Southport Jive Weekender Poll

[David Bailey]

Since they did not put there name, and I was too tight to pay to be a Silver member, i was unable to pm to tell them i am not trying to stir but just commenting on ceroc's own website

Fixed that for you

Hey, it's Friday aftenoon.

[stewart38]

I don't know if I agree with this. If you go to a weekender and one of the principal attractions is dancing with lots of other forumites then I guess it's true but, as Stokie (I think) pointed out, in the wider scheme of things most people's dance weekends go by unaffected by the existence of the forum or presence of forumites.

Most people will go to a weekender because they know people who are going,wether thats a forumite group , north bedforshire group or non forumite NI contingent etc

Some will put a dance teacher above anything else (5% ?) If its famous it might be higher

Dont know what John and Wes are going to announce but i can see a Benny Hill sketch coming with a group of people following each other (helps if your over 38 to get the picture)

[DavidY]

Somebody just neg repped me with this
"For goodness sake quit your petty stirring and get your facts right. It clearly says 3 rooms of dancing."

Since they did not put there name i was unable to pm to tell them i am not trying to stir but just commenting on ceroc's own website which under more event information and freestyle states

"Freestyle Dancing

The evenings will consist of 2 rooms of different music played by bringing together the biggest line-up of DJ's ever on the scene, where there will be lots of opportunities for the DJ's to play a real eclectic mix of music as well as regular sounds so that you can dance through until the early hours."

If this is inaccurate I apolgise but as you can see it was taken accurately from cerocs website.

The website says '2 rooms' in some places, and '3 rooms' in others. It just depends where you look.

(So I think that Negative Rep was rather unjustified)

[TA Guy]

Why is it that you are still talking about somebody stealing customers / dancers.

...because that was the phaseology used by the JA supporters when they accused Ceroc of 'stealing' JA's dancers.

Your the second person to have a fit over my use of the word 'stealing' but also somehow manage to completely miss it's use by many others first on the pro-JA side. LOL.

If you don't like the language, well, Mr. Ellard kindly explained it much more eloquently than I could in his response.

[cat]

Ah DB your so kind! It made me laugh though so tried to rep but since you mods are a bit tight with the rep rules i have been told i will have to rep someone else first

Thanks David Y

[stewart38]

Ah DB your so kind! It made me laugh though so tried to rep but since you mods are a bit tight with the rep rules i have been told i will have to rep someone else first

Thanks David Y

Im sure someone else will + rep you, you were not stiring

Glad to see the Jive Aces are doing two sets by the bar saturday and sunday evening

[ducasi]

Im sure someone else will + rep you, you were not stiring

Glad to see the Jive Aces are doing two sets by the bar saturday and sunday evening

Cool, there's another good reason to stay in bed until 2am!

[Rocky]

It will be 3 rooms of freestyle (copying and pasting error to be corrected) and as regards the event schedule this is NOT representaive of what will happen at Southport - it was just put up to give people a flavour of what has happened before and does say this is an example of a previous event. A little confusing I know, but the feeling was that it would be changed quickly so it was better to fill the space with something rather than nothing.

That means you won't have to wait long as teachers have already been confirmed and a full schedule will be up shortly (and sorry, I don't now how soon 'shortly' will be) but soon!

[Gerry]

...because that was the phaseology used by the JA supporters when they accused Ceroc of 'stealing' JA's dancers.

Your the second person to have a fit over my use of the word 'stealing' but also somehow manage to completely miss it's use by many others first on the pro-JA side. LOL.

If you don't like the language, well, Mr. Ellard kindly explained it much more eloquently than I could in his response.

I think the sentiment was that JA had lost Southport due to underhand busines tacticts.

I was just pointing out that I didn't think stealing was really the appropriate comment to be used due to the historical details I had shown.

I used the icons to highlight my response, I assure you I am not having a fit just passing on my comments on this situation.

all the best Gerry

[djtrev]

IMO this is the key issue.

I know some people downplay the importance and even relevance of the vocal minority on here when it comes to matters of dance events but I believe that this forum plays a bigger part than some give it credit for.

