Last month I bought an Acura CL with slight front-end damage. I bought it to swap the J32A2 and six-speed into my CG2 but decided to keep it and fix it instead. I've been doing a lot of research lately on acurazine and v6performance and the general tone of those forums makes me feel like I'm living in Soviet Russia. All content is strictly monitored. Any mention of one of the "competitor sites" is frowned upon and linking to them is strictly forbidden. Posting price information from certain companies can only be done under certain circumstances because of the other companies that pay for advertising on the site.
Another complaint of mine is the inability for users to edit their posts after longer than 5 minutes has passed. This creates a bog of misinformation that the user may want to correct, but can't unless he contacts a moderator to do so. If something is deemed as insignificant to edit by the user, he won't ask. If he does ask and the moderator deems it insignificant, it won't be changed. There's no need for this level of control.
All I'm saying is that a lot of the users on this site bitch and moan about the rules we have and how tight of a ship we run around here. Not even close. We do so because we like order and know how a good forum is run because we've had people before us these past 10 years to model the way. We aren't doing what we're doing to appease any penny-counting sponsors to ensure that profit is considered before information.
Deev, I never fully grasped the depth of what you might have been going through when companies approached you to buy the site. I commend you for not considering it.
Another complaint of mine is the inability for users to edit their posts after longer than 5 minutes has passed. This creates a bog of misinformation that the user may want to correct, but can't unless he contacts a moderator to do so. If something is deemed as insignificant to edit by the user, he won't ask. If he does ask and the moderator deems it insignificant, it won't be changed. There's no need for this level of control.
All I'm saying is that a lot of the users on this site bitch and moan about the rules we have and how tight of a ship we run around here. Not even close. We do so because we like order and know how a good forum is run because we've had people before us these past 10 years to model the way. We aren't doing what we're doing to appease any penny-counting sponsors to ensure that profit is considered before information.
Deev, I never fully grasped the depth of what you might have been going through when companies approached you to buy the site. I commend you for not considering it.
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