[Consim-l] New Forum: Old Soldiers Magazine

[Tracy M Johnson]

I seem to recall users went there because of the flame wars here on CONSIM-L.

Perhaps this list will have a resurgence because off all things:  
1)  It is still free, and 
2) the flame warriors have since departed?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Cundiff" wrote:

ACG = ArmChair General

My complaint about CSW is that there are irresponsible people there who do 
nothing all day but run around acting as hall monitors.  Let someone stray 
just a single sentence from their concept of "on topic" and the self 
appointed hall monitors are there to admonish them.  That place is so 
labrynthine that getting lost in it is a matter of course, so that one gets 
frustrated and posts what they think is correctly, only to have some idiot 
come along and dump all over them for no other reason than that they have 
some idea that they are God's appointed.  And, Kranz does nothing to prevent 
this.  I know lots of people who simply left CSW because it became an 
entirely unfriendly place.

I've personally seen over the years newbies come there, make a single post 
trying to figure things out only to have one of these beknighted idiots 
berate them for their foolishness.  I don't know about you, but it's not the 
newbies that get lost that seem foolish to me, but the idiots who have 
appointed themselves Gods over there.  I told Kranz this very thing and he 
got pissy with me and eliminated my membership at CSW ... oh, many years ago 
now.  But the place hasn't changed any, and its the very same people making 
it a foul place.  And, what happened since then?  Kranz went from free 
membership to pay membership and voila' his vaunted 15,000 went to 1500.  He 
didn't have half the followers he thought he had, and I know why if he 
doesn't.

Anyway, my soap box is worn out for the weekend.  I need to do the laundry 
anyway.

Tom Cundiff