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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Balog on September 09, 2015, 12:46:29 PM
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The "ten year anniversary" thread got me thinking. We were founded as a diaspora from THR when their experiment in having an off topic section was adjudged disruptive and cast off into the wilderness on its own. Most people joined at that time, and then it slowed to a trickle. Now, afaik we don't get folks sent here from THR any more, so where are our new members coming from? How will we continue to sustain our population moving forward? All interesting stuff.
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Came over here after THR got stolen.
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I was dating mtnbkr at the time, so I followed him over here.
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The "ten year anniversary" thread got me thinking. We were founded as a diaspora from THR when their experiment in having an off topic section was adjudged disruptive and cast off into the wilderness on its own.
This is when I came over.
Most people joined at that time, and then it slowed to a trickle. Now, afaik we don't get folks sent here from THR any more, so where are our new members coming from? How will we continue to sustain our population moving forward? All interesting stuff.
Cloning.
Or bride kidnapping (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_kidnapping).
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Nicolas_Poussin_-_L%27enl%C3%A8vement_des_Sabines%2C_1637-38.jpg)
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Came over here after THR got stolen.
What he said.
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THR refugee.
As for new members I say let them find us.
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Don't remember.
Just regret it a little more every day...
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I was wandering in the internet wilderness when I saw a faint glimmer of light off in the distance, I stumbled toward it, stopping to sample the fruits of other arenas which I found to be bitter. As I stumbled closer I saw the light intensify, I took that as a sign that there could possibly be intelligent life close by so I continued until I fell into the den of irreverence. Once here I felt as though I had found a suitable stopping place to rest before I continued my journey across the wilderness. I guess I forgot to leave. ;)
Or, I got pushed out by THR. The other version sounds better. =|
bob
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I was wandering in the internet wilderness when I saw a faint glimmer of light off in the distance, I stumbled toward it, stopping to sample the fruits of other arenas which I found to be bitter. As I stumbled closer I saw the light intensify, I took that as a sign that there could possibly be intelligent life close by so I continued until I fell into the den of irreverence. Once here I felt as though I had found a suitable stopping place to rest before I continued my journey across the wilderness. I guess I forgot to leave. ;)
Or, I got pushed out by THR. The other version sounds better. =|
bob
Keep looking
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I got bored on THR and noticed the link one day. Took me awhile before I really settled in, but once I did, this became my go to internet haunt.
By the time of the THR civil war, I was pretty much here more than there. I don't think I even knew about any of that until after the fact.
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I was randomly banned for a reason that I never found out. Oleg Volk sent me here when I was trying to find out why. I never looked back.
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Followed the link on old THR, rapidly quit going there.
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THR... was way down in volume at THR by then. But I was there for the theft/civil-war of the site by Derek Z.
I don't even remember switching over to here, or what first made me join. It might have been early. Monkeyleg cluing me in.
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Besides not being wanted anywhere else on the Internet, THR refugee.
Plus, as much as I like guns and like shooting guns, after years at 1911 forum, TFL, and THR, I just got tired of talking about guns all the time. Especially after those forums grew and attracted too many Internet Commandos. If Roundtable had stayed at THR, I likely would have stayed there (or GRM) since I could have talked both guns and the eclectic stuff we talk about here. I now generally just go to those forums when I'm searching a specific question, though more often than not, I can get the answer here.
Interestingly, there is still a link to APS at Calguns. I wonder how many other gun related forums still have a link to us? I don't know that we've ever actually gotten a member via Calguns.
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Besides not being wanted anywhere else on the Internet, THR refugee.
Plus, as much as I like guns and like shooting guns, after years at 1911 forum, TFL, and THR, I just got tired of talking about guns all the time. Especially after those forums grew and attracted too many Internet Commandos. If Roundtable had stayed at THR, I likely would have stayed there (or GRM) since I could have talked both guns and the eclectic stuff we talk about here. I now generally just go to those forums when I'm searching a specific question, though more often than not, I can get the answer here.
Interestingly, there is still a link to APS at Calguns. I wonder how many other gun related forums still have a link to us? I don't know that we've ever actually gotten a member via Calguns.
I don't think any gun forums that don't have an Off Topic / General Discussion type sub-forum are going to be able to continue strongly.
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I got here when I noticed the link in the upper right corner of THR's home page. Kinda liked the freewheelingness, frequented both forumses.
How will we continue to sustain our population moving forward? All interesting stuff.
