chucK Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 (Thinker spoke of this on that other thread, but I don't want to dilute the hate over there.) Rec.climbing is basically now dead. It is an interesting concept of where the addicted sprayers all got off to from there. If you migrated here, anybody wanna divulge who you are/were? Thinker, did you post on rec.climbing I know Stinkwagen is here, as well as Sketchball, Cairns, Fern, Scott Presho and Rob Williams. Anybody else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snoboy Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 I used to love Mad Dog. I think I might have made a few posts back in the early 90's, does that count? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 lurker on rec.climbing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thinker Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 I may have made 3 or 4 posts there, but mainly just lurked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 I remember someone named lord slime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 rec.climbing can be interesting sometimes but basically it suffers from being suck. the posters are either someone who has been online since 1981 and all know each other, or some utterly clueless nope. My favorite r.climber is Batten. No one has trolled cc.com as successfully or for as long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonanon Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 Guilty as charged. Slime and I were flaming away at one another for a couple weeks after the helicopter crash on Mt Hood. I hardly ever go there anymore, but Dingus still posts decent TRs from time to time. You wanna see a dead NG, check in on rec.skiing.backcoutry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 I think newsgroups filtered out a lot of people out who were not necessarily technically-oriented. They required a bit of understanding how the internet worked. Might account for the differences between this and that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willstrickland Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 usenet is like so 1994 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arlen Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 I think there was a mass migration to rc.com. It was pretty easy for the handful of regular chestbeaters to ride herd on the hapless n00bies at rec.climbing, but I wonder how they're managing with the horde of bible gymbies at rc.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbw1966 Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 I was a regular to rec.climbing until our more regionally oriented board fired up (thanks Jon and Timmy!). My very first foray into rec.climbing resulted in a sound schooling by Lord Slime. Over the years I met a few of the rec.climbers and am still very good friends with a couple. I think its funny that Dru makes a criticism of rec.climbing as being a place where everyone knows each other. Um.. gee, that doesn't sound like cc.com at all. I really don't see that much of a difference between cc.com and rec.climbing. We've both got our long-standing flame wars, petulant squabbles and incessant whining about the good old days, moderation etc. I basically stopped posting at rec.climbing because I have to access it via google and the lag time is atrocious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 But than there are posts like this one: New Pacific Northwest Climbing Site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 i dunno, rec dot seems a lot more cliquey to me than cc.com that's why i migrated to cc.com. but maybe i am part of the clique here? I still don't understand the Nodder thread though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbw1966 Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 I'm sure a LOT of lurkers would disagree with you Dru. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lummox Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 a different spraysite than cc.com? say it aint so joe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 I'm sure a LOT of lurkers would disagree with you Dru. its easy to make assumptions or claims about lurkers cause they will never post anything anyways that might contradict any point anyone cares to make about them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbw1966 Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 They told me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 And then there are interesting posts like this one... new system Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 and this one: 1984 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 fuckin' spammers iain! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Kirby Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 I've lurked on wreckdot for the better part of eight years. There was a noticeable dropoff in traffic when the newbie hoardes over at RC.com started gaining in numbers and momentum. Like Thinker and some others, I only posted there infrequently over the years and never attempted to make posting there a pastime. I remember reading a lot of posts from Cairns, RBW and the others from usenet and even tried to climb with RBW a number of times (failed miserably due to school intrusion into climbing time). Nowadays, the more prolific posters have moved to RC.com and local boards like this one, leaving the infamous Batten a larger piece of the bandwidth pie. Wreckdot is a different place, doomed to be a public forum for members of the old group trying to catch up with each other from time to time. Now I must go rope solo Tahquitz with my UCLA coeds. Is the rock dry? Please Advise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 Now I must go rope solo Tahquitz with my UCLA coeds. Is the rock dry? Please Advise. Has a Black Man ever climbed El Cap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbw1966 Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 Zaumoron! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted March 17, 2004 Share Posted March 17, 2004 $1200 electronic carabiner! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Kirby Posted March 17, 2004 Share Posted March 17, 2004 Man I wish the emergencyrappel.com site was still up. That site was hilarious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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