Why Blake’s Peace Out Matters

bgebrent

Maybe for you it doesn’t.  You’ve probably never met Blake.  I was fortunate enough to have met him.  His departure is a loss to the collective.  He is  a unique guy and salt of the earth. His sour dough and pizza dough threads are top shelf. 
I know why he checked out.  Funny many of my friends refute the negative progression that is obvious on the forum.  Status quo is comfortable.  Some of my friends tout the direction of the forum.  It’s not my forum.  Until cooking threads outnumber bs posts ,
cooking questions or beg questions with anyone cooking fish.  I’ll just stand by.  This is a cooking forum.  Post a great cook.

bgebrent

Peace out.

DoubleEgger

Have a good evening Brent

thetrim

Did it have anything to do w the ATL airport debacle?

GoooDawgs

Agree @bgebrent.  I motion that anyone starting a BS or far OT post be required to post 1 brisket cook and another smoking meat of their choice.  A 1:2 ratio of BS to brisket should keep the balance in check. 

kaybee

Not that my departure will have anything like the impact of Blake's but I'm gone too.

I just recently went through the process of deciding which of the two Q forums I follow I am going to put my cooking documentation efforts in to. It's not this one. I want to be able to send people links to posts that don't end up devolving into double blade razors, digestive effects of beets or the increasing vitriolic political discussion that is happening.

You folks have fun but I can't take it any more.
Peace Out from kaybee too.

Off to unsubscribe my RSS feed,
You'll find me over at Kamado Guru if interested, same handle.

stlcharcoal

BLM.......Blake Lives Matter??

I'm starting a GoFundMe page.

SonVolt

If he comes back now it's just going to be awkward. 

Acn

That's all right, these things gotta happen every five years or so, ten years. Helps to get rid of the bad blood; been ten years since the last one. You know, you gotta stop 'em at the beginning...like they shoulda stopped Hitler at Munich.  They should never have let him get away with that; they was just askin' for big trouble.

Was Clemenza talking about mob wars, or was he just truly ahead of his time and predicting 'state of the forum' threads?  We may never know.

GoldenQ

Because of all the BS and sooting at each other on this site, I mostly use the Amazing RIBS Forum which is polite and has ADULTS not rich spoiled old teenagers.  I will continue to watch this forum some but may not do much posting.

GrillSgt

I soot the sheriff but I did not soot the deputy. 

GoldenQ

Has anyone ever wondered why most posts and most comments come from only the same few forum members.  Several I know do not want to get into all the BS and comment shots.   Look at Photo Egg and Stitch Charcoal for good comments. They seldom ever if ever blast people.  If we want to have a GREAT forum and have lots of users we need to be ADULTS about our posts.

JohnInCarolina

GrillSgt said:

I soot the sheriff but I did not soot the deputy. 

There goes my coffee man.  All over the keyboard.

hoosier_egger

bgebrent said:

Maybe for you it doesn’t.  You’ve probably never met Blake.  I was fortunate enough to have met him.  His departure is a loss to the collective.  He is  a unique guy and salt of the earth. His sour dough and pizza dough threads are top shelf. 
I know why he checked out.  Funny many of my friends refute the negative progression that is obvious on the forum.  Status quo is comfortable.  Some of my friends tout the direction of the forum.  It’s not my forum.  Until cooking threads outnumber bs posts ,
cooking questions or beg questions with anyone cooking fish.  I’ll just stand by.  This is a cooking forum.  Post a great cook.

The guy does turn out some amazing loaves. I follow his IG

Legume

GATraveller

CtTOPGUN

 I am a member of a few forum groups. I prefer forums over Facebook. To me, a member for only a few years, I think this place is fairly tame compared to some I frequent. The OT banter can be intriguing at times. We are certainly more than what we cook. I like that the forum acts as a full community. If I only want to read cooking threads it is pretty easy to do so. But I think I would miss out on the unique characters that are members. Although I don't get invalved in any mud slinging online, it does not scare or offend me. Count me in and staying around.


   

stlcharcoal

Ok, GoFundMe is in the works......anybody ponying up $100+ gets one of these:

SonVolt

That is racist and offensive and can we maybe put one of his nipples from the apron pic on the T somewhere?

Kelso

Cliffs Notes for those of us that missed whats going on???

northGAcock

stlcharcoal said:

Ok, GoFundMe is in the works......anybody ponying up $100+ gets one of these:

What is the value proposition. Love the T-shirt but are we trying to buy him back? I need more to go on in order to decide....I know it is Election Day and all....so details probably don’t matter. 

tarheelmatt

I think we need to call Bruce!