It has been said in the past that those who post on here are generally the more experienced dancers. In that respect it seems to me that the community of dancers on here are responsible, in a fairly large part, to how things go now with weekenders. It stands to reason that the thoughts, recommendations and opinions from this forum ripple out to a much larger community.

I will state that the single biggest reason for me to enjoy Southport is that I know there will be a huge collection of fantastic/experienced dancers there. Whether they play blues, indie or hungarian folk music I know I will enjoy playing with people
I believe it is largely down to this forum that all the people that I love dancing with go to Southport.

Erm, I cant remember why Im writing this

edit:: There was a point to this

Spot on in my opinion Paul.

[Magic Hans]

Am I the only person on this CEROC SCOTLAND FORUM thinking the measure of Cerocs resolve is being clearly shown by allowing the above post on its forum?

Ceroc has allowed some right derogatory posts on here.

DTS XXX XXX

Errrrr ..... not quite ..... that would be CEROC Scotland's resolve, or in other words, the very wonderful free thinking Franck. It is my belief that CEROC does pressure CEROC Scotland on forum policy, and that Franck tries to protect the free speech principle as best he can.

[Magic Hans]

or multiplied even

I know I'm contradicting my "Too many SP threads" stance, but I'm sooo tempted to do a "Vote for The 20" thread


.....

Can't we make it 100? And call them Spartans??

[David Bailey]

Errrrr ..... not quite ..... that would be CEROC Scotland's resolve, or in other words, the very wonderful free thinking Franck. It is my belief that CEROC does pressure CEROC Scotland on forum policy,

Not that I'm aware.

Basically, I think Ceroc HQ just generally ignore us and think of us as a bunch of unrepresentative loudmouths....

and that Franck tries to protect the free speech principle as best he can.

Actually, that's spot on - Franck is probably more passionate about defending free speech than I am, for example. Which is ironic, really.

[Lory]

But I'm dreading the inevitable 'who's going to which weekender poll?

I'm already getting lots of texts, emails and phone calls asking which one I'm going to

Lee Eastern's weekender is only two weeks after too!

Arghhh! I want to go to them all

Maybe i'll just have to wait and see where 'the 10' go?

[Minnie M]

........lee Eastern's weekender is only two weeks after too ..............

I thought this was end January ??? What date have you got please Lory ?

[dave the scaffolder]

Errrrr ..... not quite ..... that would be CEROC Scotland's resolve, or in other words, the very wonderful free thinking Franck. It is my belief that CEROC does pressure CEROC Scotland on forum policy, and that Franck tries to protect the free speech principle as best he can.

Magic baby what do you know about anything?

For goodness sake man you have a beard!!!!!!!

Franck is still ceroc and he has allowed allsort of stuff on this forum, I have posted some right rude stuff on here. I have had my legs slapped by most of the mods and by Franck. However I am still here and it is Franck, ceroc,s , resolve to allow this free speech.

Fair play to them.

DTS XXX XXX

[Achaeco]

With recent events that are discussed elsewhere I thought we should ask how many people think what. I've tried to make the questions unemotional to reduce the chances of bias.

Be interesting to see who has voted for what.


Lets make this an open poll

[Andy McGregor]

Be interesting to see who has voted for what.


Lets make this an open poll

You are right, it would be interesting to know who voted for what. I considered making it an open poll. I decided that it was such an emotive matter that people might be wary of others knowing how they'd voted. There is even a chance that individual voters could be privately lobbied to change their vote. Therefore I went for anonymity.

[Achaeco]

You are right, it would be interesting to know who voted for what. I considered making it an open poll. I decided that it was such an emotive matter that people might be wary of others knowing how they'd voted. There is even a chance that individual voters could be privately lobbied to change their vote. Therefore I went for anonymity.

Give it a week and then have it done, that would be so funny

[David Bailey]

Give it a week and then have it done, that would be so funny

Yeah, I'm rolling around on the floor right now.

Fortunately, private polls can't be changed by anyone once set up; neither can their results be seen by anyone. (Yes, that includes us mods).

In other words, private means private - if you want a public poll, set one up in the first place.

In other words, I agree with Andy.