Don't know a lot about how this works, but I've noticed that our sister site, gunrightsmedia, has a little-used option for inserting tags which from what I gather, search engine bots look for when searching out relevant material. I wonder if that's possible here, and if posters could insert those tags on this site, if it might increase "hits" by search engines...?
Thereby bringing new folks here...?
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Terry?
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I'm another refugee from the old THR Roundtable.
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Yup. And like some others I've gotten to the point where I don't need to discuss guns so much.
With all the boards and review places and Youtube I can find just about any information I need without having to start a thread. So this is a hangout with folks who are conservative to libertarian where I don't have to wade through a bunch of lefty crap.
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...So this is a hangout with folks who are conservative to libertarian where I don't have to wade through a bunch of lefty crap.
<terry whispers to self> Boy, he's got that right...
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I got here when I noticed the link in the upper right corner of THR's home page. Kinda liked the freewheelingness, frequented both forumses.
Don't know a lot about how this works, but I've noticed that our sister site, gunrightmedia, has a little-used option for inserting tags which from what I gather,....
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http://www.gunrightsmedia.com/activity.php? (http://www.gunrightsmedia.com/activity.php?)
Right now I'm seeing one post today, and six yesterday. Alas, all of GRM is a "little used option".
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I really don't remember for sure.
I was fairly regular on the old THR and I think some villainous member from this wretched hive of depravity suggested I check it out. The rest as they say is history.
At the time I was pretty much a forum whore. If there was a forum that involved guns, Harleys, politics, hunting, antique tractors, or traditional archery I was probably a member. Now I'm down to 3 forums I frequent. Here, a photography forum and a sailboat forum.
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http://www.gunrightsmedia.com/activity.php? (http://www.gunrightsmedia.com/activity.php?)
Right now I'm seeing one post today, and six yesterday. Alas, all of GRM is a "little used option".
Harumph. Back in the day, APS was the little-trafficked of the two. Looks like the THR theivening killed GRM.
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Yup. And like some others I've gotten to the point where I don't need to discuss guns so much.
Plus, as much as I like guns and like shooting guns, after years at 1911 forum, TFL, and THR, I just got tired of talking about guns all the time. Especially after those forums grew and attracted too many Internet Commandos. If Roundtable had stayed at THR,
Burned out on too much stupid.
With all the boards and review places and Youtube I can find just about any information I need without having to start a thread. So this is a hangout with folks who are conservative to libertarian where I don't have to wade through a bunch of lefty crap.
Youtube at least can be pretty darn shallow. Good stuff is buried in a landfill of drek. Ex.: for my latest purchase, I see tons and tons of unboxing videos, and "here's how to field strip your XDS", one good disassembly series.
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There were (maybe is?) some serious issues at GRM. Folks were downright rude to people asking a simple question and it shows now because it is so dead.
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Kicked out of THR for bitching about the lack of an off-topic forum.
And ya'll complain about the mods here..... :rofl: I've had some idiotic run ins with the mods there. I was pretty much told to GTFO after an argument with a mod in PM. And then banned.
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Any straight gun forum is tedious to me now. You get all the same responses by a subset of posters with an agenda and they are militant about it. For one guy a glock is the answer to every handgun question, or some well known poster hijacks every question related to a topic into AGAIN discussing their own specific situation.
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For one guy a glock is the answer to every handgun question, or some well known poster hijacks every question related to a topic into AGAIN discussing their own specific situation.
Yeah, I'm guilty of that, too.
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IIRC, it was Skidmark's fault.
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IIRC, it was Skidmark's fistfuls fault.
Remember, once you get here there is only one scapegoat, darn newbies :lol:
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I got a stern lecture for telling a funny that might have caused offense, if you wanted to be offended.
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Kicked out of THR for bitching about the lack of an off-topic forum.
And ya'll complain about the mods here..... :rofl: I've had some idiotic run ins with the mods there. I was pretty much told to GTFO after an argument with a mod in PM. And then banned.
And somehow that gets you admin status here?
I followed the link from the other page. Stayed after I realized every thread was not a grock/1911 debate.
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I came over here on the initial refugee barge from THR roundtable.
Any straight gun forum is tedious to me now. You get all the same responses by a subset of posters with an agenda and they are militant about it.
This. Guns are still an interest, but it's mostly a back-burnered hobby for now due to money and time. When I do have a need for some gun info, I either use the power of Greyskull Google or just ask here.
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Any straight gun forum is tedious to me now. You get all the same responses by a subset of posters with an agenda and they are militant about it. For one guy a glock is the answer to every handgun question, or some well known poster hijacks every question related to a topic into AGAIN discussing their own specific situation.
