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On 2003-10-22 10:47, Humuhumu wrote:
I think it's only natural that as TC grows, it casts a wider & wider net attracting those who are perhaps less "harcore" tikiphiles than those of you who started out back at Yahoo! Groups. It's all relative, though, and people aren't going to bother to spend much time here if they don't enjoy tiki. Do they deserve to be part of our community any less just because they are "into it" less than others? They're still into it more than the average Joe.
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I may not be a grizzled tiki old-timer, but I am a grizzled BBS old-timer... I've been participating in online communities and been making real-life friends from them since back in the old pre-web dial-up BBS days. The "what's happened to our community?" line of thought has come before, and will come again. As the lineup of people gradually shifts over time, the character of the place also shifts. Conversations that seemed fresh the first time you heard them have now grown awfully stale. It's just how it works, and it's your choice how you want to approach it: see the potential in the freshly minted tikiphile (you weren't born into tiki yourself, you know), or grump off into the corner and grouse about How It Used To Be.
On the other hand! I would love to see more meaty posts, like the one jungletrader just gave us in regards to his personal carving dilemma -- actual new dialogues about tiki. I also grow tired of posts that say not much more than "hey, neat," but I think that has less to do with people not being serious about their tiki and more to do with people not knowing not to bother to post if their post doesn't actually have any content (I'm guilt of this from time to time, myself).
I made this post more than three years ago (one of the half-dozen or so times this same topic has come up on Tiki Central), and my response pretty much still holds true.
I've been so busy lately that I had the unusual experience of not being able to check TC for a whole day recently -- and I was pretty overwhelmed with trying to catch up.
In the interest of offering up a concrete suggestion to the original query of the post, here's an idea. Tragically, Stoopid Shutterfly wonked up all the links to old images (Hanford added the ability to host images here on TC partially in response to this). When those image links died, we lost a ton of really fantastic visual information. A concerted effort to replace those images would be awesome.
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