Take 'er easy Jelly, take the occasional bitog sabbatical, and come back refreshed. Keep in mind other people will have other opinions. Let it be an exercise to the reader to find out what to make of dozens of conflicting opinions from all sorts of posters.
1. "How do you do it?"
Often at the expense of personal life, and often --before learning how this board affected me (--i m a newbie) at the significant expense of productivity.
2. Regarding gripes:
I think a majority of the useful information every to come out of the board can already be found in the archives. Right now, most discussion will be a repeat of previous discussion, and a lot of chatter. Lately, mostly chatter IMO. It would be great if it were possible to compile the early years of bitog into bitog-classic searchable archive and keep it separate from the new stuff; something like 3/4 (i am using my guesstimates here) of the total information ever would be contained in these few years posts, while the new posts covering a mere potential 1/4 of the total useful information would be swamped in a sea of chatter of a new bitog era.
There is still much to be learned through the slow process of UOA's and the statistics on can make from them; there will for sure be interesting years ahead, but it will be slow progress that isn't noticable at all from day to day. Therefore the need for chatter.
And chatter isn't all bad either; we can keep each other enthusiastic about our little hobby, keep each other from worrying ourselves sick of imaginable potential oil disasters in your engine, have entertaining arguments of conflicting views, etc, share tips, and all the other neat stuff that happens here.
Sure, we can do better, and it's useful that Jelly brought this up. Only through self reflection can one improve.
1. "How do you do it?"
Often at the expense of personal life, and often --before learning how this board affected me (--i m a newbie) at the significant expense of productivity.
2. Regarding gripes:
I think a majority of the useful information every to come out of the board can already be found in the archives. Right now, most discussion will be a repeat of previous discussion, and a lot of chatter. Lately, mostly chatter IMO. It would be great if it were possible to compile the early years of bitog into bitog-classic searchable archive and keep it separate from the new stuff; something like 3/4 (i am using my guesstimates here) of the total information ever would be contained in these few years posts, while the new posts covering a mere potential 1/4 of the total useful information would be swamped in a sea of chatter of a new bitog era.
There is still much to be learned through the slow process of UOA's and the statistics on can make from them; there will for sure be interesting years ahead, but it will be slow progress that isn't noticable at all from day to day. Therefore the need for chatter.
And chatter isn't all bad either; we can keep each other enthusiastic about our little hobby, keep each other from worrying ourselves sick of imaginable potential oil disasters in your engine, have entertaining arguments of conflicting views, etc, share tips, and all the other neat stuff that happens here.
Sure, we can do better, and it's useful that Jelly brought this up. Only through self reflection can one improve.
