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Bob Hanner Site Administrator
Joined: 27 Jan 2018 Posts: 92 Location: Omaha Nebraska
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:57 pm Post subject: Make sure you also post your models on.... |
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Make sure you also post your models on Randy's new facebook page. We have 800+ members over there looking forward to seeing your creations.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/245143375115621 |
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DaveVan
Joined: 27 Jan 2018 Posts: 1579
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 8:18 am Post subject: |
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NO Facespace allowed here at my house. I really hate how this site is slowly being abandoned by those in charge. I can go on for a long time as to why FB is a no go. Those that want to use it.....go for it. I NEVER will. If this site is taken down.......one less site I will visit daily. Thanks |
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Crime Dog
Joined: 27 Jan 2018 Posts: 339
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:00 am Post subject: |
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DaveVan wrote: | NO Facespace allowed here at my house. I really hate how this site is slowly being abandoned by those in charge. I can go on for a long time as to why FB is a no go. Those that want to use it.....go for it. I NEVER will. If this site is taken down.......one less site I will visit daily. Thanks |
Not sure how this went from an invitation to visit on Facebook to the site is being taken down.
I get your frustration with the lack of activity here, and I totally get your aversion to Facebook, I'm not that fond of it either.
I think the post was simply a reminder to those of us who use both.
Frankly my issue with facebook is more about it's lack of user friendliness than anything else.
not picking a fight, just an observation. |
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TN Vols fan
Joined: 18 Jan 2022 Posts: 286 Location: Crossett, AR
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:20 am Post subject: |
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DaveVan wrote: | NO Facespace allowed here at my house. I really hate how this site is slowly being abandoned by those in charge. I can go on for a long time as to why FB is a no go. Those that want to use it.....go for it. I NEVER will. If this site is taken down.......one less site I will visit daily. Thanks |
I'm with you DaveVan _________________ "Many men fish all their lives without knowing it is not the fish they are after." Henry David Thoreau
"I am, Sir, a brother of the angle" quote from The Compleat Angler, lzzak Walton 1654 |
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Dennis O Board Moderator
Joined: 28 Jan 2018 Posts: 881 Location: Louisville, Ky.
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:47 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | Frankly my issue with facebook is more about it's lack of user friendliness than anything else. |
I think you will find the moderators on the Facebook page (which I am one) will not tolerate any BS. We have pretty tight controls in place due to some purveyors of undesirable content. Every user is screened and every "first post" by a user must be approved by a moderator. If you are a known user from the PHPBB site we pre-approve any of your posts and FB does a pretty good job of alerting moderators to potential spam and keeps it locked in the bullpen until approved or removed. _________________ Dennis
Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity....... |
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Papadoc
Joined: 30 Apr 2018 Posts: 97
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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I understand the move to Facebook and how much better that medium is at attracting people. Maybe someday I will get on there. But I love this little board and I'll be here until the very end! |
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jh63fan
Joined: 10 Sep 2021 Posts: 362 Location: Tarheel State
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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Papadoc wrote: | But I love this little board and I'll be here until the very end! |
Amen ! |
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bighoo
Joined: 01 Feb 2018 Posts: 227
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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jh63fan wrote: | Papadoc wrote: | But I love this little board and I'll be here until the very end! |
Amen ! |
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MarkJ
Joined: 29 Jan 2018 Posts: 1306
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2024 8:11 am Post subject: |
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It seems like there has been less activity here then there use to be since the Facebook deal was started. I think some people have just decided to do that and not post here anymore. I'm staying right here. I will never join Facebook. I just hope this site doesn't go away again. I lost a lot of wips here when that happened. Thats why all my wips are at Model Car Magazine now which I don't see going away, unless the magazine folds like Scale Auto did. |
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DaveVan
Joined: 27 Jan 2018 Posts: 1579
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jh63fan
Joined: 10 Sep 2021 Posts: 362 Location: Tarheel State
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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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I agree with Mark, there has been a lot less going on here since the Facebook thing started.
I have always tried to help everyone I could by responding and asking some questions myself, but I need to learn how to post photos so I can contribute more. I have an idea or two for some threads that would involve others. |
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Bob Hanner Site Administrator
Joined: 27 Jan 2018 Posts: 92 Location: Omaha Nebraska
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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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There was a big decline in traffic here long before i tried the facebook page. We have been on the decline for at least the last year and a half. maybe longer. |
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DaveVan
Joined: 27 Jan 2018 Posts: 1579
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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 9:03 am Post subject: |
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Bob Hanner wrote: | There was a big decline in traffic here long before i tried the facebook page. We have been on the decline for at least the last year and a half. maybe longer. |
Pretty much happening across the net. ALL sites that I have been a member of for last 20 years have seen a big decline. Change is the only constant. |
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MarkJ
Joined: 29 Jan 2018 Posts: 1306
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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 9:28 am Post subject: |
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I guess the young guys coming up don't want to spend a couple of weeks or even a couple of days if they are really fast, building a model car that they can be proud of. Apparently, they need instant gratification. So, they just buy diecasts. To me the journey of building something from just a pile of styrene shapes into an actual object that looks like the pictures of cars that I would have liked to have seen in person even though they are 1/24 or 1/25 scaled down from that original car is the best part of modeling. and I really like every now and then grabbing a model that I might have built a couple of years ago off the shelf and just sitting down and holding it and looking at it from different angles. Oh well, to each his own. |
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Rattlecan Dan
Joined: 13 Sep 2023 Posts: 230
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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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To quote " No Country for Old Men" "You can't stop what's coming." I very much agree with your feelings and philosophy on styrene scale auto modeling.
I'm so (old school) I try to fabricate (out of styrene) anything that I feel is necessary that didn't come in the kit. I sometimes begrudgingly compliment a good looking mostly made of computer-generated, photo-etched, add on wheels and parts (more expensive than the kit) builds. Forgive my Dinosaur tears. I feel and sound old. |
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Dennis O Board Moderator
Joined: 28 Jan 2018 Posts: 881 Location: Louisville, Ky.
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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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The way I see it, there is room for everyone. If you want to strip diecasts then good for you. They make cool looking models. If you want to build box stock, have at it, they make cool looking models. If you want to make your own parts from styrene, do it!! They make cool looking models. Same thing with 3D printed, they make cool looking models. My point is that no matter how you get there, there can me some nice results. Do your own thing and be happy that we can STILL be doing it. (stepping off soapbox). _________________ Dennis
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Rattlecan Dan
Joined: 13 Sep 2023 Posts: 230
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2024 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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Taking time to reflect on my unnecessary post on the good old-fashioned methods of modeling, I feel sorry and hypocritical for my comments. I am more inclined to agree with your whatever floats your boat and gets you the desired results is all that counts approach. I totally got distracted from the topic. I truly hope this forum maintains its integrity. |
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