The Cerex thread got locked down today. Sent over to Errors and Bugs. End of discussion. Why?
It only took two pages for Huie to start bringing it down.
Then ghettorat jumps in with his personal attacks.
Then it goes on for twenty pages of insults and chest beating from Huie, Ghettorat, and Kayu. Anything to stop the discussion. I don’t know whether it was a pure ego stroke on their part - can’t have anybody get credit for anything if it isn’t them.- Or whether they are trying to protect some business advantage over the competition.
Ghettorat repeatedly called for his own banning!
The conversation was joined by many, notably an engineering teacher, Lemat, and a Doctor of Chemistry (I think) Stonburner. Sharing ideas of building methods, different materials, and different engineering. I thought it was a really good conversation. I know by the messages I got both on the thread itself, and privately, that others were into it. It got over 7000 views.
All the time Huie, Kayu and Ghettorat doing everything they can to shut it down.
Well they got their way. Discussion is over. Nobody on Swaylock’s get to learn any more on the subject. At least on this thread, and by anything I’m working on.
Was I the only one to notice that although the three all claimed expert knowledge in composite surfboard design, not a one of them shared anything, other than they did it first, and only buy from Graphite Masters. Just throwing a stray thought out there. If Ghettorat works so closely with Graphite Masters, and trashes any other sources, is that a little duplicitous?
This isn’t the first time that the three have chased away members. I’ve been told by at least one top pro who posts here sometimes, that they don’t because of the trash that goes on. On the Cerex thread Surfding said he was not going to do a considered build thread on his core work, just because of this.
So we have traded Build Threads that we would all have followed closely for the trash from Huie, Kayu and Ghettorat.
So to the moderators. Is there anyway to handle this better. I know the mods can delete individual posts. They can ban posters also. So which direction should Swaylock’s go? It seems like this is a real turning point.
If you agree with this, then stand up and show it. Bump it to the top. If I’m really wrong in all this, then let the thread die. At least then i’ll know that everything I work on and posted really wasn’t interesting to you all, and I’ll keep it to myself. Maybe Swaylock’s should be limited to discussions of Gloss coat brushing, and which sandpaper grit to use, and nothing more than that.