A Plea for Direct Experience

[Reburn]

Three people popped in my head when I read the first post here, one has already commented.

Remember when you point the finger at someone else 3 are pointed back at you....

 

[BRTreedogs]

Step 1: police the forums

Step 2: make influencers release their tax records anytime they say something is the best

Ohhhhh

Pretty much whenever I hear them say “best” I pretty much disregard whatever they are saying

 

[Ucsdryder]

If this rule could be enforced rokslide traffic would drop so much all the sponsors would have to head for 24hourcamp fire!

 

[tall]

I appreciate this thread as a call to be careful about the advice and opinions I give. I’ve learned a lot on Rokslide and enjoy many of conversations here.

I’m my other pastime, beekeeping, they say if you ask 10 beekeepers a question you’ll get 11 opinions. I try to filter my own words with this quote from an old beekeeper: “I don’t wanna hear what you think is best. I wanna hear what you’ve done and how it worked for you.”

 

[TSAMP]

I will say,often if you read closely most folks who parrot information give themselves away. That said. I think one major benefit to being a WKR is you learn who knows what about what. So I find myself typically scrolling past folks I dont recognize in most threads. That and the WKR classifieds only section is dope too.

 

[sierracharlie338]

So where is the threshold of experience levels that people should have before they post?

I have mixed feelings about this topic and will wait to see where this goes.

 

[Wrench]

Put your faith in your own experience. Use your skilks of deductive reasoning, statistical probabilities and divide it by your luck.

Don't be a fool, but don't be a pussy. Go make experience. Experience comes with a price....you're going to fail some times. Use that failure as your motivation to get better.




Or just read some shit on a website and receive your keyboard doctorate.

Dealer's choice.

 

[Radford]

I will say,often if you read closely most folks who parrot information give themselves away. That said. I think one major benefit to being a WKR is you learn who knows what about what. So I find myself typically scrolling past folks I dont recognize in most threads. That and the WKR classifieds only section is dope too.

The wkr thing just means you’ve been on this forum a long time, not how long you’ve been alive, hunting, etc. Anyone can be a wkr if they spend a lot of time in the internet. That’s a weird standard to set for yourself for vetting purposes.

 

[atmat]

I have no experience with this so I won’t speak up.

 

[Mtndawger]

I second the plea. But only as a plea for self regulation. I came to this forum to learn. It’s probably going to be a while before I reach WKR, nonetheless I have a considerable amount of expertise in select areas and not others. If guys could learn to qualify their comments even a little bit it would go a long way towards improving the general knowledge base imo. I.E. “I do not personally own xyz or have not personally done abc but my best friend does or has and here is what he thinks, says,etc”. That kind of thing. Apparently you need to have a high level of self awareness to get there though.