Is this what the Members want Oldgas to be?
The Showcase Forum when I first started lurking on Oldgas and when I became a Member... Was just that... The Showcase of the site... It was a place where Members shared photos of their Collections, now it is a place where Members can show their "Cut out Dolls"...
The Showcase Forum was a place that Information and History could and would be shared... Now it is a place for Members to paint a wagon.. Throw a few decals on it and somehow that is the "Site's Showcase"?
That is the best, new Members can come up with?
Instead of helping the 'site, it makes the site look like a joke and that is not just my opinion!.....
Take some damn pride in the site and more IMPORTANTLY IN YOURSELVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shawn(s932), is trying to get the COTM(Company Of The Month) up and running again.... Unfortunately for him, I volunteered to "host" the first couple of months... I know that a number of Members won't post images, because they don't like me, my attitude and even my time in the Hobby... I am sorry for that Shawn and Oldgas as a whole... I'm not doing this for myself, I wanted to "give back" to the Oldgas Community and the Hobby...
I was hoping that Members would come forward and get Oldgas back "on track".... I'm not sure if Members have come forward, I hope so...
Mick (oldnfuelish), has worked hard to get the FATW(Found Along The Way) Feature back up... Instead of posting photos in his thread, Members start their own threads... Why not as a Membership post in his feature thread?
Kenny (publicenemy1925) started the thread "Great Old Pics" almost 2 years ago... Some "New Members" have started their own threads in "competition" instead of posting in Kenny's thread...
WHY? Why,instead of supporting those who have worked hard to start a Feature... Do you need to start a thread that competes?
Why instead of posting "Non-Petro" in the NON-PETRO BOTM... Do you feel the need to post it in the BOTW, which has ALWAYS BEEN for PETRO RELATED ITEMS?
People you are turning Oldgas into a "Garage Sale" site, instead of a "Petro Site".....(my opinion)
I understand that the purpose of the Membership on Oldgas has "changed" somewhat, from when I found the site...
"New Members" if you don't believe it, go back 7-10 years and read the threads and compare them to what is being posted now... Some of those who joined during the time period, I just mentioned are trying to "take" Oldgas forward to that time again...
When I started on Oldgas, Jim and the Membership talked about the History of the Hobby... Now we talk about "cut-out" dolls... Made up posters.... Red wagons, painted teal...
Maybe Oldgas and the Hobby, HAS passed me by....Maybe I am a dinosaur and I am behind the times....
I see so many Collectors who have hundreds of years of Experience who have walked away from Oldgas... I know that a good portion of them are still in the Hobby... I talk to them by email, on the phone, (I'm not really on Facebook, but I'm told a number of them show their "new finds" on it)... etc....
The Membership, had better ask themselves WHY... Why are those with a "ton" of experience and history in the hobby... Why are they walking away from Oldgas... And then look long and hard in the mirror.... Are you the reason they are "walking away"?....
I have "driven" some Members away! And for that I am truly sorry... I should never have that much influence and power, on anyone else!!!!!!!!!!
Oldgas, is becoming a site, I don't recognize and honestly one I am not enjoying as much as I did even a few short years ago...
Instead of sharing history... Too many are sharing "*****" (my opinion).....
It is time for the Membership to decide, if this is the Oldgas they want? Or do they want the site to go back to a "true" Petro site? (again my opinion)....
