Leaving the hobby?
In the past several years, I've seen a few people announce publicly that they're "leaving the hobby" because they feel they have been wronged or they're sick of x, y, and z behavior.
Usually I stumble across these announcements in cyberspace well after the fact, and therefore I have to do a little forensic work to get answers to my questions as to why these folks really were leaving the hobby.
Three questions:
1. Do you have stories to share about such incidents? If so, please e-mail me or post them in the comments, but NO NAMES please. Any posts mentioning people by name (besides yourself) will be deleted. I don't want this blog to become catty or, worse, libelous. :P
2. In a hobby community that, thanks to the Internet, can be quite close-knit, what does it mean to "leave the hobby"? Does it mean not collecting, not showing, no longer participating in hobby forums, dropping contact with other hobbyists, or what?
3. There have been a couple of "Whatever Happened to [name of famous 1970s-1990s hobbyist]?" posts on listservs and forums. Anyone know of any particularly interesting cases of people who just faded away, and why they chose to do so?
Usually I stumble across these announcements in cyberspace well after the fact, and therefore I have to do a little forensic work to get answers to my questions as to why these folks really were leaving the hobby.
Three questions:
1. Do you have stories to share about such incidents? If so, please e-mail me or post them in the comments, but NO NAMES please. Any posts mentioning people by name (besides yourself) will be deleted. I don't want this blog to become catty or, worse, libelous. :P
2. In a hobby community that, thanks to the Internet, can be quite close-knit, what does it mean to "leave the hobby"? Does it mean not collecting, not showing, no longer participating in hobby forums, dropping contact with other hobbyists, or what?
3. There have been a couple of "Whatever Happened to [name of famous 1970s-1990s hobbyist]?" posts on listservs and forums. Anyone know of any particularly interesting cases of people who just faded away, and why they chose to do so?
posted by Leslie M-B at 8:26 PM
2 Comments:
Manytimes "I am leaving the hobby" ends up really meaning "SOMEONE PAY ATTENTION TO ME."
More than once, I have witnessed someone, typically someone who is vocal, get into it with another hobbyist who can present their point better, and rather than conceeding the argument, the first party declares they are leaving. There are people who claim annually they are going, and they do not.
The one example I was personally invovled with was someone who threw a big stink about something in our region that no one else was concerned with--essentially this person was demanding services that others were not willing to just dole out. At the end of the temper tantrum, this person "left" and was hoping she would get a slew of email asking her back. She apparently did not, and did drop off the local radar for about 6 months.
She is back, posting to various lists and Blab, and she did a similar stir up a hornets nest and then do a fast fade, claiming to not to like dissent on another list...and she surfaced AGAIN this week n yet another list but no one rose to bait this time (probably because the issue she addressed was not realy under discussion there)
I find this claim to be passive aggressive, and I do not take it seriosuly as I find ultimately MOST of these folks never go anywhere
And there there are members who advocate another's suicide and the officers at NAMHSA do NOTHING. Sooo, yeah, leaving the hobby might be warranted.
Right now, our choices are fly my minor child to another region but still under the NAMHSA umbrella or leave the hobby.
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