And then you get things that are just so weird, you wouldn't have expected them. On APS, that's often a good thing. On other fora, you get crap like this:
https://forums.1911forum.com/showthread.php?t=498980
The original thread title was "Milt Sparks going out of business." Skip to reply number 32, to see how that was taken as both a lie, and an insult to the Prophet.
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I randomly tossed a Robert A. Heinlein quote into a search engine and it sent me here. I've somehow never left.
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THR outcast.
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Any straight gun forum is tedious to me now. You get all the same responses by a subset of posters with an agenda and they are militant about it. For one guy a glock is the answer to every handgun question, or some well known poster hijacks every question related to a topic into AGAIN discussing their own specific situation.
Or the guy whose answer to everything was a shotgun. :rofl:
I've checked in on THR a few times in the last 10 years and saw nothing new ir useful there. When I have a legitimate gun question these days, I ask it here. The knowledge base here is lacking nothing.
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Or the guy whose answer to everything was a shotgun. :rofl:
I've checked in on THR a few times in the last 10 years and saw nothing new ir useful there. When I have a legitimate gun question these days, I ask it here. The knowledge base here is lacking nothing sanity.
FIFY
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it's been so long, I really don't remember how/why I ventured over here. :O
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When I first got in to guns I found THR before the split and wondered over here as well. After the split, I liked the discussions and stayed.
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I found THR years back looking for gun information. Wandered over to the Roundtable and liked that it was a gun-friendly forum that attracted all types of people from across the spectrum. When Roundtable was being shut down, I was one of the voices fighting for it to remain open. When this opened as an alternate to the Roundtable, I came here, expecting to stay at THR and visit here occasionally. Instead, I come here and visit THR...well, I can't remember the last time I went to THR. Honestly, I find the firearm advice from you all better, and far less tacticool, and discussions about preparedness to be more about being prepared than about "prepping" for the end of days. Other than a Scouting related forum, this has become my home on the WWW.
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THR Roundtable/Off-topic Refugee
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I found THR years back looking for gun information. Wandered over to the Roundtable and liked that it was a gun-friendly forum that attracted all types of people from across the spectrum. When Roundtable was being shut down, I was one of the voices fighting for it to remain open. When this opened as an alternate to the Roundtable, I came here, expecting to stay at THR and visit here occasionally. Instead, I come here and visit THR...well, I can't remember the last time I went to THR. Honestly, I find the firearm advice from you all better, and far less tacticool, and discussions about preparedness to be more about being prepared than about "prepping" for the end of days. Other than a Scouting related forum, this has become my home on the WWW.
I actually got into THR shortly after the roundtable split and joined here to check things out and visited every now and then, while spending most time at THR.
When the late unpleasantness arose at THR, I migrated over here and can't recall the last time I logged into THR. I still sometimes end up reading something there when looking for a specific issue on firearms, but, given that I have 3 children under 5 (for one more month!), I haven't had all that many firearm questions in the past 5 years.
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I'm wondering how many of the mods transmigrated over to here and might still have mod powers. I'm pretty sure, for example, that Arfin Greebly was modding here for a while... yes, no?
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The "ten year anniversary" thread got me thinking. We were founded as a diaspora from THR when their experiment in having an off topic section was adjudged disruptive and cast off into the wilderness on its own. Most people joined at that time, and then it slowed to a trickle. Now, afaik we don't get folks sent here from THR any more, so where are our new members coming from? How will we continue to sustain our population moving forward? All interesting stuff.
Don't actually recall. Somewhere in with the closing of THR's random chatter forum and THR's hostile takeover/late unpleasantness.
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I was sent here by several unnamed covert branches of the federal government for which I am a spy. :police: I take notes and then report back to my overlords there. Please don't tell anyone, though, because I am a secret agent and no one knows I'm here. :angel: :angel:
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I'm wondering how many of the mods transmigrated over to here and might still have mod powers. I'm pretty sure, for example, that Arfin Greebly was modding here for a while... yes, no?
