Suggestion regarding Intro's and Welcoming

[OldTimer]

(05-14-2015 05:24 PM)MuskieBait Wrote:  Well, the idea is to have an active forum. If most of the members are silent and not chiming in, how active is it? If most are silent and not participating, then what kind of community is it?

If the "good folk" are in the background simply silent, how do you meet these "good folk"? How do you know they are "good folk" if they never interact with you?

My friend Andrea speaks broken English...he types to me in Italian...but we still email each other back and forth...and we still discuss fishing techniques and arrange fishing trips together. Is it really a barrier? If you want to make it happen, you WILL make it happen.

I post on a Hong Kong fishing forum in English while most of the reader there converse in Chinese. We get it done.

The beauty of fishing is that it doesn't matter where you are from, or what language you speak or write. A knot is a knot regardless of language. A nice fish is congratulated just the same in many language. Writing skills or language is only a barrier if you want it to be the barrier.

When I was young, I learned to be computer literate by daily use of fishing forums...I have older friends who learned to use computers, emails and internet because they wanted to participate in fishing forum discussions. If there is a will, there is a way...and the learning comes with it.

We must not see things only in our perspective, based on our abilities, our drive, and our desires - things widely vary in the eye of other beholders.

.......... it's not about promoting I, it's about nurturing we.

Dig?

but then again............. opinions vary.

Cheers,

OldTimer