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Please Don't Feed The Trolls (somewhat off topic, but then again) part 2 maybe?
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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by Mookie</i> <br /><br />Ok - I am a really old head! I have said before - I enjoy a certain amount of back and forth between the members. I looked through the GN thread - don't understand any of it, but at least when they were disagreeing, they were being fairly gentlemanly. <br /> <br />My problem is that there are so many, many, many topics that are posted - that most of them get short shrift (and some should). By the time you sort back through as many as 5 pages of items and try to read something that may interest you, you have lost ground and another page has been filled. <br /> <br /> <br />The crashers are like flies. You spray one and another shows up to take their place. They probably will never go away completely, but as long as the Trains personnel sprays once in awhile, they should be controllable. <br /> <br />Reprints available. <br /> <br />Mook <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Good points. It is kinda frustrating when you start a thread about a question pertaining to something you are interested in, and no body responds so it fades into oblivion behind post after post of nonsense. Or, instead of getting a qualified response that satisfies your question your thread instead becomes a magnet of post like "Gee, i've always wondered that too" and tons of other crosstalk,..none of which pertains to the info one was seeking when originally asking the question.. I think we've all been there. <br /> <br />Or, one of my favorite annoyances, you start a thread asking a strait forward, easy enough question about, oh lets say "coupling knuckles" and some member comes on with this 'gee, what you need to do is run out and buy a copy of Herb blacks book ($35.00) titled "building rolling stock from the ground up, the complete history" and then never bothers to address the point you were specifically after, leaving me wonder if the helpful poster wasn't Herb Black himself trying to sell another copy of his book. Leaving me think : "All i wanted was a simple answer, not an invitation to enrich some publishing house".. but then I'm funny that way. <br /> <br />The thing that bothers me most about the mention of heavy handed censorship here is my suspicion that such would be enforced to the advantage of a few, and the detriment of the masses. <br /> <br />I left here for a while because this place was so overbearingly rightwing, almost to the point of absurdity. (post 911) <br /> <br /> You'd see one of the more established members saying things that were patriotic, yet VERY political at the same time, that was 'OK'... But, if you bothered to point out the inaccuracies in said patriotic claims, you get yer head snapped off with comments like "why don't you take that garbage to a political forum? this forum is about TRAINS! <br /> <br />Well, one can be a loyal American and still have an affection for the truth, even when said truth might come across as less than drum pounding patriotic. <br /> <br />But, giving some members the right to float their political agenda because it conforms to the preferances of the good ol boys network, while using forum censorship "rules" (<---quotes to depict sarcasm) to squash contending opinion,....simply sucks. <br /> <br />And there is not a doubt in my mind that any enhanced censorship will be used exactly like that, allowances will be made for more popular members, while others will have the broomstick shoved in, twisted, and broken off.
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