Street Cred?
rickdugan
Verified and Certifiable Super-Reviewer
Sunday, May 15, 2022 4:48 PM
A question that nicespice asked me the other night made me think of this topic. She asked if I would have posted my "Maximizing OTC When Traveling" article from 13 years ago if I knew then what I know now.
I said absolutely. I was fresh off of a string of good OTC adventures in a handful of cities and finally seemed to have ironed out a solid way to approach it, but I was also new to the site and didn't yet understand that this wasn't as novel as I thought to some of the seasoned hounds here. In hindsight if I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have posted it like I just discovered fire and instead would have probably been much more playful with the article.
But the question also presumed two things: (1) that there was something fundamentally wrong with the core elements of the article; and (2) that I take this discussion board seriously enough to care.
On the first point, 13 years later I've seen as many girls OTC as anyone on this board, covering clubs in 14 different states. Needless to say I hardly need affirmation to tell me that what I do works for me, even as it has evolved over 13 long years.
The second presumption is that I care whether someone trolls my old articles. I don't. The other night was the first time I ever knowingly exposed myself to anyone who could definitively connect my screen name to a face. I come on here almost exclusively to re-live my various club adventures. This is shits and giggles time, not something to be taken so seriously, lol.
A couple of years back, someone PMd me and indicated that he was concerned about posting light reviews because it could hurt his "cred." My response was as follows:
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