First, I do want to say thank you for your service to this country. It is deserving of great respect . . . .
A couple of days ago I added to this topic to express my views on it, mostly geared to defend some folks and explain why I think this issue is bothersome to some of us, and you kind of ridiculed it just like you did to them - and that is fine. Life goes on, and we are all entitled to our opinion. But I see that you continue doing it to pretty much everyone that shares sympathy with the goal of doing something positive on this topic - again, and again . . . And that prompted me to take a few minutes to scan your posts here to see what “camp” you fall into here as, at least in this post, you seem to spend your time and effort belittling those that share that goal . . . .
It looks like there a lot of your posts are just complaints about people in the same vein as here. Lots of short comments too. There were a few short helpful posts on your Factor RC, and a particularly helpful but brief one on the use of red dot sights. I did not spend a ton of time looking, but I saw no sign that you take any real amount of time to help newbies here - despite blasting us “elites” for our attitude towards new airgunners. This despite the obvious fact that we are the very people that do take the time to answer the questions, and to repeat answers, if required. You seem to insist that we are opposed to those people asking questions at all, rather than expressing views that it would be great if we could find a way to avoid having to do that (admittedly along with the frustration it causes).
I am fairly new on this forum as well, but I came here from many other airgun forums that I have participated in over the years (many now defunct). In all of them I have spent a lot of my time helping others, with some responses to posts taking over an hour to fully compose, edit, verify - and often multiple times, as even I could not find my prior answers with their horrible search tools. I know that many of the folks on this post that you belittle do the same thing. And yes, it is frustrating to see a question asked by somebody that clearly did not take the time to search or even scan a few pages into the appropriate sub-forum where the answer already is – often because they don’t know where to begin, through no fault of their own.
I can’t speak for the OP – maybe he was just trying to stir crap up. But many have added to this post with the view of improving things in some manner. We are not explicitly deriding the new users – although a few are possibly worthy of it – but expressing frustration on the process. I for one, will continue to help new members by providing answers to their questions, often with links to earlier answers that I wrote or find. I’m sure many of the other “elitists” here that you deride for also wanting to see the process improve will be doing the same.
Again, thank you for your service to our country - but here, at least in my opinion, not so much. I do hope that something good comes from the positive ideas in this thread, like a FAQ section that could function like a Wiki with editable answers to keep things brief and easy to read for new users (a lot like fellow elitist Nervoustrig mentioned in response #5) . . . let the flaming begin; I am done with this thread.
