Crickets....
 

Crickets....

:confused:

Quiet down,
folks are trying to sleep here.

I saw the AMA "booth" at Oshkosh......

Lots of the peps here are posting at RCG, I've been posting to both sites but it's pretty much crickets here now. :(

I quit posting because nobody was posting except those who were pro restrictions on the hobby and/or anti AMA. Or so it seemed.

Maybe we need to bring back those who were banned to liven up the forum.

Mike

NOOOO!!!!!

As quiet as it has been here, I do not miss those days!!!

Regards,

Astro

Gee Sport , I never saw a single poster here in RCU's AMA subforum upon whom I'd slap the "Anti AMA" label , and "pro restrictions" ? I never saw those posts I guess , since everyone I saw was lamenting the ever increasing restrictions being placed on our hobby directly because of the bad behavior of a small subset of flyers causing much "bad press" with their "flying cameras" .

In fact , I'd say every single one of the posters here care very deeply for the AMA itself , and only speak in negatives when they believe people within the AMA aren't working in the best interests of ALL aeromodelers , instead of working for the best interest of the AMA itself (need I recall the whole "CBO" farce that the AMA still believes means if you have no AMA card you have no "right" to fly a model airplane using our common sense safety guidelines ?)

So I close by saying I believe you "seemed" to misread a good 1/2 to 3/4 of what you were reading , and will suggest that maybe a re read will cause you to rethink those labels you appear to throw around a bit too freely ?

Amen to that my Friend !

Pretty much all that can be said has been said until there is something new to talk about.

I have to agree with Ira, the subject has been pretty much hashed out. That almost has to be the case when you don't see anything from Franklin and no, that's not a slam on him either

I still check from time to time. One of the main reasons I'm not spending as much time here is that the constant pop-ups etc. lock up my PC. Just trying to scroll down to the end produced two popup windows, both of which are blank.

I managed to get the EC to finally vote on the E5 & below discount, which was approved. They told me to be patient with the implementation, I suspect we'll see it around the next ice age.

Big picture, the magazine in dying (EC minutes mention revenue down), on their websites there's mostly old recycled content (helo stuff is showing FLYBAR helicopters), and the government affairs folks seem resigned to the fact they're losing the registration battle. The EC seems to be spending a lot more time courting commercial flying now, which I think endangers their base, but they keep saying they know best.

With Irma, and assuming max help for clubs affected as $500, they're looking at $60,000 just for clubs in Florida. Texas, Georgia, the Carolinas, etc. will add some to that. Have to wonder if they might like to have back some of that $14K a year they spend just for the EC to have face to face meetings?

And despite them talking about 180,000 members and 2400 clubs, it's looking like paid members are around 129K and as of yesterday there's just 2273 clubs on the charted club site.

Franklin,
There shouldn't be any pop-ups coming from RCU. While we do have third party ads show up, none of them are supposed to be pop-ups. I'll bring this up to the tech team to verify that we aren't using that code.

Ken

Ken, I've been getting slammed by an add that shows up to the right of the thread boxes with a bunch of guys wearing suits and carrying a canoe or kayak. There isn't any way to shut the add down and, once it shows up, it repeats continuously. Every time it pops up, it pulls the page up to where it's visible and holds it there. I haven't seen it in the boating forum, not yet anyway.
Damn, miracles happen. I just managed to make a post without having to fight that add. That's the first time in over a week. Something else, I don't have the issue at home, only at work so I'm assuming work doesn't have a really good pop-up blocker. I just noticed, however, that there are two adds for someplace called "Tattu", advertising low cost batteries. This is a new one on me since I've never heard of them before
I stand corrected, the canoe/kayak add is now in the boating forum. It's easily recognizable since it's a small video player with large black bars above and below

Ken,

To assist your trouble shooting, here's what's happening. I've tried it twice to confirm I could duplicate:
- Log in
- Open thread
- BEFORE thread is completely loaded, with cursor in the field of the browser screen, scroll down using mouse scroll wheel
Results in multiple new windows opening, each with "The webpage could not be displayed"

After page fully loads, it seems to scroll fine. But even as I type this, the text will just stop showing up on the screen, presumably because some script is running. I'll have typed whole words or multiple words, w/o anything showing on screen. When there's a break in the script, perhaps the first letter might show. It's really frustrating.

Frank

I wonder if your issue and the ad issue I have been seeing are related?

Hey guys, we are aware of the redirecting ads, but the more screenshots you can provide, the better.

;) Guys , I know zip about computers , but right now the computer Gods must like me cause I'm not experiencing any of the problems that some are reporting here . Funny coincidence is that I belong to a different hobby site that uses the same forum format as RCU now uses and some users there report similar problems as are being reported here , the multiple loading pages with Ad problems & such . That site I'm referring to is called "VideoKarma" and is a site for collectors of old film cameras , film projectors , and vacuum tube TVs from around the 1960s back to the 1930s when the first prototype TVs were being built . Maybe you could ask the admins there how they stopped the problem ? Anyway if there is anything I can tell you about my computer that may be different as to why I'm not experiencing the troubles some folks are just ask , as long as you keep the questions basic enough for an old computer luddite to understand ....

Looks like it's back to "Cricket Time" since no one has posted anything since I did two weeks ago

And, once again, it's time for the crickets to chirp. I guess all of the bad weather and (do I dare say this) snow has everyone hunkered down in their shops or in front of a space heater

Contrair Mr. Hydro....it is a blooming 90 degree, sunny day here in Paradise.....

i think this last upgrade has got a bunch of folks bamboozled.

Speak for yourself. Up in the Puget Sound Basin of Western Washington, we have upper 40s and RAIN!!!!!!!!!
That could very well be the case

Really nothing to say that hasn't been said over and over and over.

Mike

Looks like it's "cricket time" again.
At least, this time anyway, we don't have to deal with "pop up" ads

EVERYBODY has EVERYBODY on ignore! LOL

Astro

I’ve moved on to other forums RCU has seen its better
days.
Mike

Yep. About 15 years ago!

Astro

19 days left in the NPRM comment period. That's the most important thing right now...

As of 6am Pacific time, we have over 200 members online, so I'm not quite sure why the talk of "no one is on here". To say that (all forums, not just RC-related) forums were more active 15 years ago is accurate, because of the changing landscape of the internet. Facebook wasn't invented 15 years ago, Instagram wasn't around 10 years ago. The nature of sites changes, but I can assure you RCU is quite active, having thousands of unique monthly logged-in users (and I know, I pull the stats).

:rolleyes: Gee I'd sure like to give this post a "Like" , but since we ruffians in the AMA subforum can't be trusted with the like post button , I guess we'll just have to press on without it .....

When we use the term "crickets", it just means that no one has posted in any of the AMA forum threads in a few days, not that the forum is without activity.

Active, relevant, and, “seen its better days”, are three different things.....

Astro

Don't worry, I'm back to drop my RC knowledge on you knuckleheads...

Anyone have something to quiet the "crickets"? It seems that, once again, everyone is "typed out"

RC Universe is pretty much on life support now.

Mike

I don't think I'd go quite that far but several areas of the airplane forum sure seem that way.

The only time I bother to visit here is when I get a notice,

Mike

It really is strange to me, the lack of activity here. The forums are really well organized and finding things is easy. Not sure how one would raise awareness.