Comment by busterarm

I get the sense that a lot of the hams I’ve met have a framed hall-monitor sash from their high school years.

I’ve been sniffing around it as a hobby for decades but there are just a ton of people involved that clearly are exorcising trauma from being bullied or feeling marginalized in their life on a whole. Following and enforcing the rules seemed like the beef big draw for a sadly large chunk of them.