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Barking mad
路路Prolific Speedmaster HoarderThis has been brewing in my head for quite some time and today a now deleted thread (in my opinion, rightly so) has prompted me to voice my observations for better or maybe worse.
Firstly I would like to thank @dsio and his partners in crime for allowing us to play in their Digital Disneyland for the WIS.
There in lies the rub, we are playing in their sandpit which is a multi national group of players consisting of a hugely diverse group of vocations, cultures, ages, religions, educational levels and interests etc. ( sorry @STANDY , we might have to make a special category for you馃槈) The one common thing that puts us in this pit together is our passion for Omega and indeed most things that tick.
What might be amusing or seen as funny or just banter in your culture can be perceived as abhorrent or deeply offensive in another culture. Maybe it is a side effect of this COVID thing that has turned the whole world into a horrible 2020 but recently at least to me there seems to be a minor explosion of a disregard for peoples feelings and a nonchalance in what we write and how it may be perceived(it has always been there but to a much lesser level).
Yes newbies ask questions that most of the more long term members know the answer to which used to garner a polite response with the answer and maybe some direction to where more information could be found. More often than not the current response is google or this question has been asked a million times(hardly friendly or helpful). In my opinion better off not responding at all, why not just ignore it and let someone a little more magnanimous respond?
The other part of this disturbing trend is that are lot of these types of responses come from the people with very low post counts or new members.
Maybe we should think why that questions is asked. This is a watch forum, if you can't ask here go to Google. Does Google then instigate a discussion on why it is this way, the frequency and the validity of the information? In fact this is to a lot of us also a tool for social interaction with others suffering the same affliction as ourselves. Who do you talk to about watches outside of this forum? For me virtually nobody as very few people get it.
I now have a group of posts by particular people that I don't bother to open or look at because I believe that I am not interested, not necessarily the content but how it is delivered and that is fine. I just move on. That may be a shame because it might contain some great information. I ask these people who bestowed the privilege for them to put posters in their place and alert them to their stupid question/s or post.
The moderators to me are the ones bestowed with the power to make sure that we all play nicely and recently I feel they may have been working overtime.
I still love playing in this sandpit and have no intentions of leaving, voluntarily anyway馃槈
Cheers
Firstly I would like to thank @dsio and his partners in crime for allowing us to play in their Digital Disneyland for the WIS.
There in lies the rub, we are playing in their sandpit which is a multi national group of players consisting of a hugely diverse group of vocations, cultures, ages, religions, educational levels and interests etc. ( sorry @STANDY , we might have to make a special category for you馃槈) The one common thing that puts us in this pit together is our passion for Omega and indeed most things that tick.
What might be amusing or seen as funny or just banter in your culture can be perceived as abhorrent or deeply offensive in another culture. Maybe it is a side effect of this COVID thing that has turned the whole world into a horrible 2020 but recently at least to me there seems to be a minor explosion of a disregard for peoples feelings and a nonchalance in what we write and how it may be perceived(it has always been there but to a much lesser level).
Yes newbies ask questions that most of the more long term members know the answer to which used to garner a polite response with the answer and maybe some direction to where more information could be found. More often than not the current response is google or this question has been asked a million times(hardly friendly or helpful). In my opinion better off not responding at all, why not just ignore it and let someone a little more magnanimous respond?
The other part of this disturbing trend is that are lot of these types of responses come from the people with very low post counts or new members.
Maybe we should think why that questions is asked. This is a watch forum, if you can't ask here go to Google. Does Google then instigate a discussion on why it is this way, the frequency and the validity of the information? In fact this is to a lot of us also a tool for social interaction with others suffering the same affliction as ourselves. Who do you talk to about watches outside of this forum? For me virtually nobody as very few people get it.
I now have a group of posts by particular people that I don't bother to open or look at because I believe that I am not interested, not necessarily the content but how it is delivered and that is fine. I just move on. That may be a shame because it might contain some great information. I ask these people who bestowed the privilege for them to put posters in their place and alert them to their stupid question/s or post.
The moderators to me are the ones bestowed with the power to make sure that we all play nicely and recently I feel they may have been working overtime.
I still love playing in this sandpit and have no intentions of leaving, voluntarily anyway馃槈
Cheers
