Subj : Re: Custom, stock or otherwise
To   : Avon
From : apam
Date : Sat Apr 13 2024 01:16 pm

  By: Avon to apam on Sat Apr 13 2024 03:02 pm

 Av> Personally I don't care if the BBS is stock or modded up the wazoo, so
 Av> long as the sysop has an interest in the hobby and is doing something
 Av> about it to engage with it by spinning up some software I say 'go for it,
 Av> and welcome to the community'

I don't get annoyed with stock BBSes, but there is little incentive for me to call them. I can read fsxnet on my own BBS. The main reason I call BBSes apart from testing things, is looking around, seeing what people have done.

I certainly don't think they should be excluded from the hobby or something like that.

Having said that, I think people that unzip a package and set it up, join a few nets and then sit back, only to shut down after a little while, maybe testing the waters, or seeing if it's for them. I don't think they should be excluded either, just suggesting that perhaps that's why they do what they do.

I was talking about games with tiny earlier in fsx_gen, how we buy games and then never get around to playing them - perhaps the interest is there, but the motivation to continue is not.

Who knows. I'm sure there's plenty of reasons people do what they do :) some stick around though :)

Andrew
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