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MechaMegloManiac
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Posts: 927
(3/10/01 3:17:02 am)
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MOTO,dont you think it is time?
I feel it's time to make this board "members only".Regardless of who you are,a simple registration protects not only yourself,but the other members along with this site.Iam the only member that has to deal with unregistered slander,though it doesnt faze me,it must be damn irritating to the other members,visiting with a genuine porogative.Non-member posts are simply a waste of time and space,if its nescassary to fill in details for non-members,it should make the garbage more trouble than its worth.So MOTO,how about it?? the next update could include membership only posts?
Also,with the next update,it may be beneficial to the tech forum to boldly print above it,"BEFORE POSTING QUERIES PLEASE SEE THE REFERENCE SECTION" as this may stop repedative queries being posted.I know some dont want me here,but I have to give you PROPS to your diplomatically libral attitude towards your site,allowing debates to burn themselves out,instead of being removed instantly,I feel this has allowed others to gain vast experience and knowledge,without a hands on approach to the GE series of powerplants.So,what of it?? do any MEMBERS agree? please post your opinions,NON-MEMBERS ARE NOT INVITED TO POST!
Smuggla.
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dsicj
Unregistered User
(3/10/01 5:01:33 am)
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makes sense
I can understand that. The way I see it, why wouldn't you use a registered name? The only benefit to not being registered, is being able to hide behind a name. This makes it very easy to post pointless slander and opinions. If you have enough belief in your opinions, you shouldn't be afraid to voice them as yourself. If you wanna talk trash and criticize, have the nerve to face the conscequence's or don't do it at all. I know that a lot of people will look down on the fact that i'm agreeing with smuggla, but just remember: It's a hell of a lot easier to be right when you have a majority on your side, but that dosen't always make you right.
dsicj
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Hachitotoy
Unregistered User
(3/10/01 5:21:40 am)
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REGISTERED ONLY
getting registered dont mean that much... to me it's just being able to attach a 1" picture of your car which you can barely recognize besides your name...
you can actually have mutiple registered name by just having different hotmail accounts...which still allows you to hide your identity...
as far as slandering someone anonymously, that's freedom of speech... if you're getting it you probably deserve it...
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dsicj
Unregistered User
(3/10/01 5:34:34 am)
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hmmm
That's exactly what i mean. People that recieve slander don't always deserve it. Freedom of speech? Use the right to it's full extent. Use it to say what you want. It was put there to protect individuals, you are not an individual if you can't voice your opinons without the security of a mask. You are ANYBODY. Basically NOBODY.
dsicj
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austfwdcorolla 
Registered User
Posts: 189
(3/10/01 6:06:01 am)
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Re: hmmm
I'm all for registered users only. Sure you can have multiple login names, but you still have to stuff around loging in and out.
Another thing Moto, have you thought about allowing polls in this forum? I have them enabled in my forum and they're great!
Thanks
Shane
www.4agze.com
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Ramuhzero
Registered User
Posts: 33
(3/10/01 11:41:30 am)
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Re: hmmm
Hi if I may suggest seeing how other site takes care of the problem we are addressing here. Again I've to bring up www.audiworld.com since that is the board that I've spend the past 2 year on. Moto I recommand contacing Jason Teller and see how he was able to bring his own personal page about 1 A4 (his) to what is know as the biggest and most active car board in US which covers all the audi model line. They even got a A3/S4 board and this car isn't sold in the US, which means they have enough international member to fuel on of its 15 forums. I'm sure he was once faced with the problem you might have now (if there is any problem to start with). For example one thing audiworld does to keep itself from becoming like a zoo alike bimmer.org is to have trusted and long time forum members as moderator. The moderator would either delete or cencer posts that he/she believe don't belong either on the site or should be moved to the off-topic forum (yes there is one). What they require for ID is just setting up an account which only ask for e-mail. But what I've seen in general is forum posters policing themselvs, by not replying to flame post, and simply not give attention to those jokers and let them wear themselvs out. I think club4ag is a very well run web sit (thanks moto) but if you guys think there are some problem that needs to be addressed here I hope this helps. Since I don't know too much about ae86 and I can't be a very helpful guy in the tech board, I thought I'd give my input where I think I can help. Thanks for reading!
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SR5boy
Registered User
Posts: 220
(3/10/01 1:27:59 pm)
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Registered users
I'm all for it, but at the same time, when I bought my car, it was great to find this site and get great information. I think that anybody should have access to this huge library of information and talk to guys that know what they are doing. The opinions are just that, opinions! If you don't like it, ignore it. But that doesn't mean you can post whatever the hell you want, either. And becoming a registered user isn't all that hard to do, if you want people to take you seriously, then register. Be smart, use common sense (a dwindling resource), show some respect, and I think we'll be allright.
