Just purchase a membership, and let out some slack on your ego... everything else will just work out for the best the more you post and interact here. Honest.

Good luck.

 

You know, if someone does not have the same opinion as you it does not make them an outsider nor one with a large ego....its just a different opinion....relax.

 

Everything you've said came across as pure ego and not the least bit constructive. You don't like the idea? Purpose something!!!

 

Everyone needs to relax and take it back a step! Can't we all just get along lol I can't believe this thread is still going

 

It's about quality of threads over quantity. Maybe another option is to have all new user threads moderated for xx amount of time or posts. That way they can be 'guided' if need be.

Blnewt are you up to the task? Of course this can be time consuming too, so any thread without a meaningful title should automatically be deleted.

 

Hey, I'm only one man
But the report post button can be wielded by ALL

 

^^HA! That's assuming I actually click on the thread to read it. Lately, with limited time and attention span many threads have gone unread.

After 4 years, the honeymoon phase is over. Now it's just a 'car'. Hard to get overly excited about it.

 

Honeymoons don't last forever. The trick is to keep things fresh with plans. I'm over four years now too, Jsolo, and not at all bored with the car. Oftentimes, when it comes to maintaining interest, the $50 mod can have as much impact as the $500 mod.

Report button? You know, in the last 6 years here, I don't think I've ever reported anyone. (That, or I can't remember it, because old.) Usually all you have to do with people like that is poke them with a stick and let them dig a deeper hole. It's surprisingly easy, and works every time.



As for newbie threads... Thread titles are everything. If a thread title is "New Rims", or there is more than one question mark or exclamation point at the end of a poorly spelled clusterfck of child-like grammar, 99% of the time I ignore it.

Here's a recommendation for moderators: don't be shy about amending thread titles for people.

 

If there's an idiot thread with moron content and I change the title to a literate string of coherent words instead of the gibberish that it originally came with, I'd be causing people to click on and read stupidity under cover of false pretenses. That's not fair. I also avoid even clicking on threads that are clearly the handiwork of semi literate morons.

I think it's better that they out themselves so you know who they are and can avoid them. I will gladly change a thread title if requested by the person who posted it. Typos and mistakes happen. But I'm not inclined to fix lazy or ignorant grammar, syntax, and spelling. I worked hard in school (still do) to not be an idiot (or at least not appear to be one), so should everyone else. I make exception for people asking reasonable questions when English is clearly not their first language.

Other mods may feel different or more sympathetic to the plight of the uneducated. Blnewt is probably a softie.

 

I say one step better is for mods to just insta-delete threads that are obviously out of line (when they run across them). Terrible grammar/spelling (not just a typo), blatant disregard for searching, etc. I don't see this as unreasonable and applies the same for a new guy and a veteran.

 

Sure. But other than forcing someone to gain experience (with 100 posts), any direct intervention creates more work for the moderators. I suspect their spouses already think too much time is spent here. And as BB very explicitly stated, helping newbs with lame thread titles is a bridge too far.

Truth be told, I had Brad in mind, not BB. But while I would have certainly worded his opinion differently... I don't necessarily disagree with it.

 

I do think the most practical solution is the forced experience through a set number of posts. Similar to the way the private classifieds work.

 

While we're here, please keep in mind that what moderators do is very limited in scope. If I had the ability to implement some of the changes you all are suggesting that I agree with, it would have already been done. A noob requirement to read the basic rules before being allowed to post. Etc., etc. But only administrators have that power and not all of them. The ones with the ability to do things like that are not here regularly. Unfortunately.

 

I totally understand. And with that, I present improvement opportunity number 2:

Appoint an Administrator from the pool of active staff. lol

 

Ironically it's also been a 4+ years withdrawal from 2 wheel sports for me. That's where my real passion lies. Have accumulated more miles on 2 wheels than all cars combined.

Can't say I ever really connected well with cars. Sure there's a particular excitement in driving a certain vehicle, but the bike really got the adrenaline pumping. Hard to convey the feeling of railing tight corners on an isolated backroad with no traffic. Few cars can beat the power|weight of a bike.

Short of a SC, the car is about as modded as it's going to get. By no means am I bored with it, just not as enthralled as I was before. It's one of the few cars that does almost everything I want it to.

PS. My next mod (if you can call it that) involves new tires. A bit more than $50, or $500 Can a maintenance item be considered a mod.... Hmmmmm.........