WTF Reddit.

[Jonnydread]

I strongly prefer the eNMey over the Emek, so much more fun to use.

[Falcon16]

Well said Doc, completely on point. I think if Reddit got rid of the voting on comments it may make things better. It would also be better if the top posts in a subreddit were simply the ones with the most activity.

[Falcon16]

I'd say best beginner gun is something like a GoG eNMEy. Only complicated part of it is the regulator and I frankly haven't even touched mine since I bought it and I've had mine since the pre order here like 8 years ago. It's grease the bolt orings, wipe the excess, if any, off the delrin and reassemble in a few seconds. Only marker I've seen that's even more simple for maintenance as a semi is my ond R6 eforce which was release sear, pull bolt and hammer lube both and replace which took all of 30 seconds.

[Falcon16]

I agree that reddit is a hive mind like mentality. Say anything counter to what the hive believes, even if the hive is wrong and you get down voted. I find certain subs are worse than others. r/paintball is just awful, I also tend to stay away from the legal advice subreddits as well. Being a legal professional by trade it is maddening to see the hive giving blatantly incorrect advice and then myself and colleagues that are lawyers step in and post links to the relevant law and case law that's on point and would actually help the OP and we get downvoted and/or banned. I actually got temp banned from legaladvicecanada and a few others because the mods are complete idiots with a strip of power.

[Jonnydread]

I have a cycle with Reddit. I have r/paintball on my front page, but I ignore 90% of the posts because of the aforementioned issues. I post quite a bit on r/rockncock, but it's a ghost town over there so I rarely get to engage much.

I've learned that Reddit is much better to just lurk and avoid the comments/discussion area. Now I pretty much just use it for melon viewins (and cute animal pics).

[Axel]

The problem with Reddit as Doc pointed out is the voting system. There's no discussion because opinions that don't match the prevailing view just get downvoted to hell. The split on a given issue might be 60/40, but that sizeable minority gets effectively silenced by the voting system and the subreddit becomes a self-affirming echo chamber for the majority view. Reddit is a bullhorn for groupthink

[Axel]

Yeah but how often do you need to service a 98? Every 10 years, 15? I regularly tore mine down and gave it a thorough cleaning because I was a fanatic, but the 98's strength is that it can eat dirt for breakfast and shoot it back at dinner time, so if like most field rentals you -maybe- wipe it down and swab the breech after a day at the field, it will keep on rocking longer than most players. Like 90+% of newbies will burn out before that valve ever needs opened, and the rest end up as addicts like us who since bought 40 guns and only bother with the 98 for nostalgia

I do hate that **** spiral clip though

[JonM]

I will check out r/paintball from time to time to help some of the newer players. Since Reddit is a popular site, r/paintball is an easy resource for new players to find (which is why they get so many new player posts). My comments there may not always be accepted by the community since they sometimes clash with the general hive mind consensus, but someone needs to be the one to be the one to do it.

[CrowsFeast]

I use reddit a lot, but I'm almost never in r/paintball. It doesn't often have stuff that interests me (and ya, the repetition is real).

There are some areas that can be very helpful with recommendations and advice, even if you do have to take it with a grain of salt. I actually joined reddit for the mead making sub.

[Siress]

different = bad, until proven innocent. (/s)

[lew]

Call me a Luddite but Reddit and social media in general are mental cancer. The only use they serve is to draw the riffraff away from here.

Preach it, brother.

[Magmoormaster]

Speaking of atrocious comment layouts, I really don't like the comment feature of this new site. It's so much messier than just quoting people IMO.

I definitely am looking at from both an experienced player perspective and a professional tech perspective. But I genuinely think 19 o-rings is less intimidating than a gun that launches springs and pins out into the ether once you pull apart the clamshells. O-rings are easy to replace, and the gun already comes with like 5 rebuilds. And if you have to swap out parts to make it easier to work on (98 spiral lock), then it kinda proves itself to be the inferior design.

[Lazarus78]

jebus. i lurk reddit, and yall make it sound like a hell-scape. the difference is that r/paintball is inundated with new players, and mcb is inundated with people who have 20/30/40 years under their belt. it's not bad, it's just different. both sites have a place at the table.

[440SUPERCOMMANDO]

it's not the end of the world if its the kind that takes snap ring pliers, but that particular size spiro-loc can burn in hell!

[Nofxkid2005]

Siress, yes I have. The clip to access the valve is atrocious. However, you can replace that clip with a snap ring (Like BT did) and it makes teching the valve easier.