OGR Forum Refugee Roll Call

[Anonymous]

I'm here! Hope to see all my friends join in!

Joe[:)]

[Anonymous]

I'm a refugee.

[Anonymous]

I don't feel like a refugee;

I feel emancipated in this Age of Aquarius or Aquarium Car.

[:D]


Alan

[Dr. John]

I don't consider myself a refugee.

I'm just playing both sides of the tracks! [:D]

[Anonymous]

Glad to be here[:D]

[cbojanower]

I am getting comfortable in the new surroundings, besides I have more smilies here[}:)][}:)]

[Anonymous]

Refugee!
Entered CTT witness protection program and changed name too![}:)]

[macdannyk1]

Not a refugee...just standing up for my right not to have to pay to have my voice heard.

[Kooljock1]

As I've stated before, I'll make up my mind at around 11PM on May 31st. But this sure seems to be a nice site with good people sharing informative information about trains. And the owners provide all kinds of on-line content, including videos, reviews, and on-line special information and articles too!

And nobody yet is telling me what has to be the "STANDARD" on MY layout!

Which, by the way was the beginning of the end over at the OGR Forum. The $18 was only secondary.

Jon [8D]

[RI Jim]

I'm sitting on the tracks too, waiting to see what happens over at the OGR forum. I think we'll continue to see more and more action over here in the meantime.

[Anonymous]

I have nothing against any competitive magazines. Any owner of a forum has every right to charge for access to it. However, I also have the right to refuse to pay for contributing content to what amounts to, in many cases, writing mini articles and posting them on their forum. To their surprise, they will find that they are not the only O gauge forum on the web. They made their decison and I made mine. Rather than bash OGR, I wi***hem all the very best. I see them as good folks that made a bad decision.
CTT now becomes my first choice. As on any other forum I use my real name to make it easy on everyone. So welcome brothers and sisters in model railroading to a friendly place where the open exchange of ideas and opinions on this great hobby is freely welcomed.

[spodwo]

This place "Friendly"? Have you read some of the posts here the last couple of days?

I guess that is the price you pay [free] for no censorship what so ever. There seems to be little or no monitoring here. I have seen name calling and the dreaded discussion of politics.

Rock on...

[cnw1995]

Well, I like it here too - but also at OGR.

[galy95]

Here![:D]

[Dave45681]

Not yet a refugee, but my problems today with trying to get the "other" forum to play nice with my Netscape installation finally drove me to register here to see how things go.

I may just be optimistic, but the few threads I have looked at so far, the pages seem to load faster on my slow dial-up than over there![:)]

-Dave

[Anonymous]

I'm here, but I'm also over there, at least through May 31.[:D]

[eZAK]

Here AND there[8D]

[butleryard]

I'm here as Butleryard and Yardmaster over there.

I wouldn't consider myself a refuge, as I did pay my $18.00 over there and will stay active to see what the next year will bring. Also have to get my $18.00 worth of info out of the forum.

Stop in here once in awhile to see what is happening on the other side of the fence. It don't hurt to have several sources of info for this hobby!

[MA and PA JCT]

MA&PA is sitting on the fence post, tettering on both sides. I have a large following on OGF, I'd be cutting my throat my leaving on a permanent basis. Since I have a business to think of, $18 is surely not going to put me in the poor house. Nothing wrong with sharing my time at 2 places.

[Anonymous]

I, too, don't consider myself a refugee. I am on both sites, over there as alfick3. I paid my $18.00. I have never had any one over there tell me what I had to have on my layout, as a standard. I have made mention many times of my O-27 trains, and tubular track and non-command control. Never once was I belittled for any of it. I've always had curtious replies to all of my postings.

[Anonymous]

Although I'm not a refugee in the sense that I've completely left the other forum, I will at least have a place to contribute my occasional assistance.

[Anonymous]

Been playing both sides of the street so to speak since last summer but I'm here for good now. I refused to pay to post on the OGR Forum and I think the magazine made a huge mistake by making the change. But its their forum, they can do what they want. I'm glad to be here fulltime now and look forward to many enjoyable evenings ahead. John Harding

[Anonymous]

I'm glad to be out of there. Just got tired of Rich and Jim Barrett being so arrogant and condscending.

[Anonymous]

Crossracer, AKA Happy Bill here. Could someone tell me what in the heck happened over there? I was gone for a few months due to my wifes illness and when i came back it was all different. First, i really dont wantto see some of the pictures of the people they put up there. Just me being picky. Second it has all these new people and it does not seem to be the same happy go lucky place it used to be. I will be here for the duration. Please tell me where my nice little OGR forum went to? Bill

[Buck216]

Bill,

It is not really easy to explain what happened and I have been there for many years. Sure, the fee has been implemented and will become formal soon, but, the change in atmosphere is not easy to explain. Many folks are very supportive of the "new" OGR endeavor. So much so that they took the attitude that those they didn't want to pay were being cheap, disloyal or just whiners. Some that left were likewise very upset with the fee and felt that OGR had no right impose one, especially to paid subscribers of the mag. OGR claims that it is not a money making situation but, one necessary to pay for costs and create an even better forum. As I stated before, I have never paid to use a forum and do not intend to start now. I wish OGR the best with this new format and since I have no monetary interest in it, I fully understand that I have no right to give even $0.02 worth of criticism on that forum.

[spodwo]

QUOTE: Many folks are very supportive of the "new" OGR endeavor. So much so that they took the attitude that those they didn't want to pay were being cheap, disloyal or just whiners

Define many...

Really already...the fact is that it appears that some Ogauge railroaders are a split and devisive group. A couple of people make a comment or two and suddenly so many are the enemy. There are as many opinions as you have trains.

Change in the atmosphere? It was forum made up of individuals. Some are here now. Have you taken a wiff of this place? Take a read...this place was a lot more sedate and friendly until of late...consider that bit of reality.

There are only a handful of forums that center on Ogauge. And the hobby is only so big. It seems to me that lumping a whole forum into the enemy is as self defeating as it is disheartening.

So much anger and resentment over a business decision.

[garyseven]

"Now listen carefully... That torpedo did NOT self-destruct. You heard it hit the hull, and I... was never here."

[Anonymous]

Hello everyone!
Hope this board proves to as interesting as the AOL and OGR boards.
I see many of the same faces er names here.
I however am using a different name here.
I use other names on the other boards.
Tanaka[:p]

[Anonymous]

You won't find me over on the AOL boards. I'll stay here.

[Anonymous]

Gary Seven, I love that movie!