Sorry,
I know I am being a bit of a defeatest and to quote my hero–Homer Simpson–no new C*%$. But, I have got to say, the forum just is not the same since the change.
I have been on vacation since Tuesday, and I have been hopping on the forum as much as when I used to have a State government job and 70% productivity tended to embarass your collegues, and made you dare not work more than that.
But, the forum has just been absolutely dead lately. Sure, there isn’t kissmycindertrainfinder anoying everyone; but there also isn’t the lively conversations and healthy disagreements that made this cite as great as it was. I don’t know if it is because the new format has chased some of the previous contributors away, or what, but it has just been dead for the last week.
As much as I hate to admit it, but I owe 18% of my train knowledge to futuremodal. Not that he personally educates me, but some of the stuff he says prompts others to give very learned responses back. In many ways, I think futuremodal is the most valuable contributor. And, I think his missives should be encouraged.
But, there was not a single topic indicative of what really made this forum so great for me in the past this week.
I am a lawyer, and have a greater tolerance for the argumentation that people are trying to get rid of on here. But, I think this falls under the “careful what you ask for, you might get it.”
Alas, this is another example of the trouble of the great things in life you get for free, you don’t have a lot of power to hold on to them. What I would give for a LC - Greyhound dispute with Futuremodal with occasional refing by Mr. Hemphill et al . . .
Gabe
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