Would love to see BLF get more social

He's a man. :bigsmile: Aside from that I don't mention my name on public forums due to "an abundance of caution" as they've been saying in the media recently. No offense to anybody here, it's not that I don't trust our great group of users, it's the random scum that trawls the internet looking to do identity fraud that makes me be slightly guarded in this respect.

I like your idea of a "How did you use your flashlight at work?" type of thread. In fact, I tried to start a similar one a while back... Lets see... Here it is.

Thanks for the reply "sb56637." I posted to the thread you linked to. I understand privacy issues, but it sure would be nice if you let us know at least a first name or a nickname. For example, "Steve." We all know if someone Googles "Steve" they will get a bazillion results. To be more accurate I just did and Google had 954,000,000 results for "Steve." :D

He does have a nickname... "Admin" :D

Feel free to call me whatever you want, I'm not easily offended. ;)

You're the boss Dimwhit. ;)

I've been called worse. :p

This past weekend my Mothers fridge croaked. As a good son I wanted to do some research on particular models/sizes/ energy star rating. to help her find a new appliance. In the meantime I took my keg out of my keg fridge and took an SUV cab to her house with it so she could keep her meds and her cats meds cold. The corner store wanted $19 for the amount of bags of ice she would need to keep stuff cold in plastic bins. The cab ride with my fridge cost $26 to the Bronx. My mother has had refrigeration since Saturday because of it.

We found a fridge that meets her size needs and all of everything else. It was delivered today. all is well now :)

Just an example of how some posts have embedded material :)

True, many threads have embedded material. And that's OK I guess. I'm not the boss here, Dimwhit is. ;)

However, to embed further... I have never been to NYC and can't even fathom needing an SUV Cab to move a fridge. Here in AZ nearly everyone owns a truck. And the few that don't own a truck call a friend with a truck to move a fridge.

I hear ya. I was born here so just in my upbringing you were lucky to know someone with a pickup let alone a car. I now own two cars, one is my baby (Toyota MR2) and the other a Lancer. I'm a car person. In NYC it is really easy to pick the cab you get now since they use Hybrid Escapes. Said fridge fit :) in the back. Come to NYC, it's really a nice place despite the stigma :)

EDIT: not to say any (stigma) was attached to my comment. BLF is the best place globaly to discuss anything. Good people here. thats why we like it :)

Well i'm not offended by OT posts as long as it's useful. This is the beauty of this forum.

The other forum wont be so kind to you.

Its MR Admin! lol

BLF is very social. You will see some very funny stuff sometimes. I have sprayed my screen with coffee on more than one occasion.

Would it be possible to add a sub-forum for Severely Off-Topic (tm) chatter? And have it set so threads posted there are hidden from the front page and only users with a pre-set number of posts in the flashlight threads can see/access/contribute? Give us a place to ask questions about working on cars, post pictures from the last fishing trip, things like that?

That probably would make some people spam just to see that area...

        "Call me sir damn it !!!</p>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30UeDkV0YyQ&feature=related

…What happened to the BEER ? You’ve omitted a seriously important detail here ?

I just sincerely hope we don't get the reverse CPF syndrome - wherein if it's not a "budget" light it's given a barrage of "hey! how can that be budget?!", " You call that budget?!", etc..

sadly I've seen some

I dunno... It's BUDGETlightforum after all... Some people's ideas of budget is far higher than mine! The most expensive flashlight I own cost $35, and that caused serious nail-biting before I bought that. Now, I really want one of the FandyFire STL-V6 lights, but at ~$50, that's well out of my "Budget" category. Maybe we should add a sister forum: www.notquitebudgetbutstillcheaperthanasurefirelightforum.com

Laughing

I'm really enjoying the flashlight part. But what you're saying sounds nice too.

I like BLF because it is NOT to chatty about "what is your favorite color?" type stuff. We're flashlight geeks, that's what we like! (In my case I've taken it to extremes with carbon-arc searchlights and xenon short-arc lights.)

Another consideration is the amount of data mining going on on the internet these days. It's amazing how few people realize that Facebook is really about data mining and marketing, sold under the guise of "social-media". Everything you do on that site is logged, organized, warehoused and sold to Facebook "partners"....yet people freely "give" away their info by clicking the "Like" button for commercial based posts.

Actually I was sort of thinking about excluding "Off-topic Chatter" posts from appearing on the front page. We would have to be extra careful though to watch for spam in that category, as somebody mentioned here.

I think the whole front page feed should be determined by each individual member. I should be able to get those forums that I find most interesting and not have to look at an endless stream of posts regarding commercial transactions.

The ability to block individual members comments (from my viewing) would allow each of us to eliminate having to read the comments of the rude 3 or 4 people who engage in that kind of behavior without banning them.

If someone says we are whimming or too lazy to do something or other rude comment ...just block them. Each member would be able to have the "world" that they wish to view.