11-15-2014, 05:01 PM
"........and somehow feel guilty when I post here and not there with my layout updates.... "
I’m not really sure why you should feel guilty unless you feel you have developed a rapport with members on those other forums and feel if you don’t post there then you’re letting the side down, so to speak.
"..... just don't understand how they have time."
Ahhh, time that precious commodity. Generally as a result of getting older, though unfortunately accidents and illness do play their part, the body becomes less willing or able to participate in active endeavours, and so participation in multiple forums may not only be an individuals way of occupying time but also keeping the mind active.
"......the Model Railroader forum allows posts by a guy who makes a big deal out of his pet lion."
Unless I’m completely mistaken I believe you’re referring to the Broadway Lion whose passions, if that is the correct word to use while talking about a Benedictine Friars hobbies, are modelling an extensive HO subway system done on a shoe string budget, (that flies in the face of the seemingly continuous repetitious forum threads on the sheer expense of the hobby
), and Big Cats. The fact that he posts in third person seems to drive some folks crazy but perhaps (political rant deleted) I celebrate harmless eccentrics.
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Fair enough, but to whose ideas of judgement and restraint???
I consider myself as a newcomer to forums in general, lurked for a while then joined the Model Railroader in 2011 which I still consider is my main forum, to ask a prototype question, and through a member over there who I won’t incriminate cos I don’t want him blamed for my arrival here, was introduced to BIG BLUE which I joined a year ago. Incidentally I take the view that membership of a forum is a privilege not a right.
Just my two bobs worth.
Cheers the Bear.
I’m not really sure why you should feel guilty unless you feel you have developed a rapport with members on those other forums and feel if you don’t post there then you’re letting the side down, so to speak.
"..... just don't understand how they have time."
Ahhh, time that precious commodity. Generally as a result of getting older, though unfortunately accidents and illness do play their part, the body becomes less willing or able to participate in active endeavours, and so participation in multiple forums may not only be an individuals way of occupying time but also keeping the mind active.
"......the Model Railroader forum allows posts by a guy who makes a big deal out of his pet lion."
Unless I’m completely mistaken I believe you’re referring to the Broadway Lion whose passions, if that is the correct word to use while talking about a Benedictine Friars hobbies, are modelling an extensive HO subway system done on a shoe string budget, (that flies in the face of the seemingly continuous repetitious forum threads on the sheer expense of the hobby
), and Big Cats. The fact that he posts in third person seems to drive some folks crazy but perhaps (political rant deleted) I celebrate harmless eccentrics.<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://broadwaylion.com/page4.html">http://broadwaylion.com/page4.html</a><!-- m -->
jwb Wrote:Anything that can be done to promote traits like judgment and restraint on any forum, it seems to me, is worthwhile.
Fair enough, but to whose ideas of judgement and restraint???
I consider myself as a newcomer to forums in general, lurked for a while then joined the Model Railroader in 2011 which I still consider is my main forum, to ask a prototype question, and through a member over there who I won’t incriminate cos I don’t want him blamed for my arrival here, was introduced to BIG BLUE which I joined a year ago. Incidentally I take the view that membership of a forum is a privilege not a right.
Just my two bobs worth.
Cheers the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."