Do you ever deliberately avoid THR topics?

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Ones that start with "Should I buy a Glock?" I know there will be 100 answers and half will be, "Glock's the greatest", and the other half will be, "I hate Glocks." So why waste my time?
 
I don't avoid too many. The only ones I can think of offhand are any that include the word "BEST" in the title.

There are a number that I don't check out as they appear to not interest me but that's not the same as active avoidance - it takes a "BEST" for that.

Best press
Best semi
Best _____ for my wife
Best caliber
Best revolver
Best custom 1911 with 90% coverage engraving for under 350.00
Best HD shotgun

I also avoid, to a lesser extent, anything with the word "shottie" in the title unless it's obvious the poster is talking about SHOT show spokesmodels. For that matter, "Bushie", "Remmie", "Mossy" and similar will probably do as well as an indication of something in the thread that will annoy me and is best avoided.
 
I only look at the first 5 pages each day. The topic of the post must be clearly delineated by the heading. Grammar and spelling must be correct. The topic must be relevant to me. No internet slang such as "UR". Typically, I'm done with THR in five minutes or less and am on to TFL and ARFCOM where I apply the same standards.
 
If a mod has locked the thrread, I skip over it.
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I usually go to the end of the thread to see WHY it locked. Sometimes it's not because of anything negative but only because the moderators wanted to move things in a different direction.
 
Even the best message boards have periods of chaff and boredom for me. It's not the boards or the posters' faults. It's just that I reach a point where I'm more in the mood to create roleplaying game characters than discuss putting holes in paper or discussing the neatest and latest whiz bang shoot-em-up technology.
 
Eleven Mike said:
Any thread starting with "I'm probably gonna get flamed/banned for this, but..."
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Oh, I used to fear getting ripped up in a forum myself.

But then, I started to read the average rebuttal, and my hesitation soon waned. Most criticism goes like this:

"Tourist, I was very wroth with you this afternoon when you criticized my "high water" tactical pants on the forum. My mother picked out those trousers! Not only am I angry, but mommie was so upset she skipped bingo tonight! Even my rabbit, Mr. Whiskers, wasn't himself. I just know I'm going to be jumpy patrolling the food court tonight..."

Hey, so you get flamed. Two guys agree. Two guys disagree. Fifty guys compliment you with PMs.
 
I tried to avoid this one, but 7 pages caught my attention.

And any threads about...."Man shoots home invader" or something like it. Its the same story over and over and over just in different houses.
 
"Tourist, I was very wroth with you this afternoon when you criticized my "high water" tactical pants on the forum. My mother picked out those trousers! Not only am I angry, but mommie was so upset she skipped bingo tonight! Even my rabbit, Mr. Whiskers, wasn't himself. I just know I'm going to be jumpy patrolling the food court tonight..."
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I lol'd.
 
Any thread starting with "I'm probably gonna get flamed/banned for this, but..."

I can't put into words just what is wrong with those.
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I think people do that in the hope that half the posts won't be from self-appointed forum cops telling them what to do, but actual responses to the topic. Since it never works, you are probably correct...
 
I think I'm going to start avoiding threads on open carry, should 18 year olds be allowed to CCW, should you let a homeowner know that you have a concealed weapon on you, is THR "elitist", etc. :rolleyes:
 
Great thread, personally I avoid the caliber discussions especially in handguns (cause if you carry anything less than .4?) hehe just kidding but yeah I have actually been avoiding the legal stuff mostly as of late cause its just frustrating.
 
Lately I find myself avoiding THR all together.

The quality of the discourse here has really declined over the last year or so (which is to be expected as the membership gets larger) which has forced the moderating to get heavier handed (again, I don't blame the mods), so this place is just not as much fun to post in anymore.

Honestly the online RKBA community in general is kind of a mess right now and I suspect in this politically charged season that most RKBA and other "conservative" political sites have been heavily infiltrated by monkey-wrenching/trolling Obamites and other assorted leftists.
 
Any thread starting with "I'm probably gonna get flamed/banned for this, but..."

I can't put into words just what is wrong with those.
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I think people do that in the hope that half the posts won't be from self-appointed forum cops telling them what to do, but actual responses to the topic. Since it never works, you are probably correct...
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Oh, I used to fear getting ripped up in a forum myself.
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I was talking about threads like "Hunting is evil," or "Why would anyone want to own a handgun anyway?"
 
Honestly the online RKBA community in general is kind of a mess right now and I suspect in this politically charged season that most RKBA and other "conservative" political sites have been heavily infiltrated by monkey-wrenching/trolling Obamites and other assorted leftists.
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Mostly, it's because we're all split over the Libertarian/Ron Paul/John McCain/Romney/Thompson/Huckabee issue. Those splits have been there, they just get more heated in the campaign season.
 
Robert Hairless wrote:

Perhaps it's worth remembering from time to time that many of the gun experts, legal scholars, political strategists, experts on child rearing, and learned philosophers in this forum seem to have been born between 1980 and 1988. All they can possibly know firsthand about life, the universe, and everything is held within a container defined by three presidencies (George H.W. Bush, William Jefferson Clinton, and George W. Bush) and several years of attendance at institutions. Thus armed, they know what they know. What they know best is the major lesson their immediate elders have drilled into them: challenge authority. Which means that they know not to accept anything anyone else knows. Some forum members are hatchlings about 15 years of age more or less.

There is, however, a bright side. Anyone who plays serious poker is always on the lookout for what we used to call "pigeons." These are people of great certainties but almost no achievement. The best pigeons learned slowly or not at all, and their self-confidence was unshakeable. They knew everything, and we openly admired them. Often.

In my younger days there was a chronic shortage of pigeons. They were an endangered species because it was relatively rare then for parents to teach their offspring to be dependent incompetents. Now, however, the species has recovered and is plentiful. There will be many years in which to harvest the pigeons.
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That post was excellent, and true. After a while people get tired of being shouted down by guys who've "BEEN THERE DONE THAT" - when the true guys who've BTDT stay quiet. Why should they argue with guys who work "security" and "may or may not" have arrest powers? Zundfoldge had another great post and it shows how many of the good ones drift away and we're left with the "experts".
 
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