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Matt Colie
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Justin Brady wrote on Tue, 03 July 2018 17:37It's a gentle bit of poking fun when it's between friends. When it's antagonizing a stranger on the internet it's being a dick. Just IMO.
I've spent a LOT of time on various forums, I have many tens of thousands of posts all over the internet on various forums and this is the only one where I have ever seen anyone care about a name.
I just don't like seeing this kind of stuff because as someone looking in from the outside this sh*t would keep me from joining. I have better stuff to do with my day than be bullied on a forum because I don't want to post my name. That's all just trying to look out for the longevity of the community.
Justin,
You seem to have missed the point here by some.
The reason I ask for a real name (I don't give a rat's tail about the chosen handle) is so that when we meet other owners we know that we know them already. This has been a source of amusement to me on several occasions when I ran into an individual I did not know and was starting to explain GMCs and the community to him and ready to go into great detail when he told me that on GMCnet, he was XXXXX. Well, I am hard to embarrass and was not, but if he had started the conversation with his "handle" it could have saved me a whole lot of explaining.
If GMC2000 (It will always store in my brain as GMC2E3 or the like) wants to be not known by that, he is welcome to do so. But that will deny him some of the benefits of the community. Some amazing stuff has happened here. I have even received such. But if you doubt, go on B'dub's and read "The great Possum Rescue". As it happens, I was raised as and am a waterman. Of the others I know, I am as likely to remember the vessel's name as the owner's. That is just me. But I am not all that interested in trying to be a friend to someone that is not interested in being a friend. Friends don't hide. If that is his choice, that is just fine with me.
His lack of a sigfile also means that we cannot include thoughts about his specific situation that may be coach or climate dependent. As said, that is not my problem.
Now, if you think that trying to get enough information be a real so one can truly assist another owner is bullying, then I am not prepared to argue that point as I have never (and will most likely not) ever considered it so.
I had to laugh here. Mary was looking over my shoulder, and chuckled.... "You still are a Wysiwyg old man." I have been faulted for giving straight and to the point answers when asked. I always will - If I can. If I can't I will say that too.
Matt
Matt & Mary Colie - Chaumière -'73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
Electronically Controlled Quiet Engine Cooling Fan with OE Rear Drum Brakes with Applied Control Arms
SE Michigan - Near DTW - Twixt A2 and Detroit
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