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| nickle:
Thank you, that was worth asking about. Anyway, back to the topic. I used to follow some flight simulation forums, they had some great inter forum rivalry and some truly amazing in forum behaviour. I thought they were a bunch of teenage boys but it later became evident that most of them were in their thities forties and fifties. My favourite aeroplane could shoot down your favourite aeroplane was enough to start a twenty page flame war. It's much better here! |
| Mayhem:
I was banned from a particular home machinist web site for mentioning another site that had just started up. For a number of reasons, I won't go further into details but it does happen. There is a good on English saying that is a favourite of mine: "There's nowt stranger than folk". I think that sums things up beautifully. My view is that if you are a contributing member on a particular forum, there should be nothing wrong with posting a link to another site. For example, I posted a link to the rebuild site on my lathe on the MWF site, as it was more practical than reproducing such a long post here. |
| mattinker:
I think it weeds out the forums worth being on, too narrow, move on. Regards, Matthew |
| S. Heslop:
I can't remember how madmodder handles it, but I know alot of other machining/ hobby type forums make it so you can't veiw various things without being a registered and logged-in member. It's kinda a bummer when you want to check out a project similar to yours you found via google, but you'd have to go to all the effort of registring to see it. There's a chance that that person isn't trying to restrict people from finding other (and possibly better) forums to jump ship to, but is maybe just working off a personal dislike of the various forums that require you to register before you can view content. Which is also not the right thing to do but maybe not as bad. |
| Stilldrillin:
--- Quote from: S. Heslop on August 18, 2013, 07:24:40 AM ---I can't remember how madmodder handles it. --- End quote --- Steve. Anyone can come here, and have a look around....... :thumbup: I believe, they can't see the For Sale board, unless/ until they're members . David D |
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