THANK YOU

[Down Time]

To whomever runs this site, by the current British Invasion (not the Beatles) and exodus from another site, thank you for providing a user friendly and superior product.

 

[JUG]

user friendly and superior product.

Not just that a friendly atmosphere. Thanks staff.

 

[dave]

As one of the new limeys I can only repeat the above comments thank you. Dave

 

[Old git]

Me as well , feel at home here already.

 

[Jim62]

Agreed I came here a few years back after finding out the forum I was on was run by, to put it nicely, some uptight folks. Much more relaxed atmosphere here.

 

[Scratchbuilder]

Agreed, and I am pleased to have left the old forum behind judging by the bad feelings towards us even though we had done nothing wrong except to use our democratic right to move. But at least I now know where to spend my money and which store to avoid in future...

 

[Blackbeard]

Welcome all! Glad you're here, not exactly sure what happened, but we always welcome new friends here.

 

[JUG]

Welcome all! Glad you're here, not exactly sure what happened, but we always welcome new friends here.

It's really started when our "Home" site just gave us 24 hours notice back in 2018 to get our bags packed or we're going to loose all our photos and anything left hanging on the wall so to speak. Like we did on this site we moved to the site we just left. They never liked us from the start there were Appox. well over 15 of us that landed there and they hated it and we were never welcome there all those years by the Mods. It just came to a head with the new software and most of us left.

 

[Nikati]

In my experience admins and mods can only do so much, it is the community itself that makes for a good place to hang out. Being polite and respectful goes a long way, even if you critique a build or idea. I have not been here all that long but this is what I've seen here. I am bad at taking pictures and posting stuff myself while others do much more. I do my best to do what I was taught years ago, "if you don't have something nice to say, don't say nothing at all". From what I've seen it seems like everyone else goes by that as well.

I've enjoyed the layout and the ease of finding subjects that I want to look at. The members have been great and can be very helpful. I hope all of you enjoy your time here and welcome.

 

[Edbert]

I like having it all. Some places are very nice, maybe too much, others are extremely critical, maybe too much.

Knowing which forums or FB private groups will rip your work to death and which ones will throw hearts at a turd is helpful, it DEFINITELY helps to be sure which one you are in at the time too

I just joined SMA earlier this year after picking up the hobby after ~25 years of idling. I am very happy I found it.

 

[BlackSheepTwoOneFour]

A couple experiences from two model forums I once belonged to.

FSM banned me 3 times because I refuse to bow down to their woke ideals and respect other feelings. Even an innocent post pissed off the mods after a couple snowflakes got offended. GMorrison acts like he's the Official FSM forum police.I hate the guy too yet FSM let's him get away with it. FSM will soon be no more.

Modelcarsmag is THE worse and extremely corrupt. I was suspended 3 times. The mods are so liberal it's sickening. I've called out Xingu once for his liberal views of worrying about offending members there and got suspended for 30 days. The other two times is swearing in the forums. You know… the most common everyday swear words like hell, damn, bitch, @$$, etc… never F words. Hell, they'll replace innocent swear words with "blah, blah, blah" in it place. Ridiculous and petty Iknow. They do come down hard on political stuff. However, they'll let some of the regular veteran members with a simple warning and others by suspending or banning them. Talk about forum politics at its worse between the mods and members they like.

Now I am banned for good for they refuse to tell me why and I have been banned. I know I didn't offend anyone but I honestly think Xingu hated me and my honest truth and logic thinking. Apparently, they don't like it. Even PMs thru Contact Us link are ignored to find out why. Thus far, I'm not allowed to view the forum site everytime I click on Forums link. ROFL!

Don't worry, I found a work around to be able to view the forums there.