Security on the internet is a big issue, even here. If you want to lurk (read the forum without registering), that’s fine, we need that kind of attention. And if you want to register, that’s great too, you can post and participate in all of the features this forum has to offer, plus we also need that kind of traffic. But if you do register, we want to ask that you give some sort of way to know that you’re here because you’re interested in the topic - such as making a post, even if it’s just to say “Hi, my favorite CAD is MOI because I like the colors.”
We get piles of bogus logins every day. Most of them sign up with generic emails from generic domains with generic names. Do we wind up booting some legitimate logins? Maybe, but we’ve not heard from anyone we’ve booted who was legit yet. We can’t filter all of this automatically.
So, if you register, and you’re not a bot, please make a post or two just to show you’re human and interested in the main topic.
Accounts with no posts and no activity for a month will be deactivated. If this happens to you, you can reactivate, and you’ll be cool. This is really just to eliminate the sleeper accounts that people with less than great intentions set up. We will add a field to each login so that if we know a particular account is legit, we can mark it.
Hello all. My name is David. I had lurked the old forum for several years just never had the need to ask a question. I registered on this Forum during the initial couple days. I continue to lurk here as i have not had the need to ask questions. I do however read the topics that interest and or pertain to me. I have learned many things regarding how to accomplish task in Solidworks by lurking on these forums. I am not the type that will reply to a question posted here as i feel there are others more qualified than myself to answer questions. I only know the in and outs of the software to be able to accomplish work duties.
I think any activity that links your user name with some sort of action in the board log satisfies it, the lower limit of what defines activity is logging in. Definitely if you post something, that’s certainly activity. I think liking something, or participating in a poll or changing your UCP would also qualify. Just something that allows you to be identified as being human, and hopefully interested in our topic.
So anyone who posts to this thread doesn’t have to worry. The people I’m talking to are the ones with 0 posts, and who have not logged on in the last 2-4+ weeks. Little things are showing up, and I need to seal the cracks and take out the trash from time to time.
matt I thought this site was already on the seedier side? It’s definitely on the saltier side with all the old salty dogs here complaining about a ship that has already sailed.
Here I am, minding my own business for once in my life, trying to run a respectable establishment, but all I can attract here are cockfights and CADfights.
Truth is I grew up closer to Montreal than any US city. Lots of French Canadians in my high school, and a lot of those spoon-playin, leg-slappin not-quite-bluegrass, not-quite-creole musicians around too.
My French is slightly less than it takes to get your face slapped. I took Spanish in school. 20 miles from the Quebec border. Not that bright. I was obviously looking forward, planning on being invaded from the south rather than the north.
Plus, I worked for a company that was owned by a big company from Quebec City (Exfo). That was a cool place. And most of them made a point of refusing to speak English. I got to the point where I could read a little French, but absolutely can’t speak it without a mouthful of hot soup. :lol:
My French is slightly less than it takes to get your face slapped. I took Spanish in school. 20 miles from the Quebec border. Not that bright. I was obviously looking forward, planning on being invaded from the south rather than the north.
Plus, I worked for a company that was owned by a big company from Quebec City (Exfo). That was a cool place. And most of them made a point of refusing to speak English. I got to the point where I could read a little French, but absolutely can’t speak it without a mouthful of hot soup. :lol:
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Matt don’t sweat it. I am Canadian with a French name and my French is about the same as you.
I was born and raised in the English province of British Columbia.
My father was from Nova Scotia. His French was not good either but he could curse real good in English. My mother was also French and she was from Saskatchewan and she could speak, read and write in French or English. Sadly, I regret not being fluent in French.
Now all I can do is wait for Alex to give me a beating.
You weren’t born in a french neighborhood or surrounded by people who spoke french, so it’s not as if you avoided learning it, you just didn’t have the occasion
I’m actually rather lucky to have had parents who spoke french and english fluently and forced me through learning it in my younger years. I don’t think I would have had the dedication to learn it when I was a teenager. Boy was I a bum lol
Edit: The more I think of it, the more I realize I did kind of force myself into learning it too. My parents taught me the speaking part, the school the basics and I got more fluent by going through extensive english courses and also by being a gamer. I learned a lot on games, as stupid as it might sound! Typing on forums and talking on games like Counter-Strike Source. StarCraft also had a great chat system! Ha!
Accounts with no posts and no activity for a month will be deactivated.
You’d think I’d be flattered by people doing that. But, not so much.
