12-17-2014, 03:44 AM
[quote Ktrout]
I'm not entirely sure that someone who never posts fishing reports is the best person to decide what is best for BFT. I am not fighting to keep or get rid of the other forum, but someone that doesn't post fishing reports and has been around for years has little skin in this game.[/quote]
I'm not going to read any farther on this post, I get the gist of where it is going.
I've been a member of BFT for a long time, maybe to long. (10 years) I've been to gatherings, donated tackle, donated food, I've given pages of advise, I've helped when I could.
I've also been hammered, last time a few years ago when I drove past Pineview early ice and posted that there was fishing in the narrows. Three days later it was all my fault that people were fishing the narrows and I had ruined the early season fishing. That was how I was treated after 8 years and 2500 posts.
I've probably posted less than 100 times in the 2 years since. I still fish, a lot, but I don't post a lot.
I've had posts get 3,000 views and 3 replies. I'm not into that at all.
If finding out what we are talking about over on the Preferred board matters to you, fish, post about it and you will get to be a part of it.
Being a member over there does not come without it's own commitments, it's not a free for all, you have to post at least one report a month, which some times of year you may have to make a special trip just to keep up. If you open a thread, you are committing to post a reply to that person. Those are the rules. Rules designed to make it an active board of people who are willing to post and comment on posts of others. The main boards are not like that, you can lurk, you don't have to post and you don't have to reply to posts you read.
I think it is good that BFT prefers people who are active and post rather than just read others reports, and now they have a place to call their own.
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I'm not entirely sure that someone who never posts fishing reports is the best person to decide what is best for BFT. I am not fighting to keep or get rid of the other forum, but someone that doesn't post fishing reports and has been around for years has little skin in this game.[/quote]
I'm not going to read any farther on this post, I get the gist of where it is going.
I've been a member of BFT for a long time, maybe to long. (10 years) I've been to gatherings, donated tackle, donated food, I've given pages of advise, I've helped when I could.
I've also been hammered, last time a few years ago when I drove past Pineview early ice and posted that there was fishing in the narrows. Three days later it was all my fault that people were fishing the narrows and I had ruined the early season fishing. That was how I was treated after 8 years and 2500 posts.
I've probably posted less than 100 times in the 2 years since. I still fish, a lot, but I don't post a lot.
I've had posts get 3,000 views and 3 replies. I'm not into that at all.
If finding out what we are talking about over on the Preferred board matters to you, fish, post about it and you will get to be a part of it.
Being a member over there does not come without it's own commitments, it's not a free for all, you have to post at least one report a month, which some times of year you may have to make a special trip just to keep up. If you open a thread, you are committing to post a reply to that person. Those are the rules. Rules designed to make it an active board of people who are willing to post and comment on posts of others. The main boards are not like that, you can lurk, you don't have to post and you don't have to reply to posts you read.
I think it is good that BFT prefers people who are active and post rather than just read others reports, and now they have a place to call their own.
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