Rant on.
I come here to read brewers' posts, legendary brewers, experienced brewers, new brewers, all grain guys, extract brewers; always seem to learn something from them and if I have the knowledge answer questions too. i even come here occasionally for grammar correction.
I use HBT as a social outlet too. I've laughed my ass off on some of the humor injected into post. Lately, not getting much of that. I'm sure it's just me but reading the threads from a few years ago I notice much more technical research and good will.
Recently (and some of my rant might have started from this) A guy started a thread to help newbies out. He didn't make any false claims to be an expert. He gave a link to a website and on the site he gave answers to many new brewers questions, and he did a very good job of it.
Somewhere along the line in his post "USE THE SEARCH BUTTON" topic came up. WTF. If you're a new guy you probably don't know about the search button aside from the one at the center top of the page which if you do use sucks butt. There was one in the glass of foamy beer on the top of the page which works great. I swear when somebody first enlightened everybody about that it was just a small little google image in the glass but now boldly states search above the glass and has a window to type the search words into.
Anyway, carry on. Rant over.
I come here to read brewers' posts, legendary brewers, experienced brewers, new brewers, all grain guys, extract brewers; always seem to learn something from them and if I have the knowledge answer questions too. i even come here occasionally for grammar correction.
I use HBT as a social outlet too. I've laughed my ass off on some of the humor injected into post. Lately, not getting much of that. I'm sure it's just me but reading the threads from a few years ago I notice much more technical research and good will.
Recently (and some of my rant might have started from this) A guy started a thread to help newbies out. He didn't make any false claims to be an expert. He gave a link to a website and on the site he gave answers to many new brewers questions, and he did a very good job of it.
Somewhere along the line in his post "USE THE SEARCH BUTTON" topic came up. WTF. If you're a new guy you probably don't know about the search button aside from the one at the center top of the page which if you do use sucks butt. There was one in the glass of foamy beer on the top of the page which works great. I swear when somebody first enlightened everybody about that it was just a small little google image in the glass but now boldly states search above the glass and has a window to type the search words into.
Anyway, carry on. Rant over.