I started with a ashon guitar, and I think their great, picked up a package including amp, replacement strings, the guitar (I would hope ) and a few picks for about $250 nz which is roughly like 100 american? I think, anyway take a look around for ashtons their not that great, but their cheap so its a good way to see if you want to countinue with the instrument or not
I do know this - xenforo dropped the ball by not keeping the vbulletin reputation comments as a feature. The loss of the Reputation comments data when we switched to Xenforo really was the death knell for the site when it came to all the users that left. I know I missed it so much and I got way less interested in the site when that feature was gone and I run the site.
I'm on a page about incorrect corrections, and spent the better part of like two hours trying to get someone to understand that -5^2 = -25, not 25, and then that post had comments get reposted because that group is self sustaining, and that person was in turn trying to explain what I just explained to them. And I'm taking that as a victory