Nah - why quit? It's usually more fun to watch them self-destruct (or to help them do so).
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
Semper Vaporo, we seem to have this much in common. I too question whether I'm "in the know". I know a few things, and if I feel I can help I'll share what little I know. I also am much more disturbed at the posts AGAINST a supposed troll. The best way to handle a troll, as others have said, is to ignore them.
And I too have a swinging pendulum, I bounce between wanting to participate, and feeling I should take a healthy break from the computer.
Patrick Boylan
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YES. I have quit several times for a week, or a month, or more, just to let the snippy idiotic posts slip off the 1st page so I can mark everything read and start over. I find it quite depressing for people to make snide remarks about other posters, accusing them of being "trolls" or worse. I don't see how some people can keep coming back when they are the targets of such stupidity.
But given my lousy memory for names and a short term memory that will have a hard time remembering what I just wrote, when I come back after a short hiatus, because I can't remember who the idiots are, I appreciate the helpful comments from everybody and I consider all questions to be presented as serious inquiries from someone that wants to learn from those that are in the business or know something about it... and when someone who doesn't know the business and has only a glancing knowledge of it makes a comment that another questions or corrects, I accept the criticism as being worthwhile, until it drops back into the aspersions and stupidity, then I stop reading that thread for a while (at least until I forget that I was not going to read it, which sometimes is too soon and then I remember to stop frequenting the forum altogether for a while so the bickering and snide remarks can go by the wayside and off the 1st page).
But, then I am not someone that is really "in the know" and I only have book knowledge about some very limited aspects of railroading.
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
Totally.
Whatever.
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
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Zuggmann, I have no courage at all, I cower behind a monitor and keyboard just like any other scaredy cat.
Patrick, I appreciate the postings of the intelligent posters so much that the postings of the immature/childish will not drive me away.
I am pleased to see the posts of serious people who do want to learn about the magnificent world of railroading, and I am glad that there are many of us old heads who are willing to help them--I even give a little help myself, from time to time.
Several years back, a young boy who said that he was going to be an engineer (I think he is now a dispatcher) began posting, and he was helped in several ways by one old head or another.
Johnny
gardendance Somebody recently posted that another trains.com user's posts are going to drive the few remaining decent posters away. If you're a decent poster, could you please let us know if you're on the verge of getting driven away?
Somebody recently posted that another trains.com user's posts are going to drive the few remaining decent posters away. If you're a decent poster, could you please let us know if you're on the verge of getting driven away?
At least have the courage to say who it was. Yes, it was me.
Not sure if I am "decent" (whatever that means). Although Raymond's posts are disruptive, I try to ignore his alcohol-scented ravings since it seems the moderators are not taking any action (so far).
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