What happened with the off-topic forum?

Mark the canuck · Post by **Mark the canuck** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 5:08 am

Like the title says...what happened ??????

Bugzlife · Post by **Bugzlife** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 5:41 am

it's called the lounge

Post by **sparkmaster1** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 6:10 am

Yeah, The Lounge, and When you can't say something nice are both gone. hmmm

dstar5000 · Post by **dstar5000** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 6:25 am

sparkmaster1 wrote:Yeah, The Lounge, and When you can't say something nice are both gone. hmmm

Can you say LAWSUIT?

Don

Mark the canuck · Post by **Mark the canuck** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 7:42 am

sparkmaster1 wrote:Yeah, The Lounge, and When you can't say something nice are both gone. hmmm

I couldn't remember what they were called. I just got a email this AM about a topic I was watching, clicked and it was gone. Must of happened last night.

Poor Realist · Post by **Poor Realist** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 7:47 am

Pretty stupid that they were shut down if you ask me. Who give a hoot if people BS about stuff. Better shut the chatroom down, too. People might talk!

What's the point of this forum again? Oh, I get it.... people are supposed to talk only about one thing and one thing only. It is a private business, so I guess I'll be spending my forum dollars elsewhere.

Maybe you'll see me, maybe you won't.

scottk · Post by **scottk** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 7:58 am

They were both deleted. They were taking up way too much of my time and a lot of people didn't like the forums anyway.

Scott

Poor Realist · Post by **Poor Realist** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 8:00 am

scottk wrote:They were both deleted. They were taking up way too much of my time and a lot of people didn't like the forums anyway.

Scott

Yeah, right. It seems more like you didn't like people expressing opinions you did not approve of.

scottk · Post by **scottk** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 8:17 am

Poor Realist wrote:
scottk wrote:They were both deleted. They were taking up way too much of my time and a lot of people didn't like the forums anyway.

Scott
Yeah, right.

I don't have the time to babysit a bunch of people who can't follow a few simple rules when it comes to posting on this board. The rules were black and white when you registered for the site and they are enforced. I have been spending way too much time going through pointless threads. If someone feels the site should be run differently then send me an offer for it.

Scott

turboblue · Post by **turboblue** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 8:57 am

To keep Mharney on as moderator was breaking the budget.
So.....they had to go.

scottk · Post by **scottk** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 9:09 am

turboblue wrote:To keep Mharney on as moderator was breaking the budget.
So.....they had to go.

Actually I was going to see if Mharney wanted to moderate another forum... He liked working CHEAP!

Scott

Poor Realist · Post by **Poor Realist** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 9:15 am

scottk wrote: If someone feels the site should be run differently then send me an offer for it.

Scott

Comes down to the mighty dollar, doesn't it?

Werksberg · Post by **Werksberg** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 9:15 am

scottk wrote:They were both deleted. They were taking up way too much of my time and a lot of people didn't like the forums anyway.

Scott

What about the "new products" or a "manufacturers forum"? I just caught the last end of it and was looking for a forum to post possible new products ideas, test market new products, look for local customers to test out new products ideas and see how's my own products are perceived as I only manufature and sell wholesale to my dealers.

I don't get the retail customer feedback and I'm sure the other manufacturers might like to do this too, but maybe i'm the only that cares about my products.

I used to do all the car shows to get the feedback but after 20 years of doing them I'm burned out with all the work to do them.

JM / Werksberg Products

Poor Realist · Post by **Poor Realist** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 9:31 am

If you were smart, you would have done something similar to this (from The Samba):

Rants & Raves
Newbies are welcome to lurk and/or post in this loosely moderated restricted access forum.
Please email and include your username to request immediate access. Enter at your own risk!

Instead, you shut it down completely. Your business ethics are questionable at best. Good luck in not filling a need of your customer base.

I'm done here.

69bug4me · Post by **69bug4me** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 9:39 am

Dawn and Mharney were getting way to close,he had to do something before they had offspring

It's not that big of a deal really.It's Scotts forum and and it's not like we have to pay for the use of it.