There are only 19 mods/admins and 1 global mod (Henry Bowman).
adively
APS Staff
Barbara
Ben
charby
cosine
Ex-MA Hole
Gewehr98
J.J.
jamisjockey
Larry Ashcraft
Monkeyleg
mtnbkr
Nick1911
Oleg Volk
P95Carry
Preacherman
RevDisk
scout26
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I was sent here by several unnamed covert branches of the federal government for which I am a spy. :police: I take notes and then report back to my overlords there. Please don't tell anyone, though, because I am a secret agent and no one knows I'm here. :angel: :angel:
(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.quickmeme.com%2Fimg%2F9b%2F9b53a7d1ee1e6e431bd998f54271147235631d9cbec5ecab8c72eb726a005c35.jpg&hash=965ce6885f2afd77d05fc58030c0053887b40805)
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There are only 19 mods/admins and 1 global mod (Henry Bowman).
adively
APS Staff
Barbara
Ben
charby
cosine
Ex-MA Hole
Gewehr98
J.J.
jamisjockey
Larry Ashcraft
Monkeyleg
mtnbkr
Nick1911
Oleg Volk
P95Carry
Preacherman
RevDisk
scout26
How many of them are active anymore? I know Preacherman and Larry Ashcraft haven't been around in ages.
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How many of them are active anymore? I know Preacherman and Larry Ashcraft haven't been around in ages.
16 of the 19 have had activity since May 2015.
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I came over from THR immediately after Oleg announced the birth of APS. I have visited THR only rarely since the theft.
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I came over from THR immediately after Oleg announced the birth of APS. I have visited THR only rarely since the theft.
Pretty much this. Haven't spent any real time on THR since the theft takeover split, just a very rare quick visit, maybe once or twice a year. The place is pretty much dead to me.
I don't spend much time on GRM as it never really recovered after the theft takeover split. I had real high hopes for the place after it was established.
APS is pretty much the only forum I haunt now that the only decent rocketry forum died after its owner did.
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THR is dead to me...
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Besides not being wanted anywhere else on the Internet, THR refugee.
Plus, as much as I like guns and like shooting guns, after years at 1911 forum, TFL, and THR, I just got tired of talking about guns all the time. Especially after those forums grew and attracted too many Internet Commandos.
Yeah, that ran me off, as well.
Too many people got butthurt that their choice in gear was not endlessly echoed by everyone else and just made those forums kind of unpleasant to read.
I don't care what your choice in guns is. If you have something that makes you happy, more power to you. Just don't presume to talk down to me because of what I own.
Then there were the ENDLESS repetitive threads about gun X vs gun Y, which gun training course was best, etc. I had my fill of all of that.
APS has managed to stay interesting, despite it's age. And yeah, there are a good number of intelligent people here, although we as a group are fairly humble (and there's nothing wrong with that!)
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Kicked out of THR for bitching about the lack of an off-topic forum.
And ya'll complain about the mods here..... :rofl: I've had some idiotic run ins with the mods there. I was pretty much told to GTFO after an argument with a mod in PM. And then banned.
Oh yeah, Mod asshattery was another driving factor behind my saying "screw this" and leaving.
The mods here could be a little strict at times....but they're more or less fair. On other unnamed sites, that's simply not the case.
I used to help admin for a forum some years back, and when that turned into a sea of asshats/an echo chamber, that was it for me. One of the first signs was mods/admins putting down discussions that weren't against the rules...but they just didn't like them. Or they'd penalize posters who they personally disliked, even though they had done nothing wrong.
So, yeah, to stay on the staff's good side meant one had to follow the party line. That's not something that interests me. I want active discussion, not asskissing.
The gun forums mentioned above were showing the first signs of that sort of asshattery back when I departed....
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And then you get things that are just so weird, you wouldn't have expected them. On APS, that's often a good thing. On other fora, you get crap like this:
https://forums.1911forum.com/showthread.php?t=498980
The original thread title was "Milt Sparks going out of business." Skip to reply number 32, to see how that was taken as both a lie, and an insult to the Prophet.
Stuff like that is part of why I only poke around in single-subject forums when I'm looking for something specific. Too many too serious. "Don't you know that [topic responsible for forum existence] is serious bidness?!? How dare you make light of it!"
One of the many things that started me on the path of less time on THR and more time here was when I got seriously ripped-into on THR by a couple different people for having the audacity to use "shrapnel" to refer to, you know, shrapnel. "Shrapnel is only proper to use in reference to a Shrapnel Shellâ„¢ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrapnel_shell)! You can't use the term for just any bomb!"
My attempt to point out that language changes over time (e.g. at some point bad Latin became good Italian) and words genericize over time just got a couple more people upset at me on the thread. :P
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I came here shortly after I signed up for THR. Started coming here way more often than THR, then after the whole theft thing I stopped going to THR for good.
I occasionally poke my nose into TFL every once in a while, but for the most part this place and a video game forum are the only traditional forums I visit anymore.
