This place sucks... Really...
-
Ok, I'm joining the party WAY late and I didn't even read half the text of half the posts...I stopped when Jim said there were 16 people viewing and he wanted more input. So input I'll give.
I think I posted quite a bit of what I'm about to say in a different thread but I'll repeat it here since it seems to be relevant.
First I should say that although I've never owned a car faster than the one I have now (runs high 15s), I still enjoy tuning and modding. But I've always been dissappointed with the car crowd in the midwest and had all kinds of problems meeting people who were also into cars. So...when I found the site back in July or so I was pretty pumped up.
After finding the site I made the mistake of just introducing myself and PM'ing Jim about being a local guy and trying to get into the protected areas without lurking for a while to get a feel for the site. After about a week I was feeling pretty stupid because I realized that the site wasn't what I thought it was. It was loaded with people that always have something to prove. The maturity level was much lower than I was used to (I'm OLD by this boards standards, I know of only one other my age here) seeing on altimas.net. The amount of bickering, intentional or not, reminded me of my Z24 days on the phobia mailing list, and if you know what that list is you know the amount of crap on that list. I ended up creating my own mailing list that is still in use today because of the crap there.
Ok, so what do I want from this site? I want this to be a place where people talk cars, the projects they are working on, cars of the month, a registry so people can post their car with pics and mods performed. And it would be nice if they could do this without someone coming along and saying it's lame, stupid or pointless. A site that when someone new to town, or out of town, finds out about it they can look and think, "wow, that's some cool stuff and these are cool people." A site that is respectable and IS respected by the local shops in town to the point where they want there name to appear on the site. It makes sense right? Their target market is RIGHT HERE but it's so laden with crap they don't want to be associated with it.
So yeah, that's what I'd like to see from the site. I'll never own the fastest car but it's a blast to help others build their cars up and swap ideas. Would I moderate a sight like this? Sure but it'd be a lot of work
-
havent really thrown much of an opinion in here...cause i dont know alot of you persoanlly and cant level with you on the situation....but i think what jim is gonna do should work. And i have no complaints about the board personally i'm glad its here.
R.I.P 1QK_PNY:icon_salut:
Current Ride-1983 Mustang GT T-top. 03 GSXR 750.
-
mym6 wrote:
I'm OLD by this boards standards, I know of only one other my age here
Just out of curiosity, how old? -
same age as you IIRC, 26
-
your profile actually says you're older than me...poor you
EDIT: referring to tjamz, not weshole.
Things have changed now that more people are putting info in their profile.
-
30 in 2 weeks...dave, matt, stephen, wes, and shane from tintmasters are all older than me...so you're not alone LOL
-
I think this got off topic in a good way though....went from everyone screaming at each other to everyone joking w/ each other (ok, thats what this thread was trying to prevent, but I think this could be an exception). I'd still like to hear what others have to say about improving fargostreet and the import community in general.
-
i think car clubs need to get a long together, shops as well...ive always wanted to be in a car club but we got flamed for it like last week because then we would alienate ourselves and whatever else it was...we just have to remember, import or domestic(ricer or performance :)), we all have one thing in common, love for cars and what you can do to them...
-
-
Winter and new parts is fun.
Jim you know I'm down to help, just let me know.
Hello! It looks like you're interested in this conversation, but you don't have an account yet.
Getting fed up of having to scroll through the same posts each visit? When you register for an account, you'll always come back to exactly where you were before, and choose to be notified of new replies (either via email, or push notification). You'll also be able to save bookmarks and upvote posts to show your appreciation to other community members.
With your input, this post could be even better 💗
Register Login