norbyx
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Well it is a bad feeling, let me tell you, to try to enter a comunity and be treated like if I was just not welcome.
I entered this forum because in google search it was the biggest laser comunity forum I could find on the internet.
Since I am member of forums in every sector of my various hobbies and I enjoy very much sharing information, asking questions, and entering market places that can be found mostly on forums, I had to give it a shot and become a member.
Now why am I feeling not welcome, well easy, First I started a thread with a simple question, a question that if I searched the forum I wasn't able to find an answer (untill I placed a search in google), and for that I got 4 negative reps.
Ok that is welcoming, instead of just saying "look that isn't the type of question you should ask, please refrase it" and that would have been it, NO, I get negative commets all over my post saying that I am a fellon, that I am a law braker, "see you in the news" ecc...ecc....
Than I find out, through google, that the same question was asked in this same forum long ago, with compleately different results. HERE is a link to that post, and guess what the one that made the question asked the exact same thing and got no negative rep.
Well "get over it" is what I thought, so I start searching the forums, I start buying lasers from other forum members, I make normal posts arround the forum and than when I see I have enough posts to place a WTB add in the Buy/Sale/Trade section I do so in the hope of finding someone willing to sell me a laser in a waveleght I am missing.
Well my post never sees daylight and probably never will....
As I had seen many other post of people searching for various types of lasers all over the forum I decide to make a new post with the title "Looking for a high power 405nm laser", a type of title I have seen posted by many many people on many types of different lasers.
Well now I realize that my post has been erased also, probably because considered as a WTB post. Now, since I am not the only person in this forum making a market research on WHO might have a 405nm laser that wants to sell in a section other than the B/S/T section than why was my post erased?
Now I have over 30 posts and counting and still am not able to open a thread in the B/S/T section.
How am I supposed to post "just" laser related threads? If somebody asks a question in this forum, the FIRST answer most of the time is "use the search engine" (very welcoming for a noob).
I guess I will have to post reviews on my lasers as soon as I get them in order to have some specific "laser related" posts, since questions or comments don't seem to count.
Now my personal thoughts, maybe I am pretending too much... maybe I have to realize that lasers are a hobby where 80% of the users are just kids, teens, or guys that are too young to be mature enough to understand my dissapointment. I was looking at a poll on what is the average age of the members of this forum and most are younger than 25.
That might be why I see things in a different way, that is why I normally am used to forums were the average age is over 40-50 ( I am a metal detectorist and a ham radio operator).
The only forum that I found similar to this was the RC related ones where again most users are very young.
I would appreciate constructive comments on this post if possible, not negatives again.
I entered this forum because in google search it was the biggest laser comunity forum I could find on the internet.
Since I am member of forums in every sector of my various hobbies and I enjoy very much sharing information, asking questions, and entering market places that can be found mostly on forums, I had to give it a shot and become a member.
Now why am I feeling not welcome, well easy, First I started a thread with a simple question, a question that if I searched the forum I wasn't able to find an answer (untill I placed a search in google), and for that I got 4 negative reps.
Ok that is welcoming, instead of just saying "look that isn't the type of question you should ask, please refrase it" and that would have been it, NO, I get negative commets all over my post saying that I am a fellon, that I am a law braker, "see you in the news" ecc...ecc....
Than I find out, through google, that the same question was asked in this same forum long ago, with compleately different results. HERE is a link to that post, and guess what the one that made the question asked the exact same thing and got no negative rep.
Well "get over it" is what I thought, so I start searching the forums, I start buying lasers from other forum members, I make normal posts arround the forum and than when I see I have enough posts to place a WTB add in the Buy/Sale/Trade section I do so in the hope of finding someone willing to sell me a laser in a waveleght I am missing.
Well my post never sees daylight and probably never will....
As I had seen many other post of people searching for various types of lasers all over the forum I decide to make a new post with the title "Looking for a high power 405nm laser", a type of title I have seen posted by many many people on many types of different lasers.
Well now I realize that my post has been erased also, probably because considered as a WTB post. Now, since I am not the only person in this forum making a market research on WHO might have a 405nm laser that wants to sell in a section other than the B/S/T section than why was my post erased?
Now I have over 30 posts and counting and still am not able to open a thread in the B/S/T section.
How am I supposed to post "just" laser related threads? If somebody asks a question in this forum, the FIRST answer most of the time is "use the search engine" (very welcoming for a noob).
I guess I will have to post reviews on my lasers as soon as I get them in order to have some specific "laser related" posts, since questions or comments don't seem to count.
Now my personal thoughts, maybe I am pretending too much... maybe I have to realize that lasers are a hobby where 80% of the users are just kids, teens, or guys that are too young to be mature enough to understand my dissapointment. I was looking at a poll on what is the average age of the members of this forum and most are younger than 25.
That might be why I see things in a different way, that is why I normally am used to forums were the average age is over 40-50 ( I am a metal detectorist and a ham radio operator).
The only forum that I found similar to this was the RC related ones where again most users are very young.
I would appreciate constructive comments on this post if possible, not negatives again.