Natural Order.
Not just THR, Internet Communications as a whole are experiencing the same concerns
Stages of progression coupled with the stages of new users to a concept / tool.
1. Societal.
No offense, still the reality kids were raised and parents and adults mentored kids. Manners, respect, and behaved. It did not matter race, income level, education level, society was mentoring kids to be civil, and polite. In like turn when these kids became older, they were Mentors to the cycle of kids coming up.
2. Advances in Technology.
Early days of Internet, was limited to those in more Professional environments.
Military, Academia, Science and others were the pioneers and users of Computers and Internet access.
Computers were expensive and so was the time on Internet.
J.Q.Public could not afford all this.
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THR is experiencing what other IT related venues are experiencing- folks that were raised, not being mentored for what ever reason, with affordable computers with affordable Internet access.
Cyclic in regard to new folks coming to THR and having to repeat all over again the same replies to the same questions.
Those that have been mentoring and assisting new folks, sometimes have life matters to attend to and just are not online to assist.
Others "feel" it is time for those they Mentored in Online Discussions, to step up to the plate and Pass Forward as Passed to them with the new folks.
Granted, we have some spoilt brats that do not want to do the Searches, as Public Schools and Indoctrination have "mentored" them they do not have to do anything for themselves, and it is all about "me, me, me".
Reality is, we have an aging society, and some have legitimate physical limits.
They were raised with manners, being civil, polite and Mentoring to others in other genre'.
Computers and Internet and using Forum Software is a totally new concept, and some again have physical limits.
Take a person that was a small town, old country Doctor. He is not stupid, just he can ride a horse, ride in a wagon, to get to house in the sticks...
He has crossed a high creek to get to a house.
He just does not have the skills sets to use this newfangled technology - yet.
Take a Lady with a PhD, and she had bad car wreck, suffered a stroke, whatever.
She admits having a problem and sometimes she will mess up typing, and even admit she had bad days and best to not post as the medicines, or therapy make her cranky.
Folks have been run off.
Folks with a lot of quality information to share and pass forward just got fed up with un-civil, non-polite folks that while they really want what THR has to offer, they really want to be matriculated into the firearms community, have attempted to pass forward by parroting what TV, Movies, Video Games and whatever other input sources they have - and honest to goodness told person such as Pat Roger they were wrong.
Folks themselves want to grow. One cannot pass forward what they do not know.
So of the folks that rarely post, or have left, are educating themselves to grow even more...and hoping the ones they mentored, still participating on THR, are passing onto to the new folks that cycle in.
Kids.
Kids are our future.
Kids are not stupid.
Kids have the same rights as adults. COTUS and BoR says nothing about a person has to be so tall, and weigh so much to have these rights.
Kids read Internet with parents/ adults, just responsible parenting / mentoring.
Do you want your kid , grandkid, niece, nephew, baby sister, baby brother reading some of what is posted?
Why not?
If one is not part of the solution, one may be part of the problem. - anon
MoOm! Do we have a Bastard in the house?
<mom runs to monitor to view THR>
Yes dear we have a Bastard file and Mill file, come on and I will show you the difference.
Great! Now can we mess with that small hand axe, I want to see if I can sharpen one!
"Uncle Steve, guess what mom and I did today?"
"What darlin'"
"Sharpened an axe with a Bastard file and got the neighbor to tell off me to mom for using a dirty word"
*grin*
