Can You Help?

Bet you wish that the flat earthers would play somewhere else!

Not everything old is stupid, not everything new is right.

Calling people names does not invalidate their opinions.

Normal and polite practice in _this_ type of forum is to quote enough of the message you are responding to that readers will know what it is.

eric

Well Eric, no doubt your views (like mine) are sacred. If you can find any = comment related to the original post which is pertinent (except Simon's) th= en I would be pleased to read it.

Too often the posters here ignore the main subject of this group in order t= o diverge into some pseudo intellectual dialogue worthy of a greek forum. = I found that the posters (up to my remark) to be out of order and to be blu= nt and sailorlike "bloody rude!"!

Perhaps Eric, you could add something which is pertinent and not impertine= nt!

Sacred is probably too strong a word, but I am entitled to my opinions, and if you care enough about a fact that I seem to have wrong, please prove it wrong.

Simon's comment isn't pertinent to the original post, it's a mild comment on the ongoing conversational drift.

And that is your less-than-mild comment on the conversational drift. All anyone has done (including you!) is respond directly to one of the things they have read. In no way is this out of order (that's a fact, this is Usenet) and in no way is it "bloody rude". Also, your "pseudo intellectual" is just a bit more name-calling; now that might be considered rude by some people.

Impertinent to whom? As for pertinent:

Eric

On 23/07/2011 11:28 AM, Sailor wrote: [...]

diverge into some pseudo intellectual dialogue worthy of a greek forum. [...]

Um, did you mean "geek forum"?

;-)

Wolf K.

Or "greek foam"?

And given the level of take-up it would seem many people agree :) My own comment was intended as feedback as to why I personally would not be frequenting it ...

While it is obvious as soon as one hits the links that this is an 'advertising site' ( as soon as a link says 'advertisements' it gets wiped here and they loose any chance of business from me! But he is too small for me anyway ), the fact that people don't already know about 'The Branchline Goods Yard' as a supplier is a little harsh. But a 'sig' that identifies the fact would be an extra courtesy ;)

I think the fact that many people remain loyal to these 'old school' type feeds is probably an indication that new forums are not necessary, but I think that there is still a place for some improvement in the way 'lists' are handled in general? Linking to information on a particular product and it's problems even if that is provided by a dealer is useful, as long as that material is not sanitised and that is where usenet does come into it's own? However some means of filtering things to a finer level would at least address the 'complaint' that web forum evangelists push for forums with hundreds of sub forums :( Difficult to add here, but a tag for scale or something like that - not that there is much

I don't bother to try to access (F)(f)orums, I prefer to use newsgroups!

Alan

I don't know about "... this is it ...", there may be another one out there somewhere!

Forums and picture galleries are an important contribution to the resources available to model railway enthusiasts. I have usually found that people who share this interest are helpful and supportive of each other, sharing knowledge and offering encouragement to fellow enthusiasts. I was only asking for help in adding, in my own small way, to these resources.

Why don't you just use newsgroups?

Alan

Thank you anyway Geoff

Funny, I thought this was a newsgroup, NOT a 'forum'!

Alan

It is a newsgroup. Words chosen to (attempt to) get through to those who don't really understand what that means.

Eric

Because model railway newsgroups seem to spend very little time discussing model railways.

Geoff

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True, but it doesn't address the question as to why *yet another* web forum helps in any way. Don't you think this proliferation is in some way responsible for the dearth of discussion in this newsgroup?

MBQ

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Not necessarily, I think you could equate newsgroups/forums/whatever to say pubs - you find one that you like the look of, feel comfortable in and like the company and the conversation. If the topics are interesting or you think you can make a useful contribution it becomes your 'local', if not, you move on. In some cases, people enjoy sparing with others, whatever the topic. That's ok but it may dilute the original purpose of the group. IMHO a forum on a model railway website tends to stay on topic.

To others that have pointed out that The Branchline Goods Yard is a 'commercial site' and a 'small one' at that well, yes it is. This site, along with the fledgling forum and photo gallery developed from my interest in railway modelling. I make no apologies for that. If anyone is interested, my own model railway ('Beckenthwaite') is featured in the gallery (tblgy-modelrailways.co.uk/gallery). At 15' x