Thread: Adios

Please don't do anything hasty it would be sad to see you go Brian, always enjoyed your posts. I cannot see the admin team removing your pics deliberately. I would guess its Vbulletin.

Sorry to see you go RV, your posts have always been encouraging and helpful. Please reconsider, and stay.

I certainly don't want you to leave. You can still read the forums and if the urge entices you to return you will be welcomed back.

I will also be sad to see you go Brian, but I fully understand the disappointment you are enduring at the moment given the admonitions of the forums about how important it is to load images here because external databases are such unreliable storage providers.

Notwithstanding the image issue and the fact I haven't as yet attempted carving and had more reason to personally interact, I have read many of your posts, admired your work and enjoyed your generous sharing. As you have already said, posting here was being part of a community and you were a visible and highly regarded part of it. Leaving it will diminish it.

It's yet to be seen whether the repeated technical issues are going to prove terminal to these forums as has happened to some others, but unfortunately nothing in cyber space is really reliable and permanent without associated insanely enormous costs. Most probably the bits one would wish to disappear will persist forever and the ones that should last, wont. There is still a lot to be said for self publishing and being in full control of your own content. Several current and other now inactive members here have gone down that route. Some choose to continue to contribute others didn't.

A bit like a Men's Shed really. Perhaps the real value here is the interactions, not the end product.

When I joined the forum I had just started carving, I didn't want to join a carving club for various reasons and decided to teach myself but I needed interaction, advice and encouragement from other carvers so I joined the forum. I remember being pretty nervous about posting the first photo's of my work, the very first person to respond was you Brian, you welcomed me to the forum, offered constructive criticism and encouragement and I think you have commented on every one of my posts since. It won't be the same on this forum without you, I understand you being upset at whatever has caused your photo's to be deleted but I'm asking you, please stay around. Take a breather but but stick around, this forum needs people like you. All the best Rob.

What were you expecting Robson? That your posts and photographs would be on this forum for time immortal?, immemorial?,immeasurable?,immoveable?
Cor blimey, my emails only last so long before they vanish.
Same with the beer in the fridge.
Don't be a quitter.
No one likes quitters.
That's what my friends tell me when I quit smoking.
Anyway, it's up to you to do what you want.
Enjoyed your feedback and posts while you were here.
Cheers

I'll be sorry to see you go RV. , I often learned or was entertained by your posts usually both !
I can understand why you are put off by what happened , one of the great values of a forum is that the posts & knowledge add up to a genuine resource over time - now suddenly all that effort you put in has come to nothing .
Disrespectful to you to say the least & a loss to the forum of a lifetimes experience, this is NOT inevitably the way of the net - there are many forums whose archives are still there in full stretching back till the beginning of the net. In some about art which I am involved with there are contributions from acknowledged world leaders in their field - a vital resource.

However forums are in grave trouble all over the net , it seems that people find the shallowness of pressing a "like" button or find been restricted to 36 characters no problem have won out .
This forum is in technical trouble too, I know since I came here that only half the letters I type in ever come up ! Nothing has ever been done about it .
We should enjoy & make use of forums & put energy into them just as Brian did , they are a valuable resource & they are being thinned out at an alarming rate all over the web.
Mike

I have to agree with Mike. For me the forum has always been about showing the 'what' and in particular the 'how'. Without photo illustrations this becomes totally impossible and therefore, in my opinion at least, totally useless. I don't mind sharing 'tips and tricks' that I've learned over the years and I certainly appreciate getting them from those on this forum with the skill and the willingness to share it. As Mike says, its a compounding resource to which one can refer over and over. I know the sort of work that goes into making these contributions and it is beyond disrespectful to for them to be so mauled by the administration, especially when those illustrations are not carried on the server of the forum but just linked to photo cache sites so there's almost no burden on the host server. I'm inclined to follow Brian into obscurity as far as this forum is concerned....

It's rude to burn the books to heat the library. This is the third (#3)wood carving website which has trashed all old illustrations.

artfulbodger: woodcarving is not theoretical, it's quite a visual treat. Process and technique can only advance the art.
I cannot guess what people do.

I carved before I got here, we will carve on.