BigDaddy
So why not post more? Have you been met with unkind responses? Are there just too many guru's here? Like my other forums, are you just not here very much? Are most of the threads of no interest to your?
Where to start.. my posting tends to be seasonal, as in: when I'm on my winter break from work I tend to post more. Other times of the year its sporadic. Now and then. Months may go by and I'm just too busy. If I were retired or without younger kids I would be around more.
Secondly, I was out of the hobby for a loooooong time and have lots of questions and so I find myself reading more than commenting.
Thirdly, regarding "unkind responses": yes, I have had them. It's part of life and sometimes people have a bad day and make a snarky remark. I can live with that.
What was over-the-top disturbing to me was a forum member that last year took insane objection to the line of one of my posts and insulted me. Totally unnecessary.
I had simply shared something that I thought was humorous that other modelers would also get a laugh out of.
This particular person had apparently lost their sense of humor a long time ago (or their ability to live-and-let-live) and was outraged that I would try to inject humor into the hobby ... because he didn't find the same thing to be amusing; as if he alone were the arbiter of what is and isn't worth a chuckle. 
Anyway, I had previously set up a Flickr account to share photos of my layout progress and within a day or two of this unpleasantness I was sent a message on Flickr that someone (don't know who, but obviously from this forum) "liked" my Flickr account and wanted to link up. The page in question was loaded with all sorts of pornography. It was disgusting.
As a result I had to deactivate and cancel my Flickr page to be on the safe side.
It's a shame people can't just move on from things that they either aren't interested in, or topics they don't like in forums, but rather, feel it necessary to still post and "set you right."
Seriously, if you don't like a topic just move along.
Andy
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Milwaukee native modeling the Milwaukee Road in 1950's Milwaukee.