That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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austfwdcorolla 
Registered User
Posts: 192
(3/10/01 2:59:59 pm)
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Re: Registered users
The other good thing about being registered is that you don't have to type in your name everytime!
People can still stay annonymous if they want, it only takes five seconds to get a hotmail account.
Thanks for the cool site Moto.
Shane
www.4agze.com
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Chrsjamez 
Registered User
Posts: 465
(3/10/01 5:35:33 pm)
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Re: Registered users
i really like the idea of having something like
"SEE THE REFERENCE SECTION FIRST BEFORE ASKING QUESTIONS"
also maybe having an archive of all the postings that one could go thru. just like toymods list. i remember there were some questions asked before that were very informative in replies, now a few weeks later i'm trying to r4ecall what it was its gone.
-james

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BZG
Registered User
Posts: 127
(3/10/01 5:47:41 pm)
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Re: Registered users
I think my comments apply here in this post too....
I think Moto needs to store some really good posts permanently or in a FAQ (Agreed Chrsjamez), sometimes for a whole day would pass with someone asking the same ques that passed a couple weeks back (though the ques maybe new to us NEWBIES )while the REALLY good posts are being removed.....just my .02 cents...otherwise its a BLAST TO BE HERE
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Ramuhzero
Registered User
Posts: 37
(3/10/01 6:21:32 pm)
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Re: Registered users
What I want to know is how do you get the search function to return anything at all? I tried a search for "clutch" 0 return. A search for "red hate" 0 returns. I think something is wrong.
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Brian
Registered User
Posts: 100
(3/10/01 6:37:10 pm)
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Search and Images
Yes, the search is nearly useless. I can never find what I'm looking for, even though I know I read it a couple of days before. Not much we can do about that though....
While we're talking about things that could change, I'd appreciate it if people would stop putting 300k images at the bottom of EVERY post. I'm forced to 56k modem speeds where I live and when there's 5 or 6 posts with these huge, useless animations at the bottom, I'm looking at several minutes for the page to load. If the picture is relevant to the topic, that's a different story. You cable modem/DSL users are spoiled
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MechaMegloManiac
Registered User
Posts: 931
(3/10/01 9:28:09 pm)
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Re: Search and Images
Keep in mind people that no1 will be shut out,every net user will be able to access all of this site,including posts,but,in order to post a query or reply,YOU MUST SIGN UP,its to benifit users like Brian above that it be done,as I wouldnt want to wait on pages loading at the rate he does to find nothing more than a rediculously childish comment with no relevance,if its members only,it will be more exclusive,and logging out to say something stupid will fast become a pain to those in the practice. Smuggla.
Brian,FWIW,if you go to web3000.com and D/load netsonic,I think that will assist you with your netspeed,it's a net accelerator that carries info in a cache,and preloads commonly visited sites,its quite good.
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Chrsjamez 
Registered User
Posts: 467
(3/11/01 10:40:19 am)
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Re: Registered users
yeah! lets get an archive system going.
clubs.yahoo.com has archive system
how about egroups? anyone know?
sorry for the custom signatures that take forever to download. i've just been so used to the T1 lines that i forgot i was once on 56K. i have deleted it so hopefully it all downloads quicker now.
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allencr
Registered User
Posts: 145
(3/11/01 8:21:35 pm)
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UN-F'N-BELIEVABLE
a completely useless and sick, piece of DNA
Edited by: allencr at: 3/13/01 8:06:01 am
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Bill Sherwood
Registered User
Posts: 1143
(3/12/01 2:00:52 am)
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Re: UN-F'N-BELIEVABLE
I cant' see a need for registered users at all, other than to make sure that the person that's writing something is really that person. I've never had a problem with any unregistered user saying anything to me, though it seems that a small number of people have, though it's probably brought onto themselves.
What I would very much like to see is some level of moderation. It only takes about three or four people, and Moto-P doesn't have to be involved at all in the day-to-day running of the forum. The inherant nature of a public forum like this is that anyone can say whatever they want, and because there's no moderation it all too soon turns sour in such cases.
If there were a couple of moderators then the people that start arguments could perhaps first be warned, then banned for (say) a couple of weeks, then if they repeat again banned for longer, then perhaps permanently. I know that EZboard software can do this by the IP ban method. True, it's possible to get around an IP ban easy enough but the message would be sent, "You are doing something wrong and annoying people," to the person concerned and hopefully it'd sink in after a while.
