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Very well said Robby, thats right people seem to forget that amateur astronomers try to be well rounded people just like everyone else, otherwise we would just be boring freakazoids!
I hope you dont mind me responding to all these threads here.
I used to get upset when my posts and threads were seemingly arbitrarily deleted - but you have got to get it into your heads THIS IS A PRIVATELY OWNED FORUM you cant get past that point - everything begins and ends with that fact. period.
If you think it would be easy to run and maintain a forum of this size with the heavy image content - then you are DREAMING I'm sorry - it would be a very serious comittment.
I too wonder Paul how many of these anonymous complaints people actually post and contribute - I keep thinking of the two old guys/hecklers in the muppets theatre tv show that sat in the private box heaping abuse on the performers after the fact.
As for the serious side of the amateur astronomy in this forum - from my point of view I have seen many great serious threads just lay there dying like flopping fish out of water from lack of interest - u can hear the crickets chirping - maybe these complainers could join in with the serious stuff they so crave ocassionaly?
it seems to me this site leans very heavily to the equipment side of things - if it isnt about bragging what shiny new piece of gear, eyepiece, scope, camera ect. aquired or the forthcoming acquisition of - or something to do with webcam imaging of planets - or organising a get together (as much as i like all this stuff) - there isnt that much interest outside of that - that doesnt seem very well rounded astronomy site to me! . In fact it is very heavy on one side, everyone is on the equipment side of the boat.
There have always been threads on outside interests in this forum - in fact there is less than there used to be - threads like whats your favourite tv show ect. were very popular at one point
I rememember Mike saying once that he modelled this forum on the BAUT forum connected with Universe Today - I started visiting that forum a bit more on Mike's endorsement - and i have to say they talk about anything and everything in there - no holds barred free for all - nothing is sacred! just check out their million threads on ID!! even made me blush!!!
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