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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by n2mopac I am noticing a trend on this forum lately. I first must say that I enjoy this forum immensely and I have been here since its very beginning. But I have noticed that real modeling help is getting harder to find here. Look at the topics and the number of replies. Topics like "What am I?" and "The coffee shop" and some gossip topics (what I affectionallycall fluff) get huge numbers while real modeling querries get 2 or 4 posts. Now WAIT, before we start a flame war here, I am not against those topics. In fact I participte in them some myself, I just hope that they do not overwhelm the forum to the point that people who come here for real help with their model railroads do not find the help the want and need. What I am saying is this, enjoy the fluff topics, but take time to put your 2 cents worth in when someone is looking for some ideal, advice, or real modeling help. That is, I think, what this forum was created for. I'm sure I'll get no end of replies here from those who think I am persecuting them or infringing on their first amendment rights of some other rediculous thing. Well, that's not my intent. Just trying ton encourage a well rounded forum where we can find leisure and helpful information all in one place. Ron [/quote] My pet peeve is asking a specific question and getting 4 or 5 responses that do not answer the question. Part numbers for example. I'm sure some of us out there have bought some of these items. What I look for is for one person to respond with the information, and thread over. More often than not, the regular posters jump in with no information, just an opinion or comment. AND more often than not, they throw in some LHS, or on-line HS name who we should contact to ask the information from. This doesn't help. I wouldn't mind calling the on-line place if I knew the part number or what to ask for. I would more inclined to the order the item if I knew what it was. I only post the question because I don't know. My suggestion to the rabib posters,......If you don't have the answer, read and move on. Please stop posting for the sake of posting. Those little stars don't mean anything to me.
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