agree... finally... those poor new comers come and go with their first post... hopefully they will stay now. -_-''

 

 

I've been driving my car in reverse for the past week just to experience the joys of rear wheel drive

 

What the is T9/word? Written English has always worked for me.

 

A type of "shorthand" for mobile devices.

 

The problem that we seem to have run into is that while opinions are like assholes and everybody has one, there is a time and place to express them. You wouldn't fart at the dinner table in front of your grandmother would you?

Having an opinion is one thing but how you express it is another. If you don't like someone's rims, you could say, "not my style". What we have been getting lately is wise asses saying things like, "dude sell your car to some one who will respect it."

I can think of one thread where someone asked for some photoshop help not opinions. What they got was a bunch of holier than thou attitude about how they didn't deserve their car because they had different tastes than most.

I am as guilty as the next guy when it comes to being a wise ass but I try to keep my wise ass comments to witty remarks that aren't personal attacks on someone else's style or tastes. I attempt to use my wise ass powers to make people laugh and enjoy not get annoyed and leave.

 

if your talking about the gold daytons guy, mods left that open and go on for DAYYSSSS, it got to like 8 pages. Not to mention a guy tried to get it off the front page by bumping other threads and they banned HIM hahaha.

Maybe new, fresher, mods should be appointed.

 

I fully agree with the rules....also, as I have heard 1000 times, when a noob asks a question, people are too quick to jump on them and yell "SEARCH"! Is this how you would welcome a new friend into your home, or a new employee into your business? No, I think not, so lets get back to where we used to be, with the respect level that we expect for ourselves...shared with the new comers to the site!

 

It's black now... no ??

 

And both were totally awesome !!

 

That's the thing... we want to welcome the new people... and once they get to know us, then we can pick in them

We can argue, but we have to do it in a mature, civil manner... No name calling, etc. You can attack the idea, but don't attack the person...

If you guys haven't noticed, the search functionality isn't as "robust" as it used to be, so some of the n00bs might need a little more help then usual.

 

That type of behaviour won't be tolerated anymore here. The car forums have always been a lot more civil than OT...

If you want to let your hair down, Ramblings is great place...

 

That's addressed in the rules... I posted in that thread, on like the 2nd page, and it was mostly civil up to that point. I didn't know it had gone to complete shit until someone PM'd me (jproy or distortedolskool IIRC).

If you notice an issue, PM a mod:

That's under consideration... The admins had the exact same idea...

 

Read and understood. great job GM. i was always a masshole fan

 

GM does a lot of dirty work, I think he should campaign for admin.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^no sarcasm^^^^^^^^^^^^

GM, did you ban me?

 

Yeah I believe I've seen a few mods get away with doing stupid crap before. I try to stay out of those subforums, though.

and I also dislike the barrage of "use the search function" posts I see in quite a few threads. Seems you have to search through countless threads in the results to get to something that meets the criteria you searched for. And like someone else said, it really shouldn't take that much effort to just simply answer their question, does it? Although I sympathize with people who get asked the same question constantly, I feel it's a tad obnoxious to see a thread where the first 10 replies are "use the search function"

 

spill it......

 

can we make fun of dealer gimmicks

 

Nothing to spill... the topic just came up in conversation...

If anyone has any recommendations for a "new, fresh" mod candidate, feel free to PM me... And no, you can't recommend yourself

 

Well, I've let things go. But now be warned I will be paying more attention to posts.
As always if anyone has a problem with a post or someone within a post please bring it up to a mod & we will review & deal with it.

And as far as searching goes......
There's a DIY/FAQ thread at the top of the forum, stickied. It's been built over the last 3 or so years from scratch. I can say for sure that 95% of asked questions are covered in there. It's the 1st place I look when I need an answer to something, & I use it a lot cause I don't know everything

I'm not trying to be a hard ass about this, however things have seemed to get outta hand as of late.

 

They didn't hurt your feelings did they? I like having an original CL 6 speed owner as a Mod. I vote to keep GreenMonster as a Mod and maybe even give him Ron A like powers

The unmodified moderator

 

I apologize for my childish posts.

Lets be HELPFUL again.

 

Good to see this.

Let's bring back the old crew, too... Allmotor, JrBean, Shawn S.......

 

juniorbean is still around...

 

I had an issue recently that was not resolved using the search function ( I also looked in the faq section). I asked the question and was quickly flamed. I finally found some of the answers in older posts because a Google search brought me back to those posts. The search function does not work well. And I have been a long time member, so it is not that I lack in ability to use this function.
Don't flame someone for asking a question. Either answer the question, direct him to the old post (if YOU can find it) or stay out of the discussion. No need for ten guys to jump in and say "use the search". Once is enough.

On a different note:
I have found that an arrogance seems to pervade a lot of these discussion groups when it comes to new guys. I have left several groups due to stupid people who think time as a member increased their IQ. Some of these groups end up being small because they drive the serious people away. The remaining members are just the "Know it All" assholes that want to argue with everything, even though they are wrong (sometimes I think they know they are wrong). Let's not let that happen here. I think this is the best discussion group I have been a member of.

 

IMO I think most auto-related webforums and discussion sites are generally full of know-it-alls and people who try to be holier than thou. If I could only count the number of times I had some pimply faced kid in a message forum tell me to "lolol u need 2 get a better car!!1" after I tell him I drive a CL... Hell, I even got flamed when I asked how difficult it is to install a CAI if you're not mechanically inclined (which I still am not ) A simple genuine answer would have taken less effort than trying to play Queen of the Internet and flaming them to hell and back.

Neither of those instances happened on Acurazine, but I'm just trying to prove a point. I think when it comes to automotive discussions, you're more likely to find some dipshit who feels it's necessary to give you crap for being where he was a few years ago, than you are to find someone who will really help you out. I dunno, that's just what I've experienced.

 

Length of time on the boards bears no relationship with skills and/or knowledge.

 

yes it does.....post count means everything when it comes to the internet noob

 

Hope you're joking.

 

There's people here with 10's of thousands of posts or that have been here for like 7 years, that still act like noobs...

 

On the search topic... I know how to search, but sometimes, after reading a bunch of threads, I sometime still like to post a thread to make sure what I've found is correct/up to date...

So I understant that people do search, but still want to discuss things more...

 

Damn

 

no way! internet is srs bsns

 

Black might be an understatement

 

LOL.....Doesnt hurt to be vocal about it though. I really am glad that we are all working together to get the friendliness/camaraderie back into the forum! Anything that we can do to assit, just holler!

 

And DAYUM....I thought my paint looked wet!

 

Oh, cool (didn't know about that, actually ) However the posted link to the 2nd gen TL DIY thread doesn't work. Anyone know if the thread got deleted or something?

 

I've been here too long. I actually understood that!

 

Thanks it got deleted... Kris made a new thread over there and cleaned up the formatting...

I've fixed the link now:

https://acurazine.com/forums/showpos...19&postcount=6

If anyone finds dead links, just PM me...

 

^

Is this the same person that we discussed in our PM?