brewerbob

Dear Forum Admin,
Aside from maybe requiring a single post (for bots), this is the dumbest rule in the world. "Please spam my site so you can finally ask the question you want." And let's not count other Classified section posting; brillant. So, how many pages do I need to seagull (fly in and crap all over) before I can finally post a WTB thread?

Fendamonky

You can post anywhere in the forum right now Bawb. But I want to say you need at least a month of membership and 10 posts before you can start threads elsewhere.

dannobre

iTrader: (3)

You can post in the New Member area.....but you also have a waiting period where you have to fly around and read up on all the silly questions you are dying to ask
What are you looking for?

Fendamonky

And don't make it obvious that you're just trolling for post counts, else they may likely delete those posts and slap you on the pee-pee.


*edit* I just read what you actually wrote in your initial post Bawb... Sometimes blunt honesty is NOT the best policy

Fendamonky

He's gunna put a 13B-MSP in his FB, needs to get the parts to make it physically fit.

brewerbob

I tried posting in General Section so it would get moved by a mod. That didn't work either. <mod edit> What the hell?

Levi, me blunt? Never. If they are looking for a reach around they need to look elsewhere.

brewerbob

Want an entire (salvage title) donor car. Running engine and low mileage. Tranny, coolers, pedals, and various other bits and pieces. Bri can use the rest of the guts for stuffs.

RIWWP

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Right next to the New Thread button is a big blue link labeled Why can I only create threads here?

Have you read that yet? In it's entirety?

You obviously are not prohibited from creating threads and asking questions, since you just did so. You are only prohibited from creating threads anywhere except the New Member subforum (which you just did), and the subforum for your regional classifieds. You are not prohibited from posting to existing threads anywhere else on the subforum, so you can reply to a thread that is on the topic that you need.

And spamming the forum WILL NOT Work. Why? Because not only do we see the spamming thanks to Live!, but you need 10 posts AND 30 days. You can spam your way to 1,000 posts if you want, you still have to wait 30 days. We simply ask your participation in the forum before the restriction is lifted. If you don't want to participate, fine, but you won't be able to create threads elsewhere until you do. Still open to replying though.

If you have a question that you feel is absolutely unique and doesn't exist...well, that is what the new member forum is for. Periodically we DO actually get unique first-time threads, in which case myself or another member of the staff will move it out of the new member subforum to someplace more appropriate. I did that just this morning to one.

Typically though, the new members ask questions that have been asked before, and before this restriction was implemented those questions were all over the forum in random places, drawing the ire of members that were tired of seeing those questions. It was frankly turning a LOT of people away from the forum. We implemented the new member subforum and the people that want to avoid it, do. Membership is up, tensions and hatred are down.

Periodically we get someone that can't stand the restriction, but in nearly every case, it turns out to be a member that we aren't interested in having here anyway.

Hate this rule? Try out RX7club.com's.

RIWWP

iTrader: (2)

We expect people to be respectful. This doesn't mean catering to their every whim, itmeans being respectful. You can disagree, argue, even hate someone else on here, as long as you do it respectfully. We don't tolerate people who have no control over their mouth, their temper, or their manners.

This is the only warning I'm going to give you, because I frankly expect it to be a losing fight to get you to follow our code of conduct.

Please surprise me, I'd rather not boot you.

brewerbob

Yeah, read that. The reply to a Classified didn't show as a post.


Since those dudes caught bought out, they can suck a bag of dicks.

Fendamonky

In truth he's not likely to be asking many questions, just needs to find donor parts for putting a rennie into his 1st gen rx-7. Bob won't be doing the work, a VERY skilled and experienced friend of ours will be doing the fabbing/building/wiring/tuning to make it work. Brewerbob just needs to be able to procure the parts necessary. Bawb means well and is a really good dude, he can just be kinda abrasive at times if you don't know him and/or have thicker skin.

We're old members of the (pre-IB) 7club, been there, seen it change, jumped ship

RIWWP

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I had a guess that you were friends. Hopefully you can leverage that friendship to keep him calm on here. I checked his IP, and see that he is military. Perhaps using some of that trained discipline would go a long way. Lots of current and prior military on here, I even served my time on the base he is on.

We have thick skin, but we still have rules and a code of conduct that he must follow if he wants to remain here. I don't get offended easily, but I'll boot people that are trying to be offensive because they think it makes them look cool.

brewerbob

What's the point of pulling punches?

