Why I like Chiff and Fipple.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 4:05 pm

I just wanted to say what a joy it is to be a part of this community. When I first started going to message boards I didn't take them seriously. To me I felt it was impossible to really know people when all you saw was the words they wrote. I treated it like a joke. Over the past few years I've discovered there are real folks on the other side of every letter. Since I've hung out here I've met several of you and consider you my friends. The recent Redwolf Incident (heretofore known as the Great Redwolf Incident or GDI) has once again proven how human and caring we all are. I'll never cease to be amazed how a community that exists because of electronic microchips can be so real.

And if you're ever in Kalamazoo, let me know and I'll drop everything and show you around. That should take all of 15 minutes.

avanutria · Post by **avanutria** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 4:14 pm

Flyingcursor wrote:...(heretofore known as the Great Redwolf Incident or GDI)...

Interesting choice of initials there.

But the sentiment is shared.

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 4:40 pm

The first thing he'll show us in Kalamazoo is how they translate from English into Kalamazooan.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 4:56 pm

I too, have never been addicted by the sense of neighborhood at any other site, as I am here.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 5:04 pm

I have never been enthusiastic about message boards... until I ran across this one. The sense of community here is, at times, overwhelmingly warm and inviting, regardless of the ocassional flame war that breaks out. I honestly consider every one here my extended family and I do hope to meet you all someday.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 5:05 pm

After the Hurricane..if that's OK with you..
Slan,
D.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 5:14 pm

dubhlinn wrote:After the Hurricane..if that's OK with you..
Slan,
D.

... yes, certainly.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 5:20 pm

Hic..
Got Neil Youngs "Like a Hurricane" cranked up now...

Different crack though..

Ah well...

Thought that counts ..I suppose...

Slan,
D.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:04 pm

This board is an oddity in the world of internet message boards, and I'm extremely happy that I stumbled upon it. You all have honestly become like extended family to me, and it's funny how you all contribute so much to my daily life and you aren't even aware of that

I think my family here knows more about all of you than you know about them

Thank you all for helping to create what has become a "home away from home" for so many of us

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 7:35 pm

I really appreciate how most of the folk here on these boards (well, at least the Whistle and Postcultural Pub) actually treat each other as if we were at a table together in some pub, or one of our kitchens. Much more friendly than the assumed annonimity that many people online tend to hide behind and throw tings from. I feel like there are real friends here, not just pretend.

Thanks Flyguy, for reminding us to give thanks.

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 7:47 pm

Flyingcursor wrote:I just wanted to say what a joy it is to be a part of this community.

Yep, it sure is. Thanks everyone!

s1m0n · Post by **s1m0n** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:25 pm

There are communities just like this one all over the internet. Pretty much any site in which you linger for more than a few weeks will become a village.

It's all a matter of the degree of investment you make.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:05 pm

s1m0n wrote:There are communities just like this one all over the internet. Pretty much any site in which you linger for more than a few weeks will become a village.

It's all a matter of the degree of investment you make.

I find a good many to be less tolerant, and frankly, kind of testy toward one another. While C&F gets in its fair share of uproars, it hasn't that unfriendly feeling you find in so many web communities (boards, lists, etc.).

I was just thinking about this, here lately.

Wormdiet · Post by **Wormdiet** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 11:10 pm

My thought is that once a community grows beyond a certain size, it doesn't work. Case in point - my other hobby is electric guitar. The two sites I used to frequent couldn;t be more different. One, the Rickenbacker Forum, feels very much like C&F in certain respects. Except the population is mostly Beatles-obsessed baby boomers. But they (we?) are great guys.

Harmony Central, OTOH, is HUGE. And filled with all sorts of juvenile behavior that makes the makes episodes here seem like high tea at Windsor Palace. The difference is night and day.

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 9:48 am

Wormdiet wrote:Harmony Central, OTOH, is HUGE. And filled with all sorts of juvenile behavior that makes the makes episodes here seem like high tea at Windsor Palace. The difference is night and day.

This is a sentiment that I've heard applied to the Internet in general.
Back when the only people who were on the Internet were computer science
students and engineering professionals, the rules were clear and enforceable.
You didn't download files until you uploaded some. You read the FAQ before
posting, because if you asked a question that was answered in the FAQ, you
darn well got flamed extra-crispy. Then AOL and other mainstream ISPs
started to take off, and everything changed. There were so many people on
the internet, that the technocracy was overwhelmed. For a while, there was
chaos everywhere. Thankfully, that settled down to certain corners of the 'net,
and now we have something of a free-market economy. If you don't like how
one board is run, go to another one...

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