- Max,
Slingshot,
I've been away from home (in N America) for the best part of a month and therefore mostly absent from this forum. I agree that there is a real danger that it could degenetrate into a competitive bragging exercise, punctuated by flaming. Maybe there have been one or two signs of it recently. Other boards have gone that way, as some of us 'old lags' have seen.
The only way to prevent it is the continuing setting of the tone by the submission of high quality and practically useful posts from good men like you (if I may say so without seeming patronising).
Like you I believe that the very big guys in their teens and early 20s need the help ... I did way back then but got none at all. Just a lot of innaccurate and anxiety-making advice from guys who knew nothing. That is at least partly why I have remained here. (Though I myself even at a late stage in life have picked up some pretty good hints)
I am sure it can be done in a clean straightforward safe manner, if we just keep our heads.
I hope you stay.
Max
I've been away from home (in N America) for the best part of a month and therefore mostly absent from this forum. I agree that there is a real danger that it could degenetrate into a competitive bragging exercise, punctuated by flaming. Maybe there have been one or two signs of it recently. Other boards have gone that way, as some of us 'old lags' have seen.
The only way to prevent it is the continuing setting of the tone by the submission of high quality and practically useful posts from good men like you (if I may say so without seeming patronising).
Like you I believe that the very big guys in their teens and early 20s need the help ... I did way back then but got none at all. Just a lot of innaccurate and anxiety-making advice from guys who knew nothing. That is at least partly why I have remained here. (Though I myself even at a late stage in life have picked up some pretty good hints)
I am sure it can be done in a clean straightforward safe manner, if we just keep our heads.
I hope you stay.
Max