Hello Steve,
Thanks for your input. Unsurprisingly I do not agree with your take. To reiterate the West posts are unhelpful:
1. Because of their lack of information.
2. The inability of their poster to determine what is or is not relevant to the thread.
3. The lack of any idea of whether a post is interesting or not.
Combine the above three elements and you have Luftwaffenspam.
I have said in my last post in this thread that Martin’s sentiments reflect well on him as a human being and I might say the same of you. However, should your posts tend to convince Ed West that his post are not problematical, I question whether TOCH as a whole benefits.
I tend to have long breaks here between bouts of posting and noticed instantly the degradation in the quality of posting upon my recent return. I feel this needs addressing. Clearly you disagree. To paraphrase the Marx Brothers, you don’t like the post I highlighted from the thread on 30th December at 01.16, I have others. So lets go through them one as increased exposure is welcome.
Aircraft photos. Are these interesting? I don’t claim to know enough to judge, but the poster has not described what is shown and I don’t see what is interesting about the 109 photo or the Fi 156 of AufklGr.(H)/14, though the photo of the latter seems familiar. My argument, if posting help the viewer to decide whether to open by posting details.
Book supposedly, no link.
Definitely a book. What is it doing here? See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_mistake
Equipment. I really did think that this thread was for posting aircraft photos. Seems like another category error.
The Dutch document in a Luftwaffe thread. I believe we’ve covered this.
We seem to have a arrived at a situation where one poster, posts whatever he likes,whereever he likes regardless of whether interesting or not, seen before or not, relevant or not. The common link being that the seller has Luftwaffe in the title of the item.
How has this situation arisen. I would argue precisely because almost everyone here on TOCH is a kind person and does not wish to address problems. This has let the problem worsen and at its worst as I previously stated leads to posts like this one.
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=64476
Regards,
Clint