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Giving you both barrels.
The data from this list is actually very useful. I have personally encountered the "phony campaigner" that rarely ventures far from the mainstream events, makes claims to attending our events. This list prevents that fraud, and if you compare the list to the membership that posts here often, you will find an interesting phenomenon known as the "Keyboard Campaigner."
The other problem was the accusations that only a handful of people supported c/p/h events and that our side of the hobby had quit growing and plateau. Charles' list is a sort of census that helps to track that trend. Hopefully it will encourage the members of this forum to support better events, and not to just throw in the towel and sulk back to the land of a thousand tent stakes, just to seek out "numbers."
My beef isn't with anyone that couldn't make an event this year, we all have real world lives and bad years, I missed three events due to my work. It's the following I take exception to:
1. The people that choose f/m/a events over the c/p/h and then howl about the low numbers on our side.
2. Attended one event three years ago and yet have an opinion on every event that happens this year.
3. Never attended or supported any Ebufu event, anytime, anywhere, yet constantly nitpick, criticize and argue with the campaigner movement. Then they demand that their Tier 3 events gets maximum exposure and treatment equal to Tier 1/2, just because a couple of mainstream campaigners happen to show up.
So in other words, only the people that support, organize and attend our events, should be the ones commenting, outside of our guest academics, museum professionals and researchers; the rest are just wannabe wanksters and sutler row posers that for one bad reason or another can't seem to send in that registration form or show up for the Tier 1-2 events, but you will see them here on the AC, putting the smack down on the people who use their knapsacks as knapsacks.
Actually Charles' list should be about two times larger, and thats the point to any "undecided" reenactors reading this post if they still haven't jumped ship. I'm proud to be on the list, even if it was one event this year, that's one great event and it was worth more than a 100 events, that have virtually no military activities, outside of 45 minute sham battle.
The data from this list is actually very useful. I have personally encountered the "phony campaigner" that rarely ventures far from the mainstream events, makes claims to attending our events. This list prevents that fraud, and if you compare the list to the membership that posts here often, you will find an interesting phenomenon known as the "Keyboard Campaigner."
The other problem was the accusations that only a handful of people supported c/p/h events and that our side of the hobby had quit growing and plateau. Charles' list is a sort of census that helps to track that trend. Hopefully it will encourage the members of this forum to support better events, and not to just throw in the towel and sulk back to the land of a thousand tent stakes, just to seek out "numbers."
My beef isn't with anyone that couldn't make an event this year, we all have real world lives and bad years, I missed three events due to my work. It's the following I take exception to:
1. The people that choose f/m/a events over the c/p/h and then howl about the low numbers on our side.
2. Attended one event three years ago and yet have an opinion on every event that happens this year.
3. Never attended or supported any Ebufu event, anytime, anywhere, yet constantly nitpick, criticize and argue with the campaigner movement. Then they demand that their Tier 3 events gets maximum exposure and treatment equal to Tier 1/2, just because a couple of mainstream campaigners happen to show up.
So in other words, only the people that support, organize and attend our events, should be the ones commenting, outside of our guest academics, museum professionals and researchers; the rest are just wannabe wanksters and sutler row posers that for one bad reason or another can't seem to send in that registration form or show up for the Tier 1-2 events, but you will see them here on the AC, putting the smack down on the people who use their knapsacks as knapsacks.
Actually Charles' list should be about two times larger, and thats the point to any "undecided" reenactors reading this post if they still haven't jumped ship. I'm proud to be on the list, even if it was one event this year, that's one great event and it was worth more than a 100 events, that have virtually no military activities, outside of 45 minute sham battle.
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