Can-Con Posted Monday at 10:43 PM Posted Monday at 10:43 PM On 5/12/2025 at 8:49 PM, stitchdup said: thats the middle of scotland and western isles, we speak closer to norn in the north isles which is like old scandinavian crossed with germanic english. i can understand a little but it easier if your drunk, lol Expand I don't understand any of it myself but there's a lot [mostly?] decedents of Scotts, Irish and some Welsh in Atlantic Canada and they try to keep the languages alive here as best they can.
peteski Posted Tuesday at 03:53 AM Posted Tuesday at 03:53 AM Actually, just looking at this section of the forums one can see how clueless members are about starting threads in the correct forum. Just look at all those moved threads (and there are plenty more here). With this in mind how can we expect members to use tags or mention scale in the Subject line? Actually TBH, even this thread doesn't belong in this section. This section is specifically for "Model Cars Magazine News and Discussions. This is for news and discussion about the magazine. We will be posting news and announcements, and you are welcome to ask questions. As always, please be respectful. " It is not for discussions about the MCM online forum. Better fit for this thread would be in the "How To Use This Board" section.
Bugatti Fan Posted Tuesday at 08:34 AM Posted Tuesday at 08:34 AM Chill out Pete. People are people. We are all different. Some are very organised whilst others live in chaos. You cannot change them ! You can take a horse to water but cannot always make it drink ! No matter how much you try, you will not get folk to change how they use (or misuse) this forum no matter how much cajoling. Best not to get up tight about it and just accept the situation for what it is as it is not worth worrying about and just enjoy carrying on building our models.
stitchdup Posted Tuesday at 09:49 AM Posted Tuesday at 09:49 AM On 5/13/2025 at 3:53 AM, peteski said: Actually, just looking at this section of the forums one can see how clueless members are about starting threads in the correct forum. Just look at all those moved threads (and there are plenty more here). With this in mind how can we expect members to use tags or mention scale in the Subject line? Actually TBH, even this thread doesn't belong in this section. This section is specifically for "Model Cars Magazine News and Discussions. This is for news and discussion about the magazine. We will be posting news and announcements, and you are welcome to ask questions. As always, please be respectful. " It is not for discussions about the MCM online forum. Better fit for this thread would be in the "How To Use This Board" section. Expand YOU need to read the be respectful part again. Our members are not idiots but you call them clueless while quoting the rule about being respectful. So in your process of having to prove your superiority over everyone else (as you do every day again and again) you have proven you didn't even read what you quoted. Maybe you should get someone to proof read your posts before you post them?
bobthehobbyguy Posted Tuesday at 08:28 PM Posted Tuesday at 08:28 PM So if the argument is its unreasonable to expect members to use tags and create meaningful titles why should Dave add a new section titled BIG Boys when there will be people who won't use that section either. Tags are a useful tool to allow virtual groupings that are meaniful.
