maybe 50 posts?
Just the thought of actually having to "work" anymore gives me the shivers now...the whole responsibility thing, the bottom line, paying bills...nah. No more of that noise for me. Mods have a Ban Button; but we rarely hit it. We have specific guidelines concerning such things. The system software itself normally takes care of that for us anyway, by awarding negative points to people for rules infractions. It's actually a pretty good system; say a member just will NOT abide by the rules, well, he gets dinged. After so many negative dings, he gets a time-out, automatically awarded to him by the software . Now say he's a slow learner and keeps breaking the rules: the system will get triggered and BAM! The ban hammer comers outta the sky, like magic, and he is GONE. Keeps the place clean, and the disgruntled riff-raff drifts off elsewhere.
You can ignore away from the get-go
I remember when forums were hot and you couldn't go 30 minutes without checking in. Now not so much. Been several days and I just bumped in. I quit several of the big ones when they were bought out and squeezed for profits. Just not what they used to be.
+1
yall sound like a bunch of whiners and got your panties all wadded up lmao
A few folk liked the classifieds better when they had the market cornered and could snatch up firearms at special pricing for OSA Family. They would peddle those wares at gun shows etc. and pocket the profits. Once that was became common knowledge it caused a little rift in the family. Some shrugged it off and decided no more special pricing for the OSA Family. We also were under a heavy handed and often times unfair moderation at the same time. Some good members left during the duress. Ownership changed hands a couple of times and that brought along change as well.
Some miss the friends and family communication, support and meet ups of the old OSA community others miss the friends and family pricing of the classifieds.
Changes came with new ownership and some came as a reaction to behavior of some members.
Some miss the friends and family communication, support and meet ups of the old OSA community others miss the friends and family pricing of the classifieds.
Changes came with new ownership and some came as a reaction to behavior of some members.
I enjoy this group just the way it is. Changes happen and that is usually the result of someone pushing the limit a bit too far. I have met some very nice people here.
It is just so easy to skip over a classified posting that doesn't meet my current want list, and just as easy to skip over a post from someone that has a different opinion and has shown that they have no interest in listening to another view.
Running a forum is a lot like trying to keep a group of kindergarten kids listening to the reading of a book.
It is just so easy to skip over a classified posting that doesn't meet my current want list, and just as easy to skip over a post from someone that has a different opinion and has shown that they have no interest in listening to another view.
Running a forum is a lot like trying to keep a group of kindergarten kids listening to the reading of a book.
I agree, I enjoy this place or I wouldn't log on every free minute I have lol. I know some don't care for me and I know I'm on a few ignore list but hey, if we all agreed and got along perfect, what a boring place life would be. I've learned a lot here, changed my thinking a lot over the years and hope I have shared a bit of knowledge to someone else.
That's all we really can hope for in life anyway I guess.
Running a forum can be easy or difficult depending on the size of membership. I ran and administered a forum once for about 6 years but it was a small niche of guys all running used vegi oil for fuel in diesel engines (yes, that is a very real thing and I did it for over 200k miles). The group was always focused strictly on that topic and there was 0 talk of politics or anything else. That made it easy. I was forum admin and also the go to guy for troubleshooting the engine/fuel system conversion we ran as well as part owner in the company as a new system designer. Just like OSA, it had a common topic, here its guns but how much can a real large group actually talk about guns when they aren't designing new platforms or experimenting with a new design of ammo or slide, barrel...etc. That forum was easy to run other than trying to promote it and get more members all the time.
So the admin here, is absent all the time and that's a fundamental problem.
He should be on here every day promoting something to do with firearms, 2A, ammo reloading, buying, selling...but he is not.
I've considered buying this forum and running it the proper way, and for the most part, it runs itself pretty well, but so does an airplane with 300 million miles on it, until it doesnt.
