I tried to be nice. I thought the airbrush work was cool. I was also curious about the Norwegian black market for expired US license tags. For all I know, I'm sitting on a gold mine!

You were nice. And the airbrushing work is very time consuming and seemed to be well done. I can't stand non-functional ride heights, but I didn't feel it was appropriate to mention here.

I was thinking about covering the tailgate and bumper of my pickup truck in tags and seeing if they can figure out where to send the ticket from the red-light camera.

They will ticket everyone. Problem solved.

I thought his intro was quite mild.

But seriously. He thought he would post his car here, and everyone would start sucking his dick about the appearance as they spoonfeed him step-by-step on how to turbo his car.

If that's the kind of research he puts in before he posts, he was gonna get banned anyway.

As with others, I think the car is fine except for the license plate thing. Not really a fan of the stance either, but it's not as bad in that regard as some I've seen.

:rofl:

you better do it Brain, he sounds super serious...


What about the internet police??

all the ones stamped Stancepolice are heavily edited in post. Some apply poorly rendered HDR and others cliche' photoshop actions to give them that warm sunflare look.

what about them?

Ive heard they take this sort of stuff pretty seriously. Especially with regards to nordic copyright infringements

Brain, ya dun gufed. Hes going to send the cyber police to come and get you.

I think the op is copyright of butthurt.

BOGS?

You know you've hit the ground and started digging when you FAIL at RAGE QUITTING

:laugh:

I assume when you sign up for an account you hit 'agree' to the part that says all images posted to the site are property of IB Brands and if you want them taken down you can go fuck yourself.

Ok. So this thread was a good example of people going a little too far out of their way to be assholes to newbs.

And it's gonna stop.

We (the staff) have discussed this situation at length, and we are in agreement on this. The meet-n-greet section is a safe haven for new users to post their shit without cluttering the rest of the forum, and while it's perfectly ok to say "Meh, I'm not a huge fan of such-n-such...", there will no longer be, as sixshooter rather elegantly put it, dick-slamming.


It's simple, folks: If we drive away every newb who shows up, then the forum becomes stagnant. We also fail in our moral obligation to educate the world about the benefits of turbos and kittens, and just wind up boosting the membership at CR.

I don't like boosting the membership at CR.


I just handed out a bunch of infractions. 18PSI, you only got a warning, because an infraction would have resulted in an auto-ban for you. This should tell you something. I hate doing this because it makes me feel like an elementary-school teacher pasting frowny faces on the attendance chart, but a certain number of you folks aren't leaving us with any choice.


You see what it says under my name there to the left? It says "Don't be a Dick." That's Wheaton's Law, folks.

actually his uploads WERE deleted. The pictures linked in this thread are publicly available.

I understand it's your forum, and I'll take my infractions and be nice, but I do disagree with this. I've seen it first hand on Reddit, more people does not a better community make. Financially you may not like boosting the membership of CR, but I would rather have that then have this site slowly turn into CR.

Also I noticed you specifically said the meet-n-greet section is a safe haven. Does that mean if some hapless noob were to make a 'how do I trubo?' thread in Engine Performance or DIY Turbo that we can release the hounds?

tl/dr; be a more tactful troll/hater

This.

I personally am sick of people showing up here contaminating this forum with drift crap and stretched tire lameness. I came here a long time ago with a beat setup full of band aids. I asked questions that got answered and I took advice. Now I have a kick ass setup with a megasquirt.
These new dorifto hella flush clowns don't take good advice, this is why I find bashing acceptable. If they wanna stay here and have successful, tasteful cars, that's great. If they choose to not take our advice and drive fugly, rigged up cars; then CR can have them. They don't belong here.

and the blacks and jews!

seriously though, give them a few posts to wise up and figure it out before you cram your balls in their mouth. If they are rude and continue to be the willful ignorant, and rational handling of the situation is fruitless, by all means, release the hounds.

And yes, nugent, if they crap up the non noob sections with stupid bullshit, fuck with them until they tear up. maybe give them a single post warning "this is not the noob section and you will be eaten alive" or something.

I have noticed how the viewership on this site seems to continue to decline. It seems all the people with real talent are leaving or posting less often, and that there is more and more of this kind of hate and criticizing committed by the same people over and over again. Eventually the only people left on this site will be those that try to out asshole each other.

Agreed.

And zero people does a dead forum make.



Absolutely. Somebody posts douchebaggery in the main sections, have at 'em. Try to be tactful and sly about it (eg: don't be 18PSI), but the regular rules (or lack thereof) still apply.

Just respect the sanctity of the News forum. It's here for the SPECIFIC purpose of giving newbs a place to post their shit that doesn't contaminate the main forum, and to give 'em a chance to learn the ropes. Not everybody was born awesome.