Mattman3969

That’s your answer to everything.  Call Bruce Almighty. Lol 

SonVolt

Kelso said:

Cliffs Notes for those of us that missed whats going on???

Writes Dear John letter dedicated to the forum then doesn't really leave. 

tarheelmatt

Mattman3969 said:

That’s your answer to everything.  Call Bruce Almighty. Lol 

If everyone has called him as many times as I have said that Bruce probably hates my guts right about now.

Legume

The Cen-Tex Smoker

Just for context, as of this writing there are 43 (out of 60 total) on-topic cooking threads on the first 2 pages of the forum. All 43 are by different authors and very few are from "the same few forum members". Out of the 17 off topic, 5-6 of them are "Peace Out" derivatives (including this one). there are a few shaving, a few sports, and the "what are you X now" threads. no big deal. 

70% of the posts are on-topic, food related, and all by unique authors. If you add in the long-running "what are you X now" threads it's more like +75%. 

Say what you want about the direction of the forum but the math does not support the argument that it's all BS by the same few members and no cooking. If you feel that way, you are likely giving too much weight to things you don't like and allowing that to distort your view of the facts. 

I will admit that not all threads/posters are weighted the same and some voices are louder than others. Welcome to life. If those things bother you then the internet is going to be a bumpy ride. 

It ain't perfect but it's nowhere near "the sky is falling" situation that some are making it out to be. 

BigGreenBean

CtTOPGUN said:

 I am a member of a few forum groups. I prefer forums over Facebook. To me, a member for only a few years, I think this place is fairly tame compared to some I frequent. The OT banter can be intriguing at times. We are certainly more than what we cook. I like that the forum acts as a full community. If I only want to read cooking threads it is pretty easy to do so. But I think I would miss out on the unique characters that are members. Although I don't get invalved in any mud slinging online, it does not scare or offend me. Count me in and staying around.


   

The OT banter is not intriguing; it's a pointless, distracting pain in the ass.  Don't know Blake, don't know his reasons for bolting.  I joined because this forum was recommended, but it's an infuriating mishmash of useless OT crap on many days.  If you want OT, then go to the shaving forum or the What Are You Doing Right Now forum.  But quit cluttering this one up with irrelevant b.s.  I haven't split yet, but this forum's relevance to my green kamado smoker is far, far less than I would like.  

SonVolt

So fake news?

northGAcock

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

Just for context, as of this writing there are 43 (out of 60 total) on-topic cooking threads on the first 2 pages of the forum. All 43 are by different authors and very few are from "the same few forum members". Out of the 17 off topic, 5-6 of them are "Peace Out" derivatives (including this one). there are a few shaving, a few sports, and the "what are you X now" threads. no big deal. 

70% of the posts are on-topic, food related, and all by unique authors. If you add in the long-running "what are you X now" threads it's more like +75%. 

Say what you want about the direction of the forum but the math does not support the argument that it's all BS by the same few members and no cooking. If you feel that way, you are likely giving too much weight to things you don't like and allowing that to distort your view of the facts. 

I will admit that not all threads/posters are weighted the same and some voices are louder than others. Welcome to life. If those things bother you then the internet is going to be a bumpy ride. 

It ain't perfect but it's nowhere near "the sky is falling" situation that some are making it out to be. 

Way to go....confusing the issue with facts. 

Legume

BigGreenBean said:

CtTOPGUN said:

 I am a member of a few forum groups. I prefer forums over Facebook. To me, a member for only a few years, I think this place is fairly tame compared to some I frequent. The OT banter can be intriguing at times. We are certainly more than what we cook. I like that the forum acts as a full community. If I only want to read cooking threads it is pretty easy to do so. But I think I would miss out on the unique characters that are members. Although I don't get invalved in any mud slinging online, it does not scare or offend me. Count me in and staying around.


   

The OT banter is not intriguing; it's a pointless, distracting pain in the ass.  Don't know Blake, don't know his reasons for bolting.  I joined because this forum was recommended, but it's an infuriating mishmash of useless OT crap on many days.  If you want OT, then go to the shaving forum or the What Are You Doing Right Now forum.  But quit cluttering this one up with irrelevant b.s.  I haven't split yet, but this forum's relevance to my green kamado smoker is far, far less than I would like.  

Maybe you should post more cooks.  You can’t be pissed that others aren’t delivering up the free content you feel you were promised or deserve.  Create it yourself.