Stumbled on it looking for a way to trigger new sounds without full command control. Gun Runner, Dale M, Dale H, Poppa Steve, Ace, Overland, Electroliner, and NQDY Nichole made the reading here very worthwhile to me.
The photos being viewable without a requirement to join was also a big factor. I'm somewhat an anti-exclusive person.. i.e. exclusive/ private, isn't often how I like things; I'm big on sharing.
I was on a manufacturer's forum for a few years before I found OGRF, but after a new member (likely a closed Atlas Forum member looking for a new home... to wreck) began trolling me daily on my "toys", critiquing my builds like normal modeling. Ha!, I don't even measure half the time; so too easy a rip. I like my folk art look because it isn't cookie cutter. Anything is welcome here, from an inch long plastic wind-up to scale Y or BigBoy (I didnt say they could manage the 0-27...but they are welcome to suck up a main looking good.)
I quit that site to avoid a deepening battle, but always deeply regretted compromising my position just to avoid the battle. Mostly because he just picked a new victim, and that really upset me. But also because I let a "rivet counter" ruin MY fun. (their work was the awful stuff too. To scale, sure, but some monkeys paint better and my bird could've aligned things straighter 
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That same R.Counting attitude kept me from going to train shows, joining a club, etc. for 40 years. I went to a few train shows, and visited layouts with Gramps as a kid, but stopped because I didn't like the attitudes even then.
Today I'm no longer nearly as dissuaded from calling things as I see them and you won't catch me editing much either; only a mistake in advice gets changed now (though I try not to step on our hosts toes and God knows it would save me some embarrassment to do some deletions. The insomnia sig. line isn't really a joke, neither are some incoherent posts from being awake for 4-6 days...but it's real, and deletion a "lie".)
Confrontation was really the last straw after failure of the site to comment on the safety aspects of phasing two transformers to be used together. (after sticking thier nose into the subject, then mail contact, and then agreeing OFFSITE; it was asked again for the readers sakes. It went without answer though we know it got read by management. I referenced with a link too, but it was deleted..."some hero". I guess my days were actually going to be numbered after that anyhow. Not much out there to excuse a safety concern get ignored 
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In the end I'm much more at home here anyhow. Reigns are looser for sure, but it's not total anarchy either; I like the balance overall, and the people.
.... and the pictures 
