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The great thing is, and the newer members don't understand this... is that the Beginner Forums are the BEST place to get an answer! Flaming in the Beginner Forums will get people banned, so there's less of it. I try to make a point of letting people know that if you're going to post in a Beginner thread, make it informative. Answer the question.
The rest of the forum is just too big to enforce that throughout... but here in the Beginner Forums, you're sure to get an answer... or at least not get flamed.
I don't LIKE seeing "what motors can I put in my car?" a million times... but someone who has enough sense to search will LOVE it, since they'll actually find a bunch of threads with answers!
Honestly, though... part of me enjoys taking down the whores. It's one of the reasons why I'm not ever going to become a cop... Being a jerk is fun when someone is blatantly disobeying the rules! I spend a LOT of time on this site (a lot of money, too). I do my best to make sure that things are run properly. All of the mods have been selected by me based not only on their knowledge of CB7s, but also their attitude and maturity level. They do the job correctly. I know I could disappear for 6 months and come back to find this place running as it should be (well... the AOM competition may die...
) The mods work just as hard as I do to keep this place running as it should. They also go out of their way to organize the stickies so people can find all the important info right away (nobody ever looks... but it's there!)
As I've said before, the 30 post rule is for a number of reasons:
-Keep scammers at bay (works VERY well)
-Keep spammers confined to a small area (again, VERY well... you should see all the deleted threads!)
-Keep the REALLY simple and repeat questions confined to a small, heavily moderated area. This does a number of good things. 1.) It keeps the new members from irritating the older members by asking questions that they think are novel... but have really been covered a million times. 2.) It gives the members a greater chance of having their questions answered, since any non-beginner in the Beginner Forums is usually there to help out. 3.) It keeps the new members from getting flamed by the older members for asking "stupid" questions. It doesn't always work... but banning puts an end to the flaming quickly.
-Allows the new members to see how the site works, so they can integrate themselves easily when they get to the full forum. cb7tuner is run a bit different than other forums. It helps to become familiar with it.
-Helps the staff weed out the trouble. Anyone who won't follow the 30 post rule PROBABLY will have a hard time following the other rules of this forum. If they get pissed and leave, that's fine with me! I'd take 10 people who respect me over 10000 people that are only here to use me
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yea i saw a porn spam bot on here last night... was going to reply but it was deleted by the time i submited my reply
Please, Leave me some feeedback on my ride ^CLICK ^CLICK ^CLICK
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Originally posted by accord2nr81yea i saw a porn spam bot on here last night... was going to reply but it was deleted by the time i submited my reply
Please do not reply to them. If someone happens to be watching for a response, you are merely aggravating things. One of us will see it, and delete.
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Originally posted by 90accordgurl You say this as you have EXACTLY 30 posts yourself... and you joined nearly a year ago! And I've never seen you complain
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Exactly. If you reply, and there IS a human being watching... they'll know their message is being seen. We can ban one name, but more will follow. We can ban one IP address... but more will follow.Originally posted by owequitit
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i love deev, however i never went through this trial member 30 count stuff.
im still lagging on my secret membership fees.Comment
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Originally posted by deevergote You say this as you have EXACTLY 30 posts yourself... and you joined nearly a year ago! And I've never seen you complain
actually that was me. i was just on my g/f account. lmaoComment
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yes!! a free post.
it has eyes!!!Comment
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Originally posted by YellowCord
lmao. not really. by the time i finished typing and posted it my g/f toldme i was logged on to her accound. then i looked at the screen name and was like "shint." lol
sorry Deev. lolComment
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Eh, it's all good. It still applies! She's been here since November, posted 30 times since then, and hasn't said a word! Of course, she also has you to explain things to her if she didn't know how things work.
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lol. true.
i told her about the post whoreing thing and she said she already read it. i was surprised b/c she dont come up here that often to my knowledge. lolComment
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Yeah, probably explains her 30 posts in a year
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