Bird Freak wrote:
RandACampin wrote:
SharshelF wrote:
jmtandem wrote:
If westernrvparkowner would have read the original post they would have seen that the vendor was identified and already had the tire in stock in 45 minutes AND had confirmed a service time OF THEIR OWN CHOOSING which, if it had been met would have had me back on the road in less than two and a half hours. When the vendor finally made his way to the roadside the actual work was completed in less than thirty minutes on the roadside. It sounds like this vendor and westernrvparkowner conduct business in similar fashion so it is probably best that he stay anonymous or he would have a perpetually empty rv park. I doubt that we have many things in common in that not only do I read, I am able to comprehend. LOL!
Why are you so defensive? You are the one that sat on the side of the road for seven hours not western park owner or anybody else. You are the one that posted the thread here and you have to expect people to respond with how they see the situation. If you were looking for a bunch of folks that felt sorry for you or were showing great sympathy for you then you do not understand this (or most) forums. Sometimes posters need to be thick skinned because you will never know how others will respond.
I have little tolerance for folks who respond to a post when, in their response, it is very evident that either they didn't really read or comprehend what the post said. I was not looking for anybody to have pity on me but rather to communicate the facts of a less than acceptable experience. I use forums quite often (camp grounds, travel services, etc.) and had the experience been a positive one there would also have been a post to reflect that experience. I have found that it is pretty easy to filter forum posts that are informative as opposed to those that are serving an agenda, either positive or negative.
Long time members of this forum have forum have little tolerance for one-time posters (you) who come on here to piss, moan and whine about situations that are caused by their unreasonable expectations.
WRVPO and others with more than 1/2 a brain read your post and understood it for exactly what is.
Only the bleeding heart piler-oner CW bashers will agree with you.
You will be gone after this one-time rant anyway and good riddance to whiners.
And here you see a prime example of why new membership is down.
Could it be that this is not the case? That what the comments above really represent is a case of Peer Moderation, which to my mind is far preferable to the Moderators stepping in, and that it tends to bring the conversation back to what the OP REALLY wrote?
While I found WRVPO's remarks out of line but all too common they probably do represent the feeling of a small number of folks here. That does not make them right, or well written or empathetic in any way but I don't see any connection from this to the alleged decline of the forums. (See the topic under General RV forum on this subject)
I will take RVPO's kind of remarks over the snarky one-line, emoji ridden posts that seem to be proliferating any day. To my mind those are more pernicious to participation than a poorly thought out gotcha comeback such as RVPO wrote. (I just wish he would learn to use paragraphs)
