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[quote user="Lillen"]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 have seen all too many posts degrading younger members (including myself) because their work (photos, spelling, and weathering, just to name a few) isn't up to scratch with some posters. Is it because they're young? Too often, I think it is. Some of the bashed work is actually better than that of a few adult modelers, but those adults don't get degraded by the general populace (with a few exceptions) because of it. That's not to say everyone bashes the younger modelers in question, but unfortunately there are quite a few bad apples who do out there...Why do they do it to teens? I have no idea. Maybe they aren't afraid of offending us, or they simply think we don't care. That couldn't be farther from the truth. When this happened to me (a how-to video I produced on basic weathering was the provocative in this case),  I was hurt and offended for a couple days, and I still have to work hard not to carry a grudge against a few specific posters, the worst of which suggested (for the second time!) I keep my work in Teen Model Railroader Place! Now that's definitely age discrimination! [V]Most members here are very good to us teens, treating us as equals, and not throwing us all into one catogory labeled "Teens" when looking at our work.I'll second that, Magnus. Keep us posted BNSF![tup]
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