No he has no game at all it's shameful.

The kent group is still very active. We always try to involve the local newbies as I think the locals enhance the ownership of the car. Just takes people with a bit of get up and go to organise the meets which myself and mattyrallye have started doing. Most months we go out for a drive and something to eat and meet every wednesday. This is a good forum, its just people being too tight to pay and not being proactive thats the problem.

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I have not got a problem with the talk of other cars, but it should be kept in the correct section. Off topic. My main qualm is beligerant nature of late. Its unnessesary.

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Because what are people to do? We've tried, so many times. Part of the reason new people are ripped is because people resent the fact that they've paid, and are then told specifically not to answer technical questions in non-technical forums. This means every post becomes "pay up like we did, you pikey", people don't bother as all they've so far seen it hate, so no new people really come along. Take out that aspect, I can guarantee you no-one on here dislikes people purely because they're new.

If no-one had to pay then new people could post questions in the right sections, no-one would resent them and they'd go back to getting good technical answers. The problem is that as time goes on more and more key people leave, and there's never going to be any reason for them to come back.

I'm a web developer myself, I've had many email conversations with Ash over the years when the forum was being moved and such and if he turned round and said look, I can't really be arsed with this any more - I'd happily (at the moment, as I have a reasonable amount of free time) get involved on the technical side. I'd vote for people like Stan to be admins over and over until I was blue in the face, people would go to meets and it'd be awesome.

Yes, a site costs money to host. Something like this, maybe a couple of hundred quid a year would do it. Domain names are about £15 for two years and even an SSL certificate so peoples passwords aren't sent around in plain text are about £60. So say you didn't charge, but said look - each year we need £X in donations, or the site stops running. I'd happily chuck some money at it. I'm sure others would. I cannot remember how many times people have been all ready to take their car to a garage and spend £80 an hour on a mechanic just for someone on here to say woah - this is a simple fix, you can do this yourself; I bet you could get some of those people to donate a tenner after something like that.

The only I disagree with so far is that this isn't a social networking site - I'd have no problem (and would actually encourage) people to post up fun threads, advice threads and such - but in the right sections (i.e. Offtopic). No-one's going to keep coming back to this site just to see if someone's got a dodgy power steering pump they need advice on, but I know I keep coming back for the stupid and fun things people say, and while I'm here I'll answer any technical questions I can.

However as has been mentioned I've said all this a million times and it makes no difference to anything because Ash doesn't care, but doesn't want to let it go. I can kinda see his point, but the loving parent gives up their kid for adoption before it starves to death.

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And we'll keep going over it again until Ash gives a satisfactory response.

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Biggest problem is membership IMO

Either all pay or no pay,SIMPLES!

Plus theres various different amounts of membership,a flat fee would be easier and then if people didnt want to pay they can jog on.

well its not really SIMPLES is it...b'cos this is essentially where the whole problem lies.

the fact that people have paid, then realised they DIDNT have to pay like the few of us wise ones that have 'beaten the system', they feel like such idiots for doing so, then asked for refunds, and now when the smart ones post something, the paid up members who feel stiched up start reporting threads and complaining about wrong sections just to get their monies worth.

you get paid members who are still cool and dont really care and get on it, but then you get the ones who start waving their big membership dicks.

/snore

Well if theres dedicated sections to post stuff in why wouldn't we moan that you've posted in General/Off topic?It makes the forum untidy.

And yes you can be p*ssy that we closed your thread down

POWER TO THE PAYERS!

You had to say it, didn't you? If only we had some moderators. Oh no wait, everyone's a moderator as they can lock threads. Oh wait, that's f*cking retarded.

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totally agree with Owain's point re. social networking. I sold my 6 a few years ago, i can't offer much on the technical side but i do come on here to look through interesting posts. Comedy/Off Topic being just two sections. IMO its what makes the forum, the technical stuff has been there for years and will remain, knowledge is retained in members who have stayed around. But a bit of humour posting sometimes really tickles me when i am having a boring day at work.

As for Meets, these used to happen all the time. Just post one up or search out locals near you.

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You know what, this is probably the most retarded thing on here. Someone new posts in General, gets told to pay and post in Technical, just to be told to search. Meanwhile, all the useful old posts in the technical sections are slowly being deleted and no-one's posting any new ones.

Seriously, ffs.

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Reason is that its a decent topic which has a serious tone to it for a change.

This thread makes me sad

I for one prob won't renew my membership as things stand

We have all discussed it before nothing seems to change.

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