Oh yeah, as a newbie lighten up man, I'm sure after four years of being bashed you must be the most humbled soul.

... the forums have been around since March 2000, but CigarBid was auctioning cigars for a year or so before the boards were created ...

There's really no such thing as a dead horse. As new blood arrives there's bound to be some repetition of topics & questions. New people, same questions. New people, new opinions.

What we have he-ere, is a fail-ure to communicate.

Pretty soon, when everyone knows everything there is to know, we'll have to all get vidcams, so we can sit around & stare at each other cause we, for damn sure, won't have anything to say.

Respectfully,

Hat

After 4 years, there just aren't any new opinions, because after all that time (and the hundreds of times 'it' has been brought up), everything that can be said, has been said on the subject ... no matter what 'dead horse' topic it is. After all, how many 'new' opinions can there be on the 'cello on/cello off' topic, for example?

A simple 'Search the Boards' can bring up all the opinions on any given subject that any 'newbie' could ever want ... without making them look silly for asking, and driving those who have been here for any length of time away from these forums due to that lack of new and interesting material.

... just a thought ...