MedDreamer
Well-Known Member
Re: Aircraft Carriers
Like you Nick I have gained knowledge and confidence from the experienced hands on here. I was nervous about my first post as a newbie (knowing absolutely sod all about boats) but without exception the regulars were helpful and welcoming. I did not get any feeling of a closed shop or "clique".
The banter was good humoured and it was fun to see how the characters on the forum played to type (if HLB was really that grumpy he wouldn't have gone to the trouble of sourcing the burgees! - TCM's fenders probably cost more than my boat but it doesn't stop him replying to me, and other like me, in an unpatronising way - Byron has forgotten more about boating than I will ever know but he is happy to spend time passing on his experience ). Their continuing enthusiasm does not make them a clique.
Signing in always seemed to guarantee that I would learn something and that I would be amused and entertained. No-one has ever belittled my lack of knowledge or been anthing other than helpful (MWhiteley did have a go at me for drinking Fosters!)
To continue an analogy I put in another connected post it was like a good night in a friendly pub with Kim the benevolent and tolerant landlord.
This has changed. I find the boorish and sometimes insulting behaviour that H1 lapses into irritating, arrogant and boring and I am sure others, whose opinions I value, feel the same way. and the good natured tone of the forum is diminishing. Perhaps this is just normal evolution (a bit like Radio 2 playing the Sex Pistols) but I for one regret the change and I think that Kims even handedness is misplaced in this case (although I think he can take a lot of the credit for the success of this forum).
I do not want to be too cynical about this but I wonder what the current "hit" rate on the forum is. We do not see the count information that Kim see's but obviously the powers that be are not going to be to anxious to change things if more people than in the past are clicking on to see what is happening.
Good people are voting with their feet (or fingers) and the forum is the worse for it
IMHO
<hr width=100% size=1>Martyn
Like you Nick I have gained knowledge and confidence from the experienced hands on here. I was nervous about my first post as a newbie (knowing absolutely sod all about boats) but without exception the regulars were helpful and welcoming. I did not get any feeling of a closed shop or "clique".
The banter was good humoured and it was fun to see how the characters on the forum played to type (if HLB was really that grumpy he wouldn't have gone to the trouble of sourcing the burgees! - TCM's fenders probably cost more than my boat but it doesn't stop him replying to me, and other like me, in an unpatronising way - Byron has forgotten more about boating than I will ever know but he is happy to spend time passing on his experience ). Their continuing enthusiasm does not make them a clique.
Signing in always seemed to guarantee that I would learn something and that I would be amused and entertained. No-one has ever belittled my lack of knowledge or been anthing other than helpful (MWhiteley did have a go at me for drinking Fosters!)
To continue an analogy I put in another connected post it was like a good night in a friendly pub with Kim the benevolent and tolerant landlord.
This has changed. I find the boorish and sometimes insulting behaviour that H1 lapses into irritating, arrogant and boring and I am sure others, whose opinions I value, feel the same way. and the good natured tone of the forum is diminishing. Perhaps this is just normal evolution (a bit like Radio 2 playing the Sex Pistols) but I for one regret the change and I think that Kims even handedness is misplaced in this case (although I think he can take a lot of the credit for the success of this forum).
I do not want to be too cynical about this but I wonder what the current "hit" rate on the forum is. We do not see the count information that Kim see's but obviously the powers that be are not going to be to anxious to change things if more people than in the past are clicking on to see what is happening.
Good people are voting with their feet (or fingers) and the forum is the worse for it
IMHO
<hr width=100% size=1>Martyn
