I love LRH and it is my primary "go to" place for most things hunting and shooting. I am a member of a few other sites, e.g. Benchrest Central, and while not as active in those, I have always felt welcome and experienced reasonable responses/dialog even where opinions differ.
Recently had a surprising experience with another site where I signed up because I wanted to purchase something posted in their classifieds. This site (like some others) has a minimum membership time period and minimum post requirement before one can buy/sell in their classifieds or contact members directly.
I made an innocuous post about the rules and how IMHO they limited value to sellers and buyers even though they may help limit scammers. The responses I received from many "senior members" and directly from an administrator were shockingly unprofessional. Some examples include: "if you don't like the rules go elsewhere", "sissy" (yeah that one was super mature), "can't we automatically eliminate such comments from new users" (uhh then how would one ever become a experienced member), and the piece de resistance (because I mentioned the item in which I had interest) "…cool, I have been wanting one of those and I am a senior member so I will go buy it before you".
Not looking to name and shame specifically, but interested to hear if others on this great site have had similar unwelcoming, experiences and how you dealt with them, i.e. did you fight back, keep your head down and stay quiet or leave entirely…talking about an overall site, not an isolated bad user.
Again, grateful for LRH and my shock to such negative experience elsewhere is in part due to such positive experience here.
Cheers
Recently had a surprising experience with another site where I signed up because I wanted to purchase something posted in their classifieds. This site (like some others) has a minimum membership time period and minimum post requirement before one can buy/sell in their classifieds or contact members directly.
I made an innocuous post about the rules and how IMHO they limited value to sellers and buyers even though they may help limit scammers. The responses I received from many "senior members" and directly from an administrator were shockingly unprofessional. Some examples include: "if you don't like the rules go elsewhere", "sissy" (yeah that one was super mature), "can't we automatically eliminate such comments from new users" (uhh then how would one ever become a experienced member), and the piece de resistance (because I mentioned the item in which I had interest) "…cool, I have been wanting one of those and I am a senior member so I will go buy it before you".
Not looking to name and shame specifically, but interested to hear if others on this great site have had similar unwelcoming, experiences and how you dealt with them, i.e. did you fight back, keep your head down and stay quiet or leave entirely…talking about an overall site, not an isolated bad user.
Again, grateful for LRH and my shock to such negative experience elsewhere is in part due to such positive experience here.
Cheers