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As Colin says, don't be seduced by pictures of sunny beaches and healthy young people skipping through flower meadows - the winters are long, dark, brutal, and an acquired taste!

A few gremlins are working some dirt. We have released the hounds and expect normal service to resume before long...

We've reset this thread's "Female squad members in Lerwick Up Helly Aa" poll. The results from the 2017 poll are in the post above. It'll be interesting to see if opinions have changed over the past few years...

Female squad members in Lerwick Up Helly Aa (2017 poll results)

1. In principle, should women be allowed to participate in Lerwick Up Helly-Aa as squad members?

• Yes - 53.2% (58 votes)
• No - 46.8% (51 votes)

2. Is logistics (already high numbers of guizers, waiting lists for squads etc) a valid reason not to allow women to participate in Lerwick Up Helly-Aa as squad members?

• Yes - 45.9% (50 votes)
• No - 54.1% (59 votes)

3. The current ‘male only’ squad member demographic of Lerwick Up Helly-Aa is….

• Sexist - 39.45% (43 votes)
• Traditional - 60.55% (66 votes)

109 members voted. The poll was opened in 2017. The poll was closed and reset in Feb 2022.

George, consider this a yet another friendly warning re: your anti-english 'contributions'. If you have a relevant point re: someone's nationality, then great. If not, it's just xenophobia.

That should be the login issue sorted, and you can use your email or username again. The gremlin has been taken oot da back o da byre and given a goo treshin

Thanks for pointing this out Rasmie.

We've had a delve and a system upgrade we performed has changed some of the security functionality... (technical blah blah)... and for the meantime folk can only login using their email address, as opposed to their email address or username as before.

It'll take a little reverse engineering, but we're on it.

Our database seems to have decided to label all users as newbies. We've sent it to bed without any supper and we'll be having words with it in the morning.

We had an email request for info on Ale Plants, so we thought we'd revive this thread. Anybody have one on the go, or know how someone would get started?

We've added a poll tae da tap o da thread  

18 minutes ago, PollyAnna said:

there's no way to reset my long-forgotten password without hassling admin.

We're happy to be hassled  

@MuckleJoannie we've added the 'unread content' and 'mark as read' buttons (the peerie newspaper and tick icons) to the top userbar. Hopefully everything works as planned!

@Dirk, we believe Fetlar Writer deactivated their account a peerie while ago (hence the 'guest' prefix), but hopefully they still visit the forum and will see your message.

Fetlar Writer, if you're out there.....

@MuckleJoannie, you can get to the same page using the menu... Forums > My Activity Streams > Unread content... 

But if you'd prefer the new content button back, we can liklee find a space for it!

We've recently added interactive weather, shipping and flight pages - you'll find them in the top menu.

You can grab the maps and move them about, and zoom in and out.

The weather page lets you choose different views in the top right corner (wind and waves views is our favourite)

On the shipping and flights pages you can click on the ship and aircraft icons and find out more info about them and what they're up to. We're finding it to be a peerie but addictive!

We're still testing the pages out on different screensizes and devices, so please do let us know if you think something isn't working as well as it should. Mobile and tablet users, if you flip over to landscape view you should have a better experience.

Cheers!

Apologies @Muckle Oxters. We were updating the thread title and seemed to lose your post from a few moments ago. You were saying you were chuffed!

@George. Your week ban was only lifted a day ago and you’re already breaching the forum guidelines again. We’ve removed the large, bold, red, all-caps shouty formatting from your post. Please, for everyone’s sake, work some sense!

^ trolling + ignoring warnings = banned for a week

We've added some more news sources which you'll find in the 'news' dropdown menu at the top of each page. We hope you find them useful  

This feels like a good time to remind folk of the Forum use - guidelines and netiquette, so here's a few edited highlights with relevant emphasis added.

Anyone who has been temporarily blocked and/or had posts removed recently for breaching the guidelines may find their bans getting longer....

On 01/12/2006 at 01:07, admin said:

As a last resort, folk who persistently don't play by the rules will be warned, temporarily banned, and potentially permanently banned.
 
Engage in discussion - Our aim is to provide a welcoming space for discussion that develops over time as ideas and opinions are posed and reflected upon: don't just bomb-in your point without taking the time to engage with what other forum members have written, don't just post links without explanation or comment, and be prepared to back up your points with evidence or reasoning.

Avoid sweeping statements and generalised moaning, particularly with regard to whole local authorities, political parties, governments or organisations - These activities translate as "blah, blah, moan, moan" and do nothing to encourage constructive debate. If you have specific examples and/or reasoning, please refer to them and keep them relevant to the topic's subject matter.

Needless Negativity - We want to the forums to be a friendly, supportive and positive 'living room' where people can discuss issues and share their thoughts. As such we welcome and encourage constructive criticism and discussion, but discourage needless negativity, antagonism and hostility. 

Repetitious overly negative, antagonistic and hostile posts discourage other people from joining in discussions - this is the number one complaint the Shetlink moderators receive and is the main reason folk stop, or don't start, contributing the forums. All too often threads are snuffed out due to voracious and repetitive groaning, griping and belly-aching.

The odd rant, moan and whine are inevitable but there's a line to be drawn.

Don't purposely post misleading information - there's too much bruck written on the internet already. Let's keep Shetlink a place where discussion is based on facts.

Sarcasm, insinuation, rhetorical questioning and generally skirting around the point - this has its place in debate, but for there comes a point when you have to nail your colours to the mast and spit it out!
 

Interesting question @ReeseTheDundonian so we added a poll

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