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[quote user="CNJ831"]Have you considered that perhaps they had become weary of reading all the bad advice, or ignorant approaches to problems, endlessly posted by dabblers? It's what has happened so often on many of these entry-level forums over the years. There are supposedly 60,000+ registered members of this particular site, but I honestly can't point to evidence of more than several dozen really serious/accomplished modelers among them![/quote] Before we get much further into deifying the "experts/serious/accomplished modelers" and shunning the "dabblers," can we please take a step back and remind ourselves that this is a HOBBY? While some may be in the hobby for the sole reason of being published, taken as an expert, and all that fun stuff that comes with being an experienced and skilled modeler, I would say the vast majority of the fine folks in this hobby are in it because it's FUN.With that over with, can we define what makes someone an "expert/serious/accomplished modeler?" I have a byline in Trains about railroad photography, but does that make me an expert in railroad photography? I also have a byline in a local newspaper about a local trolley line, but does that make me a traction expert? I haven't been published in Model Railroader (yet), so does that make me a "dabbler," "amateur," or "beginner?" Everyone started somewhere. Everyone. At what point do you have the necessary credentials to help out a fellow modeler when he asks a question?
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