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Musical sooty magpies?

It does look like it needs a wash....

It looks lost, so away from its natural habitat of Derbyshire

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You’re staying at Birchinlea?? How is everyone?

IYKYK 🤣🤣🤣

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Whole flocks?

thats it food sorted - fairy pools for a drink next ?

Brilliant

Haha excellent

You're just trolling us now!

Wait, there's someone with a Fetch running top in the window's reflection. 😉

If the women don't have enough numbers for a net session, can the men claim the opportunity?
You're making the effort and doing the practice. You have turned up.

Thank you. Yes, the men take the session if the women can't use it.

You've done the stalking, err I mean research into last season's stats. You shown your skills in the winter nets. You will get a shot, grab it with both hands. Believe in yourself. The Duncan Fearnley Magnum is going to strike fear into opposition bowlers all summer.

My experience from hockey, not cricket ...

67 doesn't sound that many across 4 teams, even if some play more than once.
I suspect, other than the real '1st team' - (whichever day in the higher league position) is relatively stable and the others rely on a core of 7 or 8 regulars and several fill ins. Even if they run as squads of 14 or 15, I suspect those wanting to play each week generally do.

But there's only one way to find out ...
And if you want to play each week, make sure you let them know.

(Oh, and another tip, if you say you'll play, best turn up, not drop out a few days before)

Do they have scorers/umpires? One way to wheedle your way in is to volunteer to do that on the weeks you might be 'rested'? But don't get lablled as scorer or umpire, or you'll never get back to playing.

If rested, let them also know (if you want) you're avaialble for a late call up if needed!

Good advice

You will get games. Turning up is a massive thing. More important than anything else....be ready for a early/late call on tbe day. Do your long run on a Friday

Wise words from Um. From my experience as a coach (admittedly not cricket) numbers are significantly lower for away fixtures and the relative success of the team also has a big impact. Reliability counts for a great deal when one is picking a team

I hope they give those that regularly attend nets and help out generally a fair shot and don't just pick the old faces who turn up late for matches then bugger off straight afterwards. Do I sound bitter? P.S. I forgot you have an unfeasibly large head. Sniper's dream, as Bob Mortimer would say

I hope it goes well for you. From my experience I was in a club with three teams, and only good enough at batting and bowling to be in the third team. However, I did do scoring for the higher teams sometimes and even did play in the higher grades as an extra. My fielding ability was much better than my other cricketing abilities. I ended up getting a catch in every grade. No one else at the club could say that. Ended up getting a trophy for best clubsman or similar. 😀

The last club I played for fielded 3 man's teams on a Saturday and 2 on a Sunday, not sure how many players there were in total but it was a lot. The reason I started playing again was because as the season went on numbers diminished, a mixture of loss of early-season enthusiasm, holiday season and injuries, and I was needed to make numbers up which was cool as I got to play in the same team as my son. Which is a long way of saying I reckon you'll easily be a regular well before the season is over.

Good luck with the selectors! Especially in holiday season I expect everyone will get a game who keeps turning up and being available…

The best ability is availability, as they say. (I think the phrase was coined to reflect the problem of injured players, but I'm sure it equally applies to people who show up for training and are known to be reliable when picked to play) I did enjoy organising cross country teams at my previous school because anyone who turned up to training and wanted to take part in the races on a Saturday were able to represent the school. All the other sports we played were much more problematic because of limited squad/team sizes.

Women's cricket is a good thing to get into if you're a girl. I have several (teen) patients who play county level, partly because the pool to pick from is smaller.

^ hope you meeting them isn't a consequence of on field injury!

Good advice above, I can't add much other than to echo it. What I would add though is if you suffer disappointment let it show but not in a flouncy way, explain you feel you're ready and that you would be a better pick than X or Y because. When you get the chance take it, be bold and an eye catcher.

