As for my trolling friend penicillin... You have now made your opinion known more than once in my threads. I'm sorry I'm using a board which YOU did not create in a way that YOU do not approve of. Apparently I have crossed some of YOUR personal boundaries and I've alarmed YOU for some reason; sorry YOU'RE so easily unbalanced. But since I'm getting plenty of good conversation from other people in my threads this seems to be a problem limited to YOU. So now that YOU'VE made your case why don't YOU leave it at that?...because NOTHING is going to change here on my end, you hear?
Yes. I hear. Please take the time to read my statements below with care.
Your statements are neither rational nor correct, but I do appreciate and understand the sentiment and frustration behind them. At least you called me "friend." I have nothing against you as a person, only your actions here and in other forums. I have not called you names. I am not the only person here and elsewhere whose boundaries your actions have crossed. To assuage your concerns, I have no immediate intent to follow or respond to your every thread. In fairness to myself and others, I will not commit to avoid you forever, because it is apparent that my points are not sinking in. I reserve the right to warn others in the future about your behavior if I believe it is warranted.
With sincerity, here is what I recommend:
First, become an active, contributing member of the community.
This is a pen making community.
Make some pens, ask pen making questions as you learn the craft, and help others by sharing your newly acquired pen making knowledge, successes, and failures. Pen making is what everyone here loves to do, and the off-topic forum is intended for pen makers who want to share other aspects of their lives with their pen making friends. Be a member, make pens, make friends, and then start using the off-topic forums as they were intended. (The same holds true for the woodworking forums. Start making some woodworking projects. Learn the craft.)
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I am not an owner or moderator of Penturners.org, but I doubt that they created the off-topic section to serve as an "instant answer for any topic" source or an ad-hoc social club for people without a demonstrated interest in pen making.
Start a thread in one website forum only. Allow it the time it needs to nurture and develop.
Choose the forum carefully and start your thread there. Let it blossom and grow. Help it stay on track and see what happens. If it fails, dies, or runs into the weeds where you can't get the answers you need, then it is time to consider your options, which may include a new thread elsewhere.
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Blasting the same thread simultaneously in many forums is considered impatient, rude behavior. It is the very essence of spamming those forums. It is made worse because the spammer is not an integrated, active member of those communities, just someone who wants instant gratification, but is unwilling to invest the effort to (a) find the appropriate community and (b) invest their time to contribute to it. Furthermore, it creates confusion for those who belong to multiple related communities, such as Pentuners and other woodworking sites.
When you start a thread, monitor its progress and help your new friends to help you.
All too often, we see a thread started, and then abandoned for long periods, leaving many questions unanswered. Generous, helpful people try to follow up and answer those "one and gone" threads, or where the posters disappear for weeks.
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Recently, Bradley has shown considerable improvement in responding to others in his threads, at least on the forums where I belong.
So now that YOU'VE made your case why don't YOU leave it at that?...because NOTHING is going to change here on my end, you hear?
To my friends at Penturners.org:
I have planted the seeds and done all I can. I have been reasonable and fair. There is nothing more to do but watch and wait.
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The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.