I hope Stanshall won't mind my sharing this excerpt from something he wrote to me ....

'everybody here contributes positively, and when they don't have much to add they just read and that's fine

the people who stick around are people who are still interested

it's like the library at a nice club, a few people are always there reading, but it never was supposed to be standing-room-only'

I peruse this forum at least every other day but log on and contribute rarely.

I cannot abide the incoherent nonsense that is Style Forum, what little I have seen of dappered bores me, and AAAC increasingly caters to the educationally subnormal.

I recall the sentiment, and here I paraphrase, the pulse of this forum may be slow but it is steady and distinct.

Furthermore, it is necessary.

Last edited by adorable homunculus (2018-03-30 16:31:47)

I feel like it's a forum for people that could just as well be doing something else, but are too lazy to be doing it

Last edited by Babbling Brooks (2018-03-31 14:22:38)

And no, just because I am starting threads I am not "taking away" "space" which you otherwise could use.

Where is that new black tie thread?

I've got like a dozen new black tie shirts for parties I should photograph and put on. And a new set of cufflinks and studs.

And as you can see, those were incredibly helpful answers. Really got to the heart of the matter.

Beeston, do you want the honest answer? No one makes new threads because no one really cares about the same old Hermes ties or Turnbull & Asser shirts except you, and those are 95% of the threads on here. That's what The Wardrobe has become - Beeston's Attic of Boring Delights. And when someone brings something else up, or responds to your threads, you're often hard to deal with, which drives people off from posting again. When you start more relatable threads, like the fragrance thread or the rotation thread or the seasons thread, you get good responses. That's just how it works.

Interestingly, we got a lot more new threads and increased member activity here when you were banned. But hey, correlation is not causation. I'm sure it was just a funny coincidence.

I find beeston very entertaining and certainly interesting, if people could just be a little bit less precious (and that includes him) then the game would flow a bit better. Imo At the moment its like a pastiche of all that is sad about menswear forums.

Last edited by Babbling Brooks (2018-08-27 01:06:53)