Patterson

And his supra was the one that received butthole rims from James?

Yes on all accounts.

First impressions are difficult to overcome, but AJ is cool.

Dude reminds me of dr Rick

Yes 100%

This is not that kind of pole.

Polls, Poles, and Pols. :gabe:

No, while my brother was a troll on here and pissed quite a few people off, I have made a few mistakes of my own (posting in the phil call out thread comes to mind). However, things have changed a lot since then.

Like patching a Rotary back together....

I <3 that thread.

 

:lolguy:

Who didn't? One of the kitchens better moments.

because whether you realize it or not, this place does have some relevancy to the larger Columbus automotive community. It's small and getting smaller, but not Everyone on here is a pain, like i said there are some that are great. Unfortunately they post less and less often and that just makes the ones that are seem louder and more vocal.

 

you want to have a discussion about how to turn that around I have something to contribute. you just want this to be the honeycomb hideout for you and your buddies....well...carry on.

Columbus and the surrounding communities is 1.4m+, using your own logic, that's a healthy chunk that's interested in anything automotive.....

I'm not sure a ban is in order, but I'm perplexed by him. He's been a member for a year now, the newb excuse is played out. Miserable Mode.

Better yet, only let him post in the kitchen.

Outside Sales is 2000 monthly draw + commission

Driver is $10.00hr

As for insurance, I would look to the marketplace.

at this point - doesn't matter anywhere I post it is going to draw something like 2highpsi's response just because of who I am so there is no point. If you haven't noticed I have quite the fan club and they follow me around to call me a narcisist and a racist, and all sorts of other "ists" because I am against confederate flag guns stocks or other some nonsense. Problem isn't limited to me though, most newbies get some kind of hard time regardless, so there is no incentive.

Why not add enthusiast"ists" to that list? Regardless of the conduct and preaching through other threads, theory of economics and all that malarkey, when you post something truly automotive like a project, negativity begins goes away. Usually.

Bump

I need two people fast.

What do you know about me and my history? Part of my point is that I don't put content in here right now because this place kinda sucks for people doing positive things.

 

Have I done any racing recently? no. I had a kid and moved to ohio leaving behind my most of my cars and racing motorcycles. I'll own that. I've been a spectator at plenty of Mid-O and auto-x events here.

 

Know what I am not putting into this site? I'm currently working on an old NYC "street racer" cb750 motorcycle, bringing it back to running condition after not being run for 25 years, and adding a large amount period parts I have collected over the years. the best part? has some parts on it made by Carroll Shelby and Al Dowd. In 6 months I will be restoring from the ground up an old kawasaki triple racing motorcycle that was in competition from 1971-1986 and ran at nelson, charlotte, daytona, bridgehampton, etc...I don't put this stuff into this site because really I don't need some wonk calling me a homo because I painted my exhaust white. this is kind of my point, new people who put content into the board tend to get hammered on.

 

A great example of this is itzame and his Porsche 911/912 thread. lots of people hated that dude because he was a car flipper, not because of the content of the thread. it turned into a dog pile really quick.

Why not post it in the project management section? Is it out of spite, slow progress, or worried about a "dog pile" when you sell it?

You think it is bad here now? You should have been here when I joined. This place is a much valmer place the past couple years.

Sadly, that was brought on by association with your brother. Being he's so popular on here. It certainly wasn't deserved.

Here is my newbie take:

 

This place has a horrible and well earned reputation of being a douchebag motel. It is a reputation supported by only a few members but it is a plague on the whole of the community. Before I signed up this forum was recommended to me three different times by three well known members here and they all said the same thing -it's a pretty good place but be careful there are some real assholes. I signed up and was not disappointed right from the first non-oven post.

 

the poor behavior of the few causes more poor behavior, it's a defensive reaction. Even after I joined the only reason I stayed is people I would see at CC&C would talk about something cool and then I would go look at it, and then look at three other posts and get severely disappointed. Bad behavior is not punished around here so there is no incentive for the "really long time" assholes to do anything but continue. I have said it before I think this place has a bit of an identity problem, it want's to be too many different things and it doesn't focus on the strengths.

 

My take is this: moderate more. This place should be friendly and supportive of a real life community, not a toilet into which 5 or 6 senior members piss on all the others and hardest on the newbies. That CR shredder crew or whatever you call it? yeah that needs to stop. I think someone said it in the crucial performance thread where nobody wants to stay where they come here to talk about their 1958 impala show and get told to fuck their mother and make a sister (i'm paraphrasing here but you get the point).

 

Here is a really easy change (in my mind being ignorant of vbulliten software): take the kitchen, move it to the bottom of the page, and then remove the topics from the "new posts" search link. That way the kitchen dwellers can stay mostly where they are and not rattle the rest of the population. Hide the trolls in the basement.

 

Also start deleting the posts where offensive things are happening. if a nasty back and forth is going on, lock the thread, pm each member a warning, delete the off topic posts and then unlock it. Oh and actually enforce the harassing behavior policy.

 

As far as new members, the car hobby is huge, even if in decline there are still plenty of people to go around. if you don't clean up the real life image of this place people just won't come here.

 

I am all for supporting more car content, more events content, and more general good nature discussions. Everybody I have met from here in real life so far has turned out to be wonderful. but they don't post as often and it probably has to do a lot with the amount of garbage that is allowed. you want a community to grow? be a community not an area for a small minority of members who feel they have some entitlement because they have been here longer.

 

just my 2 cents.

TL;DR

Admittedly, I have not been neat as active as I was in the past. It angers me. Epic amounts of trolling aside, this was always been a fine source of entertainment. Having been here from 02'-'03, then 08'-on, being a sponsor was a boon to meeting many members (subsequently many turned into great friends), to working for another sponsor. Sadly work and kids always seem to hamper any sort of participation in activities. '15 is a wash for me. 2016 I will do better though. The fact that Cordell managed to wrangle more than three sentences together coherently says a lot for him.

Anthony, and Tina, you guys are great.

Guess i should get rid of my 408 stroker.

Garbage. Gib ya $12.00 for it.