Does that refer to the posts before, or the writing immediately afterwards?
Phill, hand back your sheriffs badge and step back out into the garden. I'm pretty sure you had another Warship to build and I was looking forward to it.
Thats a bit rude, served with a hint of belittlement and a side of encouragement.
If it's more do'ers that are needed then we need to recruit people who build for a living - who else has enough throughput? Even they may not have the time stop and take photos every five minutes.
Really SteveO? There is a whole raft of people who have done exactly that, stopped, taken photos and the time to explain and demonstrate. This place is littered with threads like that. Very few of them are professional yet they have all contributed to the core of this forum. Throughput is not, and never has been the be all and end all - it is the contribution and act of doing, engaging, demonstrating and explaining that is appreciated. I guess you could also argue, what inspires you most? Watching someone do something because they are driven by a passion and and a want to own something, or watching someone do something for money. Both have their interests, and if we are honest, watching and learning is good whatever the source, but what
inspires you the most? We have had more 'do' on here recently and I don't think any of the extra was from a professional source.
I note the chap who's building Iceni Road has virtually no comments on his thread from other members. If you want to see a layout being built, there's one - being ignored.
But it has generated likes and some comments. It isn't being ignored.
There shouldn't be a timetable or post count or any other form of pressure in a hobby, or it's very nature changes by definition. A hobby is something you do in your 'spare' time, and while you're not doing it it's nice to talk to people who share your hobby - even if they don't have to time to do it right now either.
So lets just make this place like every other place then, eh? Talk, wheat, chaff. Just for the pleasure of socialising?Or killing time until the next big thing, next great idea strikes... Sorry, but I'd like to defend this place as somewhere where the majority of the posts
are were about doing and demonstrating, sharing models and ideas alike. I want it to stand out in that regard. I don't want it dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. It may well be spare time, and you may not like having demands thrown upon yours, but I feel that is what this place stood for and I don't like its dilution. That may not bother you, but it bothers me and sometimes I feel that we are being dragged down and away from where we started. Why should this place mould itself to your vision as opposed to you accepting it what it stood / stands for? Surely, if you have the time to type, you could do something far more constructive.
Back OT, I don't read magazines, but I did buy some books at the weekend. Right now, reading is the only part of the hobby I can do.
But you still post on forums, so not entirely true
Steve