Ziad wrote:Hi, I want to get a 80cal bazooka, can you olde ppl please tell me if I can get a 30 round drum magazine for it. Also can someone please tell me why the people at firearm registry didn't send me my license I just sent the paperwork yesterday... they are so inconsiderate.
Is that the type of questions you asking about tassie?
TassieTiger wrote:“I’ve just moved to Vic, tell me your deer hunting places...?”
bladeracer wrote:I do see some advantages to mandatory introduction before posting, but I'm not a fan of it.
When I stumble upon a forum it's usually because I'm scraping the barrel trying to find the answer to a problem, so that's what's on my mind at that time, not messing about writing an intro, and then waiting to be able to ask my question. And if it turns out to be not the forum for me, why would I want an introduction planted on it if I'm unlikely to ever return? I prefer to get a feel for the forum before offering up personal information.
Oldbloke wrote:TassieTiger wrote:“I’ve just moved to Vic, tell me your deer hunting places...?”
Sheesh, Id like a quid for every time that has been asked.
TassieTiger wrote:Would you join a forum without reading detail, without getting the gist of the members first? I certainly wouldn’t but - hey, I must have missed a few of Stixs posts as I still joined lol jk!
Maybe I’m missing the point of forums in general...
The two issues for me with drifters;
Some are no doubt anti gun brigade looking for evidence/info to twist.
And I think some common courtesy is warranted where senior members take the time to answer questions - only to never see South African joe blow ever again...
There is another motorcycle forum I visit that seeks $2-$5 a year - to literally keep drifters out and it works remarkably well. Those members that do hang help grow the community because they feel more Involved with each other. But hey - I respect everyone’s opinion. Suggestions come and go.
Nothing to see here, move along
TassieTiger wrote:Just a note on FB - I’m not a member and never will be. A good friend of mine had his firearms confiscated - I can only go on his word and he says it was because of photos and videos he posted on FB that were not consistent with his licence conditions...I don’t know if that is fa t or if he did something idiotic without my knowledge but I’d be careful regardless...ie - if you have target shooting as ownership reason and then you put a video on fb of shooting targets in the Bush...theoretically your breaching conditions....
bladeracer wrote:
Yes, I don't mind signing up to forums if it's required to see what it's about, I signed up to lots of shooting forums when I was getting back into shooting, before I settled here.
Forums have a huge advantage over FB and other social media. The ability to find information that was posted years earlier. On FB it's difficult to find something I read just a few hours earlier due to the filtering that comes with it. If you've already seen something, FB can sometimes guess that you don't want to see it come up again. I have no problem responding to questions regardless of the intent of the asker, as long as the information is online where others can find it when they're searching.
But I think some modern people struggle with forums, having grown up with social media instead.
I am technically still a moderator at Fireblades.org (since 2003), but bikes are in my past now unfortunately, so I rarely go there.
mickb wrote:Interestingly when the internet started the first forums were formed by experts or hardcore enthusiasts seeking each other out. The type of people who had spent a while researching their hobby, usually had snail mail contacts, club memberships internationally etc and grasped the internet with both hands. It was pure subject matter, like being on a frontier, and anyone logging on was welcomed. Then the average bloke turned up after a few years in his droves, and forums became more like 'towns'. You got experts, regular folks, trolls, guys who just wanted to shoot the bull and also the peasants with pitchforks checking out any new guy in town.
mickb wrote: also the peasants with pitchforks checking out any new guy in town.
Aster wrote:Hey Tassie,
I understand your points.
As a general philosophy, I would say that creating barriers to entry is never a desirable thing.
I'd sure a 'gateway' post does filter a few fly-by-night signups, I'd say with near certainty though that it would also be deterring some users who, in time, could go on to be valuable contributors. It cuts both way.
The catch-22 in attempting to quality-screen potential members is that you can't know if someone will make a second post, unless you let them make a first, obviously.
Inevitabley there are going to be some short-lived memberships, but I don't have a problem with genuine one-off questions. Even if the OP never comes back, the information is there for future members, so does good.
No system is perfect, but I'd rather let a few questionable ones through that have to be removed later, than miss out on the corresponding loss of quality signups by more aggressive filtering.
As always, if something looks suspect use the reporting functionality to let us know and we'll make a call.
mickb wrote:I liked the bigger gun forums like accurate reloading where there was no moderation beyond stopping spambots, ads and obviously illegal talk. It was a free for all when it came to subjects, flame wars and all. The culture of the place evolved to deal with complete fools by member consensus, it proved a strong enough culture can maintain its status quo with minimal arbitration. I always consider this a parallel to societies. People always want to apply more laws to fix problems, instead of looking at what is wrong with the culture.
TassieTiger wrote:In 2001when forums we’re getting started - I joined a group to help me build a...your not going to believe it but anyways - a gas turbine jet engine.
I made a flame tube, a oil reticulate cooling system, flame holder, compressor housings, and borrowed a turbo charger from a broken cat dozer... I got so far before hitting a wall - when I found my first forum group...there were other half wits out there !!!!
So, inside a few days of asking the right questions, I had an Amberley air baseF1-11 technician at my house helping me build my gas jet engine lol.
He bought around a jet kart as a demo - we had to door knock 20 houses to tell them wat we were doing - as the thing was so loud. He cranked it in my back yard and hit the after burner...my plast coated chain link was 50m away and started dripping and I had a 3ft wide scorch mark in my lawn for months. I have pics somewhere...
The cops were still called with ppl complaining a 737 was either crashing or had crashed near by.
Ahhh forums...lol.
Oldbloke wrote:TassieTiger wrote:“I’ve just moved to Vic, tell me your deer hunting places...?”
Sheesh, Id like a quid for every time that has been asked.