I recall in Triathlon the regular selections were pretty much decided when the calendar came out before the season started and it was crushing to not get a look in

From those numbers, I suspect a bigger problem will be finding enough players rather than making people sit out. People have other stuff to do...

Badges!

I'm in! Got a badge for the 2023 one the other day too!

I've registered for the run and then cycle challenges, the cycle one shows you a map the run one doesn't.
Have I inadvertently reported a bug?

The run seems to finish almost on our doorstep. Should probably do it in that case. Might even put the kettle on for finishers.

Is anyone else not seeing the run map?

I’m still doing some of the 2022 one I think…..

My run map is not showing either

No run map here either

Yea, I can't see the map view on the run one either.
Top job all on organising though, sounds ace!

I don't see the run/walk map or the swim map

Is that any better folks?

"Is that any better folks?" Yes!

Yes, I have a map

I can see the run map, thanks Fetch!

This looks great! I like the bridges theme for the run/walk (maybe the south of the UK will feature in 2026?! ) and the "streetview" for the Grand Canyon looks good, if a little scary for swimming in! Well done and thank you to all those involved in this!

I think I'm still doing the 2024 one, I get occasional badges. To be honest, I don't know how to quit it - what have I forgotten?

There's no quit button, but I can delete you from it if you like. Send me some feedback if you'd like me to do that.

I've signed up for everything!

All good now Ian

I'm also still doing 2022, 2023 and 2024!

Excellent

How exciting, I'm off for a look!

My challenge is always to come in about 50th. Last year I was 7th or 8th, IIRC. A total failure which means I'm thinking about not joining this time.

I finish the run/walk ones pretty quickly. I like getting occasional bike checkpoint badge from eons ago.....

Great stuff, I’m in! Goes over the bridge I run most days when I have a “work from office” day 😀

Excellent, I'm in too!

I'm in. I've actually run over at least 3 of those bridges IRL!

I’m in & I can’t wait!

Still doing 2024 but in again for the walk/run one. I have actually crossed all the Scottish bridges IRL 😊

I’m still on 2024 and 2023 but I’m happy to keep plodding on a few miles at a time.

I tried to test the 'report' option. I'd planned to choose on of my own posts to make sure no issues to anyone else.
But I see you've thought about that Fetch, and I can't block myself either.

You're not protecting me from myself!



(good design though!)

No block happens immediately @um but I didn't get a notification of your report. Did you choose a category and submit?

That was interesting! (I booted a few I didn't recognise plus my stalker, will reinstate non-zombies on request. Kept the angel followers because I'm soppy like that.)

@um do you just mean that the Report button is missing for your own posts?

Yes - that's it Fetch!
I was impressed with the design.

I also kept my angel followers

Thank you Fetch

Just a couple of queries... for accounts where the person is unable to accept the request (
😟), this could leave close followers without some things that they may be relying on; secondly, is there an option to unaccept or is that only by notifying you?

I'm really sorry, but I don't understand the queries. If you need to elaborate, you could send me a feedback.

I never accepted all but there are others on my list I finished accepting but I’ve lost the lis. Can I get it back at all?

Yes, there's a link in the blog you're commenting on

Already 10x better moderation than Facebook and there's only one of you!

Excellent, thanks!

Thanks Fetch. Is map data always private? That's the one I worry about the most. I don't mind a few trusted followers being able to see it if I've actively approved them (same as my settings on the orange site).

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@auburnette the privacy settings aren't quite the same as Strava. If you go to sharing under user settings, then buddies you can set them to be able to see maps. Below that is "everyone" and you set that to something other than including maps. Followers are in the same category as "everyone".

You can't make individual activities public / private. I made feature request 1802 to have the option for activities to default to private and then choose what to make public (or buddies only). That's how I have strava set up as some stuff I never change to public on there.

