unsatisfiedus wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 6:42 pm
@kimchi how did you start doing that in the first place?
I spent a bunch of time on the internet talking about snowboarding and giving out advice to kooks on the "Daily Discussion Thread" and eventually someone asked me to help lead and regulate the kooks lol.
I'm struggling a little bit with what to do about it, honestly. That subreddit has 1.5 million subscribers and every fucking day is "Is this too much overhang?" "Is my board damaged because I nicked the topsheet?" "How much should I pay for this 30 year old setup?" or some other horseshit deeply unoriginal question asked by slubs with no capacity for critical thought or meaningful investment in snowboarding. There's no real sense of community outside of maybe a dozen core posters, everything else is just a rotating cast of casuals. I much prefer spending my time here with a more core, more knowledgable crew.... hell, even SBF is better.
I'm thinking about trying to steer the ship a little bit towards my kind of place, but I only got so much time and energy, and don't get paid for horseshit or really inure any meaningfu benefit. Don't even get proforms lol. Like I said, I quit and only came back because my replacement was a fucking shit show. This was my response and I basically underwent a guerrilla campaign to get him fired and offered to come back if they cut him. Point C here about covers how I feel about moderating.
I could never do that, hah. This is the only snowboard forum of any kind I can handle. SBF is simply a no, bailed on DMQ after the first time I looked at it, and even snowboard trader comment sections are rough sometimes. You deserve a raise.
Spenser wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 8:07 pm
I could never do that, hah. This is the only snowboard forum of any kind I can handle. SBF is simply a no, bailed on DMQ after the first time I looked at it, and even snowboard trader comment sections are rough sometimes. You deserve a raise.
Lol even $1 would be an infinity percent raise.
All those communities have good solid commenters, but the bigger they get, the stupider the average poster. And/r/snowboarding is the biggest unless you count Instagram generally.
J0_Zehp wrote: ↑Tue Jan 03, 2023 4:06 am
Thank you
Is the Resort Twin the model from Blaise ?
No. Blaise has a color up on the Pow Racer. The Resort Twin is the answer to an in-bounds Powder Twin. It's like an Indoor but with a little different layup and a more forgiving camber profile.
Powder Racer graphic is sick. Everyone needs to try that board, it's one of my favorites.
Outerspace Living graphic is also sick.
Super weird they gave the Navi the Resort V2 profile from the Mercury. It's like they want to blur the lines between all their boards. The directional profile it has this year really set it apart from any of their other non-Spring Break boards.
So, the Scott Stevens pro model is gone? But it stayed for kids? Weird.
I know this is the dumbest gripe ever, but Union's heelcups look like shit after your first day of riding and I wish they'd fixed that somehow haha.
J0_Zehp wrote: ↑Tue Jan 03, 2023 4:06 am
Thank you
Is the Resort Twin the model from Blaise ?
No. Blaise has a color up on the Pow Racer. The Resort Twin is the answer to an in-bounds Powder Twin. It's like an Indoor but with a little different layup and a more forgiving camber profile.
Thank you for your enlightening ,is the Blaise colorway in size 154 or smth else not showed on the catalog?
tracer wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 3:44 am
Seems to be full Capita 23/24 on reddit:
Random question, you spend much time on Reddit? Curious your thoughts. I was a mod, quit at the end of last season, then got sucked back in because my replacement was a toxic asshole mega kook.
Many years back I would be on r/snowboarding and it just seemed like all noise and no signal. There are obviously some guys who are knowledgeable snowboarders who are on there, but it's 99% a daily battle to try and course correct to the uninformed and highly opinionated masses. Pearls before swine... Sisyphus... over and over. Providing real information is overwhelmed by the din of opinions and egos just shouting it down because they don't like it and there's no benefit to trying to reason with 10,000 Angry Snowboarders, who like children, talk in absolutes while not knowing of what they really are saying. It seemed to self perpetuate it's own toxicity as hyperbole and exaggeration got more traction, and a lot of toxicity was masked under the guise of "doing good". For me I just felt like the only way to participate was to treat it like a joke. So I quit and just hang here.
I guess the TLDR is that it's like most any discourse these days.
