It’s easy to pick one or two things that people have said and use it to try to put them down.
To be honest if it’s wasn’t for the founders of the site we wouldn’t have a fantastic resource like this.
Yes they all bickered made mistakes, but to be honest I am sure we can find silly things people have said on here in the past. What frustrates me is that there is a core of people who continually bring up the same criticisms even though it happened years ago.
Yes things move on but I do have a lot of respect for the people who have made this site what it is today.
Stop looking back at the past and move forward on how we continue the legacy and make this site even better.
But this is just my opinion, what do I know??
Well said. Hard to disagree with a single word of this. Including, to expand on one of the minor points raised:
As a newer member (just shy of 2 years only) I have noticed that once started down that road several of the threads can tend to regurgitate some of the same old tales (This one about JRC's ill judged financial advise to a WG, the Ban James999 debate, the unhinged Marty McFly episodes, etc) . Reminds me of those occasions when you are down the pub with some old mates, and for whatever reason the conversation goes dry so someone starts in with the "do you remember when..." reminiscent conversations.
Sometimes I find it a bit repetitive. However, it does still serve purpose. The newest members won't have heard those tales from the bygone days of UKP. Like me, when they first hear mention of them they'll probably hunt down the original thread and find them hilarious, or a the very least informative. If they don't get repeated occasionally those lessons would disappear as the older threads get buried under the newest ones. In some ways, that repetitive element is like a digital oral tradition (excuse the pun).
