I miss the "golden days." You guys remember when there only use to be one sales forum, dealers forum, pball talk, friendly corner, tech forum, and deep blue then that was it? Those days are gone now and probably will never come back. AO use to be such a friendly little community. I remember, donggie use to run the dealers forum and dingo was still around. Then some of our new "bad apples" pretty much chased him away(they acted like 2 year olds and that everything was Don's fault) Don got upset after that and we never heard from him again . . .(I heard there were other reasons involved with him leaving but still, these guys gave him such a hard time!) Tunaman use to post more often and he rarely does that anymore 
. People like autotrigger were around and he had that insane mag with the Zgrip and 15* ASA. There was also gizmolax who tried forever to sell his super tippy :). People would RARELY flame, and there was never "stupid crappy blowback newb go shoot yourself" impression from people. Mag resale value was much higher and a stock mag would sell for $200. Everyone's ref list pretty much had everyone else on AO. The best part of all, no body ever IT WAS GREAT!
Then more people started pouring in like CRAZY since Pbnation was slowing down and pbcity went down for a while
and with those people came many bad apples. I'm not saying new people ruined it, just that too many bad apples came with them. Those bad apples brought the "big forum ways" to AO. People came mostly to sell there stuff and not caring about AO itself(not saying they should, but majority of people who were there first DID!) When they were offered a blowback their response would be like "I'll give you an oring for it and your life, you stupid blowback owner." I had an angel owner who swore at me in pm and said all kinds of colorful language and told me my mag parts suck because angels rule. All I wanted is to know if he'd be interested in trading some of his barrels for some of my mag stuff. They started selling their stuff in the dealers forum and they weren't even dealers! Everything pretty much got ruined for the rest of us that stood there and watched. I wish what we use to have would come back . . . .
. People like autotrigger were around and he had that insane mag with the Zgrip and 15* ASA. There was also gizmolax who tried forever to sell his super tippy :). People would RARELY flame, and there was never "stupid crappy blowback newb go shoot yourself" impression from people. Mag resale value was much higher and a stock mag would sell for $200. Everyone's ref list pretty much had everyone else on AO. The best part of all, no body ever IT WAS GREAT!Then more people started pouring in like CRAZY since Pbnation was slowing down and pbcity went down for a while
and with those people came many bad apples. I'm not saying new people ruined it, just that too many bad apples came with them. Those bad apples brought the "big forum ways" to AO. People came mostly to sell there stuff and not caring about AO itself(not saying they should, but majority of people who were there first DID!) When they were offered a blowback their response would be like "I'll give you an oring for it and your life, you stupid blowback owner." I had an angel owner who swore at me in pm and said all kinds of colorful language and told me my mag parts suck because angels rule. All I wanted is to know if he'd be interested in trading some of his barrels for some of my mag stuff. They started selling their stuff in the dealers forum and they weren't even dealers! Everything pretty much got ruined for the rest of us that stood there and watched. I wish what we use to have would come back . . . .
), some sophomore started crap with me today, and I am heavy debt with no job, but I still try to look at the good side of things! It's better that way. 
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