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Thought I’d take a minute and summit some positive feed back about this site. I’ve been monitoring the festivities here almost from the site’s very beginning. From the get-go I was impressed with the way this site is set up and the features included, some of which I’m still discovering. Seems Andy is trying to set up a site that can accommodate most everyone with no one banned and no one censored. Up to now, what has gone on calls to mind what it must have been like in the old wild west days; where everything was wide open with no holds barred. While I think one or two people may have been banned and maybe a censure or two executed, it was only after someone carried something to such an extreme that even an old wild west town couldn’t have tolerated their antics anymore.
Being a novice on the Internet, I’m still very much behind the learning curve. It is the Wild West atmosphere that has led me to feel free to experiment here. The learning experience, the getting a feel of communicating with strangers on a bulletin board, and the fun I’ve had has been more than worth the $20 voluntary donation.
I spend much more time on this site than on the local paper which: cost more, has less content, allows only one way communication, contains more advertisements than news, and only comes once each weekday. I doubt I could get the editor to answer a technical question about his paper even if I was holding his printer’s devil captive. (I ask a question here once and Andy himself answered, it seemed, even before I hit the Send New Thread button.)
In the beginning much of the content of this site was about a site some character called Spike ran, or the things Spike did. I’m glad that sort of thing seems to have about ran it’s course and this board is beginning to go it’s own way, leaving Spike and his site to do the same.
While I’ve used the Wild West analogy, I hope it doesn’t cause any new comers to be shy about posting here. I know one can get the feeling that everybody knows everybody and we all came here from Spike’s site already knowing each other, therefore, prone to shoot strangers. This is not true. I, for one, was never a member of Spike’s bunch, nor do I know any of the folks here from reading The Garden Web Site. Besides, the only shooting done here is with blanks or maybe an arrow or two, so, no one has actually been killed stone cold dead. Well, not yet, as far as I know. The diversity and the feeling of having to elbow your way onboard is part of what makes posting here such an exhilarating experience. I would encourage anyone who hasn’t tried it to do so at their first opportunity.
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Being a novice on the Internet, I’m still very much behind the learning curve. It is the Wild West atmosphere that has led me to feel free to experiment here. The learning experience, the getting a feel of communicating with strangers on a bulletin board, and the fun I’ve had has been more than worth the $20 voluntary donation.
I spend much more time on this site than on the local paper which: cost more, has less content, allows only one way communication, contains more advertisements than news, and only comes once each weekday. I doubt I could get the editor to answer a technical question about his paper even if I was holding his printer’s devil captive. (I ask a question here once and Andy himself answered, it seemed, even before I hit the Send New Thread button.)
In the beginning much of the content of this site was about a site some character called Spike ran, or the things Spike did. I’m glad that sort of thing seems to have about ran it’s course and this board is beginning to go it’s own way, leaving Spike and his site to do the same.
While I’ve used the Wild West analogy, I hope it doesn’t cause any new comers to be shy about posting here. I know one can get the feeling that everybody knows everybody and we all came here from Spike’s site already knowing each other, therefore, prone to shoot strangers. This is not true. I, for one, was never a member of Spike’s bunch, nor do I know any of the folks here from reading The Garden Web Site. Besides, the only shooting done here is with blanks or maybe an arrow or two, so, no one has actually been killed stone cold dead. Well, not yet, as far as I know. The diversity and the feeling of having to elbow your way onboard is part of what makes posting here such an exhilarating experience. I would encourage anyone who hasn’t tried it to do so at their first opportunity.
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