Is ContractorUK really about Contracting?

[Spacecadet]

There must be two or three hundred thousand British IT contractors, and no more than a handful of forums specifically for them. I can only assume the vast majority treat somewhere like CUK as a "means to an end", rather like one might post a question about a gas boiler on a plumbing forum.

Most contractors (infact most people) treat forums as weirdo magnets and generally avoid them.
The only contact they'll have is when searching for something and google tosses them onto a forum with an answer

[Stan.goodvibes]

OK, first off this is a forum for IT people, so it's always going to be uncool.

Secondly, I have been planning a return to the UK for a year or two now but was rather put off by the *slight* downturn in the market and the god-awful weather you are having, but I do find that the Business/Contracts section and the odd thread in General are helping in discerning the state of the market.

The rest of it, like General, well most of it is tulip* but that's normal for a forum.

*Can someone please explain the origin of how 'tulip' came to mean S H I T E ?

[Board Game Geek]

I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that after a few years, every question in IT contracting has been answered somewhere up the line, and quite a few that are non-IT related too.

That being said then, all that remains for the future of CUK, and quite possibly the human race, are posts about fart jokes, sexual deviancy, petty insults, lunch diatribes, and who is the real identity of Spartacus ?

Do away with the above, and suddenly a lot of strange men (and one or two women maybe) will be wandering the streets again, scaring the horses.

I'd much prefer them to be here, to be honest.

This is a form of community service, where the weirdos get to hang out...oh wait...

[Churchill]

I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that after a few years, every question in IT contracting has been answered somewhere up the line, and quite a few that are non-IT related too.

That being said then, all that remains for the future of CUK, and quite possibly the human race, are posts about fart jokes, sexual deviancy, petty insults, lunch diatribes, and who is the real identity of Spartacus ?
Do away with the above, and suddenly a lot of strange men (and one or two women maybe) will be wandering the streets again, scaring the horses.

I'd much prefer them to be here, to be honest.

This is a form of community service, where the weirdos get to hang out...oh wait...

I'm Spartacus, I've got the T-Shirt to prove it!

[namnadasht]

We do. It's called General.

HTH

how about off-topic?

[MarillionFan]

and to allude to my earlier defence in another thread.

Here it is.

Interesting how some peoples opinions have changed in a month.

(To clarify. When I meant CUK, I meant General.)

[alreadypacked]

Indeed. The vast majority of so-called news links posted on here are either the same old maundering about a statistically-insignificant 0.01% shift in some metric, or deranged ramblings from an imbecile holed up in a bunker in Colorado with 14,000 assault weapons and a blog.

[Scary]

If anyone is looking for a serious forum about contracting issues (specifically related to the business and contract side of things) you could do worse than try here.