GREAT MERCIFUL HEAVENS!

[Choctaw Dan]

I signed up for this Board to engage in frequent, meaningful conversations about knives and blades, and their use. So far, it seems, I was terribly wrong,

 

[91bravo]

Slow down with all the details.

 

[Peter Hartwig]

I have never had any problem discussing knives here
So I am just guessing the problem is you. Without details I could be wrong, but that is my guess at this point.

 

[Blues]

I signed up for this Board to engage in frequent, meaningful conversations about knives and blades, and their use. So far, it seems, I was terribly wrong,

Here are the threads you've started...do they meet the criteria?

(Pardon the sarcasm. It's been a long day.)

 

[AVigil]

So far, it seems, I was terribly wrong,

It happens

 

[Jdottinger]

Stick it out and explore the forum in its entirety. I browsed and familiarized myself with the place for a year or more before I ever posted. Lots of knowledge to be had. You’re platinum, try finding people with similar tastes and dm them. Some of the best and most meaningful conversations I’ve had here were private.

 

[eveled]

I don’t know what you were expecting. You’ve been an excellent contributor to some interesting threads I’ve participated in.

 

[Maroco]

The world is what we make of it...

 

[RayseM]

I’m wondering what threads you have participated in, rather than initiated. 343 posts is just warming up. There is lots of history and solid community here - as well as a great deal of snark and smug satisfied righteousness (welcome to an international forum) - just takes time and participation to find “your” community. Even a patient and open minded person can be quickly bored to tears and frustration with the same old newbie questions (forgetting we were all newbies once upon a time) and/or full blown opinions. We tend to circle our wagons out of mental self preservation.

This was pretty sound advice - though the DM route could be premature until you have had frequent solid interactions in various thread and make a connection.

Stick it out and explore the forum in its entirety. I browsed and familiarized myself with the place for a year or more before I ever posted. Lots of knowledge to be had. You’re platinum, try finding people with similar tastes and dm them. Some of the best and most meaningful conversations I’ve had here were private.

BF is not BCUSA - definitely a different temperament and range of topics there. Hang in and hang mellow. You’ll be fine.

 

[ShaiHulud]

A wonderful tool at your disposal worth utilizing and training is knowing you don't  have to respond to every message sent your way or directed at you, im only offering blind advice as your orioriginal post is about as vague as can be. There's no words you  Have to say, until you feel like saying them.

 

[scdub]

Slow down with all the details.

LOL!

frequent, meaningful conversations about knives and blades

There are MANY folks here doing exactly that.

Have you been poking around any of the sub-forums?? Some people go into great detail about subjects like sharpening (e.g. https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/rocks.1859813/), forging, metallurgy, and wilderness/bushcraft knife use, not to mention people going fully down the rabbit hole in manufacturers sub-forums.

You shouldn’t judge this forum just by what you read in “General Knife Discussion”. Dig deeper.

 

[Blues]

Well, since the OP has chosen not to engage further in his own thread, (despite having been back on the site since posting), we'll shut this down and let history take its course.