davidbeinct
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Non-forum person: buys Boatswain’s pipe, finds out it doesn’t work, buys another one that does work, uses it.
Forum person: buys Boatswain’s pipe, finds out it doesn’t work, goes about learning how to fix it, in the meantime buys another one that does work, goes about learning how to modify it.
One year later the non-forum person owns one Boatswain’s pipe, having thrown out the pipe that didn’t work. The forum person owns seventeen pipes in various conditions of repair and has become an expert on the effects of various metals on the pipes’ tone. Has already been cautioned once by a mod at letstalkbosunspipes about questioning other’s choices in beeswax.
Forum person: buys Boatswain’s pipe, finds out it doesn’t work, goes about learning how to fix it, in the meantime buys another one that does work, goes about learning how to modify it.
One year later the non-forum person owns one Boatswain’s pipe, having thrown out the pipe that didn’t work. The forum person owns seventeen pipes in various conditions of repair and has become an expert on the effects of various metals on the pipes’ tone. Has already been cautioned once by a mod at letstalkbosunspipes about questioning other’s choices in beeswax.