Originally Posted by slide
BTW, there seem to be many of us who hang around this forum for the feeling rather than being over 50. Once outside of there, the atmosphere for a newbie or a reentry seems, at best, condescending and at worst, openly hostile. Maybe this board needs a newbie corner to separate the age unrelated new questions from the specifics of the silver crowd.
Just a little background.
I was involved in getting this forum going a couple of years ago.
There was a lot of dissension at that time about having a 50+ fourm, and we still have folks 50+ who refuse to participate.
Generally, it has been the attitude of the moderators that ONLY questions and discussions specifically related to concerns and problems of 50+rs should be in this forum, and we had a period of time when a number of posts thought to be irrelevant were regularly "moved" to another, seemingly more appropriate forum. This also caused a lot of dissension, as folks could not understand why their posts were moved.
This "moving" has slowed down a bit the past several months. One of the problems is that as the forum has received exponential growth, a post, say in the "road cycling" forum, is rapidly lost in that the posts come in so fast and furiously a new post can be on page 2 of the new posts in a matter of a few minutes!
Also, as the forum has grown so much, you don't have a group of "old-timers" with whom you feel comfortable discussing issues. I used to be that having 10 people signed in at one time was a large group - and you knew each of those ten people.
Perhaps you would like to suggest a "newbies" forum? Sounds like a great idea. You can do so in the "Forum Suggestion" section.
Thanks for your input.