Originally Posted by
Semisane
As I sit here puffing on my pipe and sipping fifteen year old single malt while perusing the forum I find myself in a melancholy mood.
I miss the days when the forum was much less contentious. The days when there were a lot of range reports posted with target pictures. The days when members posted an experience with some gun or load and it was discussed in a friendly and respectful manner. The days when opinions could be sought and recommendations made without someone's input being ridiculed or engendering rancorous replies.
I find myself enjoying the forum less than I once did. Where I once read every thread start to finish, I now find myself scanning some threads and reading only the comments of members I have come to respect. I find myself totally bypassing all comments from chronic flamers and nitpicking wordsmiths. That strikes me as a sad thing.
Perhaps this downward trend will turn itself around. Maybe when the more congenial weather of Spring arrives more of us will be shooting and posting our results. Maybe we'll discuss the gun/load/results in a lighter mood. I sure hope so.
''Amen!
It's sad when a few members here want to argue over the definition of standing up a gun horizontally.
I don't know of any ML that will stand up horizontally on it's own when conducting a test, without the aid of being propped-up in some way-shape-form.
Some people look at two words and can't figure out how those two words might fit-in, inside a thread topic already established.
Pretty sad indeed.
Most-all of us want peace on this board. We also want repliers to think twice and draw a mind-picture of the prior poster reply, before posting his needless cut-down reply.