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 [quote user="Lillen"]But here is my real point of this post. I think you get some bad posts against you quite frequently just for being young. And your not the only young person in this hobby that suffers that nor is this the only forum that this happens in. Your spelling might not be perfect, but you are young. Some other people here has bad spelling to. I know that my English is far from perfect. But it seems to be more accepted if you are older for some reason. Or perhaps more correctly, it is less tolerated from "kids". I have often seen threads that has some pretty bad attitudes against young people. The "everything was better back then" crowd can get noisy.[/quote]Well said! I've seen bashing happen to many younger members of this forum (myself included) because their work (photo quality, spelling, weathering, just to name a few) were not quite up to scratch with some of the other posters' work. The thing is, with some of these cases, I've seen other older posters with work of the same quality, and no one degraded them for it! Age seems to be a generalization of work quality. I've seen work by teen modelers that would put some older modelers' work to shame. I wonder why the older members do this, do they think we don't care? When this happened to me, I was hurt, and now I have to work to not keep a grudge against those involved. You know who you are!However, most people here are very respectful of us teens, treating us as equals and taking our advice seriously. Still, many of them, no matter how good their intentions,  treat us a little differently than others. They end PM's with phrases like "Your layout shows much potential for someone your age" and such. Why does our age have anything to do with our layout potential? True, many younger modelers act differently than adults, but still, there's something to be said for equal treatment without any assumptions about age.Don't get me wrong, the posters I mentioned have extremely good intentions, and I appreciate their advice, and they have almost achieved mentor status in my mind. It's great that veterans of this hobby can help those of us who haven't been around as long. The teens here tend to band together, there are both a "Teen Railfan Place" and a "Teen Model Railroader Place" on these forums, which I frequent, and I also belong to a teen forum dealing with both model and prototype railroads. I count many of them as my friends.I'll second that, Magnus, Keep us updated BNSF!
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