Manny and Tony--good men. Good to see that maturity and good sense prevailed. 

Bgrigg

Kumbaya! Peace rings out across the battlefield.

This isn't going to be like that WWI story about opposing forces sharing a Christmas meal and getting back to killing each other the next day, is it?

EDIT--Actually it's just been released on DVD! I just ordered it from Half.com for $12.00! WAHOOO!

in a semi plausible defensive explanitive reasonalbe sorty way... I've been noticing that when I get my email replies to threads latley.. their coming out of order, AND.. not all the wording in the reply is in the email... is anyone esle getting this ? may it be contributing to conflict anarchy??

Thank you Manny. I'll just leave things as they were.

Tony

Some of us are still around managing to reappear now and again to checks out posts. With me, a new job, training to be a firefighter again, SCUBA divng, and volunteering as an Emergency Response Diver has kept me busy enough that my hobby room collected more dust than anything else. Seems I have now found time to dust off the old girl and see where I left off. Right now I am still working on the Skyhawk I was doing for my co-worker and I am piddling around with a P-61 Widow. Winter used to be my "building time" but now with the Dive team I will be ice diving a well so I hope I can make time for my passion at my bench.

Brent

Yeah...  Where is everyone?  I resurrected this thread because the question still applies.  Now more than ever actually.

Active users numbers are getting smaller and smaller. 

I just got a hold of some of the old gaurd here just this week and have asked them to come back.

Most were just tired of the in fighting and the bs that goes along with it.

Thad

KINGTHAD

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Most were just tired of the in fighting and the bs that goes along with it.

Thad

Nailed it.

Quelle surprise !

ModelNerd

 

KINGTHAD:

 

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Most were just tired of the in fighting and the bs that goes along with it.

Thad

 

 

Nailed it.

Yep, same here.

KINGTHAD

I just got a hold of some of the old gaurd here just this week and have asked them to come back.

Most were just tired of the in fighting and the bs that goes along with it.

Thad

The Old Guard, eh?  I've been called old, but never old guard.

...can't you guys just get along?

Manstein's revenge

...can't you guys just get along?

a long what?

.................seems it was only possible under under current rules...................

Sprue-ce Goose

Manstein's revenge:

...can't you guys just get along?

 

a long what?

.................seems it was only possible under under current rules...................

A long row of cupcakes.

I thought it was just the nicer weather attracting everyone outdoors. I've certainly slacked off on both posting and model building; more slacking on the former, less on the latter.

Echo139er

Yeah...  Where is everyone?  I resurrected this thread because the question still applies.  Now more than ever actually.

Active users numbers are getting smaller and smaller. 

I'm still here, but I'm routinely seeing "active users" numbers in the teens, during the day at least. I know I slow down, modeling-wise, in the summer because it's hard to apply a good clear coat while at the ball field... but that number makes me a little nervous.

A Facebook post by FSM staff, blew my mind the other day.  I had no idea there are over 52,000 registered/approved accounts in the forums.

I believe we average high teens to low twenties on logged on users.  Out of those, by doing a quick fly-by, it seems less than a third actively post (I am included in that list).   25 users is only 0.05% based on the FB post below.   Where did everyone go?   I wonder what the numbers were one year ago.

VanceCrozier

 

Echo139er:

 

Yeah...  Where is everyone?  I resurrected this thread because the question still applies.  Now more than ever actually.

Active users numbers are getting smaller and smaller. 

 

 

I'm still here, but I'm routinely seeing "active users" numbers in the teens, during the day at least. I know I slow down, modeling-wise, in the summer because it's hard to apply a good clear coat while at the ball field... but that number makes me a little nervous.

........seems to me that most daytime posts originate from a place of employment, as I have noticed a drop during nights and weekends.

Perhaps employers no longer permit internet access from work.

Or

Fewer members have jobs.

Well somehow my co-worker broke the keyboard on the laptop at the office/lab so I can read stuff on the internet but with about five keys that don't work it's hard to post. So I have to sneak in and use my boss's computer to post during the daytime.

At night when the PC is on I'm normally playing games though I'll drop by and see if anything interesting has come up.

Sprue-ce Goose

 

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Fewer members have jobs.

ouch!

This is my job...

And you are very good at it...........

A shame the FSM forum didn't exist in 1939..........

Manstein's revenge

This is my job...

Where do I send my resume??

Echo139er

A Facebook post by FSM staff, blew my mind the other day.  I had no idea there are over 52,000 registered/approved accounts in the forums.

I believe we average high teens to low twenties on logged on users.  Out of those, by doing a quick fly-by, it seems less than a third actively post (I am included in that list).   25 users is only 0.05% based on the FB post below.   Where did everyone go?   I wonder what the numbers were one year ago.

Yes, it seems many sign up and drop out rather quickly. At least a few of us "old-guard" are still kicking along.

Uhhggg. There they go with the "Old" thing again.

Haha lol, ain't nobody 'old' around here when you're on a forum I would say,

But in my, I think 6 months that I've been here, I allready seen alot of guys just coming onto this forum and like post one little thing and never come back again, or maybe like 7posts and dissappear back to the vastness of the internet.

iraqiwildman

It's all Manny's fault.

I come on here now and then but since I have been working overseas for the past five years I have very little to contribute. I don't have a space big enough to work on a model or the time. One of these days though I may be able to share and join in.

I've been on this forum for nearly a decade. It could be a factor of just not having anything to post. Some guys feel the need to post just to post something. Sort of like the dude who tries to start a conversation with you while you're using the urinal.

If I have something to add, I'll do so. If not, I keep to myself until I have the need to post a question, answer one, or post a photo of a kit.

Rob Gronovius

I've been on this forum for nearly a decade. It could be a factor of just not having anything to post. Some guys feel the need to post just to post something. Sort of like the dude who tries to start a conversation with you while you're using the urinal.

Manstein's revenge

 

 

Bad analogy...don't get it.  So do you check the Forum only when relieving yourself? Were you sitting on the toilet when you typed that? 

 

I think  comments like this exemplify why the "long timers" have for the most part left this Forum.

I enjoy humor as well as the next guy, but this comment wasn't really even all that funny. Or relevant to the conversation. It's juvenile potty talk, at best. Post count fodder, at worst. Who really needs it?

But yes, this is a public forum, bla bla bla, and (unfortunately) open to even the self-centered man-children who crave endless attention, with way too much time on their hands, and will say or do about any kooky thing to get it, at the expense of screwing the place up for everyone (which they have, and quite handily).

Seems few have the desire anymore to channel their efforts into useful or otherwise positive endeavors.