Hi Stig how are youStigroadie wrote:I see, asking questions and searching for answers is splitting hairs?
You can't accuse the forum of entertaining an elite, a clique and not elaborate on who these shadowy figures might be and what joins them together to form this clique.
I don't think it exists at all. I have made some enquiries with current and ex members, some are quite well known, they run groups, organise events, write books. None of them seem to know about it, not one had ever been invited to a meeting of this clique. More importantly, for my ego at least, neither had I.
Could it be that this imagined clique was no such thing? Could it be that many members of the forum all thought the same about one topic and voiced that? That it acted as a gestalt, that the one opinion was shared because it was true? The best answer available? I don't know, I didn't witness the cabal in action.
I do think there are people on the forum who know more than you about WW2 Germany, its troops and their uniforms. I know there are people who know much more about it than I do. Is it possible that you may have interpreted that as a slight? You saw a clique where there was just a shared opinion?
I don't know, I can't say but I can say I don't see any 'click' at work.
I was using the word clique as this is what the subject is called,
there is no "official" body i suppose it is people who know each other
who seem to band up on posts made by newbies, you see when i joined
this forum (5yrs ago) i had first started using the internet, my knowledge
was limited because of sources i had to hand, i had no specialist ref books
only War ref books on general theme so of course peoples knowledge on here
at the time i joined was greater than my own, now 5yrs later i have started to
specialize on the subject, what im saying is rather than band up to ridicule newbies
we should try and instruct and help them learn the subject, something that wasn't
available to me, anyway everybody have a good day.
Regards Peiper