Thanks for raising this, Graham.
I can't speak for Jonathan, but within reason the FB page has never felt like a place requiring heavy censorship. I will continue to encourage people to take over to the forum any technical discussions which show the potential to grow into something of sufficient depth and interest.
Of the very few questions of a technical nature, these continue to be monitored. Where a photograph accompanies a question, it makes sense to allow any brief discussion to pass - such as was the case a few days ago, where someone wanted to identify a piece of rigging on their new (to them) boat. It felt like this worked particularly well on FB - better than on the forum, where photos are less immediately accessible. If a discussion grew into something of a nature which was likely to enhance the forum, I would be happy to copy the conversation, to that point, over to the forum into an appropriate, or new thread. It would be fair to say that anything of this nature is yet to emerge and most questions - such as 'which insurer…?' - have been well documented in previous forum discussions.
I made the mistake, in the early days of the group, of suggesting a discussion was moved over to the forum, the impact of which was that the discussion abruptly stopped. It doesn’t make sense to wield an axe where we want people to participate freely. Perhaps it is just my job to ensure things that are of long term interest on the forum are copied across.
It's particularly pleasant to see, now the season is under way, that the FB page is filling up with lots of interesting anecdotal pictures of people's boating activities.
