Thread: Jig Swap Issues ... How Best to Resolve?

Originally Posted by AtticaFish

My personal thought is the host has the ultimate say in how HE/SHE runs it. Why do you need any other rules? Remember.... THESE ARE JIGS!!!!

If you announce when a swap sign-up will be (with no pre-sign-up's ) to fill 20 spots, I have a feeling it will come down to who can type the fastest. There will still be complaints.

Run more swaps with smaller numbers and you will have a choice which one to do by the criteria set by the host.... you don't like how it sounds, don't get in. Why restrict people being in only one swap at a time? But I also think there needs to be a seperate place to have these swaps, on a seperate board! at the top of the jig tying board. The clutter from swap threads and questions is nearly filling up the whole first page. If any newbie comes on here, they will think you have to be in a swap to learn how to tie a jig. AW - Is this even possible?

My beef with bigger numbers is not cost, time, turnaround, size restrictions, material shortage and so on.......... it's having to make the same jig - over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and..........

Waaaaaay too many rules coming out here... I agree GF, this is not rocket science, these are jigs. This is meant to be fun. With the number of rules I see coming out here, OSJ's solution sounds about right & I don't see myself getting into many more.

BY THE SAME TOKEN THERE'S ONLY ANOTHER 6 MORE GUYS ON AVERAGE WHO WANT IN!!! AFTER ALL" IF 20 ARE EXCEPTABLE,LET ALONE THE SORRY 15CT. WHY NOT ANOTHER HALF DOZ??????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????WHATS THE REAL PROBLEM AND NOT" THE CHICKEN STOCK ANSWER OF" IT'S MY PREROGATIVE"!WHAAAAAAAAAAAA I WAITED A YEAR TO GET THE TITLE"WHAAAAAA"TO DO WHAT I WANT TO DO!WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
I MEAN THAT'S IT W/ MOST OF YA ISN'T IT???LMAO

Ya know now I feel Ive gotten sucked into this roundly"round now!"Its pretty obvious why we should have some kind of structured guidelines(RULES"),as it were". "if it were to continue to go the way it has been going ,its gonna result in remaining a "favorites game man"!Wont matter how fast you can type now will it?So ya see whether you got lost in the woods on the way home and were a day late finding your lap top due to it",if that's what you wanna call it?What is any one supposed to suspect???Chaos people "cause behind the scenes in p.m.'s are going to eliminate the first half to dozen guys through the favoritism's due to the swapmiester's who want to run the entire show,and allow only the handful they want to begin with!No sorry that's "Crap"yall know it too!Is No" one here concerned to watch some of the better tiers become complacent,or even God forbid walk" if some kind of agreement isn't met eventually?And don't say do to a bitch fest especially while your hosting your swap "Chickens"!You gotta a ton a gull!I'm sure your loved by all somewhere...:rolleyes:And given the chance you'd spend the whole day trying to convince us all of it too huh?LMAO Well" spend it up here while ya have the chance during the fast swap,or may hinder your time spent doing so though ,so"... stay close ,keep a loaf a bread w/ ya when walking the woods"
Ya know the ones who blame possibility of loosing anything on a bitch fest as they call it ,are just trying to turn the tables on the evident,and shouldn't even try anymore.I'm not going to sit back and watch you tear it up either as far as we all have come w/ these things. "I think ya know me by now too!If ya don't,You should!Look yall"Ive been in favor of the democratic way too" Always" have been guys! But" lets face it , were all going to have to eventually anyway"there should be fairness for all,and that cannot" be obtained w/ out discipline w/an outline to be enforced of some kind...!NO?
Swapmiester cant count to at least 30, and he should" so far as all have agreed in the past to (30) or more days to to get their swap completed no bitch there huh? if not an extra week to boot!LMAO But" cant even check the post at least every 3 days at the very least due to their long walk from where ever?,He should find another hobby,and leave well enough alone!Its a chore for you"too much labor!Would play a factor in the lack of fun your swap is producing!Not much is being learned I'm sure...These Two" gripes are and will remain my biggest beefs as well as the "SIGN UP" order issues,and how its obtained.Hate to think I missed out on one swap cause"Billy Bubble gum" had the right price on the size jigs that particular swapmiester wanted before the swap was to get underway,and I didn't...After the response I'm sure thats what happen too.everyone not in this swap has pondered it!!!Who you kidding??? No" structure "All CHAOS!Its not working this way .It was evident to the last 6 participants I spoke w/ that the line up of this #12 swap was not" by order of which the folks showed up in the post,as a matter of fact 3 don't show up at all in the order of the line up.chaos due to lack of structure!I honestly believe left to certain influences here ,I would eventually be reading in the paper about litigation pertaining to some ones wife not being returned in the condition in which she left for a swap here at C.C..."