Where did everybody go after CigarFamilyForum shuttered?

[Glacierman007]

I'm one of those CF alumni. I have been absent from cigar discussions for a long time and only just today discovered the demise of the CF forum. Dang. Well, it WAS getting rather obnoxious and, as noted above, rather clique-y, so I departed for ... here. Had to re-register as the software couldn't seem to find my original name.

 

[RamblinJoe]

Thanks for the explanation, Steve*R. I was wondering why, and that's pretty much what I suspected. I refuse to use FB, so I guess I might hang around here. I spent as much on Fuente/Newman smokes as I ever did on Habanos, but not anymore. Sure wish I'd stocked up before the massive price hikes. I'm running out of Partagas shorts.

 

[Col.Kurtz]

There's only a few privately owned cigar forums left, CP being the oldest and most trafficked of them all. I believe many CF members came here. We welcome them all. I've been offered to sell CP many times over the years, and currently have one company pressing me to sell right now. I have no intention of selling out. We welcome everyone who agrees to follow the few rules we have.

Thank you, Rod.

 

[Col.Kurtz]

Hi guys I’m from the cigar family website. I was Hemmingway. The extra M is for maduro I joined back in 1998 when I first got into smoking cigars and made many friends there whom I met in person.

CF was a fun and wild place back in the day. I met guys like Hollan, Wynn and the guys in Texas when I went there on a business trip or two. Paulie from San Diego. Randy and Mark Craney and all the guys in Indy when I went every year to the Formula 1 race as well as Jimmy from Knoxville Tennessee.

I remember my first trade there with Jimmy. Everybody said get your feet wet with a few five stick trades but I traded over $1000 worth of cigars for a bunch of Hemingway Maduros with Jimmy and he blew me up with a bunch of extras so I bombed his mailbox and that continued back-and-forth until he finally called me and said he didn’t have any more cigars to send me after we bombed each other with 2+ boxes worth of bonus sticks over weeks. I replied that I’ve been going out and buying really good sticks just to keep the bombs flying so we laughed and put a hold on our mailbox assaults becoming good friends.

The flame wars were hilarious too. People would get so serious it was truly funny. Mark Craney was,and I’m sure still is a cantankerous bastard. I love that guy. We were friends from the forum and hanging out in Indianapolis every year at Randy’s house during the Formula 1 race. He and I started a flame war with each other and everybody got up in arms taking his side or mine while we were on the phone with each other enjoying a cigar laughing about what we just posted. That place was a blast.

I’m still smoking cigars that were gifted to me by all those guys. I just sent Hollan a bunch of old crusty sticks that I know he likes and we talk here and there. I’ve reached out to some of the other guys to thank them for some of the great cigars they sent me like when Wynn gave me a prototype opus X maduro from around 2000. I still have that cigar and it’s due to be smoke soon.

I’m hoping to make some new friends here and get back in the loop so I can add some more smokes to my collection. I haven’t really bought any cigars since 2003 except for a recent purchase in London.

A big hello to any of you other CF transplants.

Cheers, Jim

Yes. I was a member of the “COCKS.” Central Ohio Cigar Kings. Bob Thomas and many other would all get together at our Herfs and passes. Even “May Day” parties. Good days and memories.

 

[Col.Kurtz]

There's a vetting process...you didn't get the memo?!

Of course.

 

[Col.Kurtz]

CF was clique-y as all hell. Not very inviting to new smokers or people that weren't part of some cliquey group. God forbid a new smoker asked a basic cigar question, they were piled on more than helped. Kind of like CP was until the old guard left. The nasty flaming crap was horrible to deal with and drove more people away than attracted new members. Just because a handful of these a-holes were members in the site's infancy didn't make them the 'keepers of the castle' and being the judges of all things 'cigar'. Of course there were many very cool people there...and I met a bunch... but we mostly conversed in PM or email than in public.

The only people that liked that atmosphere didn't have a mentoring bone in their body who lapped up the drama like 13yo girls in Middle School.

I agree. Too bad people cannot get along and be civil lovers of the leaf.

 

[Gator]

Getting crossways over which shitbag politician you support is one of the dumbest things ever. I live in an area where it can get pretty contentious over stupid crap like politics, i won’t engage, I’ve had people try and bait me into it, i just laugh and say lets instead talk about fu**ing midgets, they quickly leave me alone.