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"Rivet Counter" Put Downs
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It appears that the modeller who has done it wrong almost intentionally is most offended by someone "nit-picking" their efforts. If they are that thin skinned, they deserve the "Emperor's new cloths". The public spot light is very bright, and we might look at the "nit-picker" as the keeper of that spot light, trying to shine an amount of enlightenment into the darkness of ignorance. <br />My concern is for the accuracy of something that is modeled and represented as something it is not. If an individual has offered some insight into an area that we may not be aware of, or did not invest the effort to find, and we will soon be doing our Lego scale models in day-glow orange and wondering why they are not satisfying our needs. The longer we are in the hobby, if we pay attention, the larger our base of knowledge becomes and the more we ourselves know when we see something that is "wrong" but do not offer assistance in improving, aren't we worse than the nit-picker who is trying to improve the hobby or "help" the modeller to improve his skills or knowledge. <br />It is unfortunate that some of the "nit-pickers" approach and comments are read, intended or not, as derogatory or an attack on the modeller. If we continue to attack the nit-picker, who is going to provide accurate information to our questions about what we are trying to create, or are we just going to "play with trains" and complain when an advertier suggests every layout has at least two 'jerks" if they have added a soda shop with an employee serving sodas. <br /> <br />Will
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