Thank you for all the hard work

As per comments below, I think the site appears to run really well, forums very friendly etc and when there have been issues you appear to have tactfully resolved. That said, reading these post/comments I did realise that my knowledge isn't as good as I thought and i had to research a bit to see the difference between friends and buddies and I'm still not quite sure what a follower can see that any other user can't. Would it be worth a simple one-pager to clarify/refresh and also include the settings that can be used to limit what some see. These were probably mentioned at the time they were introduced but i'm not sure they are necessarily obvious especially for a new user

Thanks Fetch.

@Snail a follower can’t see anything extra - they just get notifications. The buddy system on the other hand lets you give extra privileges to other Fetchies when it comes to viewing your content. Sounds like I need to make this clearer.

Thanks - agree re the target and Mumsnet. I think users there were surprised that a large commercial enterprise, didn't have overnight support /mods that could deal quickly with serious issues. They've had previous problems with doxxing amongst other things. Not suggesting any of that applies to this site, more for broader context.

"Often I can see the spambots coming before they know I'm on to them. It's fun to sit and watch them"

Maybe you need to get out more?

But many thanks for 'looking after' us, and all the extras needed on top of 'just a running (and lots of other stuff) site'.

Thank you, fetch. All sounding bloody marvellous.

Help, I just accidentally hit approve all on the follow requests and now there is one I want to remove. How can I do this? Good work, though!

Let me know via feedback which one you want removing, and I'll tidy up for you.

Thank you so much, fetch! That is amazing 😀😀😀 xx

Done

And I accidentally left the follow request page and now can’t find it again.

Thanks for your efforts & openness around this subject.

Notable that bikeradar forum closed with just 1 weeks notice due to the laws.

There was discussions on R4 this morning:

41m15s is the news item

1h51m40s is an interview with Dee who setup Lfgss as well as the Dad of a child whose death led to the laws being written, both have concerns the law is not fit for purpose, but for different reasons.

There's Ofcom person on later too, around 2h34m who reassures that they'd not be enforcing it heavily against smaller organisations where they act in good faith.

bbc.co.uk

I think it would be good to have a single 'buddies only' option regarding content, which then applies to everything on a user's profile, and giving the user the ability to decide who can follow them. But that doesn't really address the things contemplated by this legislation.

Is it at the point where a few trusted users could be moderators (hide content temporarily until you can deal with it), so there's 24 hour coverage and you can get some sleep.

I know when very new users start posting there's an option on their posts to flag as potential spam, could a less intrusive option be abolished to flag general as unsafe? Along with the quote/block/pin buttons?

And, maybe, a mechanism for warning any user that goes on a flag rampage reporting things that they simply disagree with (I promise not to flag anyone saying Brexit was a good idea, for example) rather than are genuinely harmful.

I know you have done a lot of work already regarding those who post stuff that shouldn't be here - thank you. Notably when we had our kitchen done recently I couldn't find anyone selling one on this site

Echo what the esteemed Baroness says - you do such a good job making sure this corner of the interweb remains a generally safe place, so thank you for that. I like Grast-girl and Rae's suggestions too.

In terms of delegating moderation - I can tell you that last year I removed 176 posts out of 436,127. And 139 of these were the idiot trying to promote his inaugural parkrun group. 30 were automated spam, 4 were removed at the request of the author, and only 3 were removed due to poor user conduct or unacceptable content.

Quality statsing.

Wow. That's pretty impressive

I bet they were all on the Politics thread (the three). And thank you

There are a couple of good ideas above especially having a flag for 'unsafe' rather than just spam.

FWIW - I think you do a remarkably good job already. Unsafe/unpleasant/spam posts appear to be removed incredibly quickly. Furthermore, over the years I have observed you skilfully diffuse difficult/tense situations via a quiet word/tactful comment.

That is amazing that there are so few posts that needed to be removed. Its funny as never think about moderation on the site. As generally its a nice community of participants.

Removed by moderator

To be serious for a moment, I did wonder what the sign-up process is these day? Do you still just have to enter an email address? Perhaps you could implement some kind of verification process that also required a minimum of information to root out the bots and spammers, and to ensure an account can be tracked back to an individual?

