Proof please

[Edward Tinker]

Originally Posted by k98mike

.... I'm about to turn 53, grew up without computers, and just learned how to use one in about 2010. I worked in factories and construction my whole life and didn't need to "Contact friends on facebook". I own a flip phone; not a smartphone. I had a friend come over and take the pictures with hers and I thought they were really good, only to be treated like a retarded child on the site. I've collected many guns, and many Lugers over the past 35 years, (60+) and have a fairly good knowledge base. I had a 74 MGB for a few years and encountered the same attitude on their sites....A bunch of people wanting to prove how much more they knew than you, and how backward you were for attempting their hobby. It turns people off and drives them away.....

well, I'll be 58 this year, I would say that I grew up with the same computer knowledge as you, 20 yrs army, however, I did get into them, and now do IT Security for a living.
I don't know you, but my experience for a lot of folks -young and old - is that they don't have the desire to learn computers
Some folks on here are older than dirt, and they eventually learn to post pictures, others simply don't have the desire to learn to do so.

Personally I think most folks here go out of their way to help but I guess folks asking for different pictures or the like can be off-putting. But its hard to help, if we aren't told or can see.


AND, by the way, Hell, I don't have 60 lugers . If you haven't done it yet, sell a luger or two from your large collection and buy some books but we'll still be glad to help you.