Either way, your point of being able to lower standards and grow is still wrong

You either lower standards and let people in, or you maintain and continue with the handfuls of people every month or so

@Smart Car Driveby The responses I see in ham are not "You're retarded, Baofeng is garbage." It's "congrats on getting into the hobby! Your Baofeng will have X limitations, but it's a good starter radio. Here are some upgrade recomendations for down the road, here's how to bot be a dick with your radio, and here's some cool shit you can do with what you have now." I don't see how the former is superior.

just bring in third world immigrants to bolster our numbers and make the channel more popular

the thing about baofengs is theres very little middle ground for radios

Because there's an actual form of learning curve to radios.

Regardless of elitism, you're retarded, and there's no getting over that @Red Korvo

it's either 4 figure motorolas or sub $100 radios

You ahve to start somewhere for HAM autism

or

Is someone really supposed to say "glad you bought your PSA Israeli freedom gun and Condor MOPC, it will have limitations like: shit stitching and will fall apart rather quickly, also the platebag sags out of place. Here's some cool things you can do with it: put other misc nylon to it"

you have a big clout job that sidesteps all that gay shit

for gear, there is a very fine line that separates us from /k/

@CTL the approach I just described has worked just fine. People who aren't into it will get bored and leave.

Thats not our problem

Like, I just don't get how in practicality filtering unfettered newfags is a problem?

We give at least 1 person access every week at this rate

I rather bully out the weak willed in the first place

Its not our fault that you suck

And how it somehow doesn't produce a more palatable community

gq is the most active server I'm in

I'm in weightlifting servers with like 1k people

There's 1/10th the posts there is here, and all those posts are just 3 people posting videos asking for form checks.

It clearly works here.

>congrats on your baofeng
literally where are you seeing this

there is no possible usage of a baofeng that is legal

they cannot operate on US airwaves legally lmao

i dont think its that cut and dry

@Cataclysmo I didn't imply that people leaving because they're not into it was a problem, much less yours.

post target

Also, it's ham, not HAM, because it's not an acronym. This is something you guys would kick my shit in for messing up.

Who cares about backronyms I type that shit for random gear shit all the time

newfags is designed to keep the weak willed out but at the same time serve as a place for questions for people who want gear but don't really care to discuss the autism between PVS1531s and PVS 31s

which most people don't understandably

PVS1431 gang

Having private channels and all is fine, I get why you do it. It's the mocking new people I don't get. You dont have to suck their dicks or even be overly friendly, but it just seems like you'd turn potentially good members of the community away with that attitude.

i didnt know shit about NV builds but assumed 1431s were just the normal thing people did

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well I said 1531s

not 1431s

I said 1431