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Messages  21065
 Subject:  True Andrew, but....List thread.  
  
 Date:  Sep 22, 2007
 From:  Mark Austen 
You seem to be clouding the issue by involving semantics while my point was directed soley to those who seem to be critical for the sake of being just that...Critical. It is not a difficult thing to understand. When a poster has a habit of being critical each time he responds to a model in the gallery it becomes obvious that this poster's mission is to ONLY point out the bad, or incorrect things about a build. Hence, his criticism seems to be more of a "Gotcha" rather than positve advice to correct something that may be incorrect.
Why would anyone desire this kind of criticism of their build?
I've even seen this happen with young kids that are just starting out in the hobby and I'm sure it leaves them hurt and discouraged.
This is the kind of person that I was referring to and not to the people that may fit into the other definitions that Webster provides.

Lastly, I would like to point out that often too many critics take themselves and this hobby too seriously. It leaves me wondering what kind of life they lead when they worry about a model having 18 nuts when it is suppose to have 24. If a Modeler wants to worry about that then more power to them. The problem is often these modelers or critics will want to hammer on someone that doesn't worry about it and that is just ridiculous.
Give me an incorrect, well built, finished and realistic model over one that has an angle corrected that was .5 degrees off and is finshed poorly.
In the end, this hobby is visual. It's not about engineering and being historically accurate.
 
Thread Listing 
  It is just a hobby! - David Golinsky - Sep 20, 2007
. . . not for me - Michael Bedard - Sep 20, 2007
. . . . . . more than a hobby - Frank Forster - Sep 20, 2007
. . . . . . . . . Re: more than a hobby - David Golinsky - Sep 20, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . With my pathetic excuse for a life.... - Kip Rudge - Sep 20, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: With my pathetic excuse for a life.... - David Golinsky - Sep 20, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: With my pathetic excuse for a life.... - Dave Williams - Sep 20, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: With my pathetic excuse for a life.... - Paul Roberts - Sep 22, 2007
. . . . . . . . . Re: more than a hobby - Julian - Oct 4, 2007
. . . Thanks David, my thoughts exactly - Paul A. Owen - Sep 20, 2007
. . . Par for the course - rob galassi - Sep 20, 2007
. . . . . . Re: Par for the course - Paul A. Owen - Sep 20, 2007
. . . . . . . . . Re: Par for the course - John Naja - Sep 20, 2007
. . . Re: It is just a hobby! - Dan Austen - Sep 20, 2007
. . . . . . Re: It is just a hobby! - My two cents - Jeff - Sep 20, 2007
. . . . . . . . . Re: It is just a hobby! - My two cents - Mike - Sep 20, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: It is just a hobby! - My two cents - Kevin Johnson - Sep 20, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: It is just a hobby! - My two cents - Paul A. Owen - Sep 20, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: It is just a hobby! - My two cents - Kevin Johnson - Sep 20, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: It is just a hobby! - My two cents - Steve Reid - Sep 21, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Narcissism of small differences - Paul A. Owen - Sep 21, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Perfect example... - Steve Reid - Sep 21, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Perfect example... - Paul A. Owen - Sep 21, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Worked on me - Steve Reid - Sep 21, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FYI - Michael Bedard - Sep 21, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thanks Mike - Steve Reid - Sep 21, 2007
. . . So we all agree..... - David Golinsky - Sep 20, 2007
. . . . . . Re: So we all agree..... - Paul Cunningham - Sep 20, 2007
. . . David, take it from me....... - Alan Leong - Sep 21, 2007
. . . Re: It is just a hobby! - Steve Reid - Sep 21, 2007
. . . . . . Re: It is just a hobby! - Mike - Sep 21, 2007
. . . . . . . . . No need to critisize..... - Mark Austen - Sep 21, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: No need to critisize..... - Chris Oldfield - Sep 22, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4p from Dave if you please.... - Dave Williams - Sep 22, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . So what is a critique, then? This goes on a while... - Andrew Herbert - Sep 22, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . True Andrew, but.... - Mark Austen - Sep 22, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Many Things to Everyone - Tim Streeter - Sep 23, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topic promoted - Paul A. Owen - Sep 23, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Topic promoted - Andrew Herbert - Sep 23, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Topic promoted - Mark Austen - Sep 23, 2007
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Topic promoted - Andrew Herbert - Sep 24, 2007
. . . Re: It is just a hobby! - David Golinsky - Sep 22, 2007
. . . . . . Re: It is just a hobby! - Robert Cline - Sep 22, 2007
. . . "Hobby" has nothing to do with it - Kurt Laughlin - Sep 23, 2007
. . . Why TL is the best place for this kind of discussion - Michael Powers - Sep 23, 2007
. . . . . . Re: Why TL is the best place for this kind of discussion - Andrew Herbert - Sep 24, 2007
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