Lou_tribal
Guru
Recently I read a thread about closing OTDE and wanted to react and especially to our fellows owners/moderators.
First of all I am no OTDE aficionado, not a regular reader and even less a regular poster.
I understand the point of our moderators that this forum subject is boat and trawlers and not polemical subjects about political subject, religion or personal stuff.
However I think I will make no mistake to mention that this forum is far more than just boat talk.
This forum is a community of people passionated with trawlers and more globally boats. Here we find all sort of social profiles, each with its own particularity. It is a place ( even if in the cyber space ) where people sharing same passion are coming to discuss, get to know each others, get to like or dislike each others, like it would happen in any other social place. TF is a kind of village, a little port full of trawler fans.
As within any community people share, talk, exchange...
So it is legitimate that people talk about anything about life, great events, sad ones, personal opinions, like it or not, it is all about socializing, exchange and being a great community. This is what makes a community, exchange...
So yes, maybe OTDE was going beyond, sometimes too far, less politically correct, with tensions and conflicting point of view. But hey! This is inherent to a community, people talk, people share like it or not.
Yes people can go somewhere else to do so, but isn't it the best place for trawler fans?
I may be a dreamer but for me TF is like the small bistro you can find nearby in a fishermen port, a place where people gather, have a good drink and talk, with all the passion that makes them great, a great warm place where to hang. So don't be too hard with the ones that go beyond, some are just more expressive and passionated, but even if I do not agree, even if I think differently, I still like to share with them, this is what makes a community.
Cheers!
L
First of all I am no OTDE aficionado, not a regular reader and even less a regular poster.
I understand the point of our moderators that this forum subject is boat and trawlers and not polemical subjects about political subject, religion or personal stuff.
However I think I will make no mistake to mention that this forum is far more than just boat talk.
This forum is a community of people passionated with trawlers and more globally boats. Here we find all sort of social profiles, each with its own particularity. It is a place ( even if in the cyber space ) where people sharing same passion are coming to discuss, get to know each others, get to like or dislike each others, like it would happen in any other social place. TF is a kind of village, a little port full of trawler fans.
As within any community people share, talk, exchange...
So it is legitimate that people talk about anything about life, great events, sad ones, personal opinions, like it or not, it is all about socializing, exchange and being a great community. This is what makes a community, exchange...
So yes, maybe OTDE was going beyond, sometimes too far, less politically correct, with tensions and conflicting point of view. But hey! This is inherent to a community, people talk, people share like it or not.
Yes people can go somewhere else to do so, but isn't it the best place for trawler fans?
I may be a dreamer but for me TF is like the small bistro you can find nearby in a fishermen port, a place where people gather, have a good drink and talk, with all the passion that makes them great, a great warm place where to hang. So don't be too hard with the ones that go beyond, some are just more expressive and passionated, but even if I do not agree, even if I think differently, I still like to share with them, this is what makes a community.
Cheers!
L
But I do read tons of stuff and have read over the few years I have been here and still like the content. But if the first few lines don't hold my current interest, I scroll along and find something else to kill time reading, rarely getting upset from something on the net filled with opinions.
