Thread: The Dog Found Another Bone, or Why I Come Here.

My apologies if this should offend anyone, I really do not intend to ruffle any feathers, but I cannot help noticing that we have an increase in The Dog Carried Another Bone Into the House messages that have little to do with sharing experiences, learning new things, increasing one’s knowledge, or improving one’s technique - all reasons that I come here for in the first place.
On the contrary, I consider these messages “chaff” that while they inflate the number of posts they do not add real substance to our discussions and might even water down the reputation of this site.

I refer to posts where someone posts his latest discoveries without reflecting on it, having first hand experience, or providing a meaningful review, because the poster seemingly never used the item himself and has no deeper knowledge about it except for finding it one the Internet. Some of these posts even provide links to sites where the item is shown as “out of stock”, which could be taken as an indicator how deep the poster researches what he posts on this site.

Maybe I am alone with my opinion, or do you share with me the idea that posts on this site should have some more significance and weight?

Just bear with me, maybe it’s all because I am a 70 year old curmudgeon who is beyond redemption , but to me at least it diminishes the buzz that I used to get when visiting this site.

I repeat, I do not intend to offend anyone, but maybe there are people who feel like me and we could motivate people to dig a little bit deeper before they post their latest discoveries here.


What do you think, and do you agree with me that the quality of posts should eclipse quantity?



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