Where to buy Arcade carpeting?

Follow-up question: how does anyone find anything on that site? I feel weird complaining that there are too many designs, but wow, there are a lot.
Ha! Yeah, the amount of designs can be overwhelming, especially when you also start replacing colors within the designs using their recolor tool. To aid in your decision making, they will send samples in 3'x3' squares (which is the repeating pattern size) for free.
 
The problem you fuckers fail to see is that when you search for "best place to find ___," all you get are threads with broken links and/or businesses that are now closed.

As @CameronMcC said (more nicely than I'm about to put it), what the FUCK are we going to talk about if the same-ish questions don't continue to be asked? We never have more than 10 threads at a time that are truly new. That's all you want the forums to be?

Telling people to use the search feature is helpful, but not when you're an asshole about it.

I'm also interested in getting some black carpet for myself. Thank you, @TastyBoogerz, for the info
I've watched other forums (not arcade related) go down the drain because of all the "search" replies. Not only is it rude, it's pointless. If you think a question is asked too often, just don't reply.
People ask because they want actual experiences and hear it from another person.
Sometimes they just want to converse with others and this is how they do it. It's not like we all have neighbors to talk about arcade carpets.

And if searching is so easy and effective (sometimes it is, sometimes it's not), instead of telling people to search, find and link them to a quality post about the topic.
Then when they post in it, you can tell them to stop reviving old threads, so you will still be able to whine about nothing.

Edit: I've had this placed bookmarked for years. The prices seem good. I never bought anything because it took me a bit to understand the use of "carpet tiles".
 
Telling people to use the search feature is helpful, but not when you're an asshole about it.


Please write an example of how to tell someone to use the search function that is NOT being an asshole in your eyes.

Any of you who are complaining, feel free to do the same. I will quote your exact text the next time I use it.

The other point of searching is YOU'LL FIND BETTER RESULTS than whatever idiots happen to be online at any given time. The threads about carpeting contain info that is still relevant to this day.

The point of joining a forum is to get to not being a noob as fast as possible. You want to get to the point where you can actually help other people. And that DOESN'T happen when nobody wants to teach themselves anything. You get the facebook effect of 1000 idiots racing to blurt out the same wrong information, and it turns into an information cesspool.

And the point isn't to never discuss. The point is to do some research BEFORE YOU POST, so that you can raise the bar for the discussion you initiate.

Doing research before asking hundreds of people to help you was a basic part of netiquette that the whole internet understood for a while. And then facebook happened and everyone turned into entitled little shits. And everyone wonders why the internet is shit today.
 
The point of joining a forum is to get to not being a newbie as soon as possible?

LOL……um, no. That is a really strange way of looking at things. Not everyone is looking to become an expert or not a newbie.
 
You forgot about how important it is to immediately alienate new or infrequent posters to try to ensure that they abandon the forum as quickly as possible.

This behaviour is critical to maintaining the purity of the place, so that the 4 or 5 people here who believe they are solely resonsible for all of it's greatness don't need to have their grandeur tainted by the hoi polloi.

Why would anyone ask how to find arcade related material on a dedicated arcade forum. So weird. Forums should not have any conversations. We should all just read old threads and occasionally post about how others shouldn't post.

Sheesh.
 
The point of joining a forum is to get to not being a newbie as soon as possible?

LOL……um, no. That is a really strange way of looking at things. Not everyone is looking to become an expert or not a newbie.


It's not strange at all. It was part of basic netiquette, and how forums and Usenet worked back in the day. And it's a smart way of doing things.

You don't have to become a master. But you do want to get to the point where you can start contributing *something* back to the community instead of just getting things from it.

That's what makes a community stronger, and makes it an actual community, where people learn, grow knowledge, and everyone develops together.

Otherwise you end up with a cult of personality, with a bunch of perpetual followers following a few central people (i.e., most Facebook groups). New people never develop past being noobs, and become conditioned to think that buying things is a substitute for learning things, when it comes to participating in a hobby.
 
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You forgot about how important it is to immediately alienate new or infrequent posters to try to ensure that they abandon the forum as quickly as possible.


If people feel alienated by being asked for a simple courtesy that helps the community (and which also HELPS THEM find better information), they are welcome to feel upset. They can run off to Facebook where they can get all the free terrible information they want, while buying things from scammers, and being told how cool the pics they post are.

I'd rather have a forum of people willing to do small things to help make this place better for everyone.
 
Alpha's life lesson post.. please ignore and kick my soapbox. Thank!

Giggle giggle laughs. Where is my popcorn.

Different people communicate indifferent ways.
What makes me a great techincal person make me a lousy human being.

Copying my behaviors will cause you issues! Don't copy me. There is typically great history between me and my friends.
I have stop by a friend's house with a bucket of chicken. I wrote meow meow on the bucket. His wife hates me. Laughs.

Point? We communicate differently. Creating understanding is hard.

So I am constantly struggling to communicate to create understanding. I have stop posting helpful hints. Cause teaching people face to face cuts out all of the posting drama.


I am not the lonely tech buried in a freaken garage. I am the guy who puts together fun arcade repair parties. The guy who gets people together and visit electronics stores and ham swapmeets. I know alot of great techs and they show up when I drag them into the sun light!

I know a lot of technical people, some are even restaurant ready, some are not laughs.

My point is we all need to learn to be a little more empathic and create understanding. Easy to say, darn hard to do.

So how many people did you inspired to learn how to fix these old coin op machines?

Impartial knowledge to who want to learn is important!
 
In the future, somebody will use forum advanced search to get an idea from where to buy a carpet and will end up here, reading 2 pages of BS.
Advanced search is very useful, indeed.

Which is exactly why pointless threads shouldn't be created when there are existing threads that already contain the information needed.
 
A pointless thread with 2-3 posts is ok and easy to skip , another one with 3 pages of useless BS from people who feel that have to post everywhere and anything - that`s something else.
Now i`m adding my BS here because sometimes i`m tired of reading pages of nonsense when a simple yes / no or link can solve a problem.
 
A pointless thread with 2-3 posts is ok and easy to skip , another one with 3 pages of useless BS from people who feel that have to post everywhere and anything - that`s something else.
Now i`m adding my BS here because sometimes i`m tired of reading pages of nonsense when a simple yes / no or link can solve a problem.

Then KLOV isn't the site for you.
 
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