it was.....the announcement that the bb forum was closing for good......i was horrified.........there were grown men in tears........women took to knitting like they did in the days of the gallows.........it was awful....

the dark day was nearly upon us when suddenly..........a fm named bovrilking came to our rescue.............he got in touch with eve communities and said..'look here.there's a load of us bb fans about to be forum-less.....we're cool..we're witty..infact we're the bestest hot diggidy f'm's about......find us a home please!!.......(ok i made that bit up)!!

and so we shifted to a support forum and within days we were packing our bags once more to gagajoy.......and then onto here........

and i still remember the last ever post on gbbf.........was rzb an it said..'they think it's all over,it is now'......

i really am that sad i remember that sort of thing........

C4 Refugee here too.

Bov.

Same.

Different name.

C4 and Bovriking...

Bovril.

Accompanies Spongey on violin

So are we all refugees? i think there are some newer FM's - I'm just curious as to how they found their way here .......................it is a very obscure (elite) forum IMO.

Well my mum went on a blind date and met my dad and they got on well, got engaged three months later and married 5 months after that and the next year I arrived.

We all are soozy. Thank the Lord. We are not always in the understanding business, but what the hey, we appear to like each other and agree on most things, the rest is karma.

oh reads OP, CH4.

Bovrilking was my guide.
I felt the need to seek reassurance from my fellow travellers from time to time. (I didn't want anyopne to go astray.)
For example I remember checking with Blizzie that she was the same person as Bizzie Lizzie.
Her confirmation made me feel better.
Not an easy settling down period.
But I love it.
I think we are well looked after (as well as caring for each other.)
I do have to remind myself now and again that people do move on. They may die, emigrate, change their interestsm get fed up. Because we stay, it doesn't mean everyone will.
I hate to think some have got lost though.

I'm a refugee too

Yes .................I found it hard at first. Unfortunately I aired my doubts openly and consequently some took against me. I actually (for the most part) love it here now. It feels a bit like home.

It bothers me though how we can possibl;y attract new FM's (which I do feel we need) ......................I think it's an obscure title that we have. Not everyone here is a Ch4 refugee ............I simply can't imagine how they ended up here.

Soozy I'm pretty sure just about everyone here was on C4 at some point. Some people just pretend they casually happened upon the place which is pretty much impossible. There might be a few more people back here if BB starts again but otherwise I think it will remain a fairly small forum.

I'm quite glad a couple have got lost


I'm one of the C4 camp too!

BB10 was just a couple of months away... and we were homeless! Several sites were mentioned as potential refuge - and many FM's were never to be seen again, sadly.

Digital Spy was not an option for me as i had been life banned the previous summer and TIBB simply didn't appeal to me. I recall joining something called Groupee on eve communities towards the end of April 2009 - and then joining GaGa just a few days later. I cannot recall if the 2 were somehow linked - i think they may have been.

And getting smaller Prom.  On C4 there were often 1000 logged in during the show. Many either never came here or they have left.  Natural wastage is a forum shrinker.  Unless new people join the place will become a drifting ghost ship .  Perhaps it is already.

To answer the OP. "Who cares"?  
And perhaps add.  
"But you are welcome and we all hope you stay".

C4 and after it goin, me saying I wasn't going to forum any more and a hiatus and peeps bending my arm up my back...........

Well I do care ...................not hugely - it's really no big deal but I just wondered if some people just stumbled across this forum and chose to join us, It seems not .......................it's a shame really cos this forum seems to shrink by the day.

go on ... do that squealy noise again

Can't.

Oh sorry sooz - yes, I am a C4 refugee.

I think the forum is getting smaller by the day because (a)BB has finished and (b) Gaga/Hoopla/Whoever didn't optimise the forum to attract new members - and why should we expect them to? It clearly wasn't what they wanted.

Also FB must have had an effect on the forumming world surely? There seems to be lots of ex forummers who prefer to FB exclusively now

You are no fun 

I is what I is   

I was a lurker - never posted on Ch4, rarely looked at the forum that much unless BB was on.  Saw the forum was closing and copied the link to the Eve site.  Thought I'd better register in case it was member only - it wasn't   The rest is history

Good point ................I'm on FB but in a very limited way (just play the games) - I find it very complicated TBH

I kinda wonder sometimes though if it hadn't been split -Lounge/BB maybe we would've had a few more over here 

Quite possibly.

Ok, Sprout makes a controversial (sp) post.  FB, how many lurk on her while on there?

I posted on C4 NEWS and the science boards.
When C4 cut us adrift, the NEWS lot went to RB and the science lot came here so I cut myself in half and I'm now on both.
 
The science lot slowly drifted away so I ended up in the lounge
Then the lounge lot drifted away so I ended up in here
You lot aren't leaving are you?
 
 
 

I am a big user of FB ... I have the grand total of three friends on there

Are people lurking on you Luv??
 
 
 

BRAGGER!!

never

It was a sad day when CH4 said they were closing thanks to Bov we are here and as much as I like it here it would be nice if there were more people here, this place has been mentioned on DS I am sure more people know about it than we think perhaps they have come here and decided it was not for them, plus newbies do get accused quite a bit for being someone who has been banned or they are using  different IDS I am sure it can be a big put off for the genuine ones...