Evil D wrote: ↑Fri Aug 21, 2020 10:00 amMichaelScott wrote: ↑Fri Aug 21, 2020 9:02 amI agree. I suspect there are many here who do not post but enjoy (mostly) the conversations and information presented.wrdwrght wrote: ↑Fri Aug 21, 2020 7:37 amSome here want this place to be a club, a place where you earn your stripes so you can show your chops.
I believe Spyderco has just said this place is more than that.
If you want to distrust/disdain the motives of newcomers, just do it quietly. Whatever their reasons for coming, they don’t cheapen yours.
I don’t think veterans should enjoy special privileges over newcomers. We were all new here once.
Some of you are putting a little too much emphasis on "veteran". I just would like people to participate, otherwise things like "forum knife" or "forum calendar" are meaningless in those terms and become simply another form of sprint or exclusive items. It would be nice looking through a calendar at those pics and seeing familiar screen names at the bottom instead of names I've never seen before and will likely never see again. I really don't think that's asking too much or wrong or elitist or whatever. Maybe I have the wrong understanding of what these things mean or maybe I wish they meant something more than they do.
For the record...I don't think I even opened the calendar thread this year beyond the very first time I opened it when Kristi first posted it so whatever comments were made I never saw.
I didn't open it either...