stitchdup Posted Tuesday at 09:24 PM Posted Tuesday at 09:24 PM On 5/13/2025 at 8:28 PM, bobthehobbyguy said: So if the argument is its unreasonable to expect members to use tags and create meaningful titles why should Dave add a new section titled BIG Boys when there will be people who won't use that section either. Tags are a useful tool to allow virtual groupings that are meaniful. Expand its not that its unreasonable, its more that most of us are pretty stuck in our way of doing things so adding tags is easily forgotten and they only really work if everybody uses the same tags. if they dont you get a page of variations on the spelling of some brand names. for example dupli-colour has a variety of brands they sell as and many have different spelling. in the usa you dupli-color, in the uk its dupli-colour and thats 2 tags for the same product just from 2 countries that allegedly speak the same language so when you add in the rest of the languages you might have 30 tags for one item and no 2 spelled the same. i still say if its big scale add that in the title. its the only part most of us read anyway. 1
redscampi Posted Tuesday at 09:44 PM Posted Tuesday at 09:44 PM On 5/13/2025 at 9:49 AM, stitchdup said: YOU need to read the be respectful part again. Our members are not idiots but you call them clueless while quoting the rule about being respectful. So in your process of having to prove your superiority over everyone else (as you do every day again and again) you have proven you didn't even read what you quoted. Maybe you should get someone to proof read your posts before you post them? Expand I don't think he was being disrespectful. It appears he was simply making a point about how it can be difficult to properly categorize a topic. Perhaps a different word would have conveyed that better. 1
peteski Posted Tuesday at 11:33 PM Posted Tuesday at 11:33 PM (edited) On 5/13/2025 at 9:44 PM, redscampi said: I don't think he was being disrespectful. It appears he was simply making a point about how it can be difficult to properly categorize a topic. Perhaps a different word would have conveyed that better. Expand Exactly. As you correctly interpreted my thoughts - I was making a point that is seems futile to expect members to religiously use tags or add scale info in the subject line. Les, I'm far from perfect - I pretty sure I would also often forget to use those simple rules. So which word could be used to describe those individuals and not set off the disrespectful alert? Edited Tuesday at 11:33 PM by peteski 2
redscampi Posted Tuesday at 11:45 PM Posted Tuesday at 11:45 PM On 5/13/2025 at 11:33 PM, peteski said: Exactly. As you correctly interpreted my thoughts - I was making a point that is seems futile to expect members to religiously use tags or add scale info in the subject line. Les, I'm far from perfect - I pretty sure I would also often forget to use those simple rules. So which word could be used to describe those individuals and not set off the disrespectful alert? Expand Oblivious? Unaware? Unknowing? Unconscious? Absentminded? That's all I took your comment to be. 1 1
Jon Haigwood Posted yesterday at 03:52 PM Author Posted yesterday at 03:52 PM (edited) On 5/13/2025 at 3:53 AM, peteski said: Actually, just looking at this section of the forums one can see how clueless members are about starting threads in the correct forum. Just look at all those moved threads (and there are plenty more here). With this in mind how can we expect members to use tags or mention scale in the Subject line? Actually TBH, even this thread doesn't belong in this section. This section is specifically for "Model Cars Magazine News and Discussions. This is for news and discussion about the magazine. We will be posting news and announcements, and you are welcome to ask questions. As always, please be respectful. " It is not for discussions about the MCM online forum. Better fit for this thread would be in the "How To Use This Board" section. Expand I think I feel disrespected. Glad there so many forum experts on here to keep us clueless in line Edited yesterday at 03:53 PM by Jon Haigwood
Bugatti Fan Posted yesterday at 04:32 PM Posted yesterday at 04:32 PM I can see where this is going guys. Respective points have now been made. Let's get back to discussing if a Large Scale section would be desirable or not. 1
Jon Haigwood Posted yesterday at 04:53 PM Author Posted yesterday at 04:53 PM On 5/14/2025 at 4:32 PM, Bugatti Fan said: I can see where this is going guys. Respective points have now been made. Let's get back to discussing if a Large Scale section would be desirable or not. Expand Yes the original post was a simple question that only required a simple answer with minimal explanation.
redscampi Posted yesterday at 05:07 PM Posted yesterday at 05:07 PM On 5/14/2025 at 4:53 PM, Jon Haigwood said: Yes the original post was a simple question that only required a simple answer with minimal explanation. Expand And yet...here you are, stirring the pot: On 5/14/2025 at 3:52 PM, Jon Haigwood said: I think I feel disrespected. Glad there so many forum experts on here to keep us clueless in line Expand 1
Jon Haigwood Posted yesterday at 05:24 PM Author Posted yesterday at 05:24 PM On 5/14/2025 at 5:07 PM, redscampi said: And yet...here you are, stirring the pot: Expand Sarcasm escapes you
Jon Haigwood Posted yesterday at 05:26 PM Author Posted yesterday at 05:26 PM Personally I would like to close this thread
Xingu Posted yesterday at 05:41 PM Posted yesterday at 05:41 PM Well, we have successfully locked another thread. 1 2
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