We need a new forum for people that want answers to problems. It seems the technical questions get burried by posts like " what did your grandfather think of your grandmother’s caboose?" or " what is your favorite…fill in the blank.
They are interesting & entertaining, but far from educational. Seems like after you hit page 2 you are history. Just one thing, if you answer this you are adding to the “problem” jerry
A forum, like this, is for questions and solutions, to share own technical problems and see how others sorted them. Almost always there is a solution for a problem, why not to know about they?. Bye.-
Sure seems to be a lot of “venting” posts recently. (Sorry. Just had to get that off my chest…)
Tom
It’s like any other forum, mine included. You look around and weed out what you don’t want to look at. Just because you don’t want to see it doesn’t mean somebody else doesn’t. I like the other posts.
OK, I won’t reply to this and add to the problem.[;)]
I am with JW. I am here for questions, answers and new ideas. Others use the forum for other purposes. As long as they label their threads that is fine with me. I don’t like it when they hijack my threads, but that does not happen often
On the subject of questions, has anyone had any experience with the Static grass machine??
Which one?? Sounds lilke the start of a new post instead of ‘hijacking’ this one.
jktrains
People can say almost anything that isn’t too offensive on this forum for one reason, its a General Discussion forum. It’s point is just that, general discussion. Now, granted, in the past while, things have gotten a bit out of hand. The general discussion is suppost to have a least a few ties with model railroading, and we’ve forgotten that a little bit… I just don’t click on the stuff I have no interest to read and go on with my life like nothing ever happened because it really REALLY isn’t a big deal… Just my [2c] and if you don’t like it, just skip over it and go on with life, or feel free to comment, whatever.
-beegle55
Guess I didn’t get my point across. A legitimate question just gets buried by poles etc. As you know each reply to a poll etc. pushes a tech. question further down & eventually to another page where it dies. i didn’t say i didn’t read & enjoy the polls etc. It’s frustrating when you hope someone will rescue you from a decoder problem & you are on pg.3 before many get to read your question. I realize this is a general discussion forum & people will respond to what they are interested in. just a a opinion. Jerry
I understand what you are saying. I myself got caught up on touching posts that other people had left, not your original post. Sorry for any misunderstanding.
-beegle55
I have been up on the forum for thirteen months; occasionally a topic will come up which I find intellectually stimulating and educational. Most of what is here, however, is exactly what you say you don’t want - something that is interesting and entertaining.
There are things presented on this forum in which I display little interest and, therefore, to which I give only cursory attention. There is somewhat a repetition of subject and hardly a week goes by but what I don’t read a topic and slap my head and exclaim, “Here we go again!” and usually “Here we go again!” At least twenty times in the past thirteen months someone has intitiated the time-worn subject of “Which is best: Atlas or Kato?” I still don’t have the slightest idea; I do know, however, that before this topic has passed from page one to page two it will have degenerated into a diatribe against Bachmann - this subject runs on ad nauseum and unless the topic poster initiates some unique identity into his querry I usually turn it off very quickly.
What is “educational” to you might be only “interesting and entertaining” to me - and vica versa. You sound suspiciously like you want to moderate a forum where you will be the CHIEF-COOK-AND-BOTTLE-WASHER and the arbiter of your interests; that might exclude an awful lot of people from getting answers to their problem. A person who is having a problem determining whether to wire his layout using fourteen or twenty-eight gauge wire should have somewhere to go to get an answer to that question; I worked with electronics in the Air Force for twenty years and I have no - or, at least few - problems regarding wiring. A short while back there was a topic posted by an individual seeking information on narrow gauge; this topic went to almost two complete pages. I am not interested in modelin