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The "SailNet is Done - 4 Year Old Thread!" Thread is Done
Ooh - that's scary. Everyone knows, you never take the brown acid.
Seriously, I've just never understood people's discomfort with an old thread being floated. They're mostly found by someone (usually a newb) doing a Google search on something...it pops up in the search, dumps them into the thread and they post. What does it hurt? I can see locking a thread when it gets out of control - but just because it's old? There's some really great info in old threads that can have a new perspective put on them with new posts.
It just seems like some weird forum etiquette issue that makes no sense.
Well, Smack, actually we're concerned for your time management issues... if these old threads keep popping up how are you going to keep up in the 'steel boats' thread??
Old threads are good to bring back if they bubble good info back to the top (thought of that while soaking in the tub...), not if they are asking an OP a question who hasn't posted in a decade.
In the same spirit of this thread, why has Sailnet elected to post the notice at the top of every page about new ownership and Verticalscope LLC fo so long? Is this really news? Is it important to the vast majority of people who frequent these pages? Why is it still there?
Ohhhhhh, an ignoramous thread, master Denby will be sooooooo proud, especially all of us that are ignoring this thread.....so run along, this thread will be done after I am done typing and posting, I promise! so run along, nothing here to see, I can hear any how, so nothing to hear either!
I have never hijacked anything, just responded to a question asked by someone else ,about steel boats. It turned out that I was the only one active in that jeering contest ,with any hands on experience with steel boats, which explained why those who were pretending to be gurus, attacked me for fear of having their ignorance of the subject exposed. It was the plastic pedlars who did the hijacking. It was they who tried to make any discussion , and exchange of information of steel boats a taboo subject on this site.
Thus for experience based info on steel boats, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/origamiboats
Is a far more reliable source of steel boat info.
There you get answers to your questions ,not jeering from the plastic people. And the answers you get there are experience based, especially the posts from mid to late February 2015.
I can't criticize newbs for answering a question about a passage that was asked 5 years ago or responds to a crew wanted ad from a decade past? I'm done.
Seriously though, if the narcoleptic resurrection is just continuing the conversation, no prob. But the newb with one post is probably being helped by being told they will never get a reply in some cases.
BTW, sailnet is done. We just all live in a dream.
Which smilies are acceptable when posting from a blue water boat?
Everyone knows production smilies are inferior.
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