uxb101 wrote:
I thought i was going to get banned the other day for rating the mods over there on the Canadian section...

bogus wrote:
Not quite everyone. There have been a couple of other forums to spawn in the last few years, made up of disgruntled forum members.

This site started C4 centric. My biggest problem has been getting ppl to join... It's really annoying.

rklessdriver wrote:
Sorry to hear about it Steve.

I don't (and guess I never will) understand the drama over internetz. Espc over an Avatar... You gotta be kidding me. It's a pic on a darn forum for Christ sake... not like the world is ending or anything.

I have to tell you. I've met some really great people near me here in NOVA on various area's of CF. Car shows, race track events, ect. We even had a dinner (social) club every month or so for a couple of years. With all the drama over there, so many people don't log on to their accounts or have been banned in the last year that we don't get together except for in passing at the public car shows.... Kinda silly.

Will

Weavsvet wrote: You guys are intimating as all get out. I don't mean that in a bad way it just that you can't add very much to any given thread when you know that the ones reading that thread pretty much know all the answers. So sometimes simple questions don't hardly seem like asking.

Mike

TommyT-Bone wrote:
I'm a slow learner.

Weavsvet wrote:
Steve, sorry man, maybe it's for the best. Like you said there's a reason for everything.

Being a noob here and at this vette stuff too I can add my .02 into your new member issue. You guys are intimating as all get out. I don't mean that in a bad way it just that you can't add very much to any given thread when you know that the ones reading that thread pretty much know all the answers.

BillH wrote:
..... a bunch of fluff that sometimes is so wrong.....

BillH wrote:
Ask the simple questions, nobody here minds. Simple questions are just stuff you haven't done and someone here has. Hell, we asked simple questions when we got our first Vettes.

TommyT-Bone wrote:
LOL. Here ya go Fluff.

captmike13 wrote:
The other you don't get here is the "Go use the search function." or "learn to use the search function." I don't mind searching but sometimes it's just easier to ask.
Not everyone is web savy and getting the phrase or words correct so the search is usefull can be a pain sometimes.

VtVette wrote:
Hi Steve welcome!!

Hands down the most knowledgeable and the nicest group of Corvette enthusiasts call this place home. No question.

Steve40th wrote:
Well, I was banned for a few things.
Latest was this post from a guy coming back from being banned
""Getting banned is gay, plain and simple. Grown men and women should be able to throw one out once in a while. PC is the death of our country etc, why do it here. Been Banned for challenging a moderator for his avatar after he got rid of mine, which others are using. SAD SAD SAD."

RickAnthony wrote:
Quote:

Steve40th wrote:
Well, I was banned for a few things.
Latest was this post from a guy coming back from being banned
""Getting banned is gay, plain and simple. Grown men and women should be able to throw one out once in a while. PC is the death of our country etc, why do it here. Been Banned for challenging a moderator for his avatar after he got rid of mine, which others are using. SAD SAD SAD."

I know, I used to love the "forum", I'm still on it (VetteTech81) but it's really annoying when you try to help people with their problems, and "mods" are banning people for really stupid reasons...

-=Rick

RickAnthony wrote:
BTW wanted to add I'd really love to see this forum grow!

Steve40th wrote:
We just need to let people know of it via the net.

bogus wrote:
Rick,

This place started as c4guru.com. When the shit hit the fan 2.5 years ago, they banned several big named C4 ppl - me, Centralcoaster, jeffvette and streetshadow.

Over the next couple of weeks, a bunch of c4 ppl came over.

Then came the rush of C3 ppl with DurangoBoy and his crew.

It's the newer and older we need. At that point, I don't see us getting more than a handful C1/C2 ppl. They are normally older non computer folks.

The thing now is to get the newer C5/C6 ppl over.

captmike13 wrote:
The other you don't get here is the "Go use the search function." or "learn to use the search function." I don't mind searching but sometimes it's just easier to ask.
Not everyone is web savy and getting the phrase or words correct so the search is usefull can be a pain sometimes.

PeteK wrote:


In spite of all my hard work, I still get bombarded by pm's and e-mails asking me how to set the tv cable, or why they don't have 3rd gear. Stuff I have discussed hundreds of times.
After devoting so much of my time and resources, I just don't have a whole lot of time to give. Job, home renovations, my own car projects etc.
To make matters worse, I sometimes spend hours per week answering them anyway, and more times than not, no thank you or follow up to let me know if I helped them.
Moral of the story:
The internet makes things so easy, people are too lazy to do the actual searching.

Anyhow, search is a handy tool to those that wish to learn.

Matatk wrote:
Quote:

PeteK wrote:


In spite of all my hard work, I still get bombarded by pm's and e-mails asking me how to set the tv cable, or why they don't have 3rd gear. Stuff I have discussed hundreds of times.
After devoting so much of my time and resources, I just don't have a whole lot of time to give. Job, home renovations, my own car projects etc.
To make matters worse, I sometimes spend hours per week answering them anyway, and more times than not, no thank you or follow up to let me know if I helped them.
Moral of the story:
The internet makes things so easy, people are too lazy to do the actual searching.

Anyhow, search is a handy tool to those that wish to learn.

This should be your auto-reply: "Thank you for contacting Pete's internet transmission service. Please note, there is no charge for searching my past posts all by yourself. Questions that have already been answered 1000 times will be subject to a $19.95 fee payable by paypal. Now what's your question?"

TommyT-Bone wrote:

Hhhmmmm. 1-900-ASK-PETE

Steve40th wrote:
Holy Heck, I received a notice this time of a post to the thread.