Nomad Willy
Guru
GFC posted this on the "hydraulic v/s electric" thread.
"This thread seemed to have taken a couple of twists and turns, one of which was to question the OP's desire to have a thruster.
Shouldn't that be his decision? When someone asks for help with a problem, why do people on here continually inject their desires into the OP's world? Why not simply answer his questions as best you can and leave your opinions about what he needs to yourself?"
GFC,
Those of us that like to talk (lurkers don't talk at all) do most of the talking and have much to say. Some are "tweeners" and have the urge to talk once and a while. So it's mostly just a matter of having something to say and knowing we can pretty much say anything we like we say it. Then we have Thread Creep. I try to limit my TC until the OPs subject is mostly run out or at least the question answered ... if there was a question.
There's been movements in the past to cut down on the Thread Creep or/and thread hijacking and I tried pretty hard to stay on topic but over time (not much at that) the TC is so bad it's hard to tell what is going to be discussed when you click in on a thread. Often it will bear no resemblence to the original post and much of the time the OP title tells nothing at all about what the thread is about either. It would be nice if one could scan the threads and see what there is to talk about and click on but w thread titles like "What About This" or some other title that gives NO CLUE as to what's being talked about it's basically hopeless. The only way to not miss stuff is to click on every single thread and though I realize some actually do that I rebel at titles that don't say what the threads about.
And I don't think there has ever been a person evicted from TF and there is just no consequences to anything. So GFC it's just a friendly (mostly) free for all that you just have to wade through all the confusion to get what you want.
"This thread seemed to have taken a couple of twists and turns, one of which was to question the OP's desire to have a thruster.
Shouldn't that be his decision? When someone asks for help with a problem, why do people on here continually inject their desires into the OP's world? Why not simply answer his questions as best you can and leave your opinions about what he needs to yourself?"
GFC,
Those of us that like to talk (lurkers don't talk at all) do most of the talking and have much to say. Some are "tweeners" and have the urge to talk once and a while. So it's mostly just a matter of having something to say and knowing we can pretty much say anything we like we say it. Then we have Thread Creep. I try to limit my TC until the OPs subject is mostly run out or at least the question answered ... if there was a question.
There's been movements in the past to cut down on the Thread Creep or/and thread hijacking and I tried pretty hard to stay on topic but over time (not much at that) the TC is so bad it's hard to tell what is going to be discussed when you click in on a thread. Often it will bear no resemblence to the original post and much of the time the OP title tells nothing at all about what the thread is about either. It would be nice if one could scan the threads and see what there is to talk about and click on but w thread titles like "What About This" or some other title that gives NO CLUE as to what's being talked about it's basically hopeless. The only way to not miss stuff is to click on every single thread and though I realize some actually do that I rebel at titles that don't say what the threads about.
And I don't think there has ever been a person evicted from TF and there is just no consequences to anything. So GFC it's just a friendly (mostly) free for all that you just have to wade through all the confusion to get what you want.
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