Those We Have Loved!
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Having done "the forum thing" for over 30 years now, let me add this:
The real threat is not from the outliers, but that the herd takes over.
When the herd takes over, the insipid plays-well-with-others person gets ahead of someone of actual insight.
I come here because it tolerates firebrands like mso, Cosmic, mlc (to a point), and many others. I do that because my experience is that forums die of entropy when too many nice guys just want to discuss nice stuff and as a result, all the information because low value, all the discussions become circular, and anyone intelligent flees.
I consider this the best pipe forum. I do not post on Reddit because I am not a barista or Whole Foods checker, and I was ejected from one other forum that had a political agenda, and left another because its mods were incompetent.
The worst thing to see on a forum is this:
You should give Person B (firebrand) a medal for resisting entropy here.
All of us succumb to this mental disease: we want to hear happy things, believe everything is going to be OK, and think fondly of simple solutions. But that never works, and if you encourage it at a forum, entropy wins.
Sometimes those who invest the most are your most vital users, and they are actually committed, so they will take it seriously because they see the forum as a community, not an online site. These generate more problems, but also better results, than the herd.
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Okay, meathead, I accept your challenge! Peterson pipes suck, and so does Penzance! Take THAT, you scallywag! Oh yeah, Pagan... come back!!!
Does too! So does Royal Yacht Yuck! Come to think of it, I haven't seen mckinter or oldgeezersmoker around in a while. Maybe I'm just reading the wrong posts. Both have been very generous to me! I hope I'm just missing them and they're not gone!!!
I admit, with a red face
, you tricked me with that same quote about a year ago. I was sent a sample of Mixture 79 from a fellow forum member, and enjoyed it on it's own merits... but not what I was expecting...BTW what ever happened to Nate?
Mixture 79 is not bad at all, and I owe thanks for that realization to a generous forum member who sent a sample. Compared to most aromatics, it is quite mild and pleasant.
They do an LD50 test. If too many people die, they reformulate with less of the topping.
Mixture 80 incorporated other changes in the topping and is currently used to clean aircraft parts.
Mixture 80 incorporated other changes in the topping and is currently used to clean aircraft parts.
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