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The long threads, your thoughts?
I don’t monitor these threads… Whatever
  26% (12)
I don’t monitor these threads and wish they would go away.
  21% (10)
I occasionally read but don’t contribute… Good reading.
  30% (14)
I’m currently a regular in at least one.
  21% (10)


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(last vote on : 5/28/2008 5:40:07 PM)
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The long threads, your thoughts? - 5/16/2008 1:56:43 PM   
BillyGoat


 

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Status: offline 		Most of the action in the Clubhouse forum these days seems to be in the mega long threads. I have never monitored any of these because I have no connection with any of them. I don’t fly at the Sepulveda Basin, I’ve never been to Malaysia and I don’t know who or what the FSA guys are but it’s cool they created their own clubhouse. Well a mistake on my part by not getting in on any of these from the beginning as most of the forum has been condensed to these three threads.

I’m not starting this as an attempt to rain on anybody’s parade, just wondering if I’m part of the majority of having absolute nothing to do with these threads or part of the minority?

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RE: The long threads, your thoughts? - 5/16/2008 2:02:43 PM   
Cyclic Hardover



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RE: The long threads, your thoughts? - 5/16/2008 2:52:56 PM   
carrellh



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Status: online 		I've never opened any of the three you mentioned. I skip over any thread that has a subject line I'm not interested in.

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RE: The long threads, your thoughts? - 5/16/2008 4:39:24 PM   
Kmot



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quote:

ORIGINAL: carrellh

I skip over any thread that has a subject line I'm not interested in.

For me, that applies to probably 70% of RCU. What's the big deal? Don't like the thread? Don't read it. Who cares??

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RE: The long threads, your thoughts? - 5/16/2008 6:01:58 PM   
ira d


 

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Status: offline 		I think when a thread gets too long a lot of the good info contained
within can be loss but im not sure what the solution would be.

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RE: The long threads, your thoughts? - 5/16/2008 7:50:15 PM   
Robotech



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quote:

ORIGINAL: BasinBum

Where else can you see Jets flying with trainers, 8 overpowered warbirds in (what they think is) formation, 10 planes in the air at once, Crazy Eric flying inverted toward himself at 120 mph and turning sharply at the last second? How about Dirty Bob always there to answer engine questions if he's not annoyed with you, 5 old guys sitting at a table for the last 20 years, Rex getting pissed off at T-Bone, Ken flying his tin can contraptions on the fence, 10 differant languanges being spoken.....



This post got me hooked on the Sepulveda Basin thread.


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RE: The long threads, your thoughts? - 5/16/2008 9:02:07 PM   
*JCB*



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Status: offline 		I keep up with the Sepulveda Basin basin thread cuz that's my home flying field!

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RE: The long threads, your thoughts? - 5/17/2008 12:30:58 AM   
weathervane



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quote:

ORIGINAL: BillyGoat

I don’t know who or what the FSA guys are but it’s cool they created their own clubhouse.



< Message edited by weathervane -- 5/17/2008 12:31:33 AM >

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RE: The long threads, your thoughts? - 5/17/2008 2:39:50 AM   
TakingFlight96


 

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Status: offline 		I occasionally read , if theirs an intrest in them ; on a VERY rare occasion will I post.




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RE: The long threads, your thoughts? - 5/17/2008 4:38:32 AM   
Montague



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quote:

I think when a thread gets too long a lot of the good info contained
within can be loss but im not sure what the solution would be.


Well, at least in the case of the FSA thread, while there is a lot of info, the thread isn't really about any one topic. It's just a bunch of guys from the same club (in Laurel, MD, about half way between Washington, DC and Baltimore), sitting around, and BSing, much the same as we do at the field. So there really isn't a topic exactly. It's a social hang out thing, not a "discuss a topic" thing.

It just happens that FSA (Freestate Aeromodelers) is a fairly large club with a very active core group, many of whom are real aviation buffs, and that a large number of our members are on line. I'd also say that FSA's average age is younger than many clubs, so BSing online just works.

Sure, we could put up our own forum for club social stuff, and a lot of clubs do. But why bother? RCU is free, it gives us basically unlimited storage for pictures and stuff, and some very good, on the ball admins to keep it all running. So we don't have too.


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RE: The long threads, your thoughts? - 5/17/2008 6:24:27 AM   
tIANci



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Status: online 		BillyGoat ... its more of a hang out for people from a certain area or field, its true that most people would not be interested to look into it and we can't blame them. I heard a lot about the Basin and would love to go there some day. I hear its HUGE!!!

On the bright side, we at MalayAsian Hangar have got people from US, UK and South America etc who have contacted us for assistance, some contacted me to purchase planes etc. Its a great way to know more RC flyers from around. Some have come to Malaysia for holiday or work and we have hooked up. The internet can be a great tool, when wisely used.

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RE: The long threads, your thoughts? - 5/17/2008 2:15:30 PM   
BillyGoat


 

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Status: offline 		I’ve been visiting RCU for several years now and the Clubhouse used to be my first stop, there was a lot of action here. In the past year or more new threads in this forum are way down. I only check in every once in a while and when I do quite often the only threads with new post, since my last log, in are the three in discussion.

A few months ago there was even a post in a thread that stated: “We discussed that in the Basin thread (link)”.

So I was just wondering if most of the regular “Clubhouse” forum users have basically migrated to these longer threads to discuss what had been taking place in separate threads before and I’m late to the party?

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RE: The long threads, your thoughts? - 5/17/2008 3:45:11 PM   
khodges


 

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Robotech

quote:

ORIGINAL: BasinBum

Where else can you see Jets flying with trainers, 8 overpowered warbirds in (what they think is) formation, 10 planes in the air at once, Crazy Eric flying inverted toward himself at 120 mph and turning sharply at the last second? How about Dirty Bob always there to answer engine questions if he's not annoyed with you, 5 old guys sitting at a table for the last 20 years, Rex getting pissed off at T-Bone, Ken flying his tin can contraptions on the fence, 10 differant languanges being spoken.....



This post got me hooked on the Sepulveda Basin thread.




I used to regularly check out the "Basin" thread, but then decided that it sounded a lot like the mental hospital up the road from my house, except no airplanes there . No, really, it can be pretty interesting to see an 180 degree view of what I am used to at my home field, and helps get a feel for what the alternatives can be.

As for the question of long threads, what difference does it make? I agree with KMot, ignore whatever doesn't interest you. Of all the threads on all the forums on RCU, I've never even been to about 85% of them, but I am a regular on several long threads in the building and flying areas. One has gotten so long that an index was created and placed on the first page so interested parties could look up the particular info they wanted without having to read the whole thing.

Not all of RCU is for everybody, but there is something there for all of us. Like a plate full of different foods, I eat what I like and leave the asparagus, beets and mushrooms alone.


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RE: The long threads, your thoughts? - 5/19/2008 12:57:43 AM   
safeTwire


 

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Status: offline 		If, for any reason, you have affinity to the thread...hang on for the ride! I, for one, like to hear what other's in the community have to say!

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