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GRM* is like that cracker barrel analogy, but I see a couple of basic problems with it. For one thing, the forum's name*, which doesn't make sense to me.
For another, the way the default opening page is set up is that you only see the latest posts ("Activity Stream") , which, on a hot topic, may contain seven or eight posts on the same subject. A newbie entering that site and seeing that may well go away simply because he or she didn't see anything that interested him or her.
You can set up your preferences so that a complete list of forum areas ("Forums") comes up, but (A) newbies don't know that, and (B) I don't think you can set up your preferences to do that unless you're a member in the first place.
So I think that's partly a limiting factor in harvesting new folks there.
Another self-limiting factor, I think, is the fact that when posting, you can set up tags for the search engine bots to "hit" on, but nobody seems to use that option. The more tags, the more hits. The more hits, the more likely you'll acquire new members. The more new members, the more viable is the site.
Terry, 230RN
* For those unfamiliar with "GRM," it means
http://gunrightsmedia.com/activity.php
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I know Preacherman and Larry Ashcraft haven't been around in ages.
I check in about once a week, but rarely post.
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^ You're a moderator over at THR, aren't you?
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Yes.
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I left THR between the death of the Roundtable and the Anschluss. One can only take so much "ALL GUNZ !!! ALL THE TIME !!" and the Derp to Information level was starting to build. I had pretty much abandon THR when Derek kicked over the dominoes.*
And it's interesting that the issue of obtaining new members came up, as that was something I brought up in the mod fora a couple months back. Up until the Anschluss, we used to get a steady influx of new members, most for the reasons that many here mentioned as their reason for joining. Very few accidentally stumble in here. (some have found us by googling themselves, but most by googling a topic of discussion.)
Anyway, we don't have that source of new members. (Neither GRM or THR are even half of what the original was, and when TFL restarted that also took a lot of the lifeblood back from THR.)
So ideas on what to do. I like Terry's idea of tags, but given thread drift around we'd constantly be updating them:
tags: #cornbread, #shoes, #dogfood, #elves, #faa, #gasoline, #transgender
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tags: #cornbread, #shoes, #dogfood, #elves, #faa, #gasoline, #transgender
:rofl:
Loss leaders. Brings 'em in the store. You forgot detcord, though.
I check in about once a week, but rarely post.
^ You're a moderator over at THR, aren't you?
Yes.
Then I'm sure glad as h3ll I didn't make any negative comments about THR. Without looking, isn't there an injunction of some kind on APS about bashing other sites anyhow? Like armed "polite" society or something? I thought there was.
Terry
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Being a Government infiltrator, I should choose the option "other", as I was assigned here to collect data on unsavory characters and rowdy individuals who are in possession of illegal amounts of snark and engage in free thinking without a permit.
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Kicked out of THR for bitching about the lack of an off-topic forum.
And ya'll complain about the mods here..... :rofl: I've had some idiotic run ins with the mods there. I was pretty much told to GTFO after an argument with a mod in PM. And then banned.
Ain't that the truth. Mod Demi gods are annoying. Having modded forums before, and dealt with the butt hurt that can be spewed back, this place ain't to bad in the mod department.
As to THR my time there quickly tapered off. Between here and WTA there's plenty of knowledge with substance and it's just a better environment IMO.
Sent from my iPhone. Freaking autocorrect.
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I got on to THR in maybe 2002 or so, looking for some technical info. Spent far too much time in the Roundtable. When APS was birthed, it was the natural progression to get there. I quit going to THR around the time of the GRM split, although not really because of it. Kind of lost interest in GRM, too.
Come to think of it, this is about the only gun-related forum I got left. I get motorcycle and appliance advice here, too.
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Do we really need to push efforts for new members?
We have a pretty solid core of regular posters and we certainly aren't lacking in terms of posting.
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People drift off. (Or die off.) Eventually the number of folks interacting would go low enough that it wouldn't be interesting, and activity would drop to where it's not worth keeping up.
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Do we really need to push efforts for new members?
We have a pretty solid core of regular posters and we certainly aren't lacking in terms of posting.
True, but we do lose members for a variety of reasons so that core is getting smaller. And I worry sometimes about this place becoming an echo chamber. I like having a diversity of ideas, especially ones that challenge my own beliefs. I find it very helpful to look at issues from all sides, and often I don't think of those other sides until I see someone argue it here. Which is one reason I really like this place. It truly is a "Marketplace of Ideas". I like the passion that most people here have for their principles and ideas, that they will plant their flag on a hill, and then defend it. Does it get frustrating as a mod to argue with a member. Yes, yes it does. However, when that happens the mods here will go to the moderator forum and say "Hey, I'm in deep on this thread, can you check to make sure it stays on track and I'm not being an a-hole as a mod?" Which is the way it should be done. I've seen to many fora where disagreeing with a mod gets a thread shutdown and/or the member banned because the member was "wrong" on a topic.
