I go to all places where people are chatting or talking nicely.

I am glad that you are staying on both boards, Mary.
I am enjoying your company very much.

Welshio!
Absolutely buglelutely. What a lot of damage that caused. It's looking far better already, despite certain constituencies still not being catered for - new music? Anyway, I look forward to an official explanation of the volte face... NOT! 

I shall swing both ways! This board is much friendlier - and much more user-friendly. This is the one good thing to come from Roger the Bodger's debacle 'over there', and I'm very grateful to the organisers here. 

One major difference for me is that over there it remains somewhat "them and us", whereas over here it's "us and us".

Well, I've now registered on the Beeb boards ( hadn't posted for ages going waaaaay back to Classical Forum or whatever it was called ) I still don't find it a very welcoming environment and of course will be in pre-mod for ages, so anything I post will be essentially pointless by the time it appears ( ok, that's if it wasn't pointless in the first place ) Since I've been posting here, I have read the other board occasionally and thought of something useful I could add to a discussion, only to remember I wasn't registered. So I guess that sort of thing is now possible. I'm more likely to use it as a fall back though, in case use of this forum does start to fall off significantly. Things have seemed quieter here recently but that may be down to the summer and to folks being away from their base etc.  It must basically be "a good thing" that a more liberal attitude has been reinstated there, just a shame about the troll content.

After reply #39, I committed to pursuing the BBC on their 'research'.  It's all irrelevant now, but just for closure.....




I had several exchanges, during which I tried to chase several bits of information:

First they said that there was lots of research that the BBC had conducted before making the changes on 17 February.

I asked for details of what research

I was told that it was extensive, but that they could not disclose it.

I asked for more detail specifically on the messageboard changes, seeing as I couldn't argue that other user testing had been conducted.

I had a response to say that Radio 3 operated in a competitive market, so the BBC could not disclose its research.

I wrote back to say that I could not understand who the BBCs competitors were, nor how the competitive use of the research could still be valid, given the changes had been made. I ased specifically for an understanding of the research conducted with existing messageboard members to help decide the messageboard changes.

Sadly, my request was rebuffed again on competition grounds. The BBC would not even let me know who they are in competition with.

However, as events seem to have overtaken us, and the messageboards have returned to some form of normality, I don't actually see any point in pursuing this.......

I hope you agree.

Thanks

Tommo

Interesting.  The BBC is a public body covered by the Freedom of Information Act, so you are entitled to the information unless they can demonstrate that a proper public interest test has been carried out (and you are entitled to access to the details of that test, and any internal correspondence relating to your request).  A request for papers relating to decisions about the message boards could be enlightening ...