JumbleDuck AWOL?

[CAPTAIN FANTASTIC]

Times have changed, the wider availability of internet provides people with the opportunity to spend much more time in forums such as ours. I have been involved in this forum since the late 90's, under various names, but in the last few years there are people who take it far too seriously and to some this is their daily "occupation" which goes well beyond the boundaries of yachting. As always, take the good and the bad and move on.

 

[Black Sheep]

RichardS no longer appears in the list of users of YBW forums

No, he flounced a month or two back.

Sorry - I was wrong. It was someone else's flounce that I remembered. It's hard to keep track sometimes.

 

[fredrussell]

Forum does seem to have become more combative of late. You get the impression that those members that contribute to this will be the same ones with ‘Captain Ahab Syndrome’ upon their own boats.

One wonders what a newcomer to sailing might think of these goings on, not sure it would encourage them into the pastime really.

 

[LadyInBed]

If not YBW what other UK biased sailing forums are favoured?

 

[Kelpie]

Forum does seem to have become more combative of late. You get the impression that those members that contribute to this will be the same ones with ‘Captain Ahab Syndrome’ upon their own boats.

One wonders what a newcomer to sailing might think of these goings on, not sure it would encourage them into the pastime really.

I recently shared a video on FB of a dolphin playing with my trip buoy. A (non sailing) friend googled what a trip buoy was, which led her to a sailing forum. She commented on how angry the forum seemed. Must have stumbled upon an anchor thread!

 

[AntarcticPilot]

I've been on internet fora since the 1990s, back in the days of UseNet and other precursors - I was even on the grandfather of all fora, the GROGGS forum on the University of Cambridge's mainframe in the 1980s!

Compared with some, this forum is pretty well-behaved. Of course, people get upset, especially when cherished and long-held views are challenged - particularly when their views are wrong or outmoded. There are (as in all fora) a few people who delight in disruptive behaviour, but they are on the whole few and far between. The main flare-ups usually occur off-topic, when people's political viewpoints clash.

Personally, my major annoyance is when people challenge information from knowledgeable people, often with unsubstantiated assertions. Fair enough challenging the knowledgeable person if you have information or examples to back your assertion up - that will often result in a very interesting discussion that goes into more depth than the original discussion.

The recent crack-down by the moderators was probably a good reminder that we need to adhere to civilized standards of discussion, but for the vast majority of us it hasn't changed anything.

 

[cpedw]

If not YBW what other UK biased sailing forums are favoured?

There's Blue Moment for a Scottish slant on sailing.

 

[doug748]

Yes, I think you get a similar cast list of characters whichever Forum you look at, photography, plumbing or what not.

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Personally, my major annoyance is when people challenge information from knowledgeable people, often with unsubstantiated assertions....................

The other week I cycled along a coastal road and noticed a fellow parking his car with two wheels on the verge and two on the road. He was obviously taking his young son to the beach.

I turned around and told that there was a free space in a parking bay about 30 yards away and warned him that wardens come on sunny days ticketing dozens of cars and ruining the day for loads of people.

"I can't see why" He said

"They do" I said "such as shame when people have had a nice day out"

"They can't do it, where are the signs?"

I said: "The signs are a mile away, the whole road is restricted"

"They can't do anything like that without signs, it's the law" He replied, getting very snotty



Ay which point I wished him good afternoon. I like to think he got a ticket but perhaps he was lucky. Some folk always know?



.

 

[Bilgediver]

LadyInBed said:
If not YBW what other UK biased sailing forums are favoured?



Some folk use Cruisersforum.com which is a great resource and also one where The Headmistress might be found.

 

[Bilgediver]

I've been on internet fora since the 1990s, back in the days of UseNet and other precursors - I was even on the grandfather of all fora, the GROGGS forum on the University of Cambridge's mainframe in the 1980s!

UseNet. Those were the days.... Sailing.asa and more. and then many found a new home on Compuserve with american boaters. Some of us then moved here. It never surprises me how people find these forums from all over the world. Many of them in places I visited earlier inn life when in the Merchant navy and later in the offshore drilling business so knowing the places and local resources can sometimes help when replying.

 

[dgadee]

Gopher. We thought we were so advanced.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Gopher. We thought we were so advanced.

I remember the early days of the WWW when several sites offered an index of the entire internet - not a search engine - a simple list! They were quickly replaced by search engines (of vastly less sophistication than present ones). But early web browsers often included options to access non-http protocols like Gopher and UseNet. I started on Mosaic, which was, I think, the first graphical browser...

 

[RobbieW]

...I was even on the grandfather of all fora, the GROGGS forum on the University of Cambridge's mainframe in the 1980s!...

There are many IBMers that would dispute the grandfather claim. Forums, or conferencing, existed on VM platforms within IBM from at least 1980, grew from there and are still active today, A paper from the late 80s....
(PDF) A large-scale computer conferencing system
(I went caving with Mike Cowlishaw a couple of times in S Wales mid 80s)

 

[AntarcticPilot]

There are many IBMers that would dispute the grandfather claim. Forums, or conferencing, existed on VM platforms within IBM from at least 1980, grew from there and are still active today, A paper from the late 80s....
(PDF) A large-scale computer conferencing system
(I went caving with Mike Cowlishaw a couple of times in S Wales mid 80s)

I only claim grandfather, not ultimate ancestry

 

[Greenheart]

I've a feeling that this thread has lost touch with its original theme! ?

 

[Bajansailor]

I've a feeling that this thread has lost touch with its original theme! ?

Thread drift at it's finest!
We need Jumbly @JumbleDuck to turn up now to steer it back on course.

 

[sailaboutvic]

Thread drift at it's finest!
We need Jumbly @JumbleDuck to turn up now to steer it back on course.

Thread driff ,
Do you Still remember sue and Carol visit ?

 

[Bajansailor]

Thread driff ,
Do you Still remember sue and Carol visit ?

As we are drifting fast now..... aye, I do, and I keep in touch with them (sort of - I see their posts occasionally) on FB.

 

[Bilgediver]

I remember the early days of the WWW when several sites offered an index of the entire internet - not a search engine - a simple list! They were quickly replaced by search engines (of vastly less sophistication than present ones). But early web browsers often included options to access non-http protocols like Gopher and UseNet. I started on Mosaic, which was, I think, the first graphical browser...

I remember Alta Vista !! Never knew what you would find hidden in the murky depths of the News Groups. I remember finding a News Group who had assembled hams around the world to connect their equipment to servers which could be accessed by phone. I tried it one day having puzzled for ages how to make it work and got abuse from a Chicago taxi driver for using an invalid call sign . He would not believe I was calling from Edinburgh via a repeater in down town Chicago.
Never did get to speak to the boater in the Caribbean. He had his mike on voice activation. Every time I called all I got was the throaty roar of his Detroit diesel. This was long before Skype etc.

 

[dgadee]

I remember Alta Vista !!

I am still using a netscape.net email address from that same period. Remember Netscape Navigator?