Influx of New Members Lately

[tjm]

You can probably delete your posts, one at a time, but I doubt there  is a way to extract your  stuff from quotes. Once quoted it is part of the other guy's post.  I've noticed on other forums that when a mod banned someone and deleted the posts that the quotes stayed in place.

[fishinwrench]

When you think about it, this whole thing about posts on the internet lasting for all eternity is quite insane...... pointless...... wasteful.    

The thought that I am changing history everytime I hit that submit button is rather troubling.   But then again, I don't think I've ever posted anything that I truly regret...... believe it or not.

[bfishn]

Deleting stuff here only deletes it from... here. The Wayback Machine has been crawling this site since 2012;

https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://forums.ozarkanglers.com/

 

[Mitch f]

I guess if you have something to hide you need it deleted.  I have nothing to hide 😂

BTW nothing is ever deleted except on Epstein’s list…or Hunters laptop

[ness]

12 hours ago, Gavin said:

Good to know, your forkers need to up your game. I want my stuff canned  off this forum, but terms of use might say it belongs to Phil.  Phil I will make arrangements for the $1 I’m willing to give you to delete my account & content. It’s probably allot more than it’s worth. One Sack Jack will give ya a dollar, if I ask him too, 

I don't know why you feel the need to have your stuff deleted. You've got a few thousand posts, and only a couple hundred were really stupid. And, you're an anonymous internet guy who goes by Gavin. Nobody knows your real last name is McLoud, so why worry?  

[BilletHead]

5 hours ago, ness said:

I don't know why you feel the need to have your stuff deleted. You've got a few thousand posts, and only a couple hundred were really stupid. And, you're an anonymous internet guy who goes by Gavin. Nobody knows your real last name is McLoud, so why worry?  

                I thought all this time he was from California and last name was Newsome.  Boy I was wrong! thanks for clearing this up Ness!

[bfishn]

For me, this site is a direct social replacement for the time I spent in bait shops in years gone by. Bait shops were where the "lying fisherman" blossomed and flourished. I learned early (the hard way) that what some guys said there was never what worked, but the guys that just listened might give you a real tip on the way to their truck. I adapted and assimilated. If I told you something in front of more than just you, it was likely a lie, or at least an inversion meant to send you where I wouldn't be, doing stuff I wouldn't do.

So, even when it was only word-of-mouth in a local area, you didn't give up the good stuff. You knew better. The www is many orders of magnitude worse in that regard. Information has value, but for it to be your value, it has to stay in your head. Or you can share and perhaps gain perceived value from that, but you can never put the cat back in the bag.

As for $ for Phil, I didn't pay to hang at the bait shop, so I'm not paying to hang here. I did, however, buy stuff while I was there. I'd suggest instead of annoying algorithm-driven microcent ads for someone else's junk, you splatter us with stuff you have to sell. I won't give you a dollar a month to read and post, but I'd for sure buy some hats or tees... or book a room & boat... or, whatever you might choose to offer. 🙂

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

15 hours ago, bfishn said:

For me, this site is a direct social replacement for the time I spent in bait shops in years gone by. Bait shops were where the "lying fisherman" bloomed and thrived. I learned early (the hard way) that what some guys said there was never what worked, but the guys that just listened might give you a real tip on the way to their truck. I adapted and assimilated. If I told you something in front of more than just you, it was likely a lie, or at least an inversion meant to send you where I wouldn't be, doing what I wouldn't do.

So, even when it was only word-of-mouth in a local area, you didn't give up the good stuff. You knew better. The www is many orders of magnitude worse in that regard. Information has value, but for it to be your value, it has to stay in your head. Or you can share and perhaps gain perceived value from that, but you can never put the cat back in the bag.

As for $ for Phil, I didn't pay to hang at the bait shop, so I'm not paying to hang here. I did, however, buy stuff while I was there. I'd suggest instead of annoying algorithm-driven ads, you splatter us with stuff you have to sell. I won't give you a dollar a month to read and post, but I'd for sure buy some hats or tees... or book a room & boat... or, whatever you might choose to offer. 🙂

That's a great idea.   I guess I'm ahead of the curve.   I got this at the fly shop, but they are available online. 

https://www.lilleysriverside.com/shop/Apparel.htm

[bfishn]

Totally off topic, I apologize but I want to elaborate on my first encounter with a "lying fisherman"...

Bad Bob Breeden. He was pretty old when I met him at 18. Former USN millwright in WWII. Best all-species angler I ever met. Freely shared knots, tackle, boat & motor info with anyone that asked. Me and a couple fishing buddies went in together on a 1236 jon, and Bob kept us in $25 3-5HP motors for a couple years. Goodyears, McClintons, etc, all valuable antiques today, but the sand-bottomed Grand River ate water pumps and lower units, so we typically just loosened the bolts and buried them where they died, floated back to the truck and went looking for Bob to get another.

In the NoMo '70s, no one had ever heard of C&R. When Bob returned from a trip, his first stop was the Friendly Tavern to show out. Every single time someone asked him 'where' or 'on what' the answer was the same. "Airport pond on dough balls". You could find anyone that didn't know the airport pond was only a ~2ft deep, lily-pad choked, unfishable snake pit there the next day, with doughballs and determination.

RIP Bob. And thank you.

[laker67]

I would like to add that so many fisherman of the other sites spend too much time on "hey watch me, I'm the greatest (angler/tyer) on the creek and I catch way bigger fish than the rest of ya'll because I'm that good, and have you seen my gear? well it's the highest price on the market , yada yada"

 

One of the things that Rick (Laker67) so admired about this site is the honest humility, good humor, and comraderie.  And if sportsmanship was overlooked, he'd be the first to chime in   God I miss him!