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[Mookie]

Edit button, lower right hand corner of your post will do the trick.

That’s it? We have these vastly interesting postings going on and that’s all you can add? [sigh]

[Paul_D_North_Jr]

Myself and some of the other ilk do, on occasion, pop in.

The fact that some people here can’t accept the fact that those of us who do this for a living might actually know what we talking about has most of us looking elsewhere. . . . [snipped - PDN.]

Go look at this revived thread, now currently active:

“Who names control points?” at:

http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/t/130415.aspx

God, I miss some of those people (excluding myself, of course).

• Paul North.

[Uncle_Jake]

I can’t say that I was ever a regular, but I haven’t left.

[jeffhergert]

The title of this thread had me worried. I thought that some unknown webcam on my laptop (that I use at the AFHT motel) had become active.

For a short while some years back, there were three other co-workers on here. Two weren’t on for very long. They seemed to have been lost because of one of the forum IT “improvements.” One of them wasn’t a big railfan, AFAIK anyway. The other was, and is, and I was surprised he didn’t return.

The fourth guy is still on here, but maybe not as much as he used to be.

Jeff

[Murphy_Siding]

[Deggesty]

Jeff, I certainly appreciate what you and others in, or retired from, the industry have to say–especially when you and they correct me. There are many others, not in the industry, who make valuable contributions (and corrections).

I do become weary of some of the back and forth that really adds nothing (except, in some cases, humor).

Also, I miss some of our contributors who, for one reason or another, no longer let us know their thoughts.

[CNW_6000]

I don’t think you can equate a career (mine is fine, BTW) with a forum. Two separate things.

It’s not a question of being thin-skinned; it’s a matter of what value do I get out of this (even if it’s jsut entertainment value)? And that value has not been there in a long while. Maybe it’ll cycle back and be better some day. Or not. Not the first forum to go away, and not the first one I stopped posting to. Mookie is right on with her observation. Take a look at topics from several years ago to see the active posters that were around then. We lost a lot of good names for many reasons. Sure we gained a few since, but I don’t think it’s a balanced equation.

As always, that is my opinion.

Well stated Zug. The value in being here is (or not) is 100% why I’ve resorted to the occasional lurk for quite some time.

[Convicted_One]

-too tedious to continue-

Boy, I’ll say. Some of the biggest whiners I can recall here, seemed to have ‘control’ obsessions. There are people who are quite content so long as they are the ones calling the shots. Let someone else dare behave in a manner which the ‘control fixated’ person fails to approve of, and they whine and moan (and likely stomp their feet too, but you can’t see that on the internet) as though the world has been turned upside down.

Odd thing being, those types of people seldom stop to realize that they have no more right to decide how someone else is supposed to behave on the internet, than others have a right to dictate to them how THEY are to behave.

[Convicted_One]

Common excuse you often hear is “yeah, but at least I act ‘normal’ when posting, these other idiots are just trying to start trouble”.

If one has always been a narcissistic control freak, I guess that becomes their “normal” ?.

[n012944]

Mookie

Garden - while this is a tongue-in-cheek posting, it has a very serious part to it. I joined this forum a day or two ago, wanting to learn some of the nuts and bolts of a trade that is very interesting to me. We had a lot of railroad workers on here. This has dwindled down to just a handful along with a lot of people that want to push their agenda and put down their words as gospel. Would you want to participate in a forum about your profession or something that you are truly interested in only to have someone constantly picking it apart? Consequently, we have lost a lot of good information and posters.

If the back and forth BS of this forum causes a ‘career’ railroader to move on, they didn’t learn much about having a thick skin during their railroad career. You can’t have a career in the field elements of railroading, T&E, Signals, MofW without cultivating a thick skin. If you are thin skinned, your coworkers will eat you for breakfast, let alone lunch an dinner.

I hate to break this to you, but what I do for work and what I do for fun are different things. I am around people at work that I would not spend a minute with outside of work, just as I put up with stuff while on the job that would get you an earful from me outside of work. Apples to oranges.

[zugmann]

Boy, I’ll say. Some of the biggest whiners I can recall here, seemed to have ‘control’ obsessions. There are people who are quite content so long as they are the ones calling the shots.

That’s funny. I’ve heard plenty of stories of you always whining to the moderators in the past (under your various user names).

Doesn’t surprise me any. Have a good day.

[Convicted_One]

Doesn’t surprise me any. Have a good day.

The Kleenex is on the table Zug, help yourself. [:'(]

[zugmann]

You’re so kind. I may put you back on my Christmas card list.

[M636C]

Thanks to the OP on this thread and the matching one for removing the apostrophe catastrophe…

M636C

[Murphy_Siding]

[gardendance]

Let’s be clear, this is the matching thread. Mine was the original, imitated but never bettered. Some may say that zuggman’s post in Chessiecat’s thread was the original and I’m only mocking him. I’ll never talk to those folks again.

I see this as just a ploy to get this thread’s post count to exceed mine.

[schlimm]

Two (and counting) threads about nothing.

[gardendance]

They’re the best kind. Remember Seinfeld, one of television’s most succesful shows, claimed it was a show about nothing. One never goes broke underestimating one’s audience’s intelligence.

[schlimm]

They’re the best kind. Remember Seinfeld, one of television’s most succesful shows, claimed it was a show about nothing. One never goes broke underestimating one’s audience’s intelligence.

Since that was my obvious reference, you’ve made your own point. The forums have become rife with threads about (next to) nothing.

[gardendance]

I’ve mentioned before, what’s the alternative? Folks have claimed the indecent decent posters have driven the decent posters away, but not mentioned to where. Have they discovered some website in which there are no inconsequential threads? Or do you think they gave up on the internet, or at least social media?

By the way, so far nobody’s replied in either the real thread or this imitation to say that they consider themselves to be a decent poster. I like to think that that really means we’re actually decent posters, since anyone so lacking in humilty as to say they’re a decent poster probably really isn’t.