UKTC - what's happened?

[Steve Bullman]

15 minutes ago, daltontrees said:

I'm sure I managed to make an arse of myself on it a few times! But I left because it was out of control. The only guy trying to keep a lid on things wasn't even formally a moderator and didn't have the owner's authority to sanction one particularly vile participant, who was openly insulting to anyone who disagreed with him (hah, he was barred and re-susbscribed using another email address, the desperate tosser). But yes it had its moments and represented a lot of wisdom in the industry. And yes it performed a role that Arbtalk can't.

Unfortunately there is now nowhere officially or unoficially where professional arboriculture in the UK is being discussed constructively. Or to put the same thing in a different way, all the good stuff UKTC did is now not being done anywhere. Unless Arbtalk wants to take up the reins with a properly moderated sub-forum.

I’d be more than happy to make a dedicated section for tree officers/consultancy level discussion, public or otherwise, with its own assigned moderating team

[openspaceman]

50 minutes ago, daltontrees said:

Based on Ben Edmonds' email, I stand corrected, it is still on the go but only visible to its members. That's something, anyway.

Yes email still received but the big problem is a chap from US is inclined to reply on every thread, he is pleasant enough but it dilutes the conversation somewhat.

[daltontrees]

23 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Yes email still received but the big problem is a chap from US is inclined to reply on every thread, he is pleasant enough but it dilutes the conversation somewhat.

Ahh, WT, bless him. Endless questions and no sense that he was doing anything with the responses other than killing time. If he ever writes a book it will be colossal.

[Jon Heuch]

I was wrong. Although signed up I was not a recipient of emails, just looked at the archive from time to time. You can sign up 

uktc - UK Tree Care - subscribe

LISTS.TREE-CARE.INFO

but as others have said the archive has evaporated & I assume you are either receiving emails or your are out.... 

[daltontrees]

1 hour ago, Steve Bullman said:

I’d be more than happy to make a dedicated section for tree officers/consultancy level discussion, public or otherwise, with its own assigned moderating team

I often had the feeling that what was particularly good for TOs (and there were a disproportionately high number on UKTC, no doubt still are) was that it was all email based and one could get a few interesting emails a day to the inbox without incurring the wrath of Council IT overlords by going onto internet forums.

[benedmonds]

1 hour ago, daltontrees said:

I often had the feeling that what was particularly good for TOs (and there were a disproportionately high number on UKTC, no doubt still are) was that it was all email based and one could get a few interesting emails a day to the inbox without incurring the wrath of Council IT overlords by going onto internet forums.

That makes sense.  I always wondered why it existed as it did. To my mind the web based forums like arbalk were much more useable. I only used to  occasionally look in on it, it is a different crowd from what you get here. Some very knowledgeable people especially re the legal side and often ended up in the archive when searching online.