We can all dream

Who is that?

My dude was the first guy on google images that came up when I searched my name

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Phase 2 Blaze GTi 6 (Standard) Sold
Phase 3 Supercharged China GTi 6 (249.8 BHP) Sold
Phase 3 Supercharged Diablo GTi 6 (443 BHP)Sold
Nissan 350Z (300 BHP)

I wouldn't do it justice...

And I don't own a jacket like that.

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Phase 3 Supercharged China GTi 6 (249.8 BHP) Sold
Phase 3 Supercharged Diablo GTi 6 (443 BHP)Sold
Nissan 350Z (300 BHP)

I was thinkin somewhere more central like donington or oulton park or mallory. But if the idea gets support I am quite happy to organise. We did croft many moons ago and it worked so why not do it again?? Oh and the Christmas night out of 04 was a cracker by the way! :-)

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This i've got to see?

I searched james soulman...

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Phase 2 Blaze GTi 6 (Standard) Sold
Phase 3 Supercharged China GTi 6 (249.8 BHP) Sold
Phase 3 Supercharged Diablo GTi 6 (443 BHP)Sold
Nissan 350Z (300 BHP)

Dude get a grip!

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I appreciate ur honesty and for that I thank u!! ;-)

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not these ones bro...these are 70% polyester and 30% acrylic with MJ sequins....and don't call me Shaniqua

If i say yes would you tell anyone?

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Phase 3 Supercharged Diablo GTi 6 (443 BHP)Sold
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I'd be up for it if my car is back on the road.

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Goldie the track car.

Right when I get a min to compose it I'll do a proper gauging interest thread in meets and events. Now I'm away with work in Austria for 2 weeks from next Sunday so I'll try put some emails out about prices etc to the various tracks I think would be of interest then go from there! So hopefully when I get back I can start getting this organised properly!

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Right, firstly can people *please* stop posting shit in this thread, or preferably delete it. It's hard enough getting an admin to read a thread at the best of times, impossible with shit like that everywhere.



Thing is, I don't think he did. When he first mentioned the idea of the "new site" there were pages and pages of really good suggestions that would've made the site better. The ideas of having a "dibs" button on For-Sale threads which specifically pointed out the first person to offer the full price, the idea of reporting users rather than threads, rating sellers and buyers (would've been a good one), additions of a mobile version of the site, so many good ideas.

What did people actually get? Charged for using basically the same site. Out of interest, I just had a scan through the Feedback section to get some timescales of things.

On the 1st September 2010, Ash posted up the The future of the club post. He said he'd basically finished writing the "new site", except for choosing the membership and options. Yes from now on people would have to pay, but "the new site will be hosted in a corporate-quality hosting environment, where reliability and speed will no longer be an issue". People were promised competitions, a "proper" classified section and a Member Map.

Reading back through the thread now, in all honesty they are not the words of an enthusiastic man.

It was nearly two months before the New ISP Host required thread appeared. I had some chats with Ash about this over email.

Many threads then appear about "erm, where's this new forum then?", and "I think it's just died a death really". It's not until 9th March 2011 when The Final Countdown thread appeared and ran its course.

On 12th April 2011, the site is put back up in its old form having been down unnecessarily for nearly a month. Not until 31st August 2011 did the Welcome to the New Club thread appear, exactly one year after Ash had said the new site was finished.

Ignoring the inevitable bugs and such, people started complaining about the Parts for Sale on 4th September as far as I can see, four days later. People are still complaining now.

Posts about disabling thread locking have been doing on for several months, and at a quick look the oldest thread where someone volunteered to be an extra admin was on the 30th August 2010.

The official Positions Vacant - Admins Required thread was started on the 16th December 2011, and still nothing has been sorted. Still the same issues exist, and still people are getting frustrated.

I agree with Jeffers' point that "people do have a life outside of this forum and this in turn means they don't automatically have time to be on here every 2 mins", but I'm not asking anyone to. I'm saying that 18 months of people volunteering to be moderators is purely ridiculous, considering all it means it ticking a tickbox behind the scenes somewhere. Obviously no-one can be on here every two minutes, but that's why you have more than one admin. That's the whole point.

As for this idea of putting together a list of ideas, I agree that's the best idea; but it's been done - so many times, and repeatedly people just get ignored. I love this site, I think it's fantastic and has an amazing bunch of people who are always willing to help out, but I've said it a million times and I'll say it again - people are getting frustrated with it, moreso now people are paying customers.

I tell you what would be perfect - if Ash just said look, I'll be maintaining ownership of the domain and will stay as an admin. Someone else can take over the technical side and a couple of select people (ahem, Stan) can be admins. Admins can then choose moderators, who have a subset of powers such as locking threads and banning users, but perhaps not higher-level tasks such as appointing new moderators.

I'm a web developer myself, and whilst not wanting to disrespect Ash's work, writing forums isn't that difficult, and I'd be more than happy to help look after the technical side. I work for a hosting company now so could probably get decent discounts and such, but at the moment I'm powerless to help, just like everyone else.

I've never been that big on "car meets", I'll be honest. However if we had people like Stan and Jeffers who are genuinely passionate about organising trackdays, I'd be there. It'd be great to meet (some of) you, get to know people are really build up that sense of community that's rapidly failing.

I like Ash, I think he's a genuinely good guy and he's done a lot, but both he and everyone else need to stop this "I'm sure someone's dealing with it" attitude, because it's simply naive and incorrect. No-one is dealing with anything, nothing is being done. This forum will die a death if nothing is done, be that someone taking it over or someone starting up an alternative. I don't like the term "rival site" someone used, as that implies it's purposely against this one. It wouldn't be, it'd be to save the community that's here before everyone goes elsewhere, just under a different name perhaps.

Anyway this post is really long. Sorry about that.

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Good man. Make sure you're properly hydrated, have been to the toilet and have an overnight bag, then start reading.

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