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Old 11-13-2018, 09:26 AM
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Default TRF is a lost cause

You have to love this, after being banned from TRF for trying to sell some used kits in the yard sale section...long story I wouldn't pay the "fee" they wanted. I was a vendor not allowed to sell.

Anyway

I now get daily updates about all the posts that I have missed. Kind of like a summary LOL. IS that place now officially on auto pilot?

What a joke LOL
And yes I sent an email about not being bothered. Got a canned response about welcome to the forum LOL

Blocked the email
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Old 11-13-2018, 09:54 AM
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You have to love this, after being banned from TRF for trying to sell some used kits in the yard sale section...long story I wouldn't pay the "fee" they wanted. I was a vendor not allowed to sell.

Anyway

I now get daily updates about all the posts that I have missed. Kind of like a summary LOL. IS that place now officially on auto pilot?

What a joke LOL
And yes I sent an email about not being bothered. Got a canned response about welcome to the forum LOL

Blocked the email


I joined TRF when there were less than 200 members. Founding member like Milo, Carl Tulanko, Carl McLathorn, Jim Flis, and a whole lot more.

For the two NARAMs in Cincinnati I stayed at Carl Tulanko's place. Carl had the freakin' server for TRF in his apartment!

I started making nose cones and eventually started making some (not a lot) of nice kits (Well, I thought they were nice).

I got 'asked" to stop promoting my products unless I "donated" to their cause.

I haven't even looked back...no need ...my TRF is gone.

I like it here.
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Old 11-13-2018, 10:15 AM
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Couldn't agree more.
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Old 11-13-2018, 11:04 AM
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You have to love this, after being banned from TRF for trying to sell some used kits in the yard sale section...long story I wouldn't pay the "fee" they wanted. I was a vendor not allowed to sell.

Anyway

I now get daily updates about all the posts that I have missed. Kind of like a summary LOL. IS that place now officially on auto pilot?

What a joke LOL
And yes I sent an email about not being bothered. Got a canned response about welcome to the forum LOL

Blocked the email



They also sent me the daily updates as well, I unsuscribed and now I don't get them!
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Old 11-13-2018, 12:15 PM
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Place is the "Open Septic Tank" of all rocketry sites.
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Old 11-13-2018, 12:57 PM
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It has turned into just another gonzo rocketry site with people showing off the biggest sparky motor they can buy and bragging about totally inelegant designs. I realize that not everybody was a NAR low-power competitor in the 70s, but this hobby IS fundamentally about science. Unfortunately that seems to go right over the heads of 90% of the members over there.

I just ain't interested in all the "hold my beer and watch THIS!!" behavior over there. And that doesn't even begin to address the way their site is run.
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Old 11-13-2018, 03:19 PM
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I have noticed NO site is optimal. Just less BS at some than others.
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Old 11-13-2018, 03:34 PM
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I have noticed NO site is optimal. Just less BS at some than others.


yipes! I agree with Jerry AGAIN!
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Old 11-13-2018, 07:41 PM
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I actually heard the TRF train wreck before it happened...
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Old 11-13-2018, 07:42 PM
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I have noticed NO site is optimal. Just less BS at some than others.

I dunno, it seems fundamentally more satisfying to assume that everyone here is a paragon of rocketry virtue, and that other place is a dumpster fire full of loser yahoos. And to mention it at every opportunity.

We'll just ignore the substantial number of folks who inhabit both forums.
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