So bringing in new people with new ideas and a willingness to stand on principle is important to maintaining this site. I'd also like to see some of the "old" members who have gone away come back. I'm constantly amazed at the width and breadth of knowledge here. Not just on guns but on every topic under the sun. I think I've learned more here than in 17 years of actual schooling. I'd hate to see that wither and go away.
So. I'm open to ideas to finding a steady source of new members. Simply for the health of the board.
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True, but we do lose members for a variety of reasons so that core is getting smaller. And I worry sometimes about this place becoming an echo chamber. I like having a diversity of ideas, especially ones that challenge my own beliefs. I find it very helpful to look at issues from all sides, and often I don't think of those other sides until I see someone argue it here. Which is one reason I really like this place. It truly is a "Marketplace of Ideas". I like the passion that most people here have for their principles and ideas, that they will plant their flag on a hill, and then defend it. Does it get frustrating as a mod to argue with a member. Yes, yes it does. However, when that happens the mods here will go to the moderator forum and say "Hey, I'm in deep on this thread, can you check to make sure it stays on track and I'm not being an a-hole as a mod?" Which is the way it should be done. I've seen to many fora where disagreeing with a mod gets a thread shutdown and/or the member banned because the member was "wrong" on a topic.
So bringing in new people with new ideas and a willingness to stand on principle is important to maintaining this site. I'd also like to see some of the "old" members who have gone away come back. I'm constantly amazed at the width and breadth of knowledge here. Not just on guns but on every topic under the sun. I think I've learned more here than in 17 years of actual schooling. I'd hate to see that wither and go away.
So. I'm open to ideas to finding a steady source of new members. Simply for the health of the board.
I get you.
I've no objection to new blood, I just wouldn't want to come on one day and find this place overwhelmed by weirdos because of a hashtag combined with a fluke of the internet.
I wish there was some surefire way of finding our kind of weirdos without risking trolls, SJWs and other internet commandos.
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Actually I wouldn't mind SJW's as long as they keep the "Polite" part in mind. They start asking to edit or censor someone's post because of "triggers" or other such nonsense and they'll be shown the door most ricky-tick.
We weed out trolls and internet commandos fairly quick also. Although we might and sometimes do let the denizens here play with it like a cat plays with a doomed mouse at times. Again, as long as it stays "polite", once it goes off the rails, then play time is over.
BTW, anyone want to discuss Lady Gaga's latest album?
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BTW, anyone want to discuss Lady Gaga's latest album?
You're fired.
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You're fired.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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<tag> #Lady Gaga
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I'm another who came over here from The Round Table forum at THR. I didn't stop reading THR immediately, but I eventually drifted away. Most of the people I cared to read were posting here or on their own blogs.
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I'm another who came over here from The Round Table forum at THR. I didn't stop reading THR immediately, but I eventually drifted away. Most of the people I cared to read were posting here or on their own blogs.
Yeah, whatever side of the THR schism you were on, the fireworks really killed the original THR family with both the new THR and GRM. Had that never happened, I'd likely still be popping in to the old THR as well as here. I think it drove a lot of old time members away who didn't want to chose sides, and neither of the "new" forums ever felt like "home".
While I know some of the old-timers chose to enter the blogosphere, and I guess from what I hear have some good blogs, I simply don't have the energy to visit a dozen different sites everyday to see what people could all be saying on a single forum.
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:facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: right back atcha.
You, uh, posted that in the wrong thread.... :police:
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You, uh, posted that in the wrong thread.... :police:
Right. Thanks for the heads-up.
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Yeah, whatever side of the THR schism you were on, the fireworks really killed the original THR family with both the new THR and GRM. Had that never happened, I'd likely still be popping in to the old THR as well as here. I think it drove a lot of old time members away who didn't want to chose sides, and neither of the "new" forums ever felt like "home".
While I know some of the old-timers chose to enter the blogosphere, and I guess from what I hear have some good blogs, I simply don't have the energy to visit a dozen different sites everyday to see what people could all be saying on a single forum.
I get that. I mostly read Tamara, Marko Kloos, and Kelly Grayson these days.