A Survival Guide For New Users

[Ed L.]

Stay away from the following questions. Split fins versus jet fins, mask on forehead, and spare air. I am sure I missed something.

 

[Pullmyfinger]

You forgot us vintage divers!!!!! How could you forget us?

"Hitler" mentioned you guys in the video that was recently floating around(Hitler isn't AOW). Funny stuff. I think it all been taken down now.

-Mitch

 

[cdolphin]

Rob, can I steal that one?

Originally posted by Diver0001
About 98% of discussion on internet forums is what I call "playing in the margins".... it's the cyber lawn cutter's equivalent of cutting the grass with fingernail clippers one blade at a time.

Someone of course will argue that they are using toenail clippers, not fingernail clippers.

 

[vshearer]

Anybody mention spare-air?

Oops yeah, I see it.

 

[knowone]

You forgot us vintage divers!!!!! How could you forget us?

Who listens to old farts? Other old farts.

 

[Diver0001]

Rob, can I steal that one?

be my guest.

Someone of course will argue that they are using toenail clippers, not fingernail clippers.

LOL. In fact, I was expecting someone to argue that it wasn't 98% ...

 

[DandyDon]

Rob, Re "How to Survive":

I don't know if this comment is appropriate here, but when I first joined SB I was naively unaware of the "politics" of the place, and that often caused some problems for me. I was pounced on a few times, by different gangs, as I wandered innocently through the prison yard.

There is also a lot of history here, and some ancient feuds that surface from time to time.

Should newbies be made aware of these dangers? Should they be told that there are certain cliques on SB, who they are, and what their belief systems involve?

Or, like me, should they learn the hard way?

It would help if they wore their bandannas huh? Sorry about that crap; hiding behind monitors with private messaging and off-site IMs can make it easy to act out Napoleonic problems. Please do use the Report button and find other threads to enjoy for a while. Hell, one guy on one forum finds fault with everything I post in that one, even what I want to bring to pot luck gatherings. I guess he goes to them now and reminds people how nice it is that I don't, but it's just funny to me. I'd rather plan a dive trip than a fight.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Mike, how could you possibly define all the polarized positions on the board? There are some big ones -- the backplate people, the deep air people, the DIR people and the "I'd rather die than go DIR" people. But there are a mess of smaller ones -- the split fin people, the paddle fin people, the OC people, the rebreather people, the team divers, the solo divers. I think a new diver is going to find out that divers, like almost everybody else in the world, tend to form groups of similar opinion or behavior or region or whatever, and compete with, argue with, dismiss or criticize anybody who's different. Life is just plain like that.

You forgot the MOFia, the Dork Divers and the Dog Pilers ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[Mike Boswell]

You forgot the MOFia, the Dork Divers and the Dog Pilers ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

I think she could have listed many others, but wisely chose not to. She has a woman's uncanny ability to calmly make her point, without putting it in someone else's eye.

 

[knowone]

Like me.