Ok, just have to check on this...
Yeah, yeah, it's been a hectic few months out here in Reality World, and I apologize for not being a more active participant. In a perfect world, I'd start a new thread every day and respond to the dozens of threads popping up about pens, inks, papers, fun, writing, life, life with pens, more pens, and other pen stuff.
But now, when I look at the "What's New?" stream, it seems like all I see are things FOR SALE. And a whole lot of them by people with one or few posts to their names, very obviously people who have come to the FPG forum for no other reason than to sell something. Not get involved. Not chat. Not talk about the things I mentioned above, just SELL.
Is this because of the hose job done on the FPN sales forums by virtue of the perfect storm of weirdly set up rules and that Claudio guy? Is it just the rep that FPG is an easy place to post thing and gets a lot of sales? Are people tired of eBay and they are dumping stuff here first?
I just don't get it.
I've always been glad for a sales area, but I've always liked that it was primarily frequented by people who were active in the forum itself. If the trend continues, and we have less community and more commerce (ack), I see very little need for my regular perusing. No, no one has violated any rules (written ones, at least), and they have a right to do it. But seeing as this joint runs mainly with no administration whatsoever, and has no guiding hand on the rudder of the community, it can very easily slip into another faceless commercial blot on the Earth. Or Internet. You understand.
I'm looking at having more available time in the coming months, and I wanted to become active again. I hope there are still people around that want to do something other than hawk their wares.
Discuss.
With all my usual good regards,
Jon
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