Am I alone in this ??????

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Posted by Perthdodgy on Tuesday, 13. July 2004 at 17:32 Bali Time:


I only get to check out this forum on my week off as I am away for 3 weeks at a time so changes on the forum are much more noticable to me than maybe to others.


But what I have noticed this time is that we have seemed to have inherited an intellectually questionable (read moronic) group of individuals who think that humour consists of mindless repetition of acronyms and a constant deriding of peoples quest of knowledge and information of Bali.


Obviously these people were born with total and complete information of Bali and when they registered on this forum they knew everything allready and so never had to ask any questions of any sort. Now it seems they expect everybody else who is new to this forum to be as knowledgable as they are.

Am I missing something here??


If a newbie (was there once myself) asks a question , they are bombarded with demands to go search the archives along with the accompanying derisory comments.
If the newbie logs off and never returns, I would not blame them given the hostile reception they have recieved. If we dont have new people joining in this forum, we do not get to add to the mix of people that are a form of a family on here,then we are in danger of becoming inbred on this forum.
Archives can and will never give all the answers people are looking for because information is such a fluid thing , what was relevant 6 months ago , most likely wont be relevant now as Bali is a constant state of flux and eternal change.
Anybody and everybody who ever answered questions on this forum with useful, tangible information and stories of their trips, all add to the rich and colourful texture of infomation of Bali.
If I remember correctly this is a travel forum , not a travel archive, I think the web address of this site clearly points this out.


A while back a regular poster of very high respect wrote and posted a genuine funny article. This man had the talent to generate something totally original and was written in his own inimitable style.
But what happened was, a select few of questionable talent and braincell count latched onto this article (read plagiarised) and degenerated into mindless moronic repetition of the contents to the extent that when I did a search of the forum names and it seems that less than 10% of the postings of these people actually had some form of useful info.In other words, more than 90% of their posts are pure rubbish and a waste of bandwidth.
In my time , I have posted some articles of questionable humour and questionable value to others but even my last surviving braincell can work out that interminable repetition can never replace a lack of humour that these individuals constantly display.


may this forum unite and become the goldmine of information it once was.


* Rant mode over*

Cheers PD


Puts on flameproof suit, helmet and underwear to await the onslought of flame


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