Post #334893 by Tiki-Kate on Tue, Sep 25, 2007 5:51 PM

I don't think I'm a tiki snob, but I am a Tiki Central snob. When I first started reading TC, it was all so exciting and new to me despite the fact that I had been collecting for a few years already.

That group of folks who were actively posting around the time that I joined kept me riveted. Granted, they weren't the Algonquin Round Table or anything, but it was one of the more intelligent groups of people that I had encountered in a very long time.

When some people post now, I don't even bother looking because I know it's just going to be another "Gee, that's great, Me too, Sorry I can't make it to that event even though you live in Timbuktu and I'm in Outer Mongolia so there was no chance in hell that I could have made it in the first place but look how my post count is climbing" type of response.

I know that Bong caused an unforgivable amount of trouble for Hanford and the other moderators, but if you have any clue about what he did here on TC, you'd know that teaKEY would not have lasted three whole years because Bong would have been so harsh to him that he'd still be crying under his bed in fetal position, especially after the "commits" thread.

I piss and moan frequently about what TC used to be, but I do still love a great many things about it, and I've met tons of wonderful people who have joined fairly recently.

I guess I've adopted the "If you can't beat them, join them" mentality seeing as I'm often guilty of posting purely fluff responses these days too.

(Can't wait for my "nastygram" PM from teaKEY.)

As far as collecting goes, if you only buy what you truly like, then it's all good stuff because it makes you happy.