A small team of have been steadily working away copying and pasting articles into the new website and it is dawning on me just how large the website actually is. Some of the articles are being refreshed with new details and new additional aritices are also being added.

It is also highlighting a few minor spelling errors we have made in the names of certain locations which I am correcting. The funny thing is though that these few wrongly named places are on the web (other paranormal sites that is) with near identical information to that which is on Mysteriousbritain......so, maybe the moral to the story is , if you intend to copy stuff directly from us, make sure we have it correct, just like the new site should be .

when discussing Molly Leigh the Burslem witch on another forum, someone replied to my post with a verbatum cut and paste of an article i'd written on th subject a few months previously! It seems to be pretty common practice on the internet.

Sure does Matt .

Yeah, I think a chat room would be a great idea if it's possible

A chat room would be possible, but how much moderating would it require. I think at the moment we have been very lucky with this forum as everyone gets on great and stays polite even if they don't agree. Therefore I think we have had some well balanced discussions and no one feels intimidated...well I hope they don't. It also means that it makes moderating the site really easy and fun. How much more work would a chat room be? I've never been on one so I don't really know. If it runs like this forum then it should be ok.

A chat room is not an essential Ian....It's just like being on MSN if you have that.....and I think your Website is great the way it is really!!.... it runs like clockwork....

Cut and pasting another's work from the Internet is also getting to be common practice for student essays, alas. The spelling mistakes help, though -I can tell a student that i know they've copied the review form Amazon without having to go look it up.

Chat rooms do need pretty constant moderation, even at a place like this; I agree that it's great to be part of a group where everyone makes an effort to be nice.

You could just open the chat room at arranged times. Say Sunday night at 9 for an hour so we could natter about msterious stuff.

I think a chatroom that is open during set periods of time may be interesting. We could maybe announce a certain topic to be discussed before hand and perhaps entice the odd guest poster. I think if it is structured it could be valuable as a good resource, though a good chatroom for the community to get to know each other better and discuss everyday things also has a lot of value and has been great fun here on the forum. Anybody else got any thoughts?

I think that's a good idea Ian, you would just have to give it a try - see how it works out - take it from there

You may have a bit of a challenge with finding a good time - all of you seem to be very busy, but at different times. I agree that the idea is a fine one.

Yes and it will need to also tie in with the time difference with yourself Wombat....what is the time difference between the UK and where you are in the US?

Hi, I've been quiet for a week or so because I am cruising Somerset, Dorset, Oxfordshire, Avon and Wiltshire gathering information and taking pictures for the website. Currently in an internet cafe in Glastonbury.

Catch you laters....now, where is my cider?

While you're there, have a wee dig around and see if you can find any cups or challices...