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Originally Posted by Adirondackjack
I get how you guys treat each other here now, and won't build any kindness or civility expectations. I actually have some lifelong friends from my other forum experiences. Interestingly, I invented a product which I got a patent for and am now manufacturing and selling both direct on the internet, and through dealers. As a business owner, I would not opt to sell to a crowd like I've just experienced here. I think one of the posters here mentioned that this forum was definitely not warm and fuzzy. I'm not sure that is something to be proud of.
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I want to take a minute and address this if I could. And while there are plenty of posters on here that have taken what I"m about to say way to far I want you to give me an open ear for a minute.
This is a 240sx forum as you know, and you should probably know because you're a 240 owner, that this comes with a stigma. We have about 20-30 threads a week that are kids full of pipe dreams and nonsense coming in here and telling lies that would make Pinocchio's nose look like a telephone poll. They come in here and ask for our advice and are full of a million questions about these huge hopes and dreams. Some of us use to take the time to "try" to help these people out, only to have them never do anything about it, and come back on a new forum name and ask the same questions again a month later. It got frustrating and old really fast as you can tell. Then the trolls started, where they come in and ask the same 10-15 questions in every subforum on the boards, making multiple threads for the same purpose with the intent of starting arguments. You can only take so much of this before you get snappy and unwilling to help anyone on a forum that is new until they prove that they have what they say they have, or possess the skills and mind set to achieve these goals. So that slowly turned into everyone that is new getting met with a harsh attitude. With all that still said, I've made some of the better "car" friends I have from this site and met some really great people throughout the years. You just have to take the time to prove that you're not someone here only to start trouble or lie more than a whore at confession. Every week we get 15 year old kids that own their own shop that builds 10000whp honda's and now they have $60k to spend on a 240 and want to put one of the motors out of the space shuttle in it and completely replace everything piece of metal in the chassis with kevlar. <<--And to top it off they type in run on sentences like that. So just forgive the harsh welcoming this forum has, its a product of being a forum dedicated to one of the most fanboy cars in history.
/rant
Shane