I dunno. I can't see it as anything other than a request for spamming. Add the stupid little charachter thing if you're worried about Bots. Add some coding if you see 37 posts that are FS and you think it's a retailer/reseller.

RIWWP

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Those are actually ridiculously easy to code around, they don't stop any modern bot

It's not just bots though, we want members to participate before they start FS or WTB threads in the general classifieds. You can still buy and sell in the regional classifieds, which is all you really need if you are looking for a donor car, right? Unless you are trying to get a car shipped from elsewhere.


Not spamming...participating.

Fendamonky

Yeah, I just kicked him a text (I can't help but laugh a bit about this). He *should* hopefully use the brain-to-mouth filter more now.

He's a civilian there, not currently active, though he did do a stint in.

Oh, he's not doing it to look cool, he's just extremely honest (it can be both refreshing and maddening). If you've ever been to DGRR and heard about the "BAW Cabin"... that's us

RIWWP

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I get it, i really do. My best friend of 33 years is much the same, but I still take moderator action against him and his posts on here when he can't keep it under control.

Thanks for your help Fend.

brewerbob

Shows what you know. I'm on a military base tho. What does it show?

I've worked on classified projects where the IP only gets you within 50 miles. I dunno what this one show.
Someone might want to tell the banks that. They still love the hell out of them.


The Navy thought the same too. I didn't get along well with the E-7 thru E-8s that had a room temperature IQ.

Carbon8

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The point is to eliminate the redundant new threads on topics that have been meticulously discussed already if the OP would have just searched instead of creating yet another thread to add to the pile.

Albeit it is an inconvenience to new members, but 99% of new members create more of a headache with Mods chasing down their endless spree of new threads to merge into existing ones. In the end seldom do new members actual contribute or even stay in this community longer than 30 days anyways. This method is much better for the overall populi of this community.

We dictate to the masses.

*Edit*

Keep in mind, you signed up for this site. You wanted to be a member, to then ramble on about the restrictions imposed upon you will do very little but irritate the admins. This community didn't reach out to you, don't expect sequential treatment.

Otherwise I am afraid your stay will be short lived.

RIWWP

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Yeah, understood. It's an actual .mil IP, which is the more telling part. One way or another, it showed that you were at least working with the military, even if not an actual member, and the military doesn't often permit gross disrespect. But ...

...I guess you are out now



No need to pander to anyone here, just avoid foul language, targeted insults, personal attacks, and moderator critism in public posts and feel free to be as disagreeable and hardheaded as you want. Trust me, we have quite a few members who take that and run with it.

brewerbob

I'm not big on babysitting. Even less so about censoring. Combining threads is too much work. Moving threads to the right sections would be about as far as I've gone in forum moderating. Even that is more favor than expected.

Fendamonky

I think you may have just handed Old'Bawb the keys to the city

RIWWP

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Hence why some people just get booted that are too much of a pain in the ***

Not really, it's the same rules I apply to everyone, including myself.

brewerbob

I did get in trouble for not saluting the Captain. I was Navy and he was a real Captain not some LT JG on a Frigate. O-6 type if you are other than Navy. I dunno if he was the one that was upset or if it was just the XO that was being pissy. Anywho, I waved a hello to the Captain; I liked him. The XO on the other hand can get his own bag of dicks to suck on.



4 yrs was enough. Military is good for 3 people; those that can put up with the BS, those that can't make it on the outside, and those that need a direction in life. After a year in the Navy, I knew exactly what I wanted. A life without the Navy. Most start a count down at day 99. I started mine at 400. Over acheiver I know.



I believe in credit where credit is due. There's no caste system here. You don't get it because "I'm a moder-hater and I can ban you." RX-7 club had some kid they tried to ban. He'd just use an IP proxy and be back in literally 5 minutes. They banned 5 or 6 different user names of his. Look stupid, the kid is smarter than you are obviously. If you just leave him alone and give him his 15 seconds of fame, he'd get bored and stop. So, they banned me. Um, ok new username. That apparently still doesn't work. Now quit being stupid and remove my ban.

brewerbob

What are you trying to suggest?

brewerbob

This^ guy sounds almost crusty enough that I would like him in person.

That only works when you're a bigger IT weenie than the bootee (see next reply of mine).