What makes a TBN member's advice more credible to you?

[jonyyuma]

Grammar, Roy, grammar....

So maybe if I wasn't so obsessive about having perfect grammar, spelling, and punctuation in my posts, I would be more credible?

Good deal, seems like just lately, i cannot strike the correct keys, plus spelling is defintely not my best subject..So I am not with the grammar police?

 

[jmurray01]

Grammar, Roy, grammar....

So maybe if I wasn't so obsessive about having perfect grammar, spelling, and punctuation in my posts, I would be more credible?

Hey, correcting grammar is my job!

I do have times when I just can't type right for some reason. My fingers just won't hit the right keys even though I'm normally a very good typist... God knows why.

 

[beppington]

Hey, correcting grammar is my job!

I do have times when I just can't type right for some reason. My fingers just won't hit the right keys even though I'm normally a very good typist... God knows why.

With age my grammar/spelling is faltering, & not due to laziness. I'll type something, convince myself it's correct, re-read it later in a response from somebody & see I typed "your going" instead of "you're going". And I'm only 43!

 

[polo1665]

Hey, correcting grammar is my job!

I do have times when I just can't tipe right for some reson. My flingers just wont hit the right keys even though I'm normaly a very good typiss... God knows why.

Hmmmm............seems to be one of those days.
:laughing:

 

[dmccarty]

Lessons learned at EU can be the painful and/or expensive kind, therefore easily remembered :thumbsup:

i.e. Some AM towers are hot. Do not walk up & touch an AM tower

Share please. THERE has to be a good story there. :laughing:

The what K0UA said is kinda gross. But interesting. :laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

Hey, correcting grammar is my job!

I do have times when I just can't type right for some reason. My fingers just won't hit the right keys even though I'm normally a very good typist... God knows why.

Consumption of single malt or blended water of life?



Later,
Dan

 

[beppington]

Share please. THERE has to be a good story there. :laughing:

The what K0UA said is kinda gross. But interesting. :laughing:

Later,
Dan

I was a kid, maybe 12 or 13, when my dad took me to a remote, kinda dilapidated AM tower site he was inspecting for appraisal for the owner to sell. Weeds all around the tower base, fence all but gone. First time I was ever anywhere near a tower; hadn't ever even given them a 2nd thought before. My dad was taking notes & not paying much attention to me, of course. Well, I walked right up to the tower, looked straight up it & thought, Wow, that's tall, very cool! Then for some reason I decided to "thump" 1 of the tower legs with my middle finger, I guess to see if it was solid or hollow, not sure, wasn't giving it a whole lot of thought. Before my finger could even contact the tower leg an arc jumped across & ZAP burned the ever livin' heck out of my middle finger knuckle My dad heard the zap & said, "You didn't touch that, did you???" I said, yeah. "Are you OK?" "Yeah, I guess, it burned me, though." At first the burn didn't look like much of anything, but over the next day or so it sure turned into a helluva wound with a lot of pain. That was the first time I got to smell really burnt human flesh. Very disgusting. You can bet I have never touched an AM tower again. Lesson learned, the hard way :thumbsup:

 

[GreenWannabe]

I am in full agreement with the positives in all these posts. But what destroys a lot of TBN Cred with me is the flaming arguments, and the "mine is absolute best" mentality. I've seen a number of people with credibility chased away by the personal attacks over the years, and I am pleased that a lot of the personal attacks have been toned down in the past year or two.

But when threads get sidetracked into heated arguments, such as the definition of tractor sizes recently, to me it detracts from the protagonists' credibility. I have bowed out of threads before where my response was accurate and to the point, only to be flamed for it.

My 2 cents' worth.

 

[JDgreen227]

I am in full agreement with the positives in all these posts. But what destroys a lot of TBN Cred with me is the flaming arguments, and the "mine is absolute best" mentality. I've seen a number of people with credibility chased away by the personal attacks over the years, and I am pleased that a lot of the personal attacks have been toned down in the past year or two.

But when threads get sidetracked into heated arguments, such as the definition of tractor sizes recently, to me it detracts from the protagonists' credibility. I have bowed out of threads before where my response was accurate and to the point, only to be flamed for it.

My 2 cents' worth.

After nearly 5000 posts here, I can count on one hand the number of threads I have participated in that became a heated argument, and I probably began the argument in half of the threads I mentioned. BTW, what thread do you refer to about tractor sizes? Might have been one of mine...if so, my apologies.

 

[adeoghert]

The credibility of the advice is based on the content and whether the advice was helpful.

The duration of membership and number of posts have no relevance.