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Posted: 21-01-2010 21:21 Post subject:

It gets awfully crowded in that drawer at times.

Or so I've heard.

Anyway, I thought it was only obsessive weirdoes like me that felt compelled to read the entire magazine cover to cover. (And even I sometimes skip bits of the Forum and Fortean Travellers, if I'm running short on time or I'm behind or something.)

Posted: 06-03-2010 20:50 Post subject:

I find CC a bit hit and miss - sometimes it is good, sometimes bad. I think it depends on the subject matter. Agree about Barry Baldwin's writing style being difficult at times.
For me, it seems that for some issues, there has been difficulty finding suitable articles as some issues have, IMO, being of much lower quality than others. I think that the magazine was better when it was only 6 issues per year ( I have subscribed to it for donkey's years). Then again I suppose applies to any magazine.
For me- less ufo stuff ( unless they make contact), how to guides as mentioned by another poster, more science - especially what are viewed as science "heresies", earth mysteries. I think a "diary" of ongoing research could be interesting e.g any ghost hunter type people who are investigating something, crytid research. I'll let you know when I think of anything else.

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Posted: 07-03-2010 10:12 Post subject:

Is there a point to this thread?

Don't know how many of you guys do this, but when I log onto the board, I click, 'view posts since my last visit' and lo... up near the top of the list was this thread. So I clicked page one and started reading.

The comments from board members were striking cords with me, and the replies from sutton (not sure who he is - sorry) seemed to suggest that the ideas proposed by board members would be taken into due consideration.

It wasn't untill page 6 (OK it's early Sunday morning, gimme a break) I noticed that I was reading posts from 6/7 years ago!!!

Still the same dodgy ads, still the same gripes about personal prefrences, still the same IHTM issues, still game reviews.

I'll admit that once I'd clocked the date of posts, I skipped to the last two pages for a more current perspective, so unless somewhere in the middle of the thread the conclusion was reached that on the whole the mag is fab so if it ain't broke... I'm feel I'm missing something.

Because if after 6/7 years the same issues are still so relevent to the readers that the thread reappears, then perhaps the thread title shouldn't include the tease of "suggestions" as though anything written is to be considered. Maybe "mag rant" is closer to the direction of the thread.

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Posted: 07-10-2010 13:43 Post subject:

I moaned about the insulting 'comic' cartoons of actual named deceased people in the Strange Deaths column a while back. Haven't seen a vast improvement but it's slightly better.

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Posted: 23-10-2010 05:12 Post subject: RE: Suggest.........................

I would like to see the contests that are advertised in the magazine; opened up to the international readers. Not just the home turf readers! Smile

Posted: 27-12-2010 12:58 Post subject:

I'm a subscriber, and to be honest I'm wondering about renewing.
Over the past few months (possibly even to a year), the magazine seems to have taken a bit of a dip.

The lead articles seem flimsy at best (this months Chupacabra one takes the biscuit: an article that could have been dealt with in a few paragraphs, and isn't that convincing or indeed interesting to begin with is given front cover status).

The letters pages seem to have shrunk (though I accept this could be due fewer letters actually being received), and any good IHTM stories seemed to have been siphoned off for use in the spin off books.

There are also fewer DVD reviews, though again, I accept, not being a widely read publication they're less likely to get freebies from the studios.

In all there just seems to be less generally in the magazine than there once was.

Rant over...

Posted: 29-12-2010 05:16 Post subject:

I wish the IHTM page wasn't printed in red ink on a dark background (darn this feeble eyesight!).

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