The BSkyB argument thread

[Flosshilde]

Isn't BSB wonderful, giving a home to worn-out old hacks

[Panjandrum]

Isn't BSB wonderful, giving a home to worn-out old hacks

Are you trolling? Given this thread is for Sky subscribers, in the same way as the Hear and Now thread is for contemporary music afficionados and the Early Music thread ditto, I can't think of any other reason for your intrusion, since presumably you have no intention of seeing these broadcasts?

[Flosshilde]

No, absolutely not - just adding my voice to the chorus of praise for BSB.

I didn't realise that there were restrictions on who could visit certain threads

[amateur51]

No, absolutely not - just adding my voice to the chorus of praise for BSB.

I didn't realise that there were restrictions on who could visit certain threads

Take no notice Flossie - his farmers are probably playing up

[Nick Armstrong]

Given this thread is for Sky subscribers

How very exclusive

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I didn't realise that there were restrictions on who could visit certain threads

As a Host, I can assure you that there are no such restrictions.

[Flosshilde]

Take no notice Flossie - his farmers are probably playing up

No - I'm going of in a huff - well, maybe a minute & a huff. I wouldn't dream of sullying their best of all possible worlds.

[amateur51]

Just pausing to reflect on Sky Arts' quality programming, whose idea is it to broadcast two performances of Mahler symphonies one after another for 5 evenings, one after another?

You can imagine the programming meeting ...

"Oh as you've got the box out Trev, just put a fresh disc in every evening at 20:00 and you can get on with your SuDoKu"

[amateur51]

No - I'm going of in a huff - well, maybe a minute & a huff. I wouldn't dream of sullying their best of all possible worlds.

Most candidely put, Flossie

[Panjandrum]

As a Host, I can assure you that there are no such restrictions.

There's also a forum by-law that inflammatory and off-topic posts will be removed. Perhaps you would be so good as to explain how certain posters with a known antipathy to Sky can possibly contribute in a meaningful way to a discussion about Sky Arts programming, as I'm afraid I can't see it.

[amateur51]

There's also a forum by-law that inflammatory and off-topic posts will be removed. Perhaps you would be so good as to explain how certain posters with a known antipathy to Sky can possibly contribute in a meaningful way to a discussion about Sky Arts programming, as I'm afraid I can't see it.

While the resident setter-of-standards is in action, I thought I'd mention that I think this post would have been better sent as a private message.

Unless of course there is an element of showing off involved

I wouldn't blame EA if he were to respond in private

[Flosshilde]

can possibly contribute in a meaningful way to a discussion about Sky Arts programming,

But I was contributing to it, by responding to the comment about MB having found a home. I thought that my comment was very meaningful.


Oh dear - I've just remembered that I said I was off.

[Flosshilde]

Given this thread is for Sky subscribers, in the same way as the Hear and Now thread is for contemporary music afficionados and the Early Music thread ditto

Your examples of other 'restricted' fora relate to programmes broadcast on Radio 3, which we all have access to, & any alerts (heads-up?) about particular programmes could be of interest to any users of the Board. I wonder how many users have access to Sky Arts 2? Would it perhaps be equally, or more, effective for Mr Pee to notify subscribers of up-coming programmes by private messaging? Then you could be truly exclusive.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

There's also a forum by-law that inflammatory and off-topic posts will be removed. Perhaps you would be so good as to explain how certain posters with a known antipathy to Sky can possibly contribute in a meaningful way to a discussion about Sky Arts programming, as I'm afraid I can't see it.

There is such a rule. Inflammatory posts should be reported in the usual way. Slightly provocative posts can be annoying but are not often imflammatory, though I hope fellow posters will avoid winding people up for no good reason.
"Off-topic" is harder to define. Some might argue that talking about the Sky Arts channels is off-topic on a Radio 3-related forum. But that would be taking things to extreme.

[amateur51]

Since Sky Arts is part of the standard Sky package of channels, I imagine huge numbers of "users" have access to it. As many have observed, Sky is a hugely convenient method of receiving television and radio.

May I say that I think it rather tasteless to be making adverse comments about Melvin Bragg. Surely few have made a greater contribution to the televising of the arts over the past 35 years. Fortunately he is still going strong.

People might feel more inclined to take your plaint seriously had you called him by his correct first name