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sailordad:
in any type of contest there are winners and losers,losers get jealous of the winners over time. like in anything,there are those on here that are more skilled(and even i admire them)than others are.myself i am very unskilled yet. i dont build any bow with the intent or even a thought of BOM,i do look at all the post for it each month. if im inspired ill vote.
i dont see why people that do join the site and only visit once or twice are scrutinized for it. as long as people are looking even once or twice they know it exist.
maybe they dont have continual access to the net. i have been to alot of sites and looked around once or twice,and decided it was not for me.never felt i had an obligation to be on a site all the time. i spend most of my none work related time on this.this i do by choice. because i like trying to build bows. i havent found another site that gives someone like me a place to seek advise and hopfully gain wisdom from the ones that are skilled. i didnt join or come back because of BOM.i dont feel it should be dropped either. some tweaking may be necessary.but i will continue to come back to look at post of others work to get inspried by,ask qustions to learn by regardless.
just my very humble thoughts and opinions
peace,
tim
Marc St Louis:
I have said this before but I will say it again. I asked Don many years ago to stop putting my bows in BOM. He refused to do so. For awhile I stopped including a full draw pic so that it would give Don no choice :)
Justin Snyder:
--- Quote from: sailordad on June 13, 2008, 07:50:33 pm ---and just what should a member be "doing for us"?
peace,
tim
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Tim, you are contributing. Questions by new members often bring facts or opinions to the attention of everyone, that experienced bowyers have overlooked. I often learn something that I never would have thought of. In reguards to the accounts that were deleted, they were people that had for the most part never logged on after registering. No accounts were deleted that have even logged on in the last 90 days. Some accounts have never posted but have logged on so they were not deleted. I agree with you that we should error on the side of caution when deleting accounts and so does PA.
Justin
D. Tiller:
Guys, in the end it is what Primitive Archer as a magazine decides. A business is a business after all and they are out to make a living. If it enhances the readership and number of people reading and adding articles to the magazine then they will, in the end, continue to do BOM. Personally, I think the voting should be left up to and impartial committee of voters that do not have a stake in the game but have built bows for a very long time and have a bundle of knowledge about it under their belts. But it should not be allowed to become a popularity contest.
But, as I said before its the people who own the magazine and the website that will make the final decision and not us. We can put our oar in the water but we dint steer the ship.
In any event I will continue to make bows and not participate in the BOM since I don't like any form of competition except with myself. I find it to be decisive and frustrating to those who are just beginning to enter any hobby or sport. Don't get me wrong, there are good forms but when it comes to something we love to share making it into a competition seems to turn it into a less of an open environment for the exchange of ideas.
How about the magazine itself pick and choose the bow it thinks is the best of the month? Seems more fair to me all around and takes the competition out of it.
David T
sailordad:
thats sounds like a sound and fair idea there.
the magazine could pick a fair and impartial and anonymous voting commitee made up of what could be considered expert bowyers. it is the magazines web site and "contest". this way they can be the ones to decide if another experienced bowyer or a first timers bow is better. they could keep it from being a popularity contest maybe not a beauty contest,cause some folks just like to make em pretty. i prefer to make em work first,i'll worry about pretty after i feel i can make em.
i think this idea may just be on the right track.
peace,
tim
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