There are one or two people on there who do nothing but big up Channel 5 and it really winds me up. I don't understand how anyone can act so fanatically over a not-very-good TV channel.


I'll grant you that Channel 5 has its hits and misses but so does every station. To me its come on in leaps ...

Comic Relief just isn't the same without Tumble Tower's musings. It's a shame management didn't see fit to allow him on, just for one night.

There are one or two people on there who do nothing but big up Channel 5 and it really winds me up. I don't understand how anyone can act so fanatically over a not-very-good TV channel.

Generally the people who get so upset by political discussions are only upset because said political discussions don't align with their politics.

That US election thread seriously needs shut down. It hasn’t been about broadcasting in months. The politics board closed for a reason.


The politics board closed, I think, because there was some harassment going on. Think it might have been something to do with the Labour antisemitism scandal ...

DS forums are nothing but a haven for cranks and fruitcakes, and that's been the case for a long time. Channel 5 seems to attract the most inflammatory discussions there, weirdly enough. To be honest I'm surprised the forums weren't shut down years ago.

That whole BBC News thread is a binfire. Just constant bickering between BBC bashers and BBC bootlickers. There's no place for rational discussion and this three-day-long pissing match over that Traitors liveblog is beyond pathetic. And amongst all that everyone seems to have missed the news about ...

I can understand why some threads like the GB News ones are proactively moderated, but the big problem with that is when there's something to talk about and posts are taking many hours to be moderated.

Today the mods are complaining about the 'pile on' of posts of the same tweet from a ...

I think the admin just genuinely dislikes the people who post on that forum. Which begs the question: why bother running a forum in the first place?


Which in turn begs the question of why post anything at all?


I think the forum only exists so no one else can have a crack at running one ...

I think the admin just genuinely dislikes the people who post on that forum. Which begs the question: why bother running a forum in the first place?

I can understand why some threads like the GB News ones are proactively moderated, but the big problem with that is when there's something to talk about and posts are taking many hours to be moderated.

Today the mods are complaining about the 'pile on' of posts of the same tweet from a presenter ...