Chatterbait

[MN Fisher]

3 minutes ago, Wizzlebiz said:

If I have offended your position here in the forum I am sorry. And yes that is slow in comparison to many other forums I frequent. There are thousands of responses daily. Questions and topic get talked about non stop.  Im not saying this forum is bad mind you I am just saying it is indeed slow.

Well, this forum is a lot more specialized than many others...so less chatting occurs. I've seen forums that get 10-15 posts a day - so this one isn't 'fossilized'.

 

4 minutes ago, Wizzlebiz said:

On the worthiness factor maybe your right. Im not a mod. But when I see people down talk others (which has happened to me frequently) for asking questions it bothers me. 

I think it's more 'boredom factor'. Many of these questions have occurred so often that people just point you to two places - Articles that go into the nuts and bolts, or previous threads that already hashed out most...if not all...the questions. It's not 'downtalking' IMO to point someone to where the question asked has already been answered.

[Wizzlebiz]

39 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

Well, this forum is a lot more specialized than many others...so less chatting occurs. I've seen forums that get 10-15 posts a day - so this one isn't 'fossilized'.

 

I think it's more 'boredom factor'. Many of these questions have occurred so often that people just point you to two places - Articles that go into the nuts and bolts, or previous threads that already hashed out most...if not all...the questions. It's not 'downtalking' IMO to point someone to where the question asked has already been answered.

Boredom of long term members. 

 

Thats exactly how forums become slow. People come to a forum to interact with others. Pointing someone to a video in a helpful way makes alot of sense. But trying to make things funky out of boredom is not cool.

 

There also new people that join daily. Id venture to guess they joined because a decent % of them are new to bass fishing. One persons boredom is another persons brand new.

 

For those who are brand new they like to be able to interact with those who have more knowledge than them. But mosty get pushed towards videos or just flat out told they are asking rudimentary questions. 

 

You might be right it might be out of boredom but it is still in bad taste. 

 

If people just for a moment stopped and thought back to when they were new to fishing and how hard it actually was maybe they would be more kind. 

 

On the slow thing. Im a member of alot of specialization forums. For example Sherdog. Its a MMA (mixed martial arts) forum. Bass fishing is probably more popular tbh. That forum gets thousands of messages per day. 

 

But you are correct it is not fossilized. Its just not frequented as much. I think that could easily change. 

 

[J Francho]

11 hours ago, Wizzlebiz said:

So Il just keep it to myself from now on.

Probably a good plan.  This is the most trafficked bass fishing forum in the world.  We peak at over a thousand users online every evening.  For every person that posts, ten fold are reading.

 

11 hours ago, Wizzlebiz said:

On the worthiness factor maybe your right. Im not a mod. But when I see people down talk others (which has happened to me frequently) for asking questions it bothers me.

You can use the report a post link to alert mods to things you think are an issue.  Taking it into your own hands is forbidden.

 

All of your concerns are addressed here: https://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/guidelines/

 

Thanks.

[Wizzlebiz]

4 hours ago, J Francho said:

Probably a good plan.  This is the most trafficked bass fishing forum in the world.  We peak at over a thousand users online every evening.  For every person that posts, ten fold are reading.

 

You can use the report a post link to alert mods to things you think are an issue.  Taking it into your own hands is forbidden.

 

All of your concerns are addressed here: https://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/guidelines/

 

Thanks.

Seems I have offended your place in this forum. That was not my intent. My intent was to open some eyes to why that 10 fold is not interacting on the forum.

 

As for report a post button. Il use that often im sure

[Gunthos]

Don't apologize Wizzlebiz, you did good and your heart is in the right place.

 

When Harold said "I have never, nor would I ever attempt to make anyone look stupid, here or anywhere. Sorry YOU took it like that.", I would take that as offensive.  He says he will never make anyone look stupid and then tries to make you look stupid.

 

And me too!  I thought the same thing when I read his post.  So I  reported him.

 

[J Francho]

We're done here.  You're all acting like children, and contributing nothing to the OP's questions.  Time to take a step back, it's FISHING.  Geez.