Take for example the prime trouble maker here, Smuggler. I've said it many times before and I'll say it again - Take a look at just about any argument here and his name is involved. So would the forum be a better place without him? Abso-friggen-lutely. The number of people that he hasn't insulted yet is getting smaller and smaller by the week. I figure it's just a matter of time ...
If people want to point out that I argue a lot, then for sure I do, but only with him and no-one else.
Mentioned above was that because of some of the silly things that have been said, some very good technical discussions have come it. Quite true, but again they are usually involved from things coming from what I mentioned just above. There's nothing stopping anyone at all asking anything that want, no matter how silly it may seem, as long as they know that they're not going to get their head bitten off by some arrogant sod. I mean, how long would something like, "Why do we have four little 400cc pistons instead of one big 1600cc one?" type stuff is fine, as long as it's answered by people with some decent technical background & understanding.
I quite like the idea of making it a lot more obvious to try to get newcomers (and even more regulars) to have a read of the FAQ first. Answering the same thing every week or so gets pretty dull very fast. I quite like helping people, but it'd make life a heck of a lot easier if people did read the FAQ & sat down & thought about it all for a while.
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MechaMegloManiac
Registered User
Posts: 961
(3/12/01 7:24:40 pm)
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Re: UN-F'N-BELIEVABLE
So,what your saying is,remove what you see as your competition and you'll be satisfied...how many times does it have to be said...ITS NOT YOUR SITE WANKER!!!!YOUR UNBELIEVABLE!!!I START THIS POST AND YOUR IN IT SAYING...JUST GET RID OF HIM!!!START YOUR OWN FORUM WANKER!!!YOU PISSOFF!! YOU OFFER NOTHING IN THE WAY OF TECH ASSISTANCE ANYMORE!!YOUR EVEN MAKING CRAP UP NOW!SHIMS WITH CURVES IN THEM???GIMME A BREAK! WHATS NEXT?? BALSA WOOD VALVE STEMS?You say I insult people? No...I respond to those who insult me and those only!Its your problem Bill,deal with it.Your so far up yourself you'd need a GPS to brush your teeth! Smuggla.
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Bill Sherwood
Registered User
Posts: 1155
(3/12/01 10:41:58 pm)
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Re: UN-F'N-BELIEVABLE
I have never said that shims have 'curves' to them.
If you're going to attempt to flame, at least attempt to get your facts right.
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MechaMegloManiac
Registered User
Posts: 966
(3/13/01 1:05:59 am)
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Re: UN-F'N-BELIEVABLE
Is this not your post?
Blownspook - Point 3 (the first #3 you made. ) is pretty much what I said when I mentioned that driving the car to get the engine nice & hot does it the world of good, to burn off all the acids, etc.
The second #3 I should've described it a bit better; A shim-under bucket is normally domed a little to help it rotate, whereas the shim-overs like the 4AG are dead flat. Most modern engines have the cam lobe right in the middle of the bucket from what I've seen.
A dome is a curve...I have got 3 16V heads in my garage,not 1 of them has the slightest of curvature in them,UPWARD,INWARD OR OUTWARD.I'm also having fun with your update on your site...funny how you have updated with what I have skooled you on,yet,theres no PROPS,no mention of reference,nothing...its just all your HANDS ON EXPERIENCE ?
Flame you?? whats the point in flaming whats allready crusty
Smuggla.
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Bill Sherwood
Registered User
Posts: 1163
(3/13/01 2:43:44 am)
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Re: UN-F'N-BELIEVABLE
I thought I wrote it simple enough so that even a moron like you could understand it, but I was obviously wrong.
I wrote in plain English "A shim-under bucket is normally domed a little to help it rotate, whereas the shim-overs like the 4AG are dead flat."
Am I using words too big for you?
And the only thing I've learned from you is what an embarrassment some Australians can be to overseas visitors. For the others here, Smuggler is very much in the minority - we're not all complete wankers like him.
The other thing that I've noticed is that you seem to be repeating a lot of what I say, albiet badly and later down the track. Seems like after many months of reading it, it's finally starting to sink in.
Can I help it sink in a bit faster by using real simple pictures, perhaps?
Home page here Edited by: Bill Sherwood at: 3/13/01 4:32:20 am
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Import parts finder 
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Posts: 124
(3/13/01 8:41:48 am)
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Re: UN-F'N-BELIEVABLE
Define- Wanker........
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