Hi Martha - Glad you like your boat.* Great that the broker came with you!* This is a very good forum.* Many smart boaters, lots of great answers.* Search archives and you will find pretty much what you want to learn.* Although visits have slowed it seems that new owner*Andy R will get items back in order.* Happy boating days!! - ArtRuthless wrote:
I also noticed it seems quiet in terms of posts...
I am a new member and we just purchased our boat in January, so I laughed when I saw "veteran member" next to my name which really just means I ask a ton of questions. We are bringing our boat home, up from NC to the Chesapeake next week and we are very excited. We have our broker coming with us which was a great service add on when choosing him, he is so knowledgeable and we are not so much.
*I respectfully disagree. There are new and active threads daily. I've been here for 3 years and it doesn't seem slow here to me at all.Art wrote:Ruthless wrote:
I also noticed it seems quiet in terms of posts...
Although visits have slowed it seems that new owner*Andy R will get items back in order.* Happy boating days!! - Art
*I respectfully disagree. There are new and active threads daily. I've been here for 3 years and it doesn't seem slow here to me at all.GonzoF1 wrote:Art wrote:Ruthless wrote:
I also noticed it seems quiet in terms of posts...
Although visits have slowed it seems that new owner*Andy R will get items back in order.* Happy boating days!! - Art
Andy R:* I ask respectfully... approx 20X drop after*short*increase/flurry due to unexpected OTDE closing, temp or otherwise... seems pretty severe, is it not?Andy R wrote:
I just looked at the stats of the total posts per week and they seem to be inline with normal averages from the past.* You can see a pronounced slow down from a couple weeks ago and that is probably attributed to the temporary closure of OTDE.* Following the closure a flurry of posts increased posts counts and with OTDE temporarily closed we have less posts in that section lowering the average as well.
*psneeld wrote:
And I could care less about OTDE...
Same here.* If I wanted to argue with idiots and such, I would go back to some other boating forums.
Ron Ive read several of your posts, in other threads than this.* Believing I somewhat comprehend your origin, I would like to remind and recommend...rwidman wrote:psneeld wrote:
And I could care less about OTDE...
Same here.* If I wanted to argue with idiots and such, I would go back to some other boating forums.*
*I'm not sure what all of the yammering is about.* Last week was not as low as week 49 or 52 in 2011 and OTDE was at it full antics.* Yes the graph fell off but that was because it represented one day instead of seven like the other points.* Also you have one person that posts only to OTDE and they have not posed at all.GonzoF1 wrote:
I don't see that Andy's graph says anything other than the OVERALL number of posts are down. Having fewer posts of non-boating related stuff doesn't mean anything about the state of the rest of the community. Your displeasure of the temporary locking of OTDE is noted and well documented, but try not to read into it that the TF are on the edge of the abyss. If we closed the Power Systems thread, the number would drop too. Maybe not at the same rate, but that's because OTDE has a few people that really post often.
Patience grasshopper.
*rwidman wrote:psneeld wrote:
And I could care less about OTDE...
Same here.* If I wanted to argue with idiots and such, I would go back to some other boating forums.
*We live in Rehoboth and the boat we bought is in Manteo, NC.* We are heading up on Monday for Mears Point in Kent Narrows, MD.* Our slip starts April 1 so we have been exploring NC and enjoying the slightly warmer temps down there but it is quite a drive and we are looking forward to having her close.LarryW wrote:
Hey Martha. Where on the Chesapeake are you going to keep your boat. I'm headed up to Seaford DE this weekend to visit my boat. I sold it to a great guy from NC and we're going for a short cruise this next week on the upper bay. Larry
-- Edited by LarryW on Tuesday 27th of March 2012 04:57:59 AM
*Markmarkpierce wrote:
Well, Art.* It looks like people who don't post also don't vote.* The vote ratio of those that do and don't post is nearly the inverse of those that look but don't post.* Or something like that as I was never outstanding in the field of statistics.
*Don't you miss Ancora too?skipperdude wrote:
No Marin, no Eric, no Seahorse. Just a few who haven't been posting.
Haven't heard from Moonstruck or*old stone in a while either.
Just wondering.
SD