GT is going downhill

there are so many garbage threads made in GT that they deserve to be trolled. A legit OP and topic will get legit responses. Ask a stupid question and expect stupid replies.

It would be nice if members actually searched for an answer to their questions before they asked them. And if they do ask them, please bump a thread that is related to the topic to have your questions answered, don't go making a whole thread to find out the zip length on a 4xl Ignant... Threads like this always get trolled so bad which is really in my opinion, just as bad.

I think if people actually did this then GT would get cleaned up a lot more. There are lots of legit threads in GT, and a few really good contributors. Super annoying when you see a good contributor like Bwalmer hit up a thread that is only meh as far as the original post goes, and then it gets trolled hard. Now it wasn't even worth his time and that sucks for someone trying to provide some good insight.

Alternatives to Gear Talk though, is the tiny Gear Talk thread in the donator's forum, and TGR, and SkiBuilders. At least those are my alternatives.

Barto, this is an unfortunate truth. While I do agree that legit questions almost always achieve thoughtful dialogue amongst OP&repliers, ...

There's always a problem of trash talk. It's just going to happen, I think we just need to encourage the persistence of good dialogue by offering sound advice as often as one can.

Maybe it would help to have the search bar above the forum view panel?

Instead of in the upper R corner?

Sometimes I have a hard to telling if people are serious about really knowing such asinine information? I mean sure it's valid in a sense, but well I just personally find it odd that you're going to worry about stupid things like zipper lengths and specific sizing requirements. blahblahblah

It sucks to see a potentially good thread go south, and since I came back to this site it seems like trolling spiked a wee bit (maybe just nostalgia?) But I think it's not too hard to turn things around. There are a lot of good contributors here, there always has been, its their consistency that always wins out as the wave of trolls ebbs and swells...

This is true, it seems to be a recent spike in trolling that I've noticed.

The problem is that it's becoming a trend to hate on threads in GT, and therefore expanding to legit threads. I noticed that there are tons of terrible threads in GT right now, it used to be that people just ignored dumb threads in GT and therefore they died pretty quickly, but now people shit on them so much that the threads stay alive, then others see that and start shitting on the few decent threads. GT is generally the section I go to the most...but that's slowly declining unfortunately.

I just downvote bad threads. Makes me wish GT had an organization system like Reddit's sometimes. Bad threads will never see the light of day...