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WoodyS
Trad climber
Riverside
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 23, 2005 - 02:26pm PT
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There has been complaining about what topics should be on a climbing forum recently, particularly this one.
There are hundreds of thousands of forums on the net today, and most suck: they're ideological or exceedingly narrow. I know because I read many of them to keep up on fanatical, nut thought on all extremes.
This forum is perfect for a wide range of discussion and debate because of the wide spectrum of individuals that attend to it. Here you have the full range of education, vocation, age, mental health and intelligence(ah, yeah, for sure.) You also have an immense range in life experience due to much world travel, adventure and near death experience(I just had another one last week. That makes three of four this month.) Further, here you have an opinionated, individualistic bunch that due to various psychological defects, quirks, neuroses, fetishes and bad habits
need to vent. On the whole, this is a frightening cross section of American thought.
Those that want only climbing subjects on this forum would soon find far fewer people visiting; that includes climbers who have a life beyond the rock or mountain.
As a rockclimber and moutaineer for over forty years, I can say, with reasonable authority, climbing stories and related subject matter is, after a short time, BORING as hell if that's all you've got. Maybe it's because, at my age, I've heard it all or a variation of it scores of times. This forum allows all the climbing threads you want to place. So place them and skip the ones you're not interested in.
Which reminds me, I have a non-climbing thread to place after I'm finished here. Complainers are advised to ignore it, or else.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Dec 23, 2005 - 02:41pm PT
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WoodyS, I am beginning to like you. But not in a weird sense of way. Let's keep sparring with one another, it keeps me on my toes and also makes me think with a different mindset.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Dec 23, 2005 - 03:44pm PT
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Locker, I think that just about every true person on this forum are decent people, even those that worship guns (see the other thread), and I would no doubt have any qualms of tying in on a rope with you all.
In fact, I would look forward to it, especially those who have done El Cap, as I never finished that puppy. Sad to say. But I will someday, and hopefully then some...
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dmitry
Trad climber
Chita, Russia
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Dec 23, 2005 - 03:55pm PT
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I don't know, there seems to be a fair number of purely virtual personalities on this forum.
I wouldn't bother tying in with those :)
Cheers,
d
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Dec 23, 2005 - 03:57pm PT
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Dmitry, call me naive, but I don't think there are that many trolls on this forum. If there are, it must be very crowded under that virtual bridge.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 24, 2005 - 04:51am PT
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There was a naval battle in WWII described as a free for all knife fight in a crowded pitch black room.
Not a place I'd really like to be. But this place isn't really real so while its similar to that in nature the implications aren't as bad.
We don't need to separate topics. Leave that to the bottle washers and button sorters.
But if you want true access and participation then some kind of accomodation for dial up users to load parts of a longer thread is called for.
When I see a high reply count I just walk past rather than choke on it.
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