Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2015 9:24:29 GMT -8
I returned to the "old" forums to see how the links were set up, and I happened upon a conversation about under-aged backpackers.
Starwalker urged participants to:
He received this reply:
I don't take one person's answer as representative of his generation. I don't think any one person represents any one generation. But is there some truth to what he claimed?
To me it has been refreshing to see the return here of numerous experienced backpackers who found the previous software incarnation just too messed up. This version of forum software is demonstrating itself much more capable and easy to work with.
So why would some folks stay behind with the dysfunctional software? Are we unwittingly experiencing a generational splitting between forums?
We've had several threads over the years about the need to introduce younger folks to the outdoors and to encourage them to become active in backpacking. Yet many of us also wish to keep alive a community of experienced backpackers who have gathered here for years.
How can we do both? Do we need to do something differently? Are some of us older folks a bit overbearing? Or are some of the younger folks simply averse to being around anyone over 30, or 25, or whatever?
Starwalker urged participants to:
Go to the new forum, you’ll get better answers there now. Few of us are here anymore.
He received this reply:
Well it seems the younger generation likes this board better, go figure, so I will try to answer here. . . .
I don't take one person's answer as representative of his generation. I don't think any one person represents any one generation. But is there some truth to what he claimed?
To me it has been refreshing to see the return here of numerous experienced backpackers who found the previous software incarnation just too messed up. This version of forum software is demonstrating itself much more capable and easy to work with.
So why would some folks stay behind with the dysfunctional software? Are we unwittingly experiencing a generational splitting between forums?
We've had several threads over the years about the need to introduce younger folks to the outdoors and to encourage them to become active in backpacking. Yet many of us also wish to keep alive a community of experienced backpackers who have gathered here for years.
How can we do both? Do we need to do something differently? Are some of us older folks a bit overbearing? Or are some of the younger folks simply averse to being around anyone over 30, or 25, or whatever?