Like I said- troll away if someone asks which suspension package under $100 is best in the regular suspension forum.

But this here is the petting zoo, not the Savannah.

No, there will not be. Because I will permaban the living shit out of those folks before I let that happen.

They're the weak, and I'm the tyranny of evil men.

name a couple

go ahead

This is gonna get good....

Is that really necessary? How is that going to make this site better? I am not a Moderator, and doing so would be out of line.

Then why mention it?

it seems your statement doesn't agree with stastics.

Just admit that you're referring to FaeFae and get it over with.

:laugh:

*edit: actually he still emails me every now and then in response to a post or thread. Very helpful and coherent emails too. I think he's a pretty smart guy when he's not plastered drunk.

Maybe because I was angry, and am tired of seeing people with talent getting run off.

If you go visit the other sites, they show record breaking views very recently as well. It is the number of registered and logged in members that has obviously declined.

People need to remember that not everyone has tons of forum experience, and a little patience and guidance will go a long way to creating good productive members that contribute to the site.

Also, drifters, drag racers, road racers, autocross, rally, etc. all have something in common. They are car crafters that further develop the car we come here to talk about. You may not be into what they are doing, but the ones with talent all contribute to the greater good.

I usually do the best work on my cars when i'm hammered. True story.

When i'm hammered, i'm too scared to use the sawzall or cutoff wheel, so half-assing stuff isn't the easy option.

I do think that the talent pool got a bit split up when the V8 guys got their own forum. I miss having ZX-TX around here.

Tell them to quit being bitches and turbo their V8 cars so they have to come back here.

I've been around here since the days of WhiteRoadster when the "hot" setup was an Emanage Blue running a Greddy kit with JimB pipes (if you don't know who JimB is, you're not old-skool)... so being a military aviator and a forum veteran, I'm fully qualified to weigh in here.

That car is pretty cool. I sit across the office from a Marine Captain (Harrier pilot) who said... "kinda cool, but Miata's are still gay"... which was some seriously high fucking praise.

I used to be a pretty big offender of noobs (reference the 2 STICKY's in the Meet&Greet forum), but only after they'd shown their asses and proven they'd be no use to the community... not before. Perhaps I've grown up a bit or whatever, but in my advanced years (37), it takes a lot for me to get into an internet pissing match about what a car should look like.

This place will always be the best overall Miata forum specifically due to it's intolerance of standard forum bullshittery that plagues the rest of the interwebs. Our "special" members make the forum what it is, and the learning curves for noobs can be steep... but everybody eventually grows up, and life priorities tend to change. I still hammer the occasional noob now and then, but for some reason, I just don't get as big a boner about it as I used to. Maybe the wife will let me have another one someday (big boner) and I'll be back in full stride, dropping from the top-rope like when I was young back in '08.

Peace be with you bitches.

I'm still trying to figure out how one of the most civil hazing/flaming threads we've ever had in the history of mt.net is getting so much attention.

I rated y8s's reply as one of his best ever.

:bowrofl:

I love the fact that we can, in a totally serious manner, rank the severity of our various hazing/flaming threads and comment on their merit.

This forum > everything else. :)

:rofl:

:bowrofl:

As someone whose anus was thoroughly violated by Sir SamNavy, I can vouch for the above.

I have spent the last several years trying to unshow my ass and prove that, while not necessarily useful to the community, my presence is at least neutral.

Don't violate the Norse code.



We can be helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, and cheerful if we only decide to be. I'll leave the discussions about obedient, thrifty, clean, and Reverent, for another day.

I still think the fact that he copied a silly Silvia drift/art car is funny.

Eagle Scout?

Yes, actually. Wanna fight about it? Lol.

Lol. I have a few friends that are Eagle Scouts. I had some good times as a Scout myself, but my troop died out.

Was it cancer from eating the food cooked over a white gas Coleman camp stove or a troop bus that crashed?

One of the Jamborees turned cannibalistic. I guess we were not that prepared after all.

Be the predator, not the prey. That is being prepared.

I and both my brothers made Eagle. My mother got a presidential citation soon after the last one. It said something to the effect of "you must be doing something right, keep it up."

Wait a minute. When the hell did we remove "JimB" from the profanity filter?

Filter test:

15psi.com

Bill bowser

bipes acu

Jim bobowski

Saab elbow

Starion I/c

Bailey bov

Greddyturbofaq.com

^I've been here too long

:bowrofl:

Oh, man! That one takes me back...

The answer is simple...

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1379645127

my spoon

IS TOOOO BIIIG.

I did maybe last year? I saw no reason to keep them filtered.