Does France in Focus have the rudest members?

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DominicBest · #21 Post by **DominicBest** » Wed Mar 29, 2023 6:34 pm

Hotrodder wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 3:35 pm I am a member and occasional poster on maybe a dozen or so forums. Four are expat sites and all the rest are music, car, DIY electronics, or tech sites. The expat sites are the only ones I ever encounter rudeness, ridicule, pedantry, or oneupmanship.

I’ve found all of the above on various touring motorcycle forums usually after correcting some cliché about visiting France, driving in France or the French.

Polarengineer · #22 Post by **Polarengineer** » Thu Mar 30, 2023 10:09 am

One would have thought hobby sites would not have such varied and controversial topics as a general forum, but I suppose us " know-it-alls" come in every subject.

niemeyjt · #23 Post by **niemeyjt** » Thu Mar 30, 2023 10:22 am

Sometimes I think someone who has bought product X instead of product Y will praise X and dis Y as part of some psychological reassurance that they have not cocked up.

Then a purchaser of product Y disagrees for similar reasons.

exile · #24 Post by **exile** » Thu Mar 30, 2023 11:19 am

Polarengineer wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 10:09 am One would have thought hobby sites would not have such varied and controversial topics as a general forum, but I suppose us " know-it-alls" come in every subject.

You must be joking.

Model railways - you know old men playing gently with trains - a few of the hot topics from the last week or so:
Whether to buy a ready to run model from Hornby or is it better (as in more pure modelling) to buy a kit, construct it and paint and decorate it yourself.
Cheque-book modelling - is just paying someone to do the job for you really modelling?
Are collectors helping or spoiling the hobby.
Are models getting too expensive.

And that's before we get into technical stuff.

L Austin France · Thu Mar 30, 2023 12:43 pm

Polarengineer wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 10:09 am One would have thought hobby sites would not have such varied and controversial topics as a general forum, but I suppose us " know-it-alls" come in every subject.

You're crap at batteries

ajm · #26 Post by **ajm** » Thu Mar 30, 2023 3:04 pm

L Austin France wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 12:43 pm
Polarengineer wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 10:09 am One would have thought hobby sites would not have such varied and controversial topics as a general forum, but I suppose us " know-it-alls" come in every subject.
You're crap at batteries

Q. E. D.

L Austin France · #27 Post by **L Austin France** » Thu Mar 30, 2023 3:55 pm

ajm wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 3:04 pm
L Austin France wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 12:43 pm
Polarengineer wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 10:09 am One would have thought hobby sites would not have such varied and controversial topics as a general forum, but I suppose us " know-it-alls" come in every subject.
You're crap at batteries
Q. E. D.

Care to explain that?

ajm · #28 Post by **ajm** » Thu Mar 30, 2023 6:10 pm

L Austin France wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 3:55 pm
ajm wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 3:04 pm
L Austin France wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 12:43 pm You're crap at batteries
Q. E. D.
Care to explain that?

Read your comment and see if that fits with the title of this thread.

Char · #29 Post by **Char** » Thu Mar 30, 2023 6:14 pm

Play nicely gentlemen please.

ajm · #30 Post by **ajm** » Thu Mar 30, 2023 6:18 pm

Char wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 6:14 pm Play nicely gentlemen please.

I am trying to.