I should also have given my thanks for the great job you're already doing, Fetch, and I'm also also mightily impressed by the stats on post removal.

You might be interested in how LFGSS forum is handling this (if you haven't seen already). As it was one person running it, who felt meeting the new requirements was too much; there's now a consortium taking over lfgss.com

lfgss.com

Don't think I can add anything more than what has been mentioned above. I think it will be interesting when I do my "Adult Welfare Course" tonight, if this is covered at all.

I think you do an amazing job. The site has been an immense source of strength and support for me in recent difficult circumstances and I feel safer here than pretty much anywhere online.

I echo leaguefreak's comments, although I do sometimes have to remind myself that however safe it feels it is still online - I'm still quite careful about what I post.

I agree with Sigh - I think there needs to be more choice by the user as to who can follow them - at the minute it sits with the person who wants to follow someone to tick a box and it happens (I know there are buddy settings for blogs and training details) but anyone can choose to follow you and your training pop up in their notifications. I think there needs to be an option where the user gets ‘**** is asking to follow you, are you ok with this?’ Especially as a user of the site you can choose to stay quite anonymous. Again, it’s not necessarily connected to the above, but it is a layer that I wouldn’t mind being considered. I have some followers now who I would choose not to have following me, but I can’t do anything about it, even though I’ve put everything I can behind the ‘buddy’ wall where I can choose who sees it. Ooo that ended up quite long. Sorry….

And you’re doing a bloody marvellous job. Thank you xx

thank you. I agree you do an awesome job and Im very grateful

Thanks for the great job you do maintaining this site.

I think the site is fantastic well done

The thing I love about Fetchland is that everyone is tolerant and offensive activity doesn't really take place. Generally you do an amazing job and we are pretty much self-policing.

I agree with Sigh and phal’s comments. See feature request 1802 re activity privacy.

Mumsnet recently was attacked a couple of times by malicious actors posting CSA images into threads late at night; with no overnight IT presence it took several hours for them to be taken down. The ability to upload pics was disabled, once re-enabled more were posted. They are currently working on additional security. Police are involved. Probably a deliberate attempt to target the users (mostly women not being able to sleep) and the site. Gives you an idea of what can happen out there, sadly.

I agree with the person being followed as the arbiter of who follows them. That’s good sense.

As for the other areas of the site all the public areas I frequent seem pretty well behaved and any overtly nasty or malicious activity gets called out and flagged pretty quick.

But there is now a facility for private conversations to take place. And that’s where there’s a greater possibility of nefarious goings on going on. I don’t know if you monitor any of the DM’s Ian. But that’s the area that would bother me most.

My first thought at your comment ‘We’re all adults here…’ was ‘yes, but that doesn’t mean we’re not vulnerable’ and the friendly community we have here may make us more vulnerable if we almost forget that some people may not be as they seem….I also agree with Sigh’s comments about being able to choose if someone can follow you or not.
However, i think you do a fantastic job. Thank you!

Nothing much to add, except (as others have said above) that you're doing an excellent job already. Thank you.

Other than enabling the purchase of too many skorts and jazzy capris via the unicorn thread, I'll just copy and paste what Teebee said

Just catching up and this is so helpful - both for my work and knowing what you’re doing to address any identified risks. Thank you.

Excellent

Yay - FetchFest

Cool!

Good luck!

Good luck! Six weeks, that's ages. I think race entries are on the upswing, but it's not universal. A couple of races I ran last year, and might have done again, I found had sold out before I'd even looked.

Excellent

That range a bell. 19 April 2009.

Rang even.

Excellent! Best of luck

I would have joined you in the normal course of things but it clashes with Boston which is slightly closer to home! Good luck

That's good I remember it used to fill up when my wee sister lived and ran down that way.

"undulating" is never a race description I trust, round here if its; "undulating